05-18-2020

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 8-14

Top 90:  

1. Little Simz – Drop 6 EP (AWAL) 
2. Polyrhythmics – Man From the Future (Code Red) 
3. Khruangbin – Mordechai (Dead Oceans) 
4. Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open (Matador) 
5. Parisalexa – 2 Real (self-released) 
6. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero’s Death (Partisan) 
7. Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp) 
8. Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic) 
9. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – Temple (Ribbon) 
10. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge) 
11. Yaeji – What We Drew (XL) 
12. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder) 
13. Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (Wolf + Rothstein/RCA) 
14. Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (BMG) 
15. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy (Sub Pop) 
16. Buscabulla – Regresa (Ribbon Music) 
17. Nation of Language – Introduction, Presence (self-released) 
18. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop) 
19. The Weeknd – After Hours (XO/Republic) 
20. Hinds – The Prettiest Curse (Mom+Pop) 
21. Little Dragon – New Me, Same Us (Ninja Tune) 
22. Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep (Play It Again Sam) 
23. Tomo Nakayama – Melonday (self-released) 
24. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador) 
25. Chromatics – Teacher (Italians Do It Better) 
26. The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers (Carpark) 
27. Brittany Howard – You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks (ATO) 
28. Austra – HiRUDiN (Domino) 
29. Woods – Strange to Explain (Woodsist) 
30. Gorillaz – Song Machine (Parlophone) 
31. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice (World Circuit) 
32. Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia (ANTI-) 
33. Sleaford Mods – All That Glue (Rough Trade) 
34. BRONSON – BRONSON (Foreign Family Collective) 
35. Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (4AD) 
36. Caribou – Suddenly (Merge) 
37. Deep Sea Diver – Stop Pretending (self-released) 
38. James Blake – You're Too Precious (Polydor) 
39. Squid – Sludge (Warp)  
40. Hamilton Leithauser – The Loves Of Your Life (Glassnote)  
41. RVG – Feral (Fire)  
42. The Strokes – The New Abnormal (Cult/RCA)  
43. Amber Mark – Heart-Shaped Box (PMR) 
44. Dirty Projectors – Flight Tower EP (Domino)  
45. Nick Hakim – Will This Make Me Good (ATO)  
46. Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure (PMR)  
47. Cut Copy – Love Is All We Share (Cutters) 
48. Jehnny Beth – To Love Is To Live (Caroline)  
49. Chicano Batman – Invisible People (ATO)  
50. Smokey Brights – I Love You But Damn (Freakout)  
51. Sorry – 925 (Domino)  
52. Empress Of – I’m Your Empress Of (Terrible)  
53. Hazel English – Wake UP! (Polyvinyl)  
54. dvsn – A Muse in Her Feelings (OVO Sound/Warner)  
55. Moaning – Uneasy Laughter (Sub Pop) 
56. EOB – Earth (Capitol)  
57. Charli XCX – how i'm feeling now (Asylum)  
58. Faye Webster – In A Good Way (Secretly Canadian)  
59. Braids – Shadow Offering (Secret City)  
60. Jade Hairpins – Harmony Avenue (Merge)  
61. No Joy – Motherhood (Joyful Noise)  
62. I Break Horses – Warnings (Bella Union)  
63. Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes – What Kinda Music (Blue Note)  
64. Jah9 – Note To Self (VP)  
60. STRFKR – Future Past Life (Polyvinyl) 
65. Four Tet – Sixteen Oceans (Text)  
66. Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers)  
67. Mark Lanegan – Straight Songs of Sorrow (Heavenly)  
68. Happyness – Floatr (self-released)  
69. Pure X – Pure X (Fire Talk)  
70. The Berries – Saturday Music (Run For Cover) 
71. Bread & Butter – Psycho World (Killroom)  
72. The Berries – Ancient Steel (Run For Cover)  
73. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions (Southeastern)  
74. No Age – Goons Be Gone (Drag City)  
75. Built to Spill – Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)  
76. Helado Negro – I Fell In Love (Super Music Group)  
77. Bon Iver – PDLIF (Jagjaguwar)  
78. Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound)  
79. Chemtrails – The Peculiar Smell of the Inevitable (Mexican Summer) 
80. Petite Noir & Kingdom – CouerWorld (Royal)  
81. Big Thief – Love in Mine (4AD) 
82. Jamie xx – Idontknow (Young Turks) 
83. The Avalanches – Running Red Lights (feat. Rivers Cuomo & Pink Siifu) (Modular)  
84. LAKE – Roundelay (Off Tempo)  
85. Essam & Petty Pro – chapter20six (self-released)  
86. Knxwledge – 1988 (Stones Throw)  
87. Peel Dream Magazine – Agitprop Alterna (Slumberland)  
88. TOPS – I Feel Alive (Musique TOPS)  
89. Porridge Radio – Every Bad (Secretly Canadian)  
90. Moses Sumney - græ (Jagjaguwar)    

Americana: 

1. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge)  
2. Faye Webster – In A Good Way (Secretly Canadian)  
3. Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers)  
4. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions (Southeastern)  
5. Drive-By Truckers – Quarantine Together (ATO)  
6. Logan Ledger – Logan Ledger (Rounder)  
7. Pokey LaFarge – Rock Bottom Rhapsody (New West)  
8. Orville Peck – Summertime (Columbia)  
9. Paul Burch & The WPA Ballclub – Light Sensitive (Plowboy)  
10. Chuck Prophet – The Land That Time Forgot (Yep Roc)   

World Music: 

1. Buscabulla – Regresa (Ribbon Music)  
2. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice (World Circuit)  
3. Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia (ANTI-) 
4. Jah9 – Note To Self (VP)  
5. Blakkamoore – Upward Spiral (Baco)  
6. DakhaBrakha – Alambari (self-released)  
7. Ana Tijoux – Antifa Dance (Victoria Producciones)  
8. Hailu Mergia – Yene Mircha (Awesome Tapes From Africa)  
9. Obongjayar – Which Way Is Forward? EP (September)  
10. Brownout – Berlin Sessions (Fat Beats) 

Hip Hop: 

1. Little Simz – Drop 6 EP (AWAL) 
2. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 4 (BMG)  
3. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop) 
4. Essam & Petty Pro – chapter20six (self-released)  
5. Knxwledge – 1988 (Stones Throw) 
6. R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages (Ruby Yacht) 
7. Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats - Unlocked (Loma Vista)  
8. Kassa Overall – I Think I’m Good (Brownswood)  
9. Aminé - Shimmy (Republic)  
10. Julie-C – Sovereign Queendom Archives, Vol. 1 (self-released)  

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp)  
2. Yaeji – What We Drew (XL)  
3. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)  
4. Chromatics – Teacher (Italians Do It Better)  
5. BRONSON – BRONSON (Foreign Family Collective)  
6. Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (4AD)  
7. Caribou – Home (Merge)  
8. James Blake – You're Too Precious (Polydor)  
9. Cut Copy – Love Is All We Share (Cutters)  
10. Charli XCX – how i'm feeling now (Asylum)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. Polyrhythmics – Man From the Future (Color Red)  
2. Parisalexa – 2 Real (self-released)  
3. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)   
4. Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (Wolf + Rothstein/RCA)  
5. The Weeknd – After Hours (XO/Republic)  
6. Brittany Howard – You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks (ATO) 
7. Amber Mark – Heart-Shaped Box (PMR)  
8. Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? (PMR)  
9. Chicano Batman – Invisible People (ATO) 
10. dvsn – A Muse in Her Feelings (OVO Sound/Warner)  

Northwest: 

1. Polyrhythmics – Man From the Future (Color Red)  
2. Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open (Matador)  
3. Parisalexa – 2 Real (self-released) 
4. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop)  
5. Tomo Nakayama – Melonday (self-released)  
6. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador)  
7. Deep Sea Diver – Stop Pretending (self-released)  
8. Smokey Brights – I Love You But Damn (Freakout) 
9. The Berries – Saturday Music (Run For Cover)  
10. Bread & Butter – Psycho World (Killroom)  

Adds: 

Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador) 
Parisalexa – 2 Real (self-released) 
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions (Southeastern) 
Nation of Language – Introduction, Presence (self-released)  
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – Temple (Ribbon Music) 
MAITA – Best Wishes (Kill Rock Stars) 
Nick Hakim – WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD (ATO) 
White Denim – World As A Waiting Room (Radio Milk) 
Public Practice – Gentle Grip (Wharf Cat)  
I’m Glad It’s You – Every Sun, Every Moon (6131)  
Chemtrails – The Peculiar Smell of the Inevitable (Mexican Summer) 
Jess Williamson – Sorceress (Mexican Summer)  
The National Honor Society – To All the Glory We Never Had (Chien Lunatique) 
Meryem Saci – All In EP (Shift) 
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Mosaic of Transformation (Ghostly International) 
El Michels Affair – Adult Themes (Big Crown)