10-25-2021

KEXP Charts for the Week of Oct. 15-21

Top 90:  

1. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)  
2. Nation of Language – A Way Forward (self-released)  
3. Bonobo – Fragments (Ninja Tune)  
4. Xenia Rubinos – Una Rosa (ANTI-)  
5. BADBADNOTGOOD – Talk Memory (Interscope/Innovative Leisure)  
6. Parquet Courts – Sympathy For Life (Rough Trade)  
7. Jarv Dee x Bad Colours – BlakHouse EP (self-released) 
8. La Luz – La Luz (Hardly Art)  
9. Parisalexa – Vroom (Payday)  
10. Cleo Sol – Mother (Forever Living Originals)  
11. The Shivas – Feels So Good // Feels So Bad (Tender Loving Empire)  
12. Bomba Estereo – Deja (Sony Latin)  
13. Nao – And Then Life Was Beautiful (Little Tokyo/Sony) 
14. James Blake – Friends That Break Your Heart (Republic)  
15. Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers (ANTI-)  
16. BLK ODYSSY - BLK VINTAGE (After School)  
17. Koffee – West Indies (Promised Land Recordings) 
18. Talaya. - Existential Soul (self-released)  
19. IDLES – Crawler (Partisan)  
20. Jack White – Taking Me Back (Third Man)  
21. Hatchie – This Enchanted (Secretly Canadian)  
22. Cimafunk – El Alimento (Terapia Productions/Thirty Tigers)  
23. Damu the Fudgemunk – Conversation Peace(Def Pressé)  
24. Mitski – Working for the Knife (Dead Oceans)  
25. Hard Feelings – Hard Feelings (Domino)  
26. Michael Kiwanuka – Beautiful Life (Polydor)  
27. Chong the Nomad – Forward [single, Amazon Content Services/Sony)  
28. Adia Victoria – A Southern Gothic (Canvasback/Atlantic)  
29. Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take (Saddle Creek) 
30. Gabriels – Blame (Atlas Artists)  
31. Helado Negro – Far In (4AD)  
32. Mandy, Indiana - ...EP (Fire Talk)  
33. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)  
34. Tres Leches – Leaving My Light On (Devil in the Woods)  
35. Deafheaven – Infinite Granite (Sargent House)  
36. Low – HEY WHAT (Sub Pop)  
37. Turnstile – Glow On (Roadrunner)  
38. Aeon Station – Observatory (Sub Pop) 
39. The War on Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore (Atlantic) 
40. Burna Boy – Want It All (Atlantic) 
41. Wet Leg – Wet Dream (Domino) 
42. Makthaverskan - För Allting (Run For Cover) 
43. Snail Mail – Valentine (Matador)  
44. Big Red Machine – How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? (37d03d) 
45. Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort to Me (ATO)  
46. Black Marble – Fast Idol (Sacred Bones)  
47. Makaya McCraven – Deciphering the Message (Blue Note)  
48. alt-J – The Dream (Canvasback/Atlantic)  
49. Julia Shapiro – Zorked (Suicide Squeeze)  
50. KIRBY – Sis. He Wasn’t the One (self-released)  
51. The Mary Veils – Somewhere Over the Rowhome EP (PNKSLM)  
52. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)  
53. Tirzah – Colourgrade (Domino)  
54. Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Mom+Pop)  
55. JOHN – Nocturnal Manoeuvres (Pets Care/Brace Yourself)  
56. Illuminati Hotties – Let Me Do One More (Snack Shack Tracks/Hopeless)  
57. Shad – TAO (Secret City)  
58. Joy Orbison – Still Slipping Vol. 1 (XL)  
59. Chvrches – Screen Violence (Glassnote) 
60. My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket (ATO) 
61. Liv.e - Bout It (Real Life Music/AWAL) 
62. Hamilton Leithauser & Kevin Morby – Virginia Beach (Dead Oceans) 
63. Kali Uchis – If It’s To Be (EMI/Interscope) 
64. Geese – Projector (Partisan)  
65. Sally Shapiro – Forget About You (Italians Do It Better)  
66. Mumu Fresh - Queen Of Culture (Vintage Babies II)  
67. Bartees Strange – Weights (Memory Music) 
68. KOKOKO! - Donne Moi (Transgressive)  
69. Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune)  
70. Let’s Eat Grandma – Hall of Mirrors (Transgressive) 
71. Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia of the Air (ANTI-)  
72. Porches – All Day Gentle Hold ! (Domino)  
73. Nite Jewel – No Sun (Gloriette)  
74. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – Illusory Walls (Epitaph)  
75. Sleigh Bells – Texis (Mom+Pop)  
76. Weedie Braimah – The Hands of Time (Stretch Music/Ropeadope)  
77. Gorillaz – Meanwhile EP (Warner)  
78. Amber Mark – Three Dimensions Deep (PMR)  
79. Dummy – Mandatory Enjoyment (Trouble in Mind)  
80. Silverbacks – Archive Material (Full Time Hobby)  
81. Anjimile – Strangers (4AD)  
82. Band of Horses – Things Are Great (BMG)  
83. Adrian Quesada – Funky Chick (Nacional) 
84. Real Estate – Days (Domino)  
85. St. Paul & The Broken Bones – The Alien Coast (ATO)  
86. Fantastic Negrito – Rolling Through California (Storefront)  
87. Sunflower Bean – Baby Don’t Cry (Mom+Pop)  
88. Cat Power – Covers (Domino)  
89. The Horrors – Against the Blade EP (Wolf Tine)  
90. serpentwithfeet – DEACON'S GROVE EP (Secretly Canadian)   

Americana: 

1. Adia Victoria – A Southern Gothic (Canvasback/Atlantic)  
2. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raise the Roof (Rounder) 
3. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Georgia Blue (Southeastern)  
4. Buffalo Nichols – Buffalo Nichols (Fat Possum)  
5. (Various) - Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2 (Oh Boy)  
6. Sierra Ferrell – Long Time Coming (Rounder)  
7. Bria – Cuntry Covers Vol. 1 EP (Sub Pop)  
8. Le Ren – Leftovers (Secretly Canadian) 
9. Brandi Carlile – In These Silent Days (Elektra)  
10. Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood and Juanita (High Top Mountain)

Global: 

1. Bomba Estereo – Deja (Sony Latin)  
2. Koffee – West Indies (Promised Land Recordings)  
3. Cimafunk – El Alimento (Terapia Productions/Thirty Tigers) 
4. Burna Boy – Want It All (Atlantic)  
5. KOKOKO! - Donne Moi (Transgressive) 
6. Weedie Braimah – The Hands of Time (Stretch Music/Ropeadope) 
7. Susana Baca – Palabras Urgentes (Real World)  
8. (Various) - Habibi Funk 015 (Habibi Funk)  
9. Cali P x TEKA – Vizion (LowLow)  
10. Orquesta Akokán - 16 Rayos (Daptone) 

Hip Hop: 

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

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Bonobo – Fragments (Ninja Tune)  
2. James Blake – Friends That Break Your Heart (Republic)  
3. Hard Feelings – Hard Feelings (Domino)  
4. Chong the Nomad – Forward [single, Amazon Content Services/Sony) 
5. Joy Orbison – Still Slipping Vol. 1 (XL) 
6. Sally Shapiro – Forget About You (Italians Do It Better) 
7. Nite Jewel – No Sun (Gloriette)  
8. The Bug – Fire (Ninja Tune)  
9. Mr Twin Sister – Al Mundo Azul (Twin Group) 
10. 박혜진 Park Hye Jin – Before I Die (Ninja Tune)     

R&B/Blues: 

1. Parisalexa – Vroom (Payday)  
2. Cleo Sol – Mother (Forever Living Originals)  
3. Nao – And Then Life Was Beautiful (Little Tokyo/Sony)  
4. Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers (ANTI-)  
5. BLK ODYSSY - BLK VINTAGE (After School) 
6. Talaya. - Existential Soul (self-released)  
7. Cimafunk – El Alimento (Terapia Productions/Thirty Tigers) 
8. Michael Kiwanuka – Beautiful Life (Polydor)   
9. Adia Victoria – A Southern Gothic (Canvasback/Atlantic)  
10. Gabriels – Blame (Atlas Artists)  

Jazz: 

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

Northwest: 

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

Adds: 

Lana Del Rey – Blue Banisters (Interscope)  
La Luz – La Luz (Hardly Art) 
Parquet Courts – Sympathy For Life (Rough Trade) 
Helado Negro – Far In (4AD)  
Deerhoof – Actually, You Can (Joyful Noise)  
(Various) - The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live! At the Apollo (Daptone)  
Hand Habits – Fun House (Saddle Creek)  
My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket (ATO)  
Angel Du$t – YAK: A Collection of Truck Songs (Roadrunner)  
Black Marble – Fast Idol (Sacred Bones) 
Dummy – Mandatory Enjoyment (Trouble In Mind) 
Circuit des Yeux - -io (Matador)  
Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe – Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe (Rare Bird/Kitten Robot)  
The Zephyr Bones – Neon Body (La Castanya) 
Good Morning – Barnyard (Polyvinyl)  
Vanishing Twin – Ookii Gekkou (Fire)  
ACTORS – Acts of Worship (Arfoffact) 
Ross From Friends – Tread (Brainfeeder) 
Trace Mountains – House of Confusion (Lame-O)  
Quantic & Nidia Góngora - Almas Conectadas (Tru Thoughts)  
Hayden Thorpe – Moondust For My Diamond (Domino) 
KIRBY – Sis. He Wasn’t the One (self-released) 
Sassy 009 – Heart Ego (Luft) 
Jackson+Sellers – Breaking Point (ANTI-) 
She/Beast - Violent Tendencies (PNKSLM)  
Dinner – Dream Work (Captured Tracks) 
Grouper – Shade (Kranky) 
Okay Kaya – The Incompatible Okay Kaya (Jagjaguwar)  
Ego Ella May – FIELDNOTES EP (self-released) 
Cuffed Up – Asymmetry EP (Royal Mountain)