08-26-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of Aug 16 - Aug 22

Add Date: Aug 26

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. Lava La Rue - STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  2. Black Ends - Psychotic Spew (Youth Riot)
  3. Fontaines D.C. - Romance (XL Recordings)
  4. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  5. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas (Island)
  6. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  7. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  8. Jack White - No Name (Third Man Records)
  9. PawPaw Rod - Doobie Mouth (GODMODE)
  10. Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 (Loma Vista)
  11. GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith - Ill Times (p(doom) records)
  12. Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue (Dead Oceans)
  13. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  14. Wishy - Triple Seven (Winspear)
  15. beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
  16. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  17. Ginger Root - SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
  18. Jamie xx - In Waves (Young)
  19. Suki Waterhouse - Memoirs of a Sparklemuffin (Sub Pop)
  20. Father John Misty - Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said to Crawl (Sub Pop)
  21. Phantogram - Memory of a Day (Neon Gold/Avenue A)
  22. Clairo - Charm (Virgin)
  23. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight B741 ((P)Doom)
  24. Nubya Garcia - Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  25. Heartworms - “Jacked” (Speedy Wunderground)
  26. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  27. GIFT - Illuminator (Captured Tracks)
  28. The Belair Lip Bombs - Lush Life (Third Man Records)
  29. Killer Mike - Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs For Sinners And Saints (Loma Vista Recordings/Concord)
  30. Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)
  31. BALTHVS - Harvest (Mixto)
  32. Brijean - Macro (Ghostly International)
  33. Wilco - Hot Sun Cool Shroud EP (dBpm)
  34. J.R.C.G. - Grim Iconic…(Sadistic Mantra) (Sub Pop)
  35. Chong the Nomad - DO WE MAKE OF THIS (self-released)
  36. Fcukers - Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  37. Nilüfer Yanya - Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
  38. Sunset Rubdown - Always Happy To Explode (Pronounced Kroog)
  39. Toro y Moi - Hole Erth (Dead Oceans)
  40. Naked Giants - Shine Away (DevilDuck)
  41. Flying Lotus - “Garmonbozia” (Warp)
  42. Goat - Goat (Rocket Recordings)
  43. Jorja Smith - “High” (FAMM)
  44. Karen O & Danger Mouse - “Super Breath” (Lux Prima)
  45. Kelly Finnigan - A Lover Was Born (Colemine)
  46. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (dh2)
  47. Logic1000 - mother :;~ rebirth (Therapy/Because Music)
  48. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  49. Been Stellar - Scream from New York, NY (Dirty Hit)
  50. Kehlani - CRASH (TSNMI/Atlantic)
  51. Charli xcx - BRAT (Atlantic)
  52. Zsela - Big For You (Mexican Summer)
  53. Dehd - Poetry (Fat Possum)
  54. Osees - SORCS 80 (Castle Face)
  55. Moses Sumney - Sophcore EP (TUNTUM)
  56. Orville Peck - Stampede (Warner)
  57. SAULT - Acts of Faith (Forever Living Originals)
  58. LEATHERS - Ultraviolet (Artoffact)
  59. Dr. Dog - Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold Records)
  60. Parlor Greens - In Green We Dream (Colemine)
  61. DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Hex (Spells on the Telly)
  62. A/S/L - Signs of Romance (Future God)
  63. Rapsody - Please Don’t Cry (Jamla/Roc Nation)
  64. Chinese American Bear - Wah!!! (Moshi Moshi)
  65. Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness (Amyl and The Sniffers/Virgin Music)
  66. Ezra Collective - Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  67. Hinds - VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)
  68. Mavis Staples - “Worthy” (ANTI-)
  69. The Linda Lindas - No Obligation (Epitaph)
  70. Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
  71. Yannis & The Yaw - Lagos Paris London EP (Transgressive)
  72. Eddie Vedder - “Save It For Later” (Republic)
  73. Enumclaw - Home in Another Life (Run For Cover)
  74. Mt Fog - ultraviolet heart machine (Save the Forest For the Trees)
  75. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - “Obi Do Woa (If Someone Loves You)” (feat. Ebo Taylor)” (Jazz Is Dead)
  76. Flying Mojito Bros - “Glitter” (Ubiquity)
  77. Honeyglaze - Real Deal (Fat Possum)
  78. Jayda G - “Feeling Alive” (Ninja Tune)
  79. Leon Bridges - Leon (Columbia Records)
  80. Los Bitchos - Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
  81. The Dead Tongues - I Am a Cloud (Psychic Hotline)
  82. MAITA - want (Fluff and Gravy)
  83. Parannoul (파란노을) - Sky Hundred (self-released)
  84. Wand - Vertigo (Drag City)
  85. Cults - To the Ghosts (Cults Music/Imperial Distribution)
  86. Fana Hues - Moth (Bright Antenna)
  87. Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
  88. Roshâni - Alma de Baile (Stone Pixels)
  89. Haldi & ans Flamingo - Õige aeg (Funk Embassy)
  90. The Harlem Gospel Travelers - Rhapsody (Colemine)

Americana: 

  1. Wilco - Hot Sun Cool Shroud EP (dBpm)
  2. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  3. Orville Peck - Stampede (Warner)
  4. Dr. Dog - Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold Records)
  5. The Dead Tongues - I Am a Cloud (Psychic Hotline)
  6. MAITA - want (Fluff and Gravy)
  7. Haley Heynderickx  - “Seed Of A Seed” (Mama Bird Recording Co.)
  8. Star Anna - Love and Sex and Fear of Death (self-released)
  9. Cassandra Lewis - Lost In A Dream (Elektra/Low Country Sound)
  10. Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free (Jagjaguwar)

Global: 

  1. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  2. BALTHVS - Harvest (Mixto)
  3. Roshâni - Alma de Baile (Stone Pixels)
  4. Haldi & ans Flamingo - Õige aeg (Funk Embassy)
  5. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  6. Ibibio Sound Machine - “Black Notes” (Merge)
  7. Marcos Valle - Túnel Acústico (Far Out Recordings)
  8. Menahan Street Band & Rogê - Tropical Man EP (Diamond West)
  9. Sababa 5 & Yurika - Kokoro (Batov)
  10. KOKOKO! - BUTU (Transgressive)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  2. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  3. PawPaw Rod - Doobie Mouth (GODMODE)
  4. Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 (Loma Vista)
  5. Killer Mike - Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs For Sinners And Saints (Loma Vista Recordings/Concord)
  6. Rapsody - Please Don’t Cry (Jamla/Roc Nation)
  7. Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
  8. Lupe Fiasco - Samurai (1st & 15th)
  9. OneDa - Formula OneDa (Heavenly)
  10. Revival Season - “Dim Sum” (Heavenly)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  2. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  3. Jamie xx - In Waves (Young)
  4. Chong the Nomad - DO WE MAKE OF THIS (self-released)
  5. Fcukers - Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  6. Flying Lotus - “Garmonbozia” (Warp)
  7. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (dh2)
  8. Logic1000 - mother :;~ rebirth (Therapy/Because Music)
  9. Charli xcx - BRAT (Atlantic)
  10. DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Hex (Spells on the Telly)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Lava La Rue - STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  2. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  3. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  4. PawPaw Rod - Doobie Mouth (GODMODE)
  5. Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue (Dead Oceans)
  6. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  7. Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)
  8. Jorja Smith - “High” (FAMM)
  9. Kelly Finnigan - A Lover Was Born (Colemine)
  10. Kehlani - CRASH (TSNMI/Atlantic)

Jazz: 

  1. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  2. Nubya Garcia - Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  3. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  4. Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)
  5. Parlor Greens - In Green We Dream (Colemine)
  6. Ezra Collective - Ajala (Partisan)
  7. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - “Obi Do Woa (If Someone Loves You)” (feat. Ebo Taylor)” (Jazz Is Dead)
  8. Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding - Milton + esperanza (Concord)
  9. Marcos Valle - Túnel Acústico (Far Out Recordings)
  10. ISHA - What You’re Seeing (self-released)

Northwest: 

  1. Black Ends - Psychotic Spew (Youth Riot)
  2. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  3. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  4. J.R.C.G. - Grim Iconic…(Sadistic Mantra) (Sub Pop)
  5. Chong the Nomad - DO WE MAKE OF THIS (self-released)
  6. Naked Giants - Shine Away (DevilDuck)
  7. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  8. LEATHERS - Ultraviolet (Artoffact)
  9. Chinese American Bear - Wah!!! (Moshi Moshi)
  10. Eddie Vedder - “Save It For Later” (Republic)

Adds: 

​​Fontaines D.C. - Romance (XL Recordings)
Benny Trokan - Do You Still Think of Me (Wick Records)
Chime School - The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel (Slumberland)
Fake Fruit - Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
GIFT - Illuminator (Captured Tracks)
illuminati hotties - POWER (Snack Shack Tracks/Hopeless Records)
Luna Li - When a Thought Grows Wings (In Real Life/AWAL)
Thee Heart Tones - Forever & Ever (Big Crown)
Body Meat - Starchris (Partisan)
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland (Acony)
Gilligan Moss - Speaking Across Time (Foreign Family Collective)
Haldi & ans Flamingo - Õige aeg (Funk Embassy)
Kishi Bashi - Kantos (Joyful Noise)
Matty - POPS (Lex)
Sofi Tukker - BREAD (Sofi Tukker/Virgin)
SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING (Saddle Creek)
Sycco - Zorb (Future Classic)
The Harlem Gospel Travelers - Rhapsody (Colemine)
The Softies - The Bed I Made (Father/Daughter)
Closebye - Hammer Of My Own (self-released)
​​Nicole Miglis - Myopia (Sargent House)
Phantom Handshakes - Sirens at Golden Hour (Daydream/Start-Track)
Randy Mason - Practical Rap For Everyday People (self-released)
Various Artists - Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola (Strut)