06-07-2021

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 28-June 3

Top 90:  

1. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)  
2. Curtis Harding – Hopeful (ANTI-)  
3. Ambar Lucid – Get Lost in the Music (300 Entertainment)  
4. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)  
5. Ya Tseen – Indian Yard (Sub Pop)  
6. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans)  
7. Mustafa – When Smoke Rises (Regent Park)  
8. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen – Like I Used To (Jagjaguwar) 
9. Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (4AD)  
10. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse!)  
11. CHAI – WINK (Sub Pop)  
12. St. Vincent – Daddy's Home (Loma Vista) 
13. Tune-Yards – sketchy (4AD)  
14. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)  
15. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)  
16. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)  
17. Bomba Estéreo - Aire EP (Sony Latin)  
18. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown) 
19. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)  
20. Black Midi – Cavalcade (Rough Trade)  
21. girl in red – if I could make it go quiet (AWAL)  
22. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)  
23. Sa-Roc – The Sharecropper’s Daughter (Deluxe Edition) (Rhymesayers) 
24. Chong The Nomad & Laureli – No Pulp (Kitsune) 
25. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Jimmy's Groove (Colemine)  
26. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)  
27. Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend (RCA)  
28. Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga (Everloving) 
29. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)  
30. Lord Huron – Long Lost (Whispering Pines Studios/Republic)  
31. Mara TK – Bad Meditation (Extra Soul Perception)  
32. Bachelor – Doomin' Sun (Polyvinyl) 
33. La Femme - Paradigmes (DISQUE POINT/ IDOL)  
34. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny ha ha (Secretly Canadian)  
35. Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) (PMR/Interscope)  
36. (Various) - The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration of Andy Gill & Gang of Four (Gill Music) 
37. Jorja Smith – Be Right Back EP (FAMM)  
38. Pickerel & The Peyote 3 – I Have Visions (self-released)  
39. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)  
40. (Various) - Bills & Aches & Blues (4AD)  
41. Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Matador)  
42. The Chemical Brothers – The Darkness That You Fear (EMI/Virgin)  
43. Blue Lab Beats, Kaidi & NK-OK – The Sounds of Afrotronica (Blue Adventure/All Points) 
44. Flock of Dimes – Head of Roses (Sub Pop)  
45. Zo! & Tall Black Guy – Abstractions (Foreign Exchange Music) 
46. Yola – Stand For Myself (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)  
47. (Various) - Red Hot + Free (Red Hot)  
48. Pond – 9 (Spinning Top)  
49. Mumu Fresh – Work (self-released) 
50. No-No Boy – 1975 (Smithsonian Folkways)  
51. Celeste – Not Your Muse (Atlas Artists/Polydor) 
52. Damien Jurado – The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania (Maraqopa) 
53. Squid – Bright Green Field (Warp)  
54. Torres – Thirstier (Merge)  
55. serpentwithfeet – DEACON (Secretly Canadian)  
56. Darkside – Spiral (Matador)  
57. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies) 
58. Kaidi Tatham – An Insight to All Minds (First Word)  
59. Mad Foxes – Ashamed (El Muchacho)  
60. Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes (Young Art)  
61. Kylie V – Big Blue (self-released)  
62. Teenage Sequence – All This Art (Get Better) 
63. SPELLLING – The Turning Wheel (Sacred Bones)  
64. Laura Mvula – Pink Noise (Flamingo/Atlantic)  
65. Crumb – Ice Melt (Crumb)  
66. Georgia Anne Muldrow – VWETO III (Foreseen/Epistrophik Peach Sound)  
67. Ducks Ltd. - Get Bleak EP (Carpark)  
68. Altin Gün - Yol (ATO)  
69. MALIA – Unpolished (self-released)  
70. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)  
71. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony)  
72. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss (Colemine)  
73. Nation of Language – A Way Forward (self-released)  
74. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)  
75. Grave Flowers Bongo Band – Strength of Spring (Castle Face)  
76. Quivers – Golden Doubt (Ba Da Bing!)  
77. Flying Lotus – Yasuke (Warp)  
78. Civic – Future Forecast (Flightless)  
79. Tomo Nakayama – On the Way (self-released)  
80. Boom Bap Project – Hagler vs. Hearns (self-released) 
81. Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature (Universal)  
82. Red Ribbon – Planet X (Danger Collective)  
83. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)  
84. Glüme - The Internet (Italians Do It Better)   
85. Riley Downing – Start It Over (New West)  
86. Big Scary – Daisy (Pieater)  
88. Fred again.. - Actual Life (April 14 – December 17 2020) (Atlantic)  
89. Karate, Guns & Tanning – Concrete Beach (self-released)  
90. Myd – Born a Loser (Ed Banger/Because Music)    

Americana: 

1. Pickerel & The Peyote 3 – I Have Visions (self-released)  
2. Riley Downing – Start It Over (New West)  
3. Allison Russell – Outside Child (Fantasy)  
4. Tony Joe White – Smoke From the Chimney (Easy Eye Sound) 
5. Todd Snider – First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder (Aimless/Thirty Tigers)  
6. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi – They're Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)  
7. Valerie June – The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers (Fantasy)  
8. Esther Rose – How Many Times (Father/Daughter)  
9. Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird – These 13 (Thirty Tigers)  
10. Willie Nelson – That's Life (Legacy)   

Global: 

1. Bomba Estéreo - Aire EP (Sony Latin)  
2. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)  
3. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)  
4. Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga (Everloving)  
5. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies) 
6. Altin Gün - Yol (ATO)  
7. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony)  
8. Angelique Kidjo – Dignity (Verve)  
9. Burna Boy – Kilometre (Atlantic)  
10. Sunny Jain – Phoenix Rise (Sinj)  

Hip Hop: 

1. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)  
2. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)  
3. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)  
4. Sa-Roc – The Sharecropper’s Daughter (Deluxe Edition) (Rhymesayers) 
5. Mumu Fresh – Work (self-released)  
6. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony)  
7. Boom Bap Project – Hagler vs. Hearns (self-released)  
8. Madlib – Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion)  
9. Brockhampton – Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine (Question Everything/RCA)  
10. Peter CottonTale – Breathe My Name (self-released)  

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)  
2. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)  
3. Chong The Nomad & Laureli – No Pulp (Kitsune)  
4. Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) (PMR/Interscope)  
5. The Chemical Brothers – The Darkness That You Fear (EMI/Virgin)  
6. Darkside – Spiral (Matador)  
7. Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes (Young Art)  
8. Teenage Sequence – All This Art (Get Better) 
9. Flying Lotus – Yasuke (Warp)  
10. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)  
2. Curtis Harding – Hopeful (ANTI-)  
3. Ambar Lucid – Get Lost in the Music (300 Entertainment)  
4. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)  
5. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown)  
6. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)  
7. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Jimmy's Groove (Colemine)  
8. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans) 
9. Mara TK – Bad Meditation (Extra Soul Perception) 
10. Jorja Smith – Be Right Back EP (FAMM) 

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. Blue Lab Beats – We Will Rise EP (Blue Note)  
5. Alfa Mist – Bring Backs (ANTI-) 
6. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop)  
7. Rodrigo y Gabriela – Jazz (Rubyworks/ATO)  
8. Garage A Trois – Calm Down Cologne (The Royal Potato Family)  
9. Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – Now (International Anthem) 
10. Gary Bartz, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge – JID006 (Jazz Is Dead)  

Northwest: 

1. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)  
2. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)  
3. Chong The Nomad & Laureli – No Pulp (Kitsune)  
4. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Jimmy's Groove (Colemine)  
5. Pickerel & The Peyote 3 – I Have Visions (self-released)  
6. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)  
7. Damien Jurado – The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania (Maraqopa) 
8. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss (Colemine)  
9. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)  
10. Tomo Nakayama – On the Way (self-released) 

Adds: 

Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans) 
Mustafa – When Smoke Rises (Regent Park) 
Islands – Islomania (Royal Mountain)  
Spiral XP – Drop Me In EP (Peaceful Tapes) 
UV-TV – Always Something (PaperCup Music) 
Raquel Rodriguez - Sweet Side (self-released) 
(Various) - Modern Love (BBE)  
Dobet Gnahoré - Couleur (Cumbancha) 
Rostam – Changephobia (Matsor Projects) 
Jaubi – Nafs at Peace (Astigmatic)  
Mereba – AZEB EP (Interscope) 
Okuté - Okuté (Chulo) 
New Candys – Vyvyd (Little Cloud) 
Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band – Tezeta (Awesome Tapes From Africa) 
Anchorsong - Mirage (Tru Thoughts Recordings) 
James – All the Colours of You (Caroline International) 
Hildegard – Hildegard (Section1)  
Mndsgn – Rare Pleasure (Stones Throw)  
Kareem Ali - Quantum Blackness (CosmoFlux Recordings)  
The Growth Eternal – Kensho ! EP (Leaving) 
Oshoo – You’re Not Alone EP (self-released) 
Sam Gellaitry - IV EP (FFRR) 
Baltra - Ambition EP (Local Action)