08-21-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Aug. 11-17  

Add Date: Aug. 21     

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. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)  
2. Nation of Language – Strange Disciple (Play It Again Sam)  
3. Jessy Lanza – Love Hallucination (Hyperdub)  
4. Geese – 3D Country (Partisan)  
5. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)  
6. Jamila Woods – Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar) 
7. Miguel – Number 9 (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA)  
8. Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune)  
9. Girl Ray – Prestige (Moshi Moshi)  
10. Nubya Garcia – Lean In (Concord Jazz)  
11. Blur – The Ballad of Darren (Warner)  
12. Killer Mike – Michael (Loma Vista)  
13. Cherry Glazerr – I Don’t Want You Anymore (Secretly Canadian)  
14. Tkay Maidza – Sweet Justice (4AD)  
15. Fred Again.. – adore u (feat. Obongjayar) (Atlantic)  
16. KAYTRAMINÉ - KAYTRAMINÉ (Venice Music)  
17. Gabriel Teodros – Spacetime (self-released)  
18. IAN SWEET – Sucker (Polyvinyl)  
19. Slowdive – Everything is Alive (Dead Oceans)  
20. ODESZA & Yellow House – Flaws in Our Design EP (Foreign Family Collective)  
21. La Fonda – We Are Infinite (self-released)  
22. Being Dead – When Horses Were Run (Bayonet)  
23. Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)  
24. Sampha – Spirit 2.0 (Young)  
25. Tony Allen, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID018 (Jazz Is Dead)  
26. Courtney Barnett – Different Now (Suicide Squeeze)  
27. Noga Erez – Quiet (Atlantic)  
28. The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Disques Hives)  
29. Strange Ranger – Pure Music (Fire Talk)  
30. The Budos Band – Frontier’s Edge EP (Diamond West)  
31. Sheer Mag – All Lined Up (Third Man) 
32. James Blake – Playing Robots Into Heaven (Republic)  
33. Sufjan Stevens – Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)  
34. Black Milk – Everybody Good? (Mass Appeal)  
35. The Clientele – I Am Not There Anymore (Merge)  
36. BAMBII – Infinity Club EP (Innovative Leisure)  
37. La Sécurité - Stay Safe! (Mothland)  
38. Shafiq Husayn – So Gold (Nature Sounds)  
39. Claud – Supermodels (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans)  
40. Tomo Nakayama – Contigo (Ricebelly Music)  
41. Who Is She? – Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)  
42. Danger Mouse & Jemini – Born Again (Lex)  
43. The Joy Formidable – Cut Your Face (Enci)  
44. Nia Archives – Bad Gyalz (Island/HIJINXX)  
45. Alan Palomo – World of Hassle (Mom+Pop)  
46. DJ Koze – Wespennest/Candidasa EP (Pampa)  
47. Roosevelt – Embrace (Counter/Ninja Tune)  
48. Turnstile & BADBADNOTGOOD – New Heart Designs EP (Roadrunner)  
49. Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 EP (Warp)  
50. Hollie Cook – Happy Hour in Dub (Merge)  
51. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
52. Genesis Owusu – Struggler (OURNESS/AWAL)  
53. Death Cab for Cutie – An Arrow in the Wall (Atlantic)  
54. yeule – softscars (Ninja Tune)  
55. Big Thief – Vampire Empire (4AD) 
56. Romy – Mid Air (Young)  
57. Jessie Ware & Roisin Murphy – Freak Me now (EMI)  
58. Mitski – The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)  
59. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (ANTI-)  
60. Grian Chatten – Chaos for the Fly (Partisan)  
61. King Krule – Space Heavy (Matador)  
62. Youth Lagoon – Heaven is a Junkyard (Fat Possum)  
63. Shamir – Homo Anxietatem (Kill Rock Stars)  
64. Advertisement – Escorts (Feel It)  
65. Jalen Ngonda – Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)  
66. Empty Country – Empty Country II (Get Better)  
67. Roisin Murphy – What Not to Do (Moodymann remix) (Ninja Tune) 
68. CHAI – CHAI (Sub Pop)  
69. Wild Nothing – Hold (Captured Tracks)  
70. Maribou State – Blackoak (Ninja Tune) 
71. Sa-Roc – Talk to Me Nice (Rhymesayers)  
72. Jorja Smith – Falling or Flying (FAMM) 
73. Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee – Los Angeles (Play It Again Sam) 
74. Say She She – Silver (Karma Chief)  
75. Hot Chip – Fire of Mercy (Domino)  
76. Night Beats – Rajan (Suicide Squeeze)  
77. Beverly Glenn-Copeland – The Ones Ahead (Transgressive)  
78. Night Hikes – Keeper of Reality (self-released)  
79. Cornelius – Dream in Dream (Warner Music Japan)  
80. Novalima – La Danza EP (Six Degrees)  
81. George Clanton – Ooh Rap I Ya (100% Electronica)  
82. (Various) – The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake (Chrysalis)  
83. Golden Features – Sisyphus (Foreign Family Collective)  
84. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
85. Janelle Monae – The Age of Pleasure (Bad Boy/Wonderland)  
86. billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)  
87. Overmono – Good Lies (XL)  
88. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
89. Anohni and the Johnsons – My Back was a Bridge for You to Cross (Secretly Canadian)  
90. The Mountain Goats – Jenny from Thebes (Merge)  

Americana: 

1. Jenny Lewis – Joy’All (Blue Note)  
2. Wilco – Cousin (dBpm)  
3. The Watson Twins – Holler (Bloodshot) 
4. Margo Cilker – Valley of Heart’s Delight (Fluff & Gravy) 
5. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)  
6. MJ Lenderman – Knockin (Anti-)  
7. Fust – Genevieve (Dear Life) 
8. Florry – The Holey Bible (Dear Life)  
9. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern) 
10. Lucinda Wiliams – Stories from a Rock N Roll Heart (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers) 

Global: 

1. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead) 
2. Hollie Cook – Happy Hour in Dub (Merge)  
3. Novalima – La Danza EP (Six Degrees)  
4. Burna Boy – I Told Them… (Atlantic)  
5. Kali Uchis, El Alfa & JT – Munekita (Geffen)  
6. African Head Charge – A Trip to Bolgatanga (On-U Sound) 
7. Pahua – Habita (Nacional) 
8. WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)  
9. Bombino – Sahel (Partisan) 
10. N’dekho – Exile (Greco-Roman) 

Hip Hop: 

1. Killer Mike – Michael (Loma Vista) 
2. Tkay Maidza – Sweet Justice (4AD) 
3. KAYTRAMINÉ - KAYTRAMINÉ (Venice Music)  
4. Gabriel Teodros – Spacetime (self-released) 
5. Black Milk – Everybody Good? (Mass Appeal)  
6. BAMBII – Infinity Club EP (Innovative Leisure)  
7. Danger Mouse & Jemini – Born Again (Lex)  
8. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp) 
9. Sa-Roc – Talk to Me Nice (Rhymesayers)  
10. billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz) 

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Jessy Lanza – Love Hallucination (Hyperdub) 
2. Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune) 
3. Girl Ray – Prestige (Moshi Moshi) 
4. Fred Again.. – adore u (feat. Obongjayar) (Atlantic) 
5. ODESZA & Yellow House – Flaws in Our Design EP (Foreign Family Collective) 
6. James Blake – Playing Robots Into Heaven (Republic) 
7. Nia Archives – Bad Gyalz (Island/HIJINXX)  
8. Alan Palomo – World of Hassle (Mom+Pop)  
9. DJ Koze – Wespennest/Candidasa EP (Pampa)  
10. Roosevelt – Embrace (Counter/Ninja Tune) 

R&B/Blues: 

1. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL) 
2. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)  
3. Jamila Woods – Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar) 
4. Miguel – Number 9 (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA)  
5. Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note) 
6. Sampha – Spirit 2.0 (Young) 
7. The Budos Band – Frontier’s Edge EP (Diamond West) 
8. Shafiq Husayn – So Gold (Nature Sounds) 
9. Jalen Ngonda – Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)  
10. Jorja Smith – Falling or Flying (FAMM)  

Jazz: 

1. Nubya Garcia – Lean In (Concord Jazz) 
2. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead) 
3. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
4. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (Anti-)  
5. Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music (Nonesuch/Brownswood Recordings)  
6. Asher Gamedze – Turbulence & Pulse (International Anthem) 
7. Bokani Dyer – Radio Sechaba (Brownswood Recordings) 
8. Alabaster DePlume – Come With Fierce Grace (International Anthem) 
9. Alfa Mist – Variables (Anti-)  
10. Brandee Younger - Brand New Life (Impulse!)

Northwest: 

1. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)  
2. Gabriel Teodros – Spacetime (self-released) 
3. ODESZA & Yellow House – Flaws in Our Design EP (Foreign Family Collective) 
4. La Fonda – We Are Infinite (self-released)  
5. Who Is She? – Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)  
6. Tomo Nakayama – Contigo (Ricebelly Music)  
7. Who Is She? – Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)  
8. Death Cab for Cutie – An Arrow in the Wall (Atlantic) 
9. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (ANTI-)  
10. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music) 

Adds: 

Genesis Owusu – Struggler (Ourness/AWAL) 
Mick Jenkins – The Patience (RBC/BMG) 
Osees – Intercepted Message (In the Red) 
Shamir – Homo Anxietatem (Kill Rock Stars) 
Margaret Glaspy – Echo the Diamond (ATO) 
Versing – Tape II EP (self-released) 
Rhiannon Giddens – You’re the One (Nonesuch) 
Fiddlehead – Death is Nothing to Us (Run For Cover) 
Hemi Hemingway – Strangers Again (PNKSLM) 
Nat Myers – Yellow Peril (Easy Eye Sound) 
Diners – Domino (Bar None) 
Turnstile & BADBADNOTGOOD – New Heart Designs EP (Roadrunner) 
Jon Batiste – World Music Radio (Interscope) 
ford. – Guiding Hand (Foreign Family Collective) 
Stephen Steinbrink – Disappearing Coin (Western Vinyl)