05-22-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 12-18  

Add Date: May 22      

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. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released) 
2. billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)  
3. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (Interscope)  
4. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown) 
5. Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume… (Warp) 
6. Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (Ninja Tune)  
7. Y La Bamba – Lucha (Tender Loving Empire)  
8. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
9. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)  
10. Overmono – Good Lies (XL)  
11. Blondshell – Blondshell (Partisan)  
12. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
13. Madison McFerrin – I Hope You Can Forgive Me (MADMCFERRIN MUSIC)  
14. Killer Mike – Michael (Loma Vista) 
15. WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)  
16. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive) 
17. Nation of Language – Strange Disciple (Play It Again Sam)  
18. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention (BMG)  
19. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)  
20. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
21. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
22. yeule – sulky baby (Ninja Tune)  
23. SBTRKT – The Rat Road (Save Yourself/AWAL)  
24. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)  
25. Rahill – Flowers at Your Feet (Big Dada)  
26. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice) 
27. bar italia – Tracey Denim (Matador)  
28. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans) 
29. Indigo De Souza – All of This Will End (Saddle Creek)  
30. Navy Blue – Ways of Knowing (Freedom Sounds/Def Jam) 
31. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
32. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush) 
33. Kara Jackson – Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (September)  
34. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Beat Drop (Moor Life)  
35. Abra – FKA MESS (Acid Palace)  
36. Beverly Glenn-Copeland – The Ones Ahead (Transgressive)  
37. Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune)  
38. KAMAUU - LACUNA in the House of Mirrors (Atlantic)  
39. ODESZA – To Be Yours (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) 
40. Obongjayar – Just Cool (September)  
41. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge) 
42. Flyying Colours – You Never Know (Poison City) 
43. Girl Ray – Prestige (Moshi Moshi)  
44. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead)  
45. Confidence Man & Daniel Avery – On & On (Again) (Chaos/Polydor)  
46. Brandee Younger - Brand New Life (Impulse!)  
47. Fatoumata Diawara – London Ko (Wagram) 
48. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Warner)  
49. Debby Friday – GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop)  
50. Squid – O Monolith (Warp)  
51. Jessy Lanza – Love Hallucination (Hyperdub)  
52. Bully – Lucky for You (Sub Pop)  
53. Thundercat & Tame Impala – No More Lies (Brainfeeder) 
54. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)  
55. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
56. Rose City Band – Garden Party (Thrill Jockey)  
57. Alex Lahey – The Answer Is Always Yes (Liberation)  
58. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)  
50. Hannah Jadagu – Aperture (Sub Pop)  
60. Daughter – Stereo Mind Game (Glassnote)  
61. Rodrigo y Gabriela – In Between Thoughts… A New World (ATO)  
62. Beach House – Become EP (Sub Pop)  
63. Jorja Smith – Falling or Flying (FAMM)  
64. Grian Chatten – Chaos for the Fly (Partisan)  
65. Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)  
66. Fruit Bats – A River Running To Your Heart (Merge)  
67. New Breed Brass Band – Made in New Orleans (Treme)  
68. Moreish Idols – Lock Eyes & Collide EP (Speedy Wunderground)  
69. Baba Ali – Laugh Like a Bomb (Memphis Industries)  
70. rum.gold – U Street Anthology (Leola)  
71. Smokey Brights – Levitator (Nine Mile)  
72. Alfa Mist – Variables (Anti-)  
73. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
74. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
75. Anohni & the Johnsons – My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross (Secretly Canadian)  
76. Miguel – Give it to Me (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA)  
77. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird) 
78. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop)  
79. Avalon Emerson – Avalon Emerson & The Charm (Another Dove/One House)  
80. superviolet – Infinite Spring (Lame-O)  
81. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori (Columbia)  
82. Zuco 103 – Telenova (Six Degrees)  
83. Westerman – An Inbuilt Fault (Partisan)  
84. Black Ends – My Own Dead (self-released) 
85. Little Venom – Sabotage (self-released)  
86. Be Your Own Pet – Hand Grenade (Third Man)  
87. Jenny Lewis – Joy’All (Blue Note)  
88. The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Disques Hives)  
89. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune)  
90. Feeble Little Horse – Girl with Fish (Saddle Creek)    

Americana: 

1. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans) 
2. Kara Jackson – Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (September) 
3. Rose City Band – Garden Party (Thrill Jockey)  
4. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)  
5. Esther Rose – Safe to Run (New West) 
6. (Various) – I Am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 (FLi)  
7. Kassi Valazza – Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing (Fluff & Gravy) 
8. Country Westerns – Forgive the City (Fat Possum)  
9. Robbie Fulks – Bluegrass Vacation (Compass) 
10. Mya Byrne – Rhinestone Tomboy (Kill Rock Stars)  

Global: 

1. WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)  
2. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
3. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead) 
4. Fatoumata Diawara – London Ko (Wagram)  
5. Rodrigo y Gabriela – In Between Thoughts… A New World (ATO)  
6. Zuco 103 – Telenova (Six Degrees) 
7. Bombino – Tazidert (Partisan) 
8. Bomba Estereo, Kevin Florez & The Busy Twist – Romantica (Sony Latin)
9. Davido - Timeless (RCA)  
10. Baaba Maal – Being (Marathon Artists)   

Hip Hop: 

1. billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz) 
2. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
3. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp) 
4. Killer Mike – Michael (Loma Vista) 
5. Navy Blue – Ways of Knowing (Freedom Sounds/Def Jam) 
6. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Beat Drop (Moor Life) 
7. KAMAUU - LACUNA in the House of Mirrors (Atlantic) 
8. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
9. B. Cool-Aid – Leather Blvd (Lex)  
10. Five Fingers of Funk – Portland Say It Again (Kill Rock Stars) 

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)  
2. Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (Ninja Tune) 
3. Overmono – Good Lies (XL) 
4. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention (BMG) 
5. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
6. yeule – sulky baby (Ninja Tune)  
7. SBTRKT – The Rat Road (Save Yourself/AWAL)  
8. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
9. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
10. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush) 

R&B/Blues: 

1. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)  
2. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)  
3. Madison McFerrin – I Hope You Can Forgive Me (MADMCFERRIN MUSIC)  
4. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
5. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)  
6. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
7. Abra – FKA MESS (Acid Palace) 
8. Obongjayar – Just Cool (September)  
9. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL) 
10. Jorja Smith – Falling or Flying (FAMM) 

Jazz: 

1. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
2. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE) 
3. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead) 
4. Brandee Younger - Brand New Life (Impulse!) 
5. New Breed Brass Band – Made in New Orleans (Treme) 
6. Alfa Mist – Variables (Anti-)  
7. London Brew – London Brew (Downtown/Concord Jazz) 
8. Lonnie Liston Smith, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Lonnie Liston Smith JID017 (Jazz Is Dead) 
9. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (Anti-)  
10. Asher Gamedze – Turbulence & Pulse (International Anthem) 

Northwest: 

1. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)  
2. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
3. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush) 
4. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Beat Drop (Moor Life) 
5. ODESZA – To Be Yours (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) 
6. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
7. Smokey Brights – Levitator (Nine Mile) 
8. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)  
9. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop) 
10. Black Ends – My Own Dead (self-released) 

Adds: 

bar italia – Tracey Denim (Matador) 
Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music) 
Hannah Jadagu – Aperture (Sub Pop) 
The Murlocs – Calm Ya Farm (ATO) 
Tinariwen – Amatssou (Wedge) 
Alex Lahey – The Answer Is Always Yes (Liberation) 
PONY – Velveteen (Take This To Heart) 
Mega Bog – End of Everything (Mexican Summer) 
Fatoumata Diawara – London Ko (Wagram) 
Mandy, Indiana – I’ve Seen a Way (Fire Talk) 
GracieHorse – L.A. Shit (Wharf Cat) 
Witch Prophet – Gateway Experience (Heart Lake) 
Kassi Valazza – Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing (Fluff & Gravy) 
Dave McMurray – Grateful Deadication 2 (Blue Note) 
Foyer Red – Yarn the Hours Away (Carpark) 
Waco Brothers – The Men That God Forgot (Plenty Tuff) 
Temps – Party Gator Purgatory (Bella Union) 
Califone – Villagers (Jealous Butcher) 
Vox Sambou – We Must Unite (Les Arts Vox Sambou) 
Tanlines – The Big Mess (Merge) 
Charlotte Cornfield – Could Have Done Anything (Polyvinyl) 
Homeschool – Just Now EP (self-released) 
BC Camplight – The Last Rotation of Earth (Bella Union) 
Salami Rose Joe Louis – Akousmatikous (Brainfeeder) 
Bongeziwe Mabandla – amaXesha (Black Major) 
Horse Jumper of Love – Heartbreak Rules (Run For Cover) 
Just a Band – echo: dawn EP (Rauka Music)