08-31-2020

KEXP Charts for the Week of Aug. 21-27

Top 90:  

1. Sault – Untitled (Black Is) (Forever Living Originals)  
2. Khruangbin – Mordechai (Dead Oceans)  
3. Chong The Nomad – A Long Walk EP (self-released)  
4. Blimes & Gab – Talk About It (B.A.G. Enterprises)  
5. Dinner Party – Dinner Party (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)  
6. Burna Boy – Twice As Tall (Atlantic)  
7. Nubya Garcia – Source (Concord Jazz)  
8. Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure (PMR)  
9. Songhoy Blues – Optimisme (Fat Possum)  
10. Deep Sea Diver – Impossible Weight (High Beam/ATO)  
11. Jamila Woods – SULA (Paperback) (Jagjaguwar)  
12. IDLES – Ultra Mono (Partisan)  
13. Blu & Exile – Miles (Dirty Science)  
14. Dehd - Flower of Devotion (Fire Talk)  
15. Budos Band – Long in the Tooth (Daptone)  
16. (Liv).e - Couldn’t Wait To Tell You... (Real Life/AWAL)  
17. Oddisee – Odd Cure (Outer Note)  
18. Sylvan Esso – Free Love (Loma Vista)  
19. Washed Out – Purple Noon (Sub Pop)  
20. Sneaks – Happy Birthday (Merge)  
21. Bully – SUGAREGG – (Sub Pop)  
22. Haim – Women In Music Pt. III (Columbia)  
23. The Avalanches – Wherever You Go / Reflecting Light (Modular)  
24. Jessy Lanza – All the Time (Hyperdub)  
25. No Joy – Motherhood (Joyful Noise)  
26. Aminé - Limbo (Republic)  
27. Big Joanie – Cranes in the Sky/It’s You (Third Man)  
28. L.A. Witch – Play With Fire (Suicide Squeeze)  
29. Old 97’s - Twelfth (ATO)  
30. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension (Asthmatic Kitty)  
31. Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga (Everloving)  
32. Black Ends – Stay Evil EP (self-released)  
33. Keleketla! - Keleketla! (Ahead Of Our Time)  
34. BRONSON – BRONSON (Foreign Family Collective)  
35. Dave B. - Worthy (self-released)  
36. Arlo Parks – Hurt (Transgressive) 
37. Marcos Valle, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Marcos Valle JID003 (Jazz Is Dead)  
38. Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas (Nonesuch)  
39. Moodymann – Taken Away (CDJ)  
40. Terror/Cactus - Confluencia (self-released)  
41. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero’s Death (Partisan)  
42. Bill Callahan – Gold Record (Drag City)  
43. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 (4AD)  
44. Future Islands – As Long As You Are (4AD)  
45. Bettye LaVette – Blackbirds (Verve)  
46. Cloud Nothings – The Black Hole Understands (self-released)  
47. Glass Animals – Dreamland (Republic)  
48. Father John Misty – To S. / To R. (Sub Pop)  
49. HÆLOS - Hold On (Æ Recordings)   
50. Fenne Lily – Breach (Dead Oceans)  
51. Phoenix – Identical (Glassnote)  
52. The Notwist – Ship EP (Morr Music)  
53. Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess (Jagjaguwar)  
54. Captain Planet – No Visa (Bastard Jazz)  
55. Black Marble – I Must Be Living Twice EP (Sacred Bones)  
56. Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (BMG)  
57. Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound)  
58. Black Thought – Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel (Passyunk Productions)  
59. Jorja Smith – By Any Means (FAMM)  
60. Bob Mould – Blue Hearts (Merge)  
61. Spesh – Salt Dimension (self-released)  
62. Girl Friday – Androgynous Mary (Hardly Art)  
63. Secret Machines – Awake in the Brain Chamber (TSM)  
64. Dream Wife – So When You Gonna... (Lucky Number)  
65. Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Cooking Vinyl)  
66. The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers (Carpark)  
67. My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall II (ATO)  
68. Romare – Home (Ninja Tune)  
69. Left At London – Jenny Durkan, Resign in Disgrace (self-released)  
70. Jónsi – Shiver (Krunk)  
71. Osees – Protean Threat (Castle Face)  
72. Annie – Dark Hearts (self-released)  
73. Joensuu 1685 - ÖB (Svart)  
74. Doves – The Universal Want (Heavenly)  
75. Mint Field – Sentimento Mundial (felte)  
76. Smokescreens – A Strange Dream (Slumberland)  
77. John K. Samson – Fantasy Baseball at the End of the World (ANTI-) 
78. (Various) - Dear Sunny... (Big Crown)  
79. Shamir – Shamir (self-released)  
80. (Various) - Blue Note Re:imagined (Blue Note)  
81. Chuck Prophet – The Land That Time Forgot (Yep Roc) 
82. Liza Anne – Bad Vacation (Arts & Crafts)  
83. The Mavericks – En Espanol (Mono Mundo)  
84. Whitney – Candid (Secretly Canadian)  
85. Alan Braufman – The Fire Still Burns (Valley of Search)  
86. !!! - Certified Heavy Kats EP (Warp)  
87. Park Hye Jin – How Can I EP (Ninja Tune)  
88. Deradoorian – Find The Sun (ANTI-)  
89. Jonathan Bree – After the Curtains Close (Lil Chief)  
90. Tei Shi – Die 4 Ur Love (Diktator)         

Americana: 

1. Old 97’s - Twelfth (ATO) 
2. Chuck Prophet – The Land That Time Forgot (Yep Roc)  
3. The Mavericks – En Espanol (Mono Mundo)  
4. Orville Peck – Show Pony EP (Columbia)  
5. Taylor Swift – folklore (Republic)  
6. The Chicks – Gaslighter (Columbia) 
7. Margo Price – That's How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista)  
8. The Jayhawks – XOXO (Sham)  
9. Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom (Dualtone)  
10. S.G. Goodman – Old Time Feeling (Verve Forecast) 

World Music: 

1. Burna Boy – Twice As Tall (Atlantic)  
2. Songhoy Blues – Worry (Fat Possum)  
3. Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga (Everloving)  
4. Keleketla! - Keleketla! (Ahead Of Our Time)  
5. Terror/Cactus - Confluencia (self-released)  
6. Mexican Institute of Sound & Gaby Moreno – Yemaya (self-released)  
7. (Various) - Branko presents Enchufada Na Zona Vol. 2 (Enchufada)  
8. Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience – To Know Without Knowing (Agogo)  
9. Falle Nioke & Ghost Culture – Youkounkoun EP (PRAH)  
10. Ana Tijoux - Pa Qué (feat. PJ Sin Suela) (Victoria Producciones)  

Hip Hop: 

1. Blimes & Gab – Talk About It (B.A.G. Enterprises) 
2. Blu & Exile – Miles (Dirty Science)  
3. Aminé - Limbo (Republic)  
4. Oddisee – ODD CURE (self-released)  
5. Dave B. - Worthy (self-released)  
6. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 (4AD)  
7. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 4 (BMG)  
8. Black Thought – Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel (Passyunk Productions)  
9. Anderson .Paak - Lockdown (Aftermath)  
10. Gabriel Teodros – What We Leave Behind (self-released)  

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Chong The Nomad – A Long Walk EP (self-released)  
2. Washed Out – Purple Noon (Sub Pop)  
3. The Avalanches – Wherever You Go / Reflecting Light (Modular)  
4. Jessy Lanza – All the Time (Hyperdub)  
5. BRONSON – BRONSON (Foreign Family Collective)  
6. Terror/Cactus - Confluencia (self-released)  
7. Moodymann – Taken Away (CDJ)  
8. HÆLOS - Hold On (Æ Recordings) 
9. Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound) 
10. Romare – Home (Ninja Tune) 

R&B/Blues: 

1. Sault – Untitled (Black Is) (Forever Living Originals)  
2. Dinner Party – Dinner Party (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)  
3. Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? (PMR)  
4. Jamila Woods – SULA (Paperback) (Jagjaguwar)  
5. Budos Band – Long in the Tooth (Daptone)  
6. (Liv).e - Couldn’t Wait To Tell You... (Real Life/AWAL)  
7. Bettye Lavette – Blackbirds (Verve)  
8. Jorja Smith – By Any Means (FAMM)  
9. Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Cooking Vinyl)  
10. (Various) - Dear Sunny... (Big Crown)      

Northwest: 

1. Chong The Nomad – A Long Walk EP (self-released)  
2. Deep Sea Diver – Impossible Weight (High Beam/ATO) 
3. Black Ends – Stay Evil EP (self-released)  
4. Dave B. - Worthy (self-released)  
5. Terror/Cactus - Confluencia (self-released)  
6. Spesh – Salt Dimension (self-released) 
7. Left At London – Jenny Durkan, Resign in Disgrace (self-released)  
8. Gabriel Teodros – What We Leave Behind (self-released)  
9. Advertisement – American Advertisement (Patchwork Fantasy)  
10. Parisalexa – 2 Real (self-released)  

Adds: 

Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound)  
Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 (4AD)  
Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was (Saddle Creek)  
Nubya Garcia – Source (Concord Jazz) 
Another Sky – I Slept on the Floor (Fiction) 
Spesh – Salt Dimension (self-released)  
Narrow Head – 12th House Rock (Run For Cover) 
H.C. McEntire – Eno Axis (Merge) 
Alan Braufman – The Fire Still Burns (Valley of Search)  
The Lemon Twigs – Songs for the General Public (4AD) 
Sparkle Division – To Feel Embraced (Temporary Residence Ltd.) 
Jyoti – Mama, You Can Bet! (eOne/SomeOthaShip Connect)  
Heavy-K – Khusta (DrumbossMusik) 
Widowspeak – Plum (Captured Tracks)  
Samia – The Baby (Grand Jury)  
Toots & The Maytals – Got To Be Tough (Trojan Jamaica/BMG)  
Admas - Sons of Ethiopia  (Frederiksberg Records) 
Bebel Gilberto – Agora ({PIAS}) 
Oceanator – Things I Never Said (Big Scary Monsters)  
Adeline - Intérimes (self-released) 
Cut Copy – Freeze, Melt (Cutters)  
J Lloyd - Kosmos (JFC Worldwide) 
Daniel Avery – Love + Light (Phantasy Sound/Mute) 
Melanie Faye – Melanie Faye EP (self-released)