09-26-2022

KEXP Charts for the Week of Sep. 16-22

Add Date: Sep. 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. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista)  
2. Santigold – Spirituals (Little Jerk)  
3. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)  
4. Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes (BMG)  
5. The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark)  
6. (Various) - Live at KEXP Volume 10 (KEXP)  
7. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.)  
8. DOMi & JD Beck – NOT TIGHT (Apeshit/Blue Note)  
9. Beyoncé - Renaissance (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)  
10. Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic)  
11. Built to Spill – When the Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop) 
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)  
13. U.S. Girls – So Typically Now (4AD) 
14. Blood Orange – Four Songs EP (Domino/RCA)  
15. Kenny Beats – Louie (XL)  
16. Little Dragon – Opening the Door EP (Ninja Tune)  
17. Hot Chip – Freakout/Release (Domino)  
18. Bomba Estéreo & Manu Chao – Me Duele (Elegancia Tropical 
19. MorMor – Semblance (Don’t Guess)  
20. Son Little – Like Neptune (ANTI-)  
21. Charles Stepney – Step on Step (International Anthem)  
22. ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective)  
23. (Various) - After Dark 4 (Italians Do It Better)  
24. Björk - fossura (One Little Independent)  
25. Poppy Ajudha – NO! (self-released)  
26. Aidan Noell & Nancy Whang – Sharevari (Nation of Language)  
27. Protoje – Third Time’s the Charm (In.Digg.Nation Collective/RCA)  
28. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Parlophone)  
29. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  
30. Jamie xx – KILL DEM (Young)  
31. Alvvays – Blue Rev (Celsius Girls/Polyvinyl)  
32. Phoenix – Alpha Zulu (Glassnote)  
33. Jessie Ware – Free Yourself (EMI)  
34. Greentea Peng – GREENZONE 108 (EMI/Universal)  
35. PVA – BLUSH (Ninja Tune)  
36. The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!) 
37. DAM & Brother Ali – Overdose (Cooking Vinyl)  
38. Kokoroko – Could We Be More (Brownswood Recordings)  
39. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)  
40. Automatic – Excess (Stones Throw)  
41. Burna Boy – Love, Damini (Atlantic)  
42. KAYTRANADA & Anderson .Paak - Twin Flame (RCA)  
43. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)  
44. The Black Angels – Wilderness of Mirrors (Partisan) 
45. Hudson Mohawke – Cry Sugar (Warp)  
46. Julia Jacklin – Pre Pleasure (Polyvinyl)  
47. METZ – Come On Down (Sub Pop) 
48. Say She She – Prism (Karma Chief/Colemine)  
49. Goat – Oh Death (Rocket Recordings) 
50. Iceage – Shake the Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015-2021 (Mexican Summer)  
51. Jockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)  
52. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – Reset (Domino) 
53. Algiers – Bite Back (Matador)  
54. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)  
55. Plains – I Walked With You a Ways (ANTI-)  
56. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)  
57. New Age Healers – Demolition Stories (self-released)  
58. Cassandra Lewis – Always, All Ways (Low Country Sound/Elektra)  
59. King Stingray – King Stingray (Cooking Vinyl Australia)  
60. Cheekface – Too Much to Ask (New Professor)  
61. Suede – Autofiction (BMG)  
62. Moreish Idols – Float EP (Speedy Wunderground)  
63. Butcher Brown – Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (Concord Jazz)  
64. Rat Tally – In My Car (6131)  
65. Meridian Brothers - Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento (Ansonia)  
66. The Lounge Society – Tired of Liberty (Speedy Wunderground)  
67. Beach Bunny – Emotional Creature (Mom+Pop)  
68. Kaidi Tatham – Don’t Rush the Process (First Word)  
69. Sylvan Esso – No Rules Sandy (Loma Vista)  
70. Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)  
71. Open Mike Eagle – Component with the Auto Reverse (Auto Reverse)  
72. Calexico – Runner (ANTI-)  
73. WITCH – Waile (Desert Daze Sound/Partisan) 
74. Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (Sub Pop)  
75. Bonobo – ATK (OUTLIER)  
76. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)  
77. Guerilla Toss & Neu! - Zum Herz (Groenland) 
78. Nick Hakim – Cometa (ATO)  
79. Courting – Guitar Music (Play It Again Sam)  
80. The Harlem Gospel Travelers – Look Up! (Colemine/Karma Chief)  
81. Brijean – Angelo EP (Ghostly International)  
82. Valerie June – Under Cover EP (Fantasy)   
83. Kyle Kidd – Soothsayer (American Dreams)  
84. Quinn Christopherson – Write Your Name in Pink (Play It Again Sam)  
85. Whitney – Spark (Secretly Canadian)  
86. The Paranoyds – Talk Talk Talk (Third Man)  
87. Royksopp – Profound Mysteries II (Dog Triumph)  
88. Lil Silva – Yesterday is Heavy (Nowhere Music)  
89. Bartees Strange – Farm to Table (4AD)  
90. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (ANTI-)       

Americana: 

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

Global: 

1. Bomba Estéreo & Manu Chao – Me Duele (Elegancia Tropical) 
2. Protoje – Third Time’s the Charm (In.Digg.Nation Collective/RCA)  
3. Kokoroko – Could We Be More (Brownswood)  
4. Burna Boy – Love, Damini (Atlantic)  
5. Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)  
6. Meridian Brothers - Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento (Ansonia)  
7. WITCH – Waile (Desert Daze Sound/Partisan)  
8. Tinariwen – Kel Tinariwen (Wedge) 
9. Bruno Berle - No Reino Dos Afetos (Far Out Recordings)  
10. Caramelo Haze - NOESTASAQUÍ (Nacional) 

Hip Hop: 

1. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista)  
2. Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes (BMG)  
3. Kenny Beats – Louie (XL)  
4. DAM & Brother Ali – Overdose (Cooking Vinyl)  
5. Butcher Brown – Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (Concord Jazz) 
6. Open Mike Eagle – Component with the Auto Reverse (Auto Reverse)  
7. Lizzo – Special (Nice Life/Atlantic)  
8. Grynch – Born in ‘86 (self-released)  
9. Bryson The Alien – The Great Adventures Of... (PNKSLM) 
10. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (Top Dawg)   

RPM/Electronic: 

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

R&B/Blues: 

1. Santigold – Spirituals (Little Jerk)  
2. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)  
3. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.) 
4. Beyoncé - Renaissance (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)  
5. Son Little – Like Neptune (ANTI-)  
6. Poppy Ajudha – NO! (self-released)  
7. Greentea Peng – GREENZONE 108 (EMI/Universal) 
8. KAYTRANADA & Anderson .Paak - Twin Flame (RCA) 
9. The Harlem Gospel Travelers – Look Up! (Colemine/Karma Chief)  
10. Lil Silva – Yesterday is Heavy (Nowhere Music)  

Jazz: 

1. DOMi & JD Beck – Smile (Apeshit/Blue Note)  
2. Charles Stepney – Step on Step (International Anthem)  
3. The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!)  
4. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)  
5. Kaidi Tatham – Don’t Rush the Process (First Word)  
6. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (ANTI-)  
7. Henry Franklin, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Henry Franklin JID014 (Jazz Is Dead) 
8. (Various) - Blue Note Re:imagined II (Blue Note)  
9. Katalyst, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Katalyst JID013 (Jazz Is Dead)  
10. Theo Croker – Love Quantum (Star People Nation/Sony) 

Northwest: 

1. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.)  
2. Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic)  
3. ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective)  
4. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  
5. New Age Healers – Setting Sun (self-released)  
6. Cassandra Lewis – Always, All Ways (Low Country Sound/Elektra)  
7. Scarves – Delicate Creatures (Good Eye)  
8. Grynch – Born in ‘86 (self-released) 
9. Cataldo – Dumber EP (Reunion Tour)  
10. Song Sparrow Research – Don't Look Now (self-released) 

Adds: 

Alex G – God Save the Animals (Domino)  
Makaya McCraven – In These Times (Impulse!)  
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans) 
The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!) 
Divino Niño - Last Spa on Earth (Winspear) 
Courting – Guitar Music (Play It Again Sam)  
Beth Orton – Weather Alive (Partisan) 
Protoje – Third Time’s the Charm (In.Digg.Nation Collective/RCA)  
The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta (Clouds Hill) 
Suede – Autofiction (BMG) 
The Harlem Gospel Travelers – Look Up! (Colemine/Karma Chief)  
Shannen Moser – The Sun Still Seems to Move (Lame-O)  
LYZZA – MOSQUITO (Big Dada) 
Klangstof – Godspeed to the Freaks (Velveteen) 
Nikki Lane – Denim & Diamonds (New West)  
Iceage – Shake the Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015-2021 (Mexican Summer)  
The Soft Moon – Exister (Sacred Bones) 
Jake Blount – The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways)  
The Tallest Man on Earth – Too Late For Edeweiss (ANTI-) 
Sofie Royer – Harlequin (Stones Throw)  
Maya Hawke – MOSS (Mom+Pop)