07-19-2021

KEXP Charts for the Week of July 9-15

Top 90:  

1. Sault – Nine (Forever Living Originals)  
2. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)  
3. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)  
4. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune)  
5. Nation of Language – A Way Forward (self-released)  
6. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)  
7. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)  
8. Curtis Harding – I Won’t Let You Down (ANTI-) 
9. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans)  
10. Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost (Columbia) 
11. Wet Leg – Chaise Longue (Domino)  
12. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha (Secretly Canadian) 
13. H.E.R. - Back of My Mind (RCA)  
14. Torres – Thirstier (Merge)  
15. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 (KGLW)  
16. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse!)  
17. Yves Tumor – The Asymptotical World EP (Warp)  
18. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen – Like I Used To (Jagjaguwar)  
19. The Goon Sax – Mirror II (Matador)  
20. Vince Staples – Vince Staples (Blacksmith/Motown)  
21. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)  
22. Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort to Me (ATO)  
23. Children of Zeus – Balance (First Word)  
24. Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Matador)  
25. Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature (Universal)  
26. Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend (Dirty Hit)  
27. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 EP (4AD)  
28. Laura Mvula – Pink Noise (Atlantic)  
29. Ya Tseen – Indian Yard (Sub Pop)  
30. Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Mom+Pop)  
31. Moodymann – Keep On Coming (Rockstar)  
32. Amen Dunes – Feel Nothing (Sub Pop)  
33. Chong the Nomad – Get Back (BuildStrong Music Group)  
34. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay)  
35. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Bad Skin (self-released) 
36. Pom Pom Squad – Death of a Cheerleader (City Slang)  
37. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)  
38. Flying Lotus – Yasuke (Warp)  
39. Janelle Monae – Stronger (Atlantic)  
40. Sally Shapiro – Fading Away (Italians Do It Better) 
41. Wednesday – Twin Plagues (Orindal)  
42. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop) 
43. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)  
44. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)  
45. Squid – Bright Green Field (Warp)  
46. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)  
47. St. Vincent – Daddy's Home (Loma Vista)  
48. La Luz – In the Country (Hardly Art) 
49. The Vega Bodegas – All My Fish Are Dead (self-released)  
50. Mykki Blanco – Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)  
51. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies)  
52. (Various) - Red Hot + Free (Red Hot)  
53. The Lounge Society – Silk For the Starving EP (Speedy Wunderground)  
54. Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder/Concord)  
55. L’Rain - Fatigue (Mexican Summer)  
56. Bachelor – Doomin' Sun (Polyvinyl)  
57. Mara TK – Bad Meditation (Extra Soul Perception)  
58. Kamasi Washington – Sun Kissed Child (Hollywood)  
59. Teenage Sequence – All This Art (Get Better)  
60. Helado Negro – Far In (4AD)  
61. Ora The Molecule – Human Safari (Mute)  
62. Blue Lab Beats – We Will Rise EP (Blue Note)  
63. Evidence – Unlearning Vol. 1 (Rhymesayers)  
64. Mustafa – When Smoke Rises (Regent Park)  
65. CHAI – WINK (Sub Pop)  
66. Iceage – Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer)  
67. Ambar Lucid – Get Lost in the Music EP (300 Entertainment)  
68. Cola Boyy – Prosthetic Boombox (Record Makers)  
69. Erika de Casier – Sensational (4AD)  
70. Amber Mark – Competition (PMR/EMI)  
71. Jose Gonzalez – Local Valley (Mute)   
72. Shad – TAO (Secret City)  
73. Meatbodies – 333 (In the Red)  
74. Onyx Collective – Hummingbird (Juliet)  
75. Geese – Disco (Partisan)  
76. Hard Feelings – Hard Feelings (Domino)  
77. Pond – 9 (Spinning Top)  
78. Alewya – Jagna (Because London)  
79. PawPaw Rod – Glass House (Godmode)  
80. Strand of Oaks – In Heaven (Galacticana/Thirty Tigers)  
81. Woods – More Strange (Woodsist)  
82. The Linda Lindas – Racist, Sexist Boy (Live at LA Public Library) (Epitaph)  
83. João Donato, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID007 (Jazz Is Dead) 
84. (Various) - Modern Love (BBE)  
85. Snapped Ankles – Forest of Your Problems (The Leaf Label)  
86. Matthew Dear – Preacher's Sigh & Potion: Lost Album (Ghostly International)  
87. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince (New Amsterdam)  
88. Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) (PMR/Interscope)  
89. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown)  
90. Morcheeba – Blackest Blue (self-released)

Americana: 

1. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha (Secretly Canadian) 
2. Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder/Concord)  
3. Rose City Band – Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey)  
4. Country Westerns – Country Westerns EP (Fat Possum) 
5. Orville Peck – Born This Way (The Country Road Version) (Columbia) 
6. Pickerel & The Peyote 3 – I Have Visions (self-released)  
7. The Flatlanders – Treasure of Love (Rack ‘Em/Thirty Tigers)  
8. Carrie Clark & The Lonesome Lovers – Split at the Seams (self-released)  
9. Allison Russell – Outside Child (Fantasy)  
10. Tony Joe White – Smoke From the Chimney (Easy Eye Sound)    

Global: 

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

Hip Hop: 

1. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)  
2. Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost (Columbia)  
3. Vince Staples – Vince Staples (Blacksmith/Motown)  
4. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)  
5. Children of Zeus -  Balance (First Word)  
6. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 (4AD)  
7. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Bad Skin (self-released) 
8. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)  
9. Mykki Blanco – Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)  
10. Evidence – Unlearning Vol. 1 (Rhymesayers)  

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Moodymann – Keep On Coming (Rockstar)  
2. Chong the Nomad – Get Back (BuildStrong Music Group)  
3. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay)  
4. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)  
5. Flying Lotus – Yasuke (Warp) 
6. Sally Shapiro – Fading Away (Italians Do It Better)  
7. (Various) - Red Hot + Free (Red Hot)  
8. Teenage Sequence – All This Art (Get Better)  
9. Ora The Molecule – Human Safari (Mute)  
10. Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) (PMR/Interscope)

R&B/Blues: 

1. Sault – Nine (Forever Living Originals)  
2. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)  
3. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)  
4. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)  
5. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)  
6. Curtis Harding – I Won’t Let You Down (ANTI-)  
7. H.E.R. - Back of My Mind (RCA)  
8. Children of Zeus – Balance (First Word)  
9. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 EP (4AD) 
10. Janelle Monae – Stronger (Atlantic)  

Jazz: 

1. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse) 
2. Kamasi Washington – Sun Kissed Child (Hollywood) 
3. Blue Lab Beats – We Will Rise EP (Blue Note)  
4. Onyx Collective – Hummingbird (Juliet)  
5. João Donato, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID007 (Jazz Is Dead)  
6. Anthony Joseph – The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives (Heavenly Sweetness) 
7. Kaidi Tatham – An Insight to All Minds (First Word)  
8. Alfa Mist – Bring Backs (ANTI-)  
9. Rodrigo y Gabriela – Jazz (Rubyworks/ATO)  
10. Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – Now (International Anthem) 

Northwest: 

1. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)  
2. Chong the Nomad – Get Back (BuildStrong Music Group)  
3. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay) 
4. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Bad Skin (self-released)  
5. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)  
6. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)  
7. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)  
8. Jenn Champion & Oyster Kids – Love Nobody EP (Hardly Art)  
9. THEM – Bad 4 U (Ambient Village) 
10. Spiral XP – Drop Me In EP (Peaceful Tapes)     

Adds: 

Yves Tumor – The Asymptotical World EP (Warp) 
Vince Staples – Vince Staples (Blacksmith/Motown) 
Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 EP (4AD) 
The Goon Sax – Mirror II (Matador) 
Laura Mvula – Pink Noise (Atlantic)  
Wavves – Hideaway (Fat Possum) 
Half Waif – Mythopoetics (ANTI-)  
Koreless – Agor (Young) 
Rodrigo Amarante – Drama (Polyvinyl) 
Peyton – PSA (Stones Throw) 
U-Roy – Solid Gold U-Roy (Trojan Jamaica/BMG) 
The Flatlanders – Treasure of Love (Rack ‘Em/Thirty Tigers)  
A Place to Bury Strangers – Hologram EP (Dedstrange) 
Cochemea – Vol. II Baca Sewa (Daptone)  
The Lasso, Jordan Hamilton & The Saxsquatch – Tri-Magi (Mello Music Group) 
John Vanderslice – I can’t believe civilization is still going here in 2021! Congratulations to all of us, Love DCB EP (Tiny Telephone)