05-03-2021

KEXP Charts for the Week of Apr. 23-29

Top 90:  

1. Ya Tseen – Indian Yard (Sub Pop)  
2. serpentwithfeet – DEACON (Secretly Canadian)  
3. Noga Erez – KIDS (City Slang)  
4. (Various) - Bills & Aches & Blues (4AD)  
5. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans)  
6. Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend (RCA) 
7. Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (4AD) 
8. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)  
9. Tune-Yards – sketchy (4AD)  
10. The Chemical Brothers – The Darkness That You Fear (EMI/Virgin)  
11. Menahan Street Band – The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band (Daptone) 
12. Bomba Estéreo - Aire EP (Sony Latin) 
13. Tkay Maidza – Syrup (4AD)  
14. pronoun – OMG I MADE IT EP (Wax Bodega) 
15. Flying Lotus – Black Gold (Warp) 
16. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)  
17. Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga (Everloving)  
18. Altin Gün - Yol (ATO)  
19. Mumu Fresh – Work (self-released)  
20. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Jimmy's Groove (Colemine) 
21. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)  
22. St. Vincent – Daddy's Home (Loma Vista)  
23. Iceage – Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer)  
24. Bachelor – Doomin' Sun (Polyvinyl)  
25. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)  
26. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)  
27. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)  
28. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony)  
29. Noname – Rainforest (self-released)  
30. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown) 
31. Flyying Colours – Fantasy Country (Poison City) 
32. Mogwai – As the Love Continues (Temporary Residence Ltd.)  
33. Flock of Dimes – Head of Roses (Sub Pop) 
34. La Femme - Paradigmes (DISQUE POINT/ IDOL)  
35. Mad Foxes – Ashamed (El Muchacho)  
36. Zo! & Tall Black Guy – Abstractions (Foreign Exchange Music)  
37. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse)  
38. CHAI – WINK (Sub Pop)  
39. Working Men’s Club – X (Heavenly)  
40. Morcheeba – Blackest Blue (self-released)  
41. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)  
42. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions (Matador)  
43. Darkside – Spiral (Matador)  
44. The Lounge Society – Silk for the Starving EP (Speedy Wunderground)  
45. Mustafa – When Smoke Rises (Regent Park)  
46. Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Matador)  
47. Civic – Future Forecast (Flightless)  
48. Blue Lab Beats, Kaidi & NK-OK – The Sounds of Afrotronica (Blue Adventure/All Points)  
49. Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth (House Anxiety/Ourness)  
50. IAN SWEET – Show Me How You Disappear (Polyvinyl)  
51. Kaidi Tatham – An Insight to All Minds (First Word)  
52. Brijean – Feelings (Ghostly International)  
53. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny ha ha (Secretly Canadian)  
54. Pond – Pink Lunettes (Spinning Top)  
55. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)  
56. UVTV – Always Something (PaperCup Music)  
57. beabadoobee – Last Day on Earth (Dirty Hit)  
58. Quivers – Golden Doubt (Ba Da Bing)  
59. Jeff Rosenstock – Ska Dream (Polyvinyl)  
60. DJ Black Low - Uwami (Awesome Tapes From Africa)  
61. Illuminati hotties – MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA (Snack Shack Tracks) 
62. Marinah - Heroínas (Nacional)  
63. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space (Jagjaguwar)  
64. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)  
65. Squid – Bright Green Field (Warp)  
66. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)  
67. Wild Powwers – What You Wanted (Nadine) 
68. Spirit Award – Lunatic House (Share It Music)  
69. Juan Wauters – Real Life Situations (Captured Tracks)  
70. Cha Wa – My People (Single Lock)  
71. Valerie June – The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers (Fantasy)  
72. The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Uncommon Weather (Slumberland)  
73. (Various) - Indaba Is (Brownswood Recordings)  
74. Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes (Young Art)  
75. (Various) - Judas and the Black Messiah: The Inspired Album (Six Course Music/RCA) 
76. Wau Wau Collectif - Yaral Sa Doom (Sahel Sounds)  
77. Adrian Younge – The American Negro (Jazz Is Dead)  
78. Boom Bap Project – Hagler vs. Hearns (self-released)  
79. Gibraltar – Modern Mischief (self-released)  
80. Black Midi – Cavalcade (Rough Trade)  
81. Jorja Smith – Be Right Back EP (FAMM)  
82. girl in red – if I could make it go quiet (AWAL)  
83. Jose Gonzalez – Local Valley (Mute) 
84. Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder/Concord)  
85. Red Ribbon – Planet X (Danger Collective) 
86. oddCouple – Reflections (self-released) 
87. Brittany Howard - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher (ATO)  
88. Perfume Genius – Immediately Remixes (Matador)  
89. Art d’Ecco - In Standard Definition (Paper Bag)  
90. Benny Sings – Music (Stones Throw)        

Americana: 

1. Valerie June – The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers (Fantasy)  
2. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi – They're Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)  
3. Esther Rose – How Many Times (Father/Daughter)  
4. Lucero –When You Found Me (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers)  
5. Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird – These 13 (Thirty Tigers)  
6. Willie Nelson – That's Life (Legacy)  
7. Langhorne Slim – Strawberry Mansion (Dualtone)  
8. Steve Earle & The Dukes – J.T. (New West)  
9. Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands – Rebel in the Rearview (self-released)  
10. Kacey & Clayton & Marlon Williams – Plastic Bouquet (New West)   

Global: 

1. Bomba Estéreo - Aire EP (Sony Latin) 
2. Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga (Everloving)  
3. Altin Gün - Yol (ATO)  
4. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)  
5. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony) 
6. DJ Black Low - Uwami (Awesome Tapes From Africa) 
7. Marinah - Heroínas (Nacional)  
8. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)  
9. (Various) - Indaba Is (Brownswood Recordings) 
10. Wau Wau Collectif - Yaral Sa Doom (Sahel Sounds) 

Hip Hop: 

1. Tkay Maidza – Syrup (4AD)  
2. Mumu Fresh – Work (self-released) 
3. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony)  
4. Noname – Rainforest (self-released)  
5. Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth (House Anxiety/Ourness)  
6. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)  
7. (Various) - Judas and the Black Messiah: The Inspired Album (Six Course Music/RCA)  
8. Boom Bap Project – Hagler vs. Hearns (self-released)  
9. Aesop Rock – Long Legged Larry (Rhymesayers)   
10. Brockhampton – Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine (Question Everything/RCA)  

RPM/Electronic: 

1. The Chemical Brothers – The Darkness That You Fear (EMI/Virgin) 
2. Flying Lotus – Black Gold (Warp) 
3. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)  
4. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge) 
5. Morcheeba – Blackest Blue (self-released)  
6. Darkside – Spiral (Matador)  
7. Brijean – Feelings (Ghostly International)  
8. DJ Black Low - Uwami (Awesome Tapes From Africa) 
9. Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes (Young Art) 
10. Small Black – Cheap Dreams (100% Electronica)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. Serpentwithfeet – DEACON (Secretly Canadian)  
2. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)  
3. Menahan Street Band – The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band (Daptone)  
4. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)  
5. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Jimmy's Groove (Colemine) 
6. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)  
7. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown)  
8. Zo! & Tall Black Guy – Abstractions (Foreign Exchange Music)  
9. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)  
10. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)   

Jazz: 

1. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse) 
2. Blue Lab Beats, Kaidi & NK-OK – The Sounds of Afrotronica (Blue Adventure/All Points) 
3. Kaidi Tatham – An Insight to All Minds (First Word) 
4. Alfa Mist – Bring Backs (ANTI-) 
5. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop) 
6. Rodrigo y Gabriela – Jazz (Rubyworks/ATO) 
7. Garage A Trois – Calm Down Cologne (The Royal Potato Family)  
8. Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – Now (International Anthem) 
9. Gary Bartz, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge – JID006 (Jazz Is Dead) 
10. Dr. Lonnie Smith – Breathe (Blue Note)  

Northwest: 

1. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)  
2. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Jimmy's Groove (Colemine) 
3. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)  
4. Wild Powwers – What You Wanted (Nadine) 
5. Spirit Award – Lunatic House (Share It Music)  
6. Boom Bap Project – Hagler vs. Hearns (self-released)  
7. Gibraltar – Modern Mischief (self-released) 
8. Perfume Genius – Immediately Remixes (Matador)  
9. Warren Dunes – Get Well Soon (self-released)  
10. Antonioni – Antonioni (Lauren)  

Adds: 

Dawn Richard – Second Line Merge)  
Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space (Jagjaguwar)  
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Superwolves (Drag City) 
girl in red – if i could make it go quiet (AWAL)  
Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo EP (Youth Riot)  
Kasai Allstars – Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound (Crammed Discs)  
Remember Sports – Like a Stone (Father/Daughter)  
Cadence Weapon – Parallel World (eOne Music)  
Grave Flowers Bongo Band – Strength of Spring (Castle Face)  
Tom Jones – Surrounded By Time (S-Curve) 
Blue Lab Beats, Kaidi & NK-OK – The Sounds of Afrotronica (Blue Adventure/All Points)  
Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes (Young Art)  
Mad Foxes – Ashamed (El Muchacho) 
Kaidi Tatham – An Insight to All Minds (First Word) 
Zo! & Tall Black Guy – Abstractions (Foreign Exchange Music) 
Crumb – Ice Melt (Crumb)  
Porter Robinson – Look at the Sky (Mom+Pop) 
Todd Snider – First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder (Aimless/Thirty Tigers) 
Leon Vynehall – Rare, Forever (Ninja Tune) 
TEKE::TEKE – Shirushi (Kill Rock Stars)  
Myd – Born a Loser (Ed Banger/Because Music)  
Rosie Tucker – Sucker Supreme (Epitaph) 
thewalkingicon – Shadow of the Saints (Negative Gain Productions)  
Big Scary – Daisy (Pieater) 
Moorea Masa & The Mood – Heart in the Wild: Side A EP (self-released) 
Bowerbirds – becalmyounglovers (Psychic Hotline) 
Juliana Hatfield – Blood (American Laundromat)  
Innov Gnawa – Lila (Daptone)  
The Juan Maclean – I Can’t Explain EP (Me Me Me) 
Anna Wise – Gently Powerful, Live (As If It Were Forever) (self-released)