09-12-2022

KEXP Charts for the Week of Sep. 2-8

Add Date: Sep. 12  

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. (Various) - Live at KEXP Volume 10 (KEXP)  
2. Beyoncé - Renaissance (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)  
3. Lil Silva – Yesterday is Heavy (Nowhere Music)  
4. (Various) - After Dark 4 (Italians Do It Better)  
5. Little Dragon – Opening the Door EP (Ninja Tune)  
6. ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective)  
7. Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes (BMG)  
8. Hot Chip – Freakout/Release (Domino)  
9. Cheekface – Too Much to Ask (New Professor)  
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)  
11. The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark)  
12. Kokoroko – Could We Be More (Brownswood Recordings) 
13. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Parlophone)  
14. Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights (L-M/RCA) 
15. Lizzo – Special (Nice Life/Atlantic)  
16. Burna Boy – Love, Damini (Atlantic)  
17. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista)  
18. Built to Spill – When the Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)  
19. Aidan Noell & Nancy Whang – Sharevari (Nation of Language) 
20. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (ANTI-)  
21. Wild Pink – ILYSM (Royal Mountain)  
22. Greentea Peng – Look to Him (EMI/Universal)  
23. Four Tet – Mango Feedback (Text)  
24. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  
25. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – Reset (Domino)  
26. U.S. Girls – So Typically Now (4AD)   
27. Jessie Ware – Free Yourself (EMI)  
28. Alvvays – Blue Rev (Celsius Girls/Polyvinyl)  
29. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)  
30. DOMi & JD Beck – NOT TIGHT (Apeshit/Blue Note)  
31. Santigold – Spirituals (Little Jerk)  
32. Working Men’s Club – Fear Fear (Heavenly)  
33. MorMor – Seasons Change (Don’t Guess/AWAL) 
34. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)  
35. Young Fathers – Geronimo (Ninja Tune)  
36. Beverly Crusher – Waste of Waves (Freakout)  
37. Cassandra Lewis – Always, All Ways (Low Country Sound/Elektra)  
38. Hudson Mohawke – Cry Sugar (Warp)  
39. Julia Jacklin – Pre Pleasure (Polyvinyl)  
40. Neneh Cherry - The Versions (EMI) 
41. Wu-Lu – Loggerhead (Warp)  
42. New Age Healers – Demolition Stories (self-released)  
43. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)  
44. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)  
45. Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)  
46. The National – Weird Goodbyes (4AD)  
47. Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone)  
48. The Black Angels – Wilderness Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!)  
51. Broken Bells – Into the Blue (30th Century/AWAL)  
52. The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!)  
53. Automatic – Excess (Stones Throw)  
54. Plains – I Walked With You a Ways (ANTI-)  
55. MorMor – Far Apart (Don’t Guess/AWAL)  
56. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw) 
57. Björk - fossura (One Little Independent)  
58. serpentwithfeet – I'm Pressed (Secretly Canadian) 
59. Poppy Ajudha – NO! (self-released)  
60. Sango - Great Lakes Influence (Wright Music Group)  
61. Meridian Brothers - Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento (Ansonia)  
62. Osees – A Foul Form (Castle Face)  
63. Stella Donnelly – Flood (Secretly Canadian)  
64. Kaidi Tatham – Don’t Rush the Process (First Word)  
65. The Lounge Society – Tired of Liberty (Speedy Wunderground)  
66. Sylvan Esso – No Rules Sandy (Loma Vista)  
67. Quinton Brock – My Shadow (Shadow Panther)  
68. Moreish Idols – Float EP (Speedy Wunderground)  
69. Spielbergs – Vestli (Big Scary Monsters)  
70. Momma – Household Name (Polyvinyl) 
71. Ty Segall - “Hello, Hi” (Drag City) 
72. Adi Oasis – Red to Violet (Unity) 
73. Tinariwen – Kel Tinariwen (Wedge)  
74. Courting – Guitar Music (Play It Again Sam)  
75. Open Mike Eagle – Component with the Auto Reverse (Auto Reverse)  
76. Junior Boys – Waiting Game (City Slang)  
77. Protoje – Third Time’s the Charm (In.Digg.Nation Collective/RCA) 
78. Guerilla Toss & Neu! - Zum Herz (Groenland)  
79. (Various) - Blue Note Re:imagined II (Blue Note)  
80. PVA – BLUSH (Ninja Tune)  
81. Killer Mike – Run (Loma Vista)  
82. Bonobo – ATK (OUTLIER)  
83. Early James – Strange Time to Be Alive (Easy Eye Sound)  
84. Valerie June – Under Cover EP (Fantasy)  
85. Big Joanie – Back Home (Kill Rock Stars)  
86. Kevin Morby – This Is A Photograph (Dead Oceans) 
87. Bartees Strange – Farm to Table (4AD)  
88. 070 Shake – You Can’t Kill Me (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)  
89. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)  
90. BLK ODYSSY – BLK VINTAGE: THE REPRISE (Empire)     

Americana: 

1. Cassandra Lewis – Always, All Ways (Low Country Sound/Elektra)  
2. Early James – Strange Time to Be Alive (Easy Eye Sound)  
3. Valerie June – Under Cover EP (Fantasy)  
4. Paisley Fields – Limp Wrist (Don Giovanni) 
5. S.G. Goodman – Teeth Marks (Verve Forecast)  
6. John Moreland – Birds in the Ceiling (Old Omens/Thirty Tigers)  
7. Amanda Shires – Take It Like a Man (ATO)  
8. Lee Bains + The Glory Fires – Old-Time Folks (Don Giovanni)  
9. The Sadies – Colder Streams (Yep Roc) 
10. The Deslondes – Ways & Means (New West)  

Global: 

1. Kokoroko – Could We Be More (Brownswood)  
2. Burna Boy – Love, Damini (Atlantic)  
3. Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)  
4. Meridian Brothers - Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento (Ansonia)  
5. Tinariwen – Kel Tinariwen (Wedge) 
6. Protoje – Third Time’s the Charm (In.Digg.Nation Collective/RCA) 
7. Bruno Berle - No Reino Dos Afetos (Far Out Recordings)  
8. Nyamekye Junction – Dasein EP (Kitto)  
9. Tim Bernardes – Mil Coisas Invisiveis (Psychic Hotline) 
10. Caramelo Haze - NOESTASAQUÍ (Nacional) 

Hip Hop: 

1. Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes (BMG)  
2. Lizzo – Special (Nice Life/Atlantic)  
3. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista)  
4. Young Fathers – Geronimo (Ninja Tune)  
5. Wu-Lu – Loggerhead (Warp)  
6. Open Mike Eagle – Component with the Auto Reverse (Auto Reverse)  
7. Killer Mike – Run (Loma Vista)  
8. BLK ODYSSY – BLK VINTAGE: THE REPRISE (Empire)  
9. Waahli – Te Revoir (Wyzah Muzk)  
10. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (Top Dawg)  

RPM/Electronic: 

1. (Various) - After Dark 4 (Italians Do It Better)  
2. Little Dragon – Opening the Door EP (Ninja Tune) 
3. ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective)  
4. Hot Chip – Freakout/Release (Domino)  
5. Aidan Noell & Nancy Whang – Sharevari (Nation of Language)  
6. Four Tet – Mango Feedback (Text)  
7. Jessie Ware – Free Yourself (EMI)  
8. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade) 
9. Hudson Mohawke – Cry Sugar (Warp)  
10. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. Beyoncé - Renaissance (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)  
2. Lil Silva – Yesterday is Heavy (Nowhere Music)  
3. Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights (L-M/RCA)  
4. Greentea Peng – Look to Him (EMI/Universal)  
5. Santigold – Spirituals (Little Jerk)  
6. Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone)  
7. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw) 
8. serpentwithfeet – I'm Pressed (Secretly Canadian)  
9. Poppy Ajudha – NO! (self-released)  
10. Adi Oasis – Red to Violet (Unity)  

Jazz: 

1. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (ANTI-)  
2. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)  
3. DOMi & JD Beck – Smile (Apeshit/Blue Note)  
4. The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!)  
5. Kaidi Tatham – Don’t Rush the Process (First Word)  
6. (Various) - Blue Note Re:imagined II (Blue Note)  
7. Katalyst, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Katalyst JID013 (Jazz Is Dead)  
8. Theo Croker – Love Quantum (Star People Nation/Sony)  
9. Anteloper – Pink Dolphins (International Anthem)  
10. Brandon Coleman – Interstellar Black Space (Brainfeeder) 

Northwest: 

1. ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective)  
2. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  
3. Beverly Crusher – Waste of Waves (Freakout)  
4. Cassandra Lewis – Always, All Ways (Low Country Sound/Elektra)  
5. New Age Healers – Setting Sun (self-released)  
6. Sango - Great Lakes Influence (Wright Music Group) 
7. Scarves – Delicate Creatures (Good Eye)  
8. Cataldo – Dumber EP (Reunion Tour)  
9. Song Sparrow Research – Don't Look Now (self-released)  
10. Grynch – Born in ‘86 (self-released)  

Adds: 

Sampa The Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista) 
Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw) 
Jockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)  
Built to Spill – When the Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop) 
Santigold – Spirituals (Little Jerk) 
Preoccupations – Arrangements (self-released) 
The Afghan Whigs – How Do You Burn? (Royal Cream)  
Son Little – Like Neptune (ANTI-) 
New Age Healers – Demolition Stories (self-released) 
Oliver Sim – Hideous Bastard (Young) 
No. 2 – First Love (Jealous Butcher) 
Rocky Votolato – Wild Roots (Spartan) 
Scone Cash Players – Brooklyn to Brooklin (Daptone)  
Beacon – Along the Lethe (Apparent Movement) 
Zach Harjo – Black Moon (self-released) 
The Paranoyds – Talk Talk Talk (Third Man) 
Marlon Williams – My Boy (Dead Oceans) 
Air Waves – The Dance (Fire)  
SOHN – Trust (4AD)  
The Homeless Gospel Choir – Fourth Dimension Intervention (Don Giovanni)  
Jason McCue – Screen, Turn On (Fluff & Gravy) 
S. Raekwon – I Like It When You Smile EP (Father/Daughter)