09-02-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of Aug 23 - Aug 29

Add Date: Sept 2

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. Fontaines D.C. - Romance (XL Recordings)
  2. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  3. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  4. GIFT - Illuminator (Captured Tracks)
  5. Chinese American Bear - Wah!!! (Moshi Moshi)
  6. Phantogram - Memory of a Day (Neon Gold/Avenue A)
  7. Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  8. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  9. BALTHVS - Harvest (Mixto)
  10. Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
  11. Black Ends - Psychotic Spew (Youth Riot)
  12. Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness (Amyl and The Sniffers/Virgin Music)
  13. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (dh2)
  14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
  15. Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 (Loma Vista)
  16. Lava La Rue - STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  17. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas (Island)
  18. Charli xcx - BRAT (Atlantic)
  19. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  20. Nilüfer Yanya - Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
  21. Los Bitchos - Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
  22. Blondshell - “What’s Fair” (Partisan
  23. Fcukers - Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  24. Hinds - VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)
  25. Jamie xx - In Waves (Young)
  26. Yannis & The Yaw - Lagos Paris London EP (Transgressive)
  27. Being Dead - EELS (Bayonet)
  28. GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith - Ill Times (p(doom) records)
  29. Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue (Dead Oceans)
  30. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  31. Enumclaw - Home in Another Life (Run For Cover)
  32. Fake Fruit - Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
  33. Wishy - Triple Seven (Winspear)
  34. SAULT - Acts of Faith (Forever Living Originals)
  35. Caribou - Honey (Merge)
  36. Ginger Root - SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
  37. Mavis Staples - “Worthy” (ANTI-)
  38. Suki Waterhouse - Memoirs of a Sparklemuffin (Sub Pop)
  39. TSHA - Sad Girl (Ninja Tune)
  40. Fat Dog - WOOF. (Domino)
  41. Honeyglaze - Real Deal (Fat Possum)
  42. Liv Rion - “In My Way” Desert Oasis)
  43. Ohr - Afterglow (Headstate)
  44. MC Lyte - “Thank You” (feat. Mary Mary & Muni Long) (My Block Inc.)
  45. Been Stellar - Scream from New York, NY (Dirty Hit)
  46. The Bug Club - On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop)
  47. Chime School - The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel (Slumberland)
  48. beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
  49. The Belair Lip Bombs - Lush Life (Third Man Records)
  50. X - Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum)
  51. Sycco - Zorb (Future Classic)
  52. Dr. Dog - Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold Records)
  53. Casino Hearts - Lose Your Halo (self-released)
  54. Goat - Goat (Rocket Recordings)
  55. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
  56. Porridge Radio - Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me (Secretly Canadian)
  57. Sunset Rubdown - Always Happy To Explode (Pronounced Kroog)
  58. Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
  59. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  60. Claude Fontaine - La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
  61. Crows - Reason Enough (Bad Vibrations)
  62. Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol (ANTI-)
  63. Jayda G - “Feeling Alive” (Ninja Tune)
  64. Lyrics Born - Goodbye, Sticky Rice (self-released)
  65. Mall Grab & Real Lies - “Ripples In The Timeline” (Looking For Trouble)
  66. Michael Kiwanuka - “Floating Parade” (Polydor)
  67. OneDa - Formula OneDa (Heavenly)
  68. Say She She - “I Believe in Miracles” (Karma Chief)
  69. TR/ST - All At Once (Dais)
  70. Fastbacks - for WHAT reason! (No Threes Records)
  71. Curses - Another Heaven (Italians Do It Better)
  72. Naked Roommate - Pass the Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
  73. Jack White - No Name (Third Man Records)
  74. Clairo - Charm (Virgin)
  75. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  76. illuminati hotties - POWER (Snack Shack Tracks/Hopeless Records)
  77. Luna Li - When a Thought Grows Wings (In Real Life/AWAL)
  78. Thee Heart Tones - Forever & Ever (Big Crown)
  79. Osees - SORCS 80 (Castle Face)
  80. Wand - Vertigo (Drag City)
  81. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  82. J.R.C.G. - Grim Iconic…(Sadistic Mantra) (Sub Pop)
  83. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland (Acony)
  84. Kishi Bashi - Kantos (Joyful Noise)
  85. The Softies - The Bed I Made (Father/Daughter)
  86. Guided By Voices - Strut Of Kings (GBV Inc.)
  87. Bklava - c u l8r (Spin Suga)
  88. Starflyer 59 - Lust for Gold (Velvet Blue Music)
  89. DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Hex (Spells on the Telly)
  90. ARI TSUGI  - Simultaneity (同時性) (Rebecca’s Records)

Americana: 

  1. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  2. Dr. Dog - Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold Records)
  3. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland (Acony)
  4. Pedro The Lion - Santa Cruz (Polyvinyl)
  5. Orville Peck - Stampede (Warner)
  6. Wilco - Hot Sun Cool Shroud EP (dBpm)
  7. Haley Heynderickx  - “Seed Of A Seed” (Mama Bird Recording Co.)
  8. Merce Lemon - Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild (Darling Recordings)
  9. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks (ANTI-)
  10. The Dead Tongues - I Am a Cloud (Psychic Hotline)

Global: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  2. BALTHVS - Harvest (Mixto)
  3. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  4. Los Bitchos - Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
  5. Claude Fontaine - La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
  6. KOKOKO! - BUTU (Transgressive)
  7. Soweto Gospel Choir x Groove Terminator - History of House (Umculo)
  8. Sababa 5 & Yurika - Kokoro (Batov)
  9. xiexie - wellwell (P-VINE/NATURAL FOUNDATION)
  10. Hermanos Gutiérrez - Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  2. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  3. Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
  4. Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 (Loma Vista)
  5. MC Lyte - “Thank You” (feat. Mary Mary & Muni Long) (My Block Inc.)
  6. Lyrics Born - Goodbye, Sticky Rice (self-released)
  7. OneDa - Formula OneDa (Heavenly)
  8. Rapsody - Please Don’t Cry (Jamla/Roc Nation)
  9. Sampha & Little Simz - “Satellite Business 2.0” (Young)
  10. LL Cool J - The FORCE (LL Cool J Music)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  2. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  3. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (dh2)
  4. Charli xcx - BRAT (Atlantic)
  5. Fcukers - Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  6. Jamie xx - In Waves (Young)
  7. Caribou - Honey (Merge)
  8. TSHA - Sad Girl (Ninja Tune)
  9. Sycco - Zorb (Future Classic)
  10. Jayda G - “Feeling Alive” (Ninja Tune)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  2. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  3. Lava La Rue - STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  4. Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue (Dead Oceans)
  5. SAULT - Acts of Faith (Forever Living Originals)
  6. Mavis Staples - “Worthy” (ANTI-)
  7. Liv Rion - “In My Way” Desert Oasis)
  8. Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
  9. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  10. Michael Kiwanuka - “Floating Parade” (Polydor)

Jazz: 

  1. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  2. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  3. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  4. ARI TSUGI  - Simultaneity (同時性) (Rebecca’s Records)
  5. BADBADNOTGOOD - Mid Spiral (XL Recordings Ltd.)
  6. Nubya Garcia - Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  7. Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)
  8. Parlor Greens - In Green We Dream (Colemine)
  9. Jimetta Rose & The Voices of Creation - Things Are Getting Better (Day Dreamer)
  10. Ezra Collective - Dance N(Partisan)

Northwest: 

  1. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  2. Chinese American Bear - Wah!!! (Moshi Moshi)
  3. Black Ends - Psychotic Spew (Youth Riot)
  4. Enumclaw - Home in Another Life (Run For Cover)
  5. Liv Rion - “In My Way” Desert Oasis)
  6. Ohr - Afterglow (Headstate)
  7. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  8. Fastbacks - for WHAT reason! (No Threes Records)
  9. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  10. J.R.C.G. - Grim Iconic…(Sadistic Mantra) (Sub Pop)

Adds: 

​​Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
Yannis & The Yaw - Lagos Paris London EP (Transgressive)
Los Bitchos - Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
Oceanator - Everything is Love and Death (Polyvinyl)
OHR - Afterglow (Head State)
The Bug Club - On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop)
Why Bonnie - Wish on the Bone (Fire Talk)
Wunderhorse - Midas (Communion/Mick Music)
Buzz’ Ayaz - Buzz’ Ayaz (Glitterbeat)
COLD GAWD - I’ll Drown On This Earth (Dais)
dog eyes - holy friend (Grand Jury)
Easy Sleeper - A Sacred Way of Living (self-released)
Enumclaw - Home in Another Life (Run For Cover)
Joya Mooi - Open Hearts EP (Unity Records)
Kerosene Kream - Buying Time (PNKSLM Recordings)
Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk (Mom + Pop)
Sean Henry - Head (Double Double Whammy)
Tycho - Infinite Health (Mom+Pop)
We Are the Willows - IV (Youngbloods)
Casino Hearts - Lose Your Halo (self-released)
Cecile Believe - Tender the Spark (ambient tweets)
​​Chelsea Bridge - K (Whited Sepulchre)
DJ TR1N1TY - ASTRO GIRLS EP (Lost Palms/Shall Not Fade)
Starflyer 59 - Lust for Gold (Velvet Blue Music)
Susanna - Meditations on Love (SusannaSonata)