07-26-2021

KEXP Charts for the Week of July 16-22

Top 90:  

1. Sault – Nine (Forever Living Originals)  
2. Yves Tumor – The Asymptotical World EP (Warp)  
3. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)  
4. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)  
5. Ambar Lucid – Get Lost in the Music EP (300 Entertainment)  
6. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans)  
7. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)  
8. Nation of Language – A Way Forward (self-released)  
9. Wet Leg – Chaise Longue (Domino) 
10. Torres – Thirstier (Merge)  
11. The War on Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore (Atlantic)  
12. Ya Tseen – Indian Yard (Sub Pop)  
13. Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Matador)  
14. Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost (Columbia)  
15. Curtis Harding – I Won’t Let You Down (ANTI-)   
16. Laura Mvula – Pink Noise (Atlantic)  
17. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune)  
18. Caroline Polachek – Bunny is a Rider (Perpetual Novice)  
19. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)  
20. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha (Secretly Canadian)  
21. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse!)  
22. Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Mom+Pop)  
23. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 (KGLW)  
24. The Goon Sax – Mirror II (Matador)  
25. Chong the Nomad – Get Back (BuildStrong Music Group)  
26. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Bad Skin (self-released)  
27. Mustafa – When Smoke Rises (Regent Park)  
28. La Luz – La Luz (Hardly Art)  
29. Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend (Dirty Hit)  
30. Children of Zeus – Balance (First Word)  
31. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen – Like I Used To (Jagjaguwar)  
32. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 EP (4AD)  
33. Vince Staples – Vince Staples (Blacksmith/Motown)  
34. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies)  
35. (Various) - Red Hot + Free (Red Hot)  
36. Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort to Me (ATO)  
37. Janelle Monae – Stronger (Atlantic)  
38. Hard Feelings – Hard Feelings (Domino)  
39. Xenia Rubinos – Una Rosa (ANTI-)  
40. Shad – TAO (Secret City)  
41. Brittany Howard – Jaime Reimagined (ATO)  
42. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay)  
43. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)  
44. H.E.R. - Back of My Mind (RCA) 
45. The Vega Bodegas – All My Fish Are Dead (self-released)  
46. Moodymann – Keep On Coming (Rockstar)  
47. Charlotte Day Wilson – Alpha (Stone Woman) 
48. L’Rain - Fatigue (Mexican Summer)  
49. The Lounge Society – Silk For the Starving EP (Speedy Wunderground)  
50. (Various) - May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson (Light in the Attic)  
51. Lala Lala – I Want the Door to Open (Hardly Art)  
52. Syd – Fast Car (Columbia)  
53. Big Red Machine – How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? (37d03d)  
54. Low – HEY WHAT (Sub Pop)  
55. Alewya – Jagna (Because London)  
56. The Haunted Youth – Coming Home (Mayway)  
57. Park Hye Jin – Before I Die (Ninja Tune)  
58. Woods – More Strange (Woodsist)  
59. Sally Shapiro – Fading Away (Italians Do It Better) 
60. Koreless – Agor (Young)  
61. Rodrigo Amarante – Drama (Polyvinyl)  
62. Half Waif – Mythopoetics (ANTI-)  
63. Evidence – Unlearning Vol. 1 (Rhymesayers)  
64. Linn Koch-Emmery - Being the girl (Boys tears)  
65. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)  
66. Mara TK – Bad Meditation (Extra Soul Perception)  
67. Darkside – Spiral (Matador)  
68. Loraine James – Reflection (Hyperdub)  
69. Rose City Band – Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey)  
70. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)  
71. Deafheaven – Infinite Granite (Sargent House)  
72. Cola Boyy – Prosthetic Boombox (Record Makers)  
73. Bachelor – Doomin' Sun (Polyvinyl)  
74. Ora The Molecule – Human Safari (Mute)  
75. JOHN – A Song For Those Who Speed in Built-Up Areas (Brace Yourself/Pets Care)  
76. Helado Negro – Far In (4AD)  
77. (Various) - I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve) 
78. Jose Gonzalez – Local Valley (Mute)  
79. Strand of Oaks – In Heaven (Galacticana/Thirty Tigers)  
80. Yola – Stand For Myself (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)  
81. Teenage Sequence – All This Art (Get Better)  
82. Goat – Headsoup (Rocket)  
83. Jenn Champion & Oyster Kids – Love Nobody EP (Hardly Art)  
84. U-Roy – Solid Gold U-Roy (Trojan Jamaica/BMG)  
85. Clairo – Sling (Republic)  
86. Blue Lab Beats – We Will Rise EP (Blue Note)  
87. Desperate Journalist – Maximum Sorrow! (Fierce Panda)  
88. Beabadoobee – Our Extended Play EP (Dirty Hit)  
89. Cochemea – Vol. II Baca Sewa (Daptone)  
90. Snapped Ankles – Forest of Your Problems (The Leaf Label)  

Americana: 

1. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha (Secretly Canadian) 
2. (Various) - May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson (Light in the Attic)  
3. Rose City Band – Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey)  
4. Yola – Stand For Myself (Easy Eye Sound/Concord) 
5. Pickerel & The Peyote 3 – I Have Visions (self-released)  
6. Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder/Concord)  
7. Country Westerns – Country Westerns EP (Fat Possum) 
8. Orville Peck – Born This Way (The Country Road Version) (Columbia) 
9. The Flatlanders – Treasure of Love (Rack ‘Em/Thirty Tigers)  
10. Carrie Clark & The Lonesome Lovers – Split at the Seams (self-released)   

Global: 

1. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies)  
2. U-Roy – Solid Gold U-Roy (Trojan Jamaica/BMG) 
3. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)  
4. Angelique Kidjo – Dignity (Verve)  
5. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)  
6. Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga (Everloving)  
7. Dobet Gnahoré - Couleur (Cumbancha)  
8. Okuté - Okuté (Chulo) 
9. Balkan Taksim – Disko Telegraf (Buda Musique) 
10. Jaubi – Nafs at Peace (Astigmatic)  

Hip Hop: 

1. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)  
2. Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost (Columbia)  
3. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Bad Skin (self-released)  
4. Children of Zeus -  Balance (First Word)  
5. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 (4AD)  
6. Vince Staples – Vince Staples (Blacksmith/Motown)  
7. Shad – TAO (Secret City)  
8. Evidence – Unlearning Vol. 1 (Rhymesayers)  
9. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)  
10. L'Orange & Namir Blade - Imaginary Everything (Mello Music Group) 

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Chong the Nomad – Get Back (BuildStrong Music Group)  
2. (Various) - Red Hot + Free (Red Hot) 
3. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay)  
4. Moodymann – Keep On Coming (Rockstar)  
5. Park Hye Jin – Before I Die (Ninja Tune)  
6. Sally Shapiro – Fading Away (Italians Do It Better)  
7. Koreless – Agor (Young) - 3 
8. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)  
9. Darkside – Spiral (Matador)  
10. Loraine James – Reflection (Hyperdub)

R&B/Blues: 

1. Sault – Nine (Forever Living Originals)  
2. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)  
3. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)  
4. Ambar Lucid – Get Lost in the Music (300 Entertainment)  
5. Curtis Harding – I Won’t Let You Down (ANTI-)  
6. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)  
7. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)  
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. Blue Lab Beats – We Will Rise EP (Blue Note)  
3. João Donato, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID007 (Jazz Is Dead)  
4. Kamasi Washington – Sun Kissed Child (Hollywood) 
5. Onyx Collective – Hummingbird (Juliet)  
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. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Bad Skin (self-released)  
4. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay) 
5. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)  
6. Jenn Champion & Oyster Kids – Love Nobody EP (Hardly Art)  
7. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)  
8. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)  
9. THEM – Bad 4 U (Ambient Village) 
10. Spiral XP – Drop Me In EP (Peaceful Tapes)     

Adds: 

Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost (Columbia) 
Darkside – Spiral (Matador) 
Altin Gün – Âlem (ATO) 
Leon Bridges – Gold-Diggers Sound (Columbia) 
Mega Bog – Life, and Another (Paradise of Bachelors)  
Charlotte Day Wilson – Alpha (Stone Woman) 
(Various) - May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson (Light in the Attic)  
Ora the Molecule – Human Safari (Mute)  
George Riley – interest rates, a tape (self-released)  
Alex Orange Drink – Everything Is Broken, Maybe That’s OK (Shea Stadium) 
Mariah the Scientist – Ry Ry World (One Umbrella/RCA)  
Anika – Change (Sacred Bones) 
Snoh Aalegra – Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies (ARTium/Roc Nation)  
Clairo – Sling (Republic) 
Brittany Howard – Jaime Reimagined (ATO) 
Havana Swim Club - Havana Swim Club (self-released)  
Molly Burch – Romantic Images (Captured Tracks) 
Drinking Boys and Girls Choir – Marriage License (Damnably) 
Ruth B. - Moments In Between (Downtown)  
Bluestaeb – Giseke (Jakarta)  
Lucid Express - Lucid Express (Kanine) 
Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band – Expansions (Big Crown) 
Los Lobos – Native Sons (New West) 
My Idea – That's My Idea EP (Hardly Art) 
Karen Nyame KG - Sensei II EP (Black Acre) 
Acid Tongue – Blossom EP (Freakout)  
Plutonic Lab - The New Ruins EP (Low Key Source) 
Andy Stott - Never The Right Time (Modern Love) 
Piroshka – Love Drips and Gathers (Bella Union)  
Tru - When The Smoke Clears (FTF) 
Foodman – Yasuragi Land (Hyperdub)  
Samia – Scout EP (Grand Jury) 
CalvoMusic - Nights Into Mornings EP (Night Slugs)