09-16-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of Sept 6 - Sept 12

Add Date: Sept. 16

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. Dummy - Free Energy (Trouble In Mind)
  3. Black Ends - Psychotic Spew (Youth Riot)
  4. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks (ANTI-)
  5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
  6. Goat - Goat (Rocket Recordings)
  7. Jungle - “Let’s Go Back” (Caiola Records/AWAL Recordings)
  8. Toro y Moi - Hole Erth (Dead Oceans)
  9. Yannis & The Yaw - Lagos Paris London EP (Transgressive)
  10. Lava La Rue - STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  11. Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue (Dead Oceans)
  12. Suki Waterhouse - Memoirs of a Sparklemuffin (Sub Pop)
  13. Fcukers - Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  14. Hinds - VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)
  15. Caribou - Honey (Merge)
  16. Jamie xx - In Waves (Young)
  17. Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
  18. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  19. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight B741 ((P)Doom)
  20. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  21. Clairo - Charm (Virgin)
  22. GIFT - Illuminator (Captured Tracks)
  23. SAULT - Acts of Faith (Forever Living Originals)
  24. Parlor Greens - In Green We Dream (Colemine)
  25. Chinese American Bear - Wah!!! (Moshi Moshi)
  26. Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  27. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  28. Phantogram - Memory of a Day (Neon Gold/Avenue A)
  29. Various Artists - Bad Monkey Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack (WaterTower Music/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)
  30. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  31. The Bug Club - On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop)
  32. Fake Fruit - Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
  33. Killer Mike - Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs For Sinners And Saints (Loma Vista Recordings/Concord)
  34. BALTHVS - Harvest (Mixto)
  35. LL COOL J - THE FORCE (LL COOL J)
  36. Soweto Gospel Choir x Groove Terminator - History of House (Umculo)
  37. Sea Lemon - “Crystals” (feat. Benjamin Gibbard) (Luminelle)
  38. Ezra Collective - Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  39. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
  40. Jack White - No Name (Third Man Records)
  41. Been Stellar - Scream from New York, NY (Dirty Hit)
  42. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  43. Ginger Root - SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
  44. Claude Fontaine - La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
  45. Pale Jay - Low End Love Songs (Karma Chief)
  46. Oceanator - Everything is Love and Death (Polyvinyl)
  47. illuminati hotties - POWER (Snack Shack Tracks/Hopeless Records)
  48. Luna Li - When a Thought Grows Wings (In Real Life/AWAL)
  49. Cults - To the Ghosts (Cults Music/Imperial Distribution)
  50. Enumclaw - Home in Another Life (Run For Cover)
  51. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  52. Chong the Nomad - DO WE MAKE OF THIS (self-released)
  53. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk (Mom + Pop)
  54. Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
  55. Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness (Amyl and The Sniffers/Virgin Music)
  56. Dua Saleh - I SHOULD CALL THEM (Ghostly International)
  57. Friedberg - Hardcore Workout Queen (Clouds Hill)
  58. Jorja Smith - “High” (FAMM)
  59. Nubya Garcia - Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  60. Deep Sea Diver - “Stockholm Syndrome” (Three Siren)
  61. Eddie Vedder - “Save It For Later” (Republic)
  62. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Jazz Is Dead 021 (Jazz Is Dead)
  63. Future Islands - “Glimpse” (4AD)
  64. Gut Health - Stiletto (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  65. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (dh2)
  66. Lauren Auder & Wendy & Lisa - “I Would Die 4 U” (Red Hot Org)
  67. Say She She - “I Believe in Miracles” (Karma Chief)
  68. Jerry Paper - Inbetweenezer (Stones Throw)
  69. Nilüfer Yanya - Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
  70. Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 (Loma Vista)
  71. GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith - Ill Times (p(doom) records)
  72. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas (Island)
  73. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  74. Peel Dream Magazine - Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
  75. Los Bitchos - Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
  76. beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
  77. Osees - SORCS 80 (Castle Face)
  78. Wand - Vertigo (Drag City)
  79. Cimafunk - Pa’ Tu Cuerpa (Terapia Productions/Thirty Tigers)
  80. Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
  81. Nox Novacula - Feed the Fire (Artoffact)
  82. Various Artists - Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola (Strut)
  83. Dr. Dog - Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold Records)
  84. Dehd - Poetry (Fat Possum)
  85. Blondshell - “What’s Fair” (Partisan)
  86. Franz Ferdinand - The Human Fear (Domino)
  87. Porridge Radio - Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me (Secretly Canadian)
  88. The Linda Lindas - No Obligation (Epitaph)
  89. TSHA - Sad Girl (Ninja Tune)
  90. Father John Misty - Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said to Crawl (Sub Pop)

Americana: 

  1. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks (ANTI-)
  2. Dr. Dog - Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold Records)
  3. Abbey Blackwell - Big Big Motion (self-released)
  4. MAITA - want (Fluff and Gravy)
  5. Star Anna - Love and Sex and Fear of Death (self-released)
  6. Jake Xerxes Fussell - When I’m Called (Fat Possum)
  7. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  8. Jake Blount  & Mali Obomsawin - symbiont (Smithsonian Folkways)
  9. Shovels & Rope - Something Is Working Up Above My Head (Dualtone)
  10. Cassandra Lewis - Lost In A Dream (Elektra/Low Country Sound)

Global: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  2. BALTHVS - Harvest (Mixto)
  3. Soweto Gospel Choir x Groove Terminator - History of House (Umculo)
  4. Claude Fontaine - La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
  5. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  6. Los Bitchos - Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
  7. Cimafunk - Pa’ Tu Cuerpa (Terapia Productions/Thirty Tigers)
  8. Various Artists - Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola (Strut)
  9. Lollise - I hit the water (Switch Hit)
  10. Mestizo Beat - Jaraguá (F-Spot)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  2. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  3. Killer Mike - Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs For Sinners And Saints (Loma Vista Recordings/Concord)
  4. LL COOL J - THE FORCE (LL COOL J)
  5. Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
  6. Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 (Loma Vista)
  7. Snakehips & EARTHGANG - SNAKEGANG EP, Vol. 1 (Never Worry)
  8. Haviah Mighty - “Double The Fun” (Mighty Gang Inc.)
  9. Jeshi - “Total 90” (Because Music)
  10. Sampha & Little Simz - “Satellite Business 2.0” (Young)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Fcukers - Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  2. Caribou - Honey (Merge)
  3. Jamie xx - In Waves (Young)
  4. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  5. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  6. Soweto Gospel Choir x Groove Terminator - History of House (Umculo)
  7. Chong the Nomad - DO WE MAKE OF THIS (self-released)
  8. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (dh2)
  9. Cimafunk - Pa’ Tu Cuerpa (Terapia Productions/Thirty Tigers)
  10. TSHA - Sad Girl (Ninja Tune)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Jungle - “Let’s Go Back” (Caiola Records/AWAL Recordings)
  2. Lava La Rue - STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  3. Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue (Dead Oceans)
  4. Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
  5. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  6. SAULT - Acts of Faith (Forever Living Originals)
  7. Parlor Greens - In Green We Dream (Colemine)
  8. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  9. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  10. Pale Jay - Low End Love Songs (Karma Chief)

Jazz: 

  1. Parlor Greens - In Green We Dream (Colemine)
  2. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  3. Ezra Collective - Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  4. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  5. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  6. Nubya Garcia - Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  7. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Jazz Is Dead 021 (Jazz Is Dead)
  8. Louis Cole (with Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley) - nothing (Brainfeeder)
  9. Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding - Milton + esperanza (Concord)
  10. toe - NOW I SEE THE LIGHT (Topshelf)

Northwest: 

  1. Black Ends - Psychotic Spew (Youth Riot)
  2. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  3. Chinese American Bear - Wah!!! (Moshi Moshi)
  4. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  5. Sea Lemon - “Crystals” (feat. Benjamin Gibbard) (Luminelle)
  6. Enumclaw - Home in Another Life (Run For Cover)
  7. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  8. Chong the Nomad - DO WE MAKE OF THIS (self-released)
  9. Deep Sea Diver - “Stockholm Syndrome” (Three Siren)
  10. Eddie Vedder - “Save It For Later” (Republic)

Adds: 

​​Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
Suki Waterhouse - Memoirs of a Sparklemuffin (Sub Pop)
Fred again.. - ten days (Warner Music/Atlantic)
Ginger Root - SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
JSWISS - You Never Really Know (Awthentic Records)
Nada Surf - Moon Mirror (New West)
Porches - Shirt (Domino)
Thandii - Dream With You / Come As You (HaloHalo)
Thavoron - Thavoron (Trailing Twelve)
Dear Rouge - Lonesome High (Cadence/Pheromone Records)
Etran de L’Aïr - 100% Sahara Guitar (Sahel Sounds)
Floating Points - Cascade (Ninja Tune)
Gurriers - Come and See (No Filter)
Hataałii - Waiting For A Sign (Dangerbird)
Hello Mary - Emita Ox (Frenchkiss)
Lunar Vacation - Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire (Keeled Scales)
Oh, Rose - Dorothy (Antiquated Future)
The Mystery Lights - Purgatory (Wick/Daptone)
The Soundcarriers - Through Other Reflections (Phosphonic)
Trentemøller - Dreamweaver (In My Room)
Tristan de Liège - Searching (Joshua Tree)
Abbey Blackwell - Big Big Motion (self-released)
Angie McMahon - Light Sides EP (Gracie Music)
Doohickey Cubicle - Super Smeller (self-released)
Various Artists - Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia (Ostinato)