10-18-2021

KEXP Charts for the Week of Oct. 8-14

Top 90:  

1. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)  
2. BADBADNOTGOOD – Talk Memory (Interscope/Innovative Leisure)  
3. The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night (self-released)  
4. Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers (ANTI-)  
5. Nation of Language – A Way Forward (self-released)  
6. Chong the Nomad – Forward [single, Amazon Content Services/Sony)  
7. James Blake – Friends That Break Your Heart (Republic) 
8. IDLES – Crawler (Partisan)  
9. Bonobo – Fragments (Ninja Tune)  
10. Mitski – Working for the Knife (Dead Oceans)  
11. Cleo Sol – Mother (Forever Living Originals) 
12. Bomba Estereo – Deja (Sony Latin)  
13. Gorillaz – Meanwhile EP (Warner) 
14. Parisalexa – Vroom (Payday) 
15. Talaya. - Existential Soul (self-released)  
16. Nao – And Then Life Was Beautiful (Little Tokyo/Sony) 
17. Tirzah – Colourgrade (Domino)  
18. La Luz – La Luz (Hardly Art)  
19. Gabriels – Blame (Atlas Artists)  
20. Wet Leg – Wet Dream (Domino)  
21. Helado Negro – Far In (4AD)  
22. Cat Power – Covers (Domino)  
23. Jarv Dee x Bad Colours – BlakHouse EP (self-released)  
24. Ducks Ltd. - Modern Fiction (Carpark)  
25. Adia Victoria – A Southern Gothic (Canvasback/Atlantic)  
26. Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune) 
27. Weedie Braimah – The Hands of Time (Stretch Music/Ropeadope) 
28. Lala Lala – I Want the Door To Opoen (Hardly Art) 
29. Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort to Me (ATO)  
30. Robert Glasper – Shine (Loma Vista) 
31. Hatchie – Crush (Secretly Canadian)  
32. Michael Kiwanuka – Beautiful Life (Polydor)  
33. Band of Horses – Things Are Great (BMG)  
34. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans) 
35. Tres Leches – Leaving My Light On (Devil in the Woods) 
36. J’Von - KING CHEETAH (self-released)  
37. Ty Segall – Harmonizer (Drag City) 
38. (Various) - I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve)  
39. Aeon Station – Observatory (Sub Pop)  
40. Snail Mail – Valentine (Matador)  
41. Makthaverskan - För Allting (Run For Cover)  
42. Big Thief – Change (4AD)  
43. The War on Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore (Atlantic)  
44. Mumu Fresh - Queen Of Culture (Vintage Babies II)  
45. Alewya – Panther in Mode EP (Because London)   
46. Hannah Jadagu – All My Time is Wasted (Sub Pop) 
47. Anderson .Paak - Fire in the Sky (Interscope) 
48. Geese – Projector (Partisan)  
49. Mr Twin Sister – Al Mundo Azul (Twin Group)  
50. Koffee – West Indies (Promised Land Recordings)  
51. Hard Feelings – Hard Feelings (Domino)  
52. alt-J – The Dream (Canvasback/Atlantic)  
53. Baby Keem – The Melodic Blue (Columbia)  
54. Kedr Livanskiy – Liminal Soul (2MR)  
55. Susana Baca – Palabras Urgentes (Real World)  
56. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raise the Roof (Rounder)  
57. Yves Tumor – The Asymptotical World EP (Warp)  
58. Deafheaven – Infinite Granite (Sargent House)  
59. Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take (Saddle Creek)  
60. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)  
61. Low – HEY WHAT (Sub Pop)  
62. Turnstile – Glow On (Roadrunner) 
63. KOKOKO! - Donne Moi (Transgressive) 
64. Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Mom+Pop) 
65. Hatchie – This Enchanted (Secretly Canadian)  
66. Bartees Strange – Weights (Memory Music)  
67. The Shivas – Feels So Good // Feels So Bad (Tender Loving Empire) 
68. Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia of the Air (ANTI-) 
69. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine – A Beginner’s Mind (Asthmatic Kitty) 
70. Illuminati Hotties – Let Me Do One More (Snack Shack Tracks/Hopeless) 
71. Shad – TAO (Secret City) 
72. Ada Lea – one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden (Saddle Creek)  
73. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – Illusory Walls (Epitaph) 
74. Goat – Headsoup (Rocket Recordings)  
75. Porches – All Day Gentle Hold ! (Domino) 
76. Sleigh Bells – Texis (Mom+Pop) 
77. Jose Gonzalez – Local Valley (Mute)  
78. screensaver – Expressions of Interest (Upset The Rhythm) 
79. Chvrches – Screen Violence (Glassnote)  
80. (Various) - Habibi Funk 015 (Habibi Funk)  
81. JOHN – Nocturnal Manoeuvres (Pets Care/Brace Yourself) 
82. Parquet Courts – Sympathy For Life (Rough Trade) 
83. Amber Mark – Three Dimensions Deep (PMR)  
84. My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket (ATO)  
85. Noah Gundersen – A Pillar of Salt (Cooking Vinyl) 
86. Julia Shapiro – Zorked (Suicide Squeeze) 
87. Brandi Carlile – In These Silent Days (Elektra) 
88. (Various) - Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2 (Oh Boy) 
89. Sierra Ferrell – Long Time Coming (Rounder)  
90. DāM-FunK - Above the Fray (Glydezone)  

Americana: 

1. Adia Victoria – A Southern Gothic (Canvasback/Atlantic)  
2. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raise the Roof (Rounder) 
3. Brandi Carlile – In These Silent Days (Elektra)  
4. (Various) - Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2 (Oh Boy)  
5. Sierra Ferrell – Long Time Coming (Rounder)  
6. Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood and Juanita (High Top Mountain)  
7. Bria – Cuntry Covers Vol. 1 EP (Sub Pop)  
8. Kacey Musgraves – star-crossed (Interscope/MCA Nashville)  
9. Pokey LaFarge – In the Blossom of Their Shade (New West)  
10. Shinyribs – Late Night TV Gold (Mustard Lid)  

Global: 

1. Bomba Estereo – Deja (Sony Latin)  
2. Weedie Braimah – The Hands of Time (Stretch Music/Ropeadope) 
3. Koffee – West Indies (Promised Land Recordings)  
4. Susana Baca – Palabras Urgentes (Real World)  
5. KOKOKO! - Donne Moi (Transgressive) - 
6. (Various) - Habibi Funk 015 (Habibi Funk)  
7. Cali P x TEKA – Vizion (LowLow)  
8. Altin Gün – Âlem (ATO)  
9. Burna Boy – Question (Atlantic)  
10. Lakou Mizik & Joseph Ray – Leave the Bones (Ajunadeep) 

Hip Hop: 

1. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)  
2. Jarv Dee x Bad Colours – BlakHouse EP (self-released)  
3. J’Von - KING CHEETAH (self-released) 
4. Mumu Fresh - Queen Of Culture (Vintage Babies II) 
5. Baby Keem – The Melodic Blue (Columbia)  
6. Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia of the Air (ANTI-) 
7. Shad – TAO (Secret City)  
8. The Bug – Fire (Ninja Tune)  
9. Damu the Fudgemunk – Conversation Peace (Def Pressé)  
10. Common – A Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 2 (Loma Vista)    

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Chong the Nomad – Forward [single, Amazon Content Services/Sony) 
2. James Blake – Friends That Break Your Heart (Republic) 
3. Bonobo – Fragments (Ninja Tune)  
4. Mr Twin Sister – Al Mundo Azul (Twin Group) 
5. Hard Feelings – Hard Feelings (Domino) 
6. Kedr Livanskiy – Liminal Soul (2MR)  
7. The Bug – Fire (Ninja Tune) 
8. 박혜진 Park Hye Jin – Before I Die (Ninja Tune) 
9. dvr with Kenny Beats – lowlife (XL) 
10. Joy Orbison – Still Slipping Vol. 1 (XL)    

R&B/Blues: 

1. Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers (ANTI-)  
2. Cleo Sol – Mother (Forever Living Originals)  
3. Parisalexa – Vroom (Payday)  
4. Talaya. - Existential Soul (self-released)  
5. Nao – And Then Life Was Beautiful (Little Tokyo/Sony)  
6. Gabriels – Blame (Atlas Artists)  
7. Adia Victoria – A Southern Gothic (Canvasback/Atlantic)  
8. Robert Glasper – Shine (Loma Vista)  
9. Michael Kiwanuka – Beautiful Life (Polydor)   
10. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)  

Jazz: 

1. BADBADNOTGOOD – Talk Memory (Interscope/Innovative Leisure) 
2. Weedie Braimah – The Hands of Time (Stretch Music/Ropeadope) 
3. Makaya McCraven – Deciphering the Message (Blue Note)  
4. High Pulp – Motel Money (ANTI-)  
5. Kiefer – When There’s Love Around (Stones Throw)  
6. Irreversible Entanglements – Open the Gates (International Anthem/Don Giovanni) 
7. Jamael Dean – Primordial Waters (Stones Throw)  
8. Brian Jackson, Ali Shaheed Muhamad & Adrian Younge – JID008 (Jazz Is Dead)  
9. Emma-Jean Thackray – Yellow (Movementt)  
10. Onyx Collective – Tango (Juliet) 

Northwest: 

1. Chong the Nomad – Forward [single, Amazon Content Services/Sony) 
2. Parisalexa – Vroom (Payday)  
3. Talaya. - Existential Soul (self-released)  
4. Jarv Dee x Bad Colours – BlakHouse EP (self-released)  
5. Tres Leches – Leaving My Light On (Devil in the Woods) 
6. J’Von - KING CHEETAH (self-released)  
7. Noah Gundersen – A Pillar of Salt (Cooking Vinyl) 
8. Julia Shapiro – Zorked (Suicide Squeeze)  
9. Barrett Martin Group – Stillpoint (Sunyata)  
10. Jayomi – Midnight Love Note (self-released)  

Adds: 

Xenia Rubinos – Una Rosa (ANTI-) 
JOHN – Nocturnal Manoeuvres (Pets Care/Brace Yourself) 
Buffalo Nichols – Buffalo Nichols (Fat Possum)  
Cimafunk – El Alimento (Terapia Productions/Thirty Tigers)  
BLK ODYSSY - BLK VINTAGE (After School) 
Julia Shapiro – Zorked (Suicide Squeeze)  
Greentea Peng - MAN MADE (AMF/EMI) 
Midwife – Luminol (The Flenser) 
Le Ren – Leftovers (Secretly Canadian)  
Susana Baca – Palabras Urgentes (Real World) 
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Georgia Blue (Southeastern) 
Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue (Columbia) 
Orquesta Akokán - 16 Rayos (Daptone) 
K, Le Maestro - Whip Music (Jakarta) 
Sam Himself – Power Ballads (self-released) 
Dean Wareham – I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A. (Double Feature) 
Guided By Voices – It's Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them! (Guided By Voices, Inc.)  
sir Was – Let the Morning Come (Memphis Industries) 
Gavin Turek – Madame Gold (Madame Gold) 
Anz – All Hours EP (Ninja Tune) 
tov – you don’t say (For Good) 
Sampology – Regrowth (Middle Name) 
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Halloween Kills soundtrack (Sacred Bones) 
PawPaw Rod – A PawPaw Rod EP (Godmode) 
Johnny Marr – Fever Dreams Pt. 1 EP (New Voodoo Limited/BMG) 
Field Music – Another Shot EP (Memphis Industries) 
Chancha Via Circuito & Luvi Torres – Ceremonia EP (Wonderwheel) 
Dion Christopher - Love Notes EP (4Dworld)