03-13-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Mar. 3-9  

Add Date: Mar. 13    

NOTE: KEXP's charts include albums that have not been released to the public yet, but have been made available to KEXP for airplay. 


Top 90:  

1. Debby Friday – GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop) 
2. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Warner) 
3. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
4. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
5. Kali Uchis – Red Room in Venus (Geffen) 
6. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush)  
7. U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess (4AD) 
8. Bully – Lose You (Sub Pop)  
9. Janelle Monae – Float (Bad Boy)  
10. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek) 
11. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
12. Frankie Rose – Love as Projection (Slumberland)  
13. Algiers – Shook (Matador)  
14. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL)  
15. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
16. Indigo De Souza – All Of This Will End (Saddle Creek)  
17. Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (Warp)  
18. boygenius – The Record (Interscope)  
19. Tanukichan – GIZMO (Carpark)  
20. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group)  
21. Heartworms – A Comforting Notion (Speedy Wunderground)  
22. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
23. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
24. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
25. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)  
26. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man)  
27. Adwaith – Mato Bato (Libertino)  
28. Daisies – Great Big Open Sky (K)  
29. Y La Bamba – Lucha (Tender Loving Empire)  
30. Momma – Bang Bang (Polyvinyl)  
31. Jacques Greene – Believe (LuckyMe) 
32. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
33. King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust (Sub Pop)  
34. Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (Ninja Tune)  
35. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador)  
36. The Murder Capital – Gigi's Recovery (Human Season)  
37. Lil Yachty – Let's Start Here. (Quality Control/Motown/UMG)  
38. The Smile – The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022) (XL)  
39. Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (Mute)  
40. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
41. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
42. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)  
43. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
44. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
45. Death Valley Girls – Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze) 
46. Hello Mary – Hello Mary (Frenchkiss)  
47. Steve Mason – Brothers & Sisters (Double Six/Domino)  
48. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
49. Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop)  
50. Nuovo Testamento – Love Lines (Discoteca Italia)  
51. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
52. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop)  
53. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes)  
54. Who Is She? - My My Orca Card (Father/Daughter)  
55. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern)  
56. deary – Fairground (Sonic Cathedral)  
57. Alsarah – Farasha (Alsarah Productions)  
58. Flyying Colours – You Never Know (Poison City) 
59. Galactic – Ready For Me (Tchoup-Zilla)  
60. Daughter – Stereo Mind Game (Glassnote) 
61. Shalom – Sublimation (Saddle Creek)  
62. ODESZA – Hopeful (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune)  
63. Nation of Language – Sole Obsession (Play It Again Sam)  
64. Vagabon – Carpenter (Nonesuch)  
65. Kae Tempest – Nice Idea (American/Republic)  
66. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge)  
67. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
68. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan)  
69. Long Dark Moon – All Your Mountains (Factory Belt)  
70. Avey Tare – 7s (Domino)  
71. Kimi Djabaté - Dindin (Cumbancha)  
72. Glüme - Main Character (Italians Do It Better)  
73. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
74. The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part Two (Memphis Industries) 
75. Samia – Honey (Grand Jury)  
76. Feeble Little Horse – Girl with Fish (Saddle Creek)  
77. Tei Shi – QUIEN TE MANDA? (self-released) 
78. Decisive Pink – Ticket to Fame (Fire)  
79. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune)  
80. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori (Columbia)  
81. Yaya Bey – Exodus the North Star EP (Big Dada)  
82. Kassa Overall – Shades 3 (self-released)  
83. Waves Crashing – The Viewing EP (Audiomanic)  
84. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released)  
85. Dutch Uncles – True Entertainment (Memphis Industries)  
86. Theo Croker – BY THE WAY EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony)  
87. Weval – Remember (Technicolour)  
88. Jackie Venson – Evolution of Joy (self-released)  
89. Grace Love – Work in Protest EP (self-released)  
90. Kassi Valazza – Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing (Fluff & Gravy)         

Americana: 

1. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern) 
2. Long Dark Moon – All Your Mountains (Factory Belt)  
3. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista) 
4. Iris DeMent – Workin' on a World (Flariella) 
5. Eilen Jewell – Get Behind the Wheel (Signature Sounds) 
6. Slaid Cleaves – Together Through the Dark (Candy House Media)  
7. Lucero – Should’ve Learned By Now (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers)  
8. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (New West)  
9. Dougie Poole – The Rainbow Wheel of Death (Wharf Cat)  
10. Country Westerns – Forgive the City (Fat Possum)  

Global: 

1. Alsarah – Farasha (Alsarah Productions) 
2. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
3. Kimi Djabaté - Dindin (Cumbancha)  
4. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
5. Ayra Starr – Sability (Mavin)  
6. Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK) 
7. Rema – Holiday (Mavin)  
8. ROSALÍA - LLYLM (Columbia)  
9. Acid Arab – Trois (Crammed Discs) 
10. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Dost 2 (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Hip Hop: 

1. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
2. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
3. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
4. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
5. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released)  
6. Wax Tailor – Fishing for Accidents (Lab’Oratoire)  
7. rarelyalways – WORK (Innovative Leisure)  
8. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)  
9. Stormzy – This Is What I Mean (Def Jam)  
10. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista) 

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
2. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
3. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush) 
4. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL)  
5. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
6. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin) 
7. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)  
8. Jacques Greene – Believe (LuckyMe) 
9. Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (Ninja Tune) 
10. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
2. Kali Uchis – Red Room in Venus (Geffen) 
3. Janelle Monae – Float (Bad Boy)  
4. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
5. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life)  
6. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group) 
7. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
8. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya) 
9. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
10. Galactic – Ready For Me (Tchoup-Zilla)  

Jazz: 

1. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
2. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan)  
3. Kassa Overall – Shades 3 (self-released)  
4. Theo Croker – By the Way EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony)  
5. (Various) - Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre (Blue Note)  
6. London Brew – London Brew (Downtown/Concord Jazz)  
7. Terrace Martin – Chucks (Sounds of Crenshaw/BMG)  
8. Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID016 (Jazz Is Dead)  
9. James Brandon Lewis – Eye of I (ANTI-) 
10. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)

Northwest: 

1. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush) 
2. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
3. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man)  
4. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
5. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop) 
6. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes)  
7. Who Is She? - My My Orca Card (Father/Daughter)  
8. ODESZA – Hopeful (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune)   
9. Long Dark Moon – All Your Mountains (Factory Belt)  
10. Waves Crashing – The Viewing EP (Audiomanic) 

Adds: 

Shalom – Sublimation (Saddle Creek) 
Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (Mute) 
Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP (HIJINXX/Island) 
Sleaford Mods – UK GRIM (Rough Trade) 
Nuovo Testamento – Love Lines (Discoteca Italia) 
Nappy Nina – Mourning Due (LucidHaus) 
Dutch Uncles – True Entertainment (Memphis Industries) 
Shana Cleveland – Manzanita (Hardly Art)  
Home Front – Games of Power (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)  
Ali Farka Touré - Voyageur (World Circuit) 
Frankie Rose – Love as Projection (Slumberland)  
Lonnie Holley – Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar)  
rarelyalways – WORK (Innovative Leisure)  
Willie Nelson – I Don’t Know a Thing About Love (Legacy) 
Eyelids – A Colossal Waste of Light (Jealous Butcher) 
Double Wish – Light Split Sparkle EP (Hit the North) 
United Freedom Collective – Space Intention EP (Dama Dama)