07-17-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of July 7-13  

Add Date: July 17      

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. WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)  
3. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)  
4. Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)  
5. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)  
6. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
7. Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune)  
8. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
9. Killer Mike – Michael (Loma Vista) 
10. Bully – Lucky for You (Sub Pop) 
11. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive) 
12. James Blake – Playing Robots Into Heaven (Republic) 
13. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention (BMG)  
14. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune)  
15. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
16. Ana Tijoux – Ninx (Victoria Producciones) 
17. The Budos Band – Frontier’s Edge EP (Diamond West)  
18. Shafiq Husayn – So Gold (Nature Sounds)  
19. Tony Allen, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID018 (Jazz Is Dead)  
20. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (Interscope)  
21. King Krule – Space Heavy (Matador)  
22. ODESZA & Yellow House – Flaws in Our Design EP (Foreign Family Collective) 
23. African Head Charge – A Trip to Bolgatanga (On-U Sound) 
24. Captain Planet – Sounds Like Home (Bastard Jazz) 
25. La Fonda – We Are Infinite (self-released)  
26. Anohni and the Johnsons – My Back was a Bridge for You to Cross (Secretly Canadian)  
27. Overmono – Good Lies (XL)  
28. Geese – 3D Country (Partisan)  
29. billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)  
30. Romy – Mid Air (Young)  
31. Nation of Language – Strange Disciple (Play It Again Sam) 
32. Jessy Lanza – Love Hallucination (Hyperdub)  
33. Beck & Phoenix – Odyssey (Capitol) 
34. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush) 
35. Grian Chatten – Chaos for the Fly (Partisan)  
36. Claud – Supermodels (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans)  
37. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian) 
38. boygenius – The Record (Interscope)  
39. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown) 
40. bar italia – Tracey Denim (Matador)  
41. Jamila Woods – Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar)  
42. Tkay Maidza & Flume – Silent Assassin (4AD)  
43. Cherry Glazerr – I Don’t Want You Anymore (Secretly Canadian) 
44. Sampha – Spirit 2.0 (Young)  
45. NxWorries – Daydreaming (Stones Throw)  
46. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)  
47. Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman (Matador) 
48. Hannah Jadagu – Aperture (Sub Pop)  
49. Alex Lahey – The Answer Is Always Yes (Liberation)  
50. SBTRKT – The Rat Road (Save Yourself/AWAL)  
51. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)  
52. Ratboys – The Window (Topshelf)  
53. The Chemical Brothers – Live Again (EMI) 
54. Fucked Up & The Halluci Nation – Electroshock (Merge)  
55. Alan Palomo – World of Hassle (Mom+Pop)  
56. Jorja Smith – Falling or Flying (FAMM)  
57. The Breeders – Go Man Go (4AD)  
58. Fatoumata Diawara – London Ko (Wagram)  
59. The Watson Twins – Holler (Bloodshot)  
60. bdrmm – I Don’t Know (Rock Action)  
61. Dream Wife – Social Lubrication (Lucky Number)  
62. Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 (Warp)  
63. Margo Cilker – Valley of Heart’s Delight (Fluff & Gravy)  
64. The Clientele – I Am Not There Anymore (Merge)  
65. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
66. Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (Ninja Tune)  
67. Sigur Rós – Atta (BMG)  
68. Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar – The Hillbillies (pgLang/Columbia) 
69. Obongjayar – Just Cool (September)  
70. Blur – The Ballad of Darren (Parlophone)  
71. Skating Polly – Chaos County Line (El Camino Media)  
72. Fust – Genevieve (Dear Life)  
73. PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan)  
74. Feeble Little Horse – Girl With Fish (Saddle Creek)  
75. Lucinda Wiliams – Stories from a Rock N Roll Heart (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers)  
76. Palehound – Eye on the Bat (Polyvinyl)  
77. Jenny Lewis – Joy’All (Blue Note)  
78. Kari Faux – REAL B*TCHES DON’T DIE! (drink sum wtr) 
79. The Murlocs – Calm Ya Farm (ATO)  
80. Beach Fossils – Bunny (Bayonet)  
81. Avalon Emerson – Avalon Emerson & The Charm (Another Dove/One House)  
82. Protomartyr – Formal Growth in the Desert (Domino)  
83. Tomo Nakayama – Contigo (Ricebelly Music)  
84. Who Is She? – Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)  
85. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (ANTI-)  
86. Little Venom – Sabotage (self-released) 
87. Beverly Glenn-Copeland – The Ones Ahead (Transgressive)  
88. Empty Country – Pearl (Get Better)  
89. DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man – Now U Do (Ninja Tune)  
90. Jalen Ngonda – Come Around and Love Me (Daptone) 

Americana: 

1. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)  
2. The Watson Twins – Holler (Bloodshot) 
3. Margo Cilker – Valley of Heart’s Delight (Fluff & Gravy) 
4. Fust – Genevieve (Dear Life) 
5. Lucinda Wiliams – Stories from a Rock N Roll Heart (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers) 
6. Jenny Lewis – Joy’All (Blue Note)  
7. Kassi Valazza – Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing (Fluff & Gravy) 
8. Jess Williamson – Time Ain’t Accidental (Mexican Summer) 
9. Esther Rose – Safe to Run (New West) 
10. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern) 

Global: 

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

Hip Hop: 

1. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp) 
2. Killer Mike – Michael (Loma Vista) 
3. Ana Tijoux – Ninx (Victoria Producciones) 
4. billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz) 
5. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
6. Tkay Maidza & Flume – Silent Assassin (4AD) 
7. Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar – The Hillbillies (pgLang/Columbia)  
8. Kari Faux – REAL B*TCHES DON’T DIE! (drink sum wtr) 
9. BAMBII – Infinity Club EP (Innovative Leisure)  
10. KAMAUU - LACUNA in the House of Mirrors (Atlantic) 

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune) 
2. James Blake – Playing Robots Into Heaven (Republic) 
3. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention (BMG) 
4. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune)  
5. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)  
6. ODESZA & Yellow House – Flaws in Our Design EP (Foreign Family Collective) 
7. Overmono – Good Lies (XL) 
8. Romy – Mid Air (Young) 
9. Jessy Lanza – Love Hallucination (Hyperdub) 
10. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. Janelle Monae – The Age of Pleasure (Bad Boy/Wonderland) 
2. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL) 
3. Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note) 
4. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)  
5. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
6. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
7. Shafiq Husayn – So Gold (Nature Sounds) 
8. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)  
9. Jamila Woods – Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar) 
10. Sampha – Spirit 2.0 (Young) 

Jazz: 

1. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
2. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead) 
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. Brandee Younger - Brand New Life (Impulse!)  
7. Bokani Dyer – Radio Sechaba (Brownswood Recordings) 
8. Alfa Mist – Variables (Anti-)  
9. Dave McMurray – Grateful Deadication 2 (Blue Note) 
10. Asher Gamedze – Turbulence & Pulse (International Anthem) 

Northwest: 

1. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)  
2. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
3. ODESZA & Yellow House – Flaws in Our Design EP (Foreign Family Collective) 
4. La Fonda – We Are Infinite (self-released)  
5. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush) 
6. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)  
7. Skating Polly – Chaos County Line (El Camino Media) 
8. Tomo Nakayama – Contigo (Ricebelly Music)  
9. Who Is She? – Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)  
10. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (ANTI-)  

Adds: 

Anohni and the Johnsons – My Back was a Bridge for You to Cross (Secretly Canadian) 
Palehound – Eye on the Bat (Polyvinyl) 
Haviah Mighty – Crying Crystals (Mighty Gang Inc) 
PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan) 
Claud – Supermodels (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans) 
Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune) 
Disclosure – Alchemy (Apollo/AWAL) 
Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings (Ghostly International) 
Snooper – Super Snooper (Third Man) 
Lifeguard – Crowd Can Talk / Dressed in Trenches (Matador) 
Alaska Reid – Disenchanter (Luminelle) 
Local Natives – Time Will Wait for No One (Loma Vista) 
(Various) – The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake (Chrysalis) 
Nana Benz du Togo – AGO (Komos) 
Cornelius – Dream in Dream (Warner Music Japan) 
Night Beats – Rajan (Suicide Squeeze) 
Temple of Angels – Endless Pursuit (Run For Cover) 
Grouplove – I Want it All Right Now (Glassnote) 
Golden Features – Sisyphus (Foreign Family Collective) 
Calibro 35 – Nouvelles Aventures (Record Kicks)