06-26-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of June 16-22  

Add Date: June 12      

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. Janelle Monae – The Age of Pleasure (Bad Boy/Wonderland)  
2. Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note) 
3. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive) 
4. Bully – Lucky for You (Sub Pop) 
5. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
6. bar italia – Tracey Denim (Matador)  
7. Sigur Rós – Atta (BMG)  
8. Killer Mike – Michael (Loma Vista)  
9. The Smile – Bending Hectic (XL)  
10. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
11. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)  
12. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)  
13. Romy – Mid Air (Young)  
14. Blur – The Ballad of Darren (Parlophone)  
15. Jenny Lewis – Joy’All (Blue Note)  
16. Who Is She? – Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)  
17. Slowdive – Everything is Alive (Dead Oceans) 
18. Claud – Supermodels (Saddest Factory)  
19. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
20. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown) 
21. Geese – 3D Country (Partisan)  
22. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (Interscope) 
23. Alfa Mist – Variables (Anti-) 
24. The Budos Band – Frontier’s Edge EP (Diamond West)  
25. Nation of Language – Strange Disciple (Play It Again Sam) 
26. Beck & Phoenix – Odyssey (Capitol) 
27. Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman (Matador)  
28. Shafiq Husayn – So Gold (Nature Sounds)  
29. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention (BMG)  
30. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE) 
31. L’Rain – New Year’s UnResolution (Mexican Summer)  
32. CHAI – CHAI (Sub Pop)  
33. Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune)  
34. Cable Ties – All Her Plans (Merge)  
35. WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)  
36. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
37. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
38. Obongjayar – Just Cool (September)  
39. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)  
40. Y La Bamba – Lucha (Tender Loving Empire)  
41. Protomartyr – Formal Growth in the Desert (Domino)  
42. Kari Faux – REAL B*TCHES DON’T DIE! (drink sum wtr)  
43. Youth Lagoon – Heaven is a Junkyard (Fat Possum)  
44. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (ANTI-)  
45. Genesis Owusu – Struggler (OURNESS/AWAL)  
46. Say She She – C’est Si Bon (Karma Chief)  
47. Vagabon – Sorry I Haven’t Called (Nonesuch) 
48. Roosevelt – Ordinary Love (Counter)  
49. Juan Wauters – Wandering Rebel (Captured Tracks)  
50. Witch Prophet – Gateway Experience (Heart Lake)  
51. Corinne Bailey Rae – Black Rainbows (Black Rainbows Music/Thirty Tigers)  
52. Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music (Nonesuch/Brownswood Recordings)  
53. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
54. Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume… (Warp)  
55. billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)  
56. Indigo De Souza – All of This Will End (Saddle Creek)  
57. NxWorries – Daydreaming (Stones Throw) 
58. yeule – sulky baby (Ninja Tune)  
59. Skating Polly – Chaos County Line (El Camino Media)  
60. Jake Shears – Last Man Dancing (Mute)  
61. Cory Hanson – Western Cum (Drag City)  
62. Alex Lahey – The Answer Is Always Yes (Liberation) 
63. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune)  
64. King Krule – Space Heavy (Matador)  
65. Jess Williamson – Time Ain’t Accidental (Mexican Summer)  
66. Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (Ninja Tune)  
67. Beach House – Become EP (Sub Pop)  
68. Little Venom – Sabotage (self-released) 
69. Four Tet – Three Drums (Text)  
70. Lydia Loveless – Nothing’s Gonna Stand in My Way Again (Bloodshot)  
71. Osees – Intercepted Message (In the Red)  
72. Beverly Glenn-Copeland – The Ones Ahead (Transgressive)  
73. The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Disques Hives) 
74. Strange Ranger – Pure Music (Fire Talk)  
75. Anohni & the Johnsons – My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross (Secretly Canadian) 
76. Be Your Own Pet – Mommy (Third Man)  
77. Jorja Smith – Falling or Flying (FAMM) 
78. Girl and Girl – Divorce + EP (Sub Pop)  
79. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead)  
80. JOHN – A Life Diagrammatic (Brace Yourself)  
81. Mandy, Indiana – I’ve Seen a Way (Fire Talk)  
82. Django Django – Off Planet (Because Music)  
83. Man on Man – Provincetown (Polyvinyl)  
84. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – PetroDragonic Apocalype (KGLW)  
85. M. Ward – Supernatural Thing (Anti-)  
86. Daisies – Great Big Open Sky (K)  
87. African Head Charge – A Trip to Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)  
88. Madison McFerrin – I Hope You Can Forgive Me (MADMCFERRIN MUSIC)  
89. Christine and the Queens – PARANOIA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE (Because Music)  
90. Rahill – Flowers at Your Feet (Big Dada)   

Americana: 

1. Jenny Lewis – Joy’All (Blue Note)  
2. Jess Williamson – Time Ain’t Accidental (Mexican Summer) 
3. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)  
4. Rose City Band – Garden Party (Thrill Jockey)  
5. Esther Rose – Safe to Run (New West) 
6. Kassi Valazza – Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing (Fluff & Gravy) 
7. Mya Byrne – Rhinestone Tomboy (Kill Rock Stars) 
8. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans) 
9. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern) 
10. Country Westerns – Forgive the City (Fat Possum) 

Global: 

1. WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)  
2. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead) 
3. African Head Charge – A Trip to Bolgatanga (On-U Sound) 
4. Novalima – La Danza EP (Six Degrees)  
5. Ana Tijoux – Ninx (Victoria Producciones) 
6. Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood – Jarak Qaribak (World Circuit) 
7. Tinariwen – Amatssou (Wedge) 
8. Vox Sambou – We Must Unite (Les Arts Vox Sambou) 
9. Captain Planet – Sounds Like Home (Bastard Jazz) 
10. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  

Hip Hop: 

1. Killer Mike – Michael (Loma Vista) 
2. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp) 
3. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
4. Kari Faux – REAL B*TCHES DON’T DIE! (drink sum wtr) 
5. billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz) 
6. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
7. Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar – The Hillbillies (pgLang/Columbia)  
8. Ana Tijoux – Ninx (Victoria Producciones) 
9. KAMAUU - LACUNA in the House of Mirrors (Atlantic) 
10. Five Fingers of Funk – Portland Say It Again (Kill Rock Stars) 

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Romy – Mid Air (Young) 
2. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)  
3. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention (BMG) 
4. L’Rain – New Year’s UnResolution (Mexican Summer)  
5. Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune) 
6. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin) 
7. Roosevelt – Ordinary Love (Counter)  
8. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
9. yeule – sulky baby (Ninja Tune)  
10. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune) 

R&B/Blues: 

1. Janelle Monae – The Age of Pleasure (Bad Boy/Wonderland) 
2. Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note) 
3. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
4. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
5. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)  
6. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)  
7. Shafiq Husayn – So Gold (Nature Sounds) 
8. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)  
9. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya) 
10. Obongjayar – Just Cool (September)  

Jazz: 

1. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
2. Alfa Mist – Variables (Anti-)  
3. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE) 
4. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (Anti-)  
5. Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music (Nonesuch/Brownswood Recordings)  
6. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead) 
7. Bokani Dyer – Radio Sechaba (Brownswood Recordings) 
8. New Breed Brass Band – Made in New Orleans (Treme) 
9. Dave McMurray – Grateful Deadication 2 (Blue Note) 
10. Asher Gamedze – Turbulence & Pulse (International Anthem) 

Northwest: 

1. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)  
2. Who Is She? – Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)  
3. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
4. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (ANTI-)  
5. Skating Polly – Chaos County Line (El Camino Media) 
6. Little Venom – Sabotage (self-released) 
7. Daisies – Great Big Open Sky (K)  
8. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
9. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)  
10. La Fonda – We Are Infinite (self-released)  

Adds: 

Geese – 3D Country (Partisan) 
Militarie Gun – Life Under the Gun (Loma Vista) 
Cory Hanson – Western Cum (Drag City) 
Fust – Genevieve (Dear Life) 
Skating Polly – Chaos County Line (El Camino Media) 
The Watson Twins – Holler (Bloodshot) 
Joanna Sternberg – I’ve Got Me (Fat Possum) 
Pahua – Habita (Nacional) 
Sweeping Promises – Good Living is Coming for You (Feel It) 
Cable Ties – All Her Plans (Merge) 
Portugal. The Man – Chris Black Changed My Life (Atlantic) 
Son Volt – Day of the Doug (Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers) 
Django Django – Off Planet (Because Music) 
Nickodemus – Soul & Science (Wonderwheel) 
Wye Oak – Every Day Like the Last (Merge) 
Man on Man – Provincetown (Polyvinyl) 
bdrmm – I Don’t Know (Rock Action) 
Albert Hammond Jr. – Melodies on Hiatus (Red Bull) 
M. Ward – Supernatural Thing (Anti-) 
Pardoner – Peace Loving People (Bar/None) 
James & the Giants – James & the Giants (Kill Rock Stars) 
Mason Lowe – Morning People (Killroom) 
Angelo De Augustine – Toil and Trouble (Asthmatic Kitty) 
Creep Show – Yawning Abyss (Bella Union) 
Kedr Livanskiy – K-Notes EP (2MR)