10-28-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of Oct 18 - Oct 24

Add Date: Oct. 28

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. Chinese American Bear - Wah!!! (Moshi Moshi)
  2. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  3. Goat - Goat (Rocket Recordings)
  4. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (dh2)
  5. Black Ends - Psychotic Spew (Youth Riot)
  6. Confidence Man - 3 AM (LA LA LA) (Polydor)
  7. Suki Waterhouse - Memoirs of a Sparklemuffin (Sub Pop)
  8. Dummy - Free Energy (Trouble In Mind)
  9. Fcukers - Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  10. Toro y Moi - Hole Erth (Dead Oceans)
  11. Phantogram - Memory of a Day (Neon Gold)
  12. Deep Sea Diver - “Billboard Heart” (Sub Pop)
  13. Flying Lotus - “Ingo Swann” (Warp)
  14. Naked Giants - Shine Away (DevilDuck)
  15. Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness (Amyl and The Sniffers/Virgin Music)
  16. Caribou - Honey (Merge)
  17. Jamie xx - In Waves (Young)
  18. Lyrics Born - Goodbye, Sticky Rice (self-released)
  19. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  20. Amber Mark - “won’t cry” (PMR Records)
  21. LCD Soundsystem - “X-Ray Eyes” (DFA/Columbia)
  22. Obongjayar - “Just My Luck” b/w “Tomorrow Man” (September Recordings)
  23. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World (Fiction/Capitol)
  24. mega cat - “Sabotage” (Share It Music)
  25. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana (Sub Pop)
  26. Various Artists - Bad Monkey Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack (WaterTower Music/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)
  27. Ezra Collective - Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  28. TSHA - Sad Girl (Ninja Tune)
  29. Nubya Garcia - Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  30. Nilüfer Yanya - Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
  31. Yannis & The Yaw - Lagos Paris London EP (Transgressive)
  32. Juniore - Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
  33. Kit Sebastian - New Internationale (Brainfeeder)
  34. MC Lyte - 1 of 1 (My Block Inc.)
  35. Terror/Cactus - Forastero (Shika Shika)
  36. Jerome Blazé - Living Room (self-released)
  37. The Mystery Lights - Purgatory (Wick/Daptone)
  38. Ela Minus - DIA (Domino)
  39. Fazerdaze - Soft Power (section1)
  40. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
  41. Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  42. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks (ANTI-)
  43. Humdrum - Every Heaven (Slumberland)
  44. The Blessed Madonna - Godspeed (Warner)
  45. The Linda Lindas - No Obligation (Epitaph)
  46. Leon Bridges - Leon (Columbia)
  47. Mo Dotti - opaque (self-released)
  48. Being Dead - EELS (Bayonet)
  49. Ginger Root - SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
  50. Ravyn Lenae - Bird’s Eye (Atlantic)
  51. Bon Enfant - Demande spéciale (Duprince)
  52. Lynda Dawn - 11th Hour (First Dawn)
  53. Hot Moms Club - Happy You’re Here (Tone Tree Music)
  54. Sea Lemon - “Crystals” (feat. Benjamin Gibbard) (Luminelle)
  55. Bartees Strange - Horror (4AD)
  56. Jungle - “Let’s Go Back” (Caiola Records/AWAL Recordings)
  57. Yukimi -  “Break Me Down” (Ninja Tune)
  58. Freak Slug - I Blow Out Big Candles (Future Classic)
  59. Kassie Krut - “Reckless” (Fire Talk)
  60. Panda Bear - Sinister Grift (Domino)
  61. Hot 8 Brass Band - “Big Tuba” (Tru Thoughts)
  62. Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra - Tension (Batov)
  63. Nilüfer Yanya - Method Actor - The Remixes (Ninja Tune)
  64. Dua Saleh - I SHOULD CALL THEM (Ghostly International)
  65. Gut Health - Stiletto (Highly Contagious/AWAL)
  66. Hinds - VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)
  67. Fontaines D.C. - Romance (XL Recordings)
  68. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
  69. Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol (ANTI-)
  70. Spiral XP - I Wish I Was A Rat (Danger Collective)
  71. Thavoron - Thavoron (Trailing Twelve)
  72. Christopher Owens - I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair (True Panther Sounds)
  73. Porridge Radio - Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me (Secretly Canadian)
  74. Fousheé - Pointy Heights (RCA)
  75. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Heavier Yet (Lays the Crownless Head) (SKE80/Record Kicks)
  76. The Smile - Cutouts (XL Recordings)
  77. Vitesse X - This Infinite (Music Website)
  78. Crows - Reason Enough (Bad Vibrations)
  79. Sunflower Bean - Shake EP (Lucky Number)
  80. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol)
  81. Claude Fontaine - La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
  82. 34 Trolley - Relaxation EP (Feel the Four)
  83. Cold Cave - Passion Depression (Heartworm Press)
  84. Kurious - Majician (Metalface/Rhymesayers)
  85. Dar Disku - Dar Disku (Soundway)
  86. Dame Area - Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area (Humo Internacional)
  87. Floating Points - Cascade (Ninja Tune)
  88. Trentemøller - Dreamweaver (In My Room)
  89. Enumclaw - Home in Another Life (Run For Cover)
  90. Los Bitchos - Talkie Talkie (City Slang)

Americana: 

  1. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks (ANTI-)
  2. Christopher Owens - I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair (True Panther Sounds)
  3. Merce Lemon - Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild (Darling Recordings)
  4. Wild Pink - Dulling The Horns (Fire Talk)
  5. Trace Mountains - Into the Burning Blue (Lame-O Records)
  6. Bon Iver - SABLE, EP (Jagjaguwar)
  7. Jordana - Lively Premonition (Grand Jury Music)
  8. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin - symbiont (Smithsonian Folkways)
  9. Waxahatchee - “Much Ado About Nothing” (ANTI-)
  10. Haley Heynderickx  - Seed Of A Seed (Mama Bird Recording Co.)

Global: 

  1. Kit Sebastian - New Internationale (Brainfeeder)
  2. Terror/Cactus - Forastero (Shika Shika)
  3. Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  4. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Heavier Yet (Lays the Crownless Head) (SKE80/Record Kicks)
  5. Claude Fontaine - La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
  6. Dar Disku - Dar Disku (Soundway)
  7. Dame Area - Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area (Humo Internacional)
  8. Los Bitchos - Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
  9. Nubiyan Twist - Find Your Flame (Deluxe Edition) (Strut)
  10. Adrian Younge - Adrian Younge presents Linear Labs: São Paulo (Linear Labs)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Lyrics Born - Goodbye, Sticky Rice (self-released)
  2. Ezra Collective - Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  3. MC Lyte - 1 of 1 (My Block Inc.)
  4. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol)
  5. Kurious - Majician (Metalface/Rhymesayers)
  6. Nubiyan Twist - Find Your Flame (Deluxe Edition) (Strut)
  7. clipping. - “Run It” (Sub Pop)
  8. Kendrick Lamar - “Watch The Party Die” (self-released)
  9. Cool Out Sun - A LION IS A LION (House of Beige)
  10. MaLLy & Last Word - The Sweetest of It All (MaLLy LLC / Last Word Touring)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  2. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (dh2)
  3. Confidence Man - 3 AM (LA LA LA) (Polydor)
  4. Fcukers - Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  5. Flying Lotus - “Ingo Swann” (Warp)
  6. Caribou - Honey (Merge)
  7. Jamie xx - In Waves (Young)
  8. LCD Soundsystem - “X-Ray Eyes” (DFA/Columbia)
  9. TSHA - Sad Girl (Ninja Tune)
  10. Terror/Cactus - Forastero (Shika Shika)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  2. Amber Mark - “won’t cry” (PMR Records)
  3. Obongjayar - “Just My Luck” b/w “Tomorrow Man” (September Recordings)
  4. Ezra Collective - Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  5. Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  6. Leon Bridges - Leon (Columbia)
  7. Ravyn Lenae - Bird’s Eye (Atlantic)
  8. Lynda Dawn - 11th Hour (First Dawn)
  9. Jungle - “Let’s Go Back” (Caiola Records/AWAL Recordings)
  10. Yukimi -  “Break Me Down” (Ninja Tune)

Jazz: 

  1. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  2. mega cat - “Sabotage” (Share It Music)
  3. Ezra Collective - Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  4. Nubya Garcia - Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  5. Kit Sebastian - New Internationale (Brainfeeder)
  6. Lynda Dawn - 11th Hour (First Dawn)
  7. Hot 8 Brass Band - “Big Tuba” (Tru Thoughts)
  8. Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra - Tension (Batov)
  9. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Heavier Yet (Lays the Crownless Head) (SKE80/Record Kicks)
  10. Nubiyan Twist - Find Your Flame (Deluxe Edition) (Strut)

Northwest: 

  1. Chinese American Bear - Wah!!! (Moshi Moshi)
  2. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  3. Black Ends - Psychotic Spew (Youth Riot)
  4. Deep Sea Diver - “Billboard Heart” (Sub Pop)
  5. Naked Giants - Shine Away (DevilDuck)
  6. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  7. mega cat - “Sabotage” (Share It Music)
  8. Terror/Cactus - Forastero (Shika Shika)
  9. Sea Lemon - “Crystals” (feat. Benjamin Gibbard) (Luminelle)
  10. Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol (ANTI-)

Adds: 

​​Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness (Amyl and The Sniffers/Virgin Music)
Soccer Mommy - Evergreen (Loma Vista)
Fantastic Negrito - Son of a Broken Man (Storefront Records)
Naked Roommate - Pass the Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
Pixies - The Night the Zombies Came (BMG)
Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me (City Slang)
Shigeto - Cherry Blossom Baby (Ghostly International)
2nd Grade - Scheduled Explosions (Double Double Whammy)
Boyscott - Spellbound (Topshelf)
Dear Dea - When You Go Home Again EP (EveryDejaVu)
Elias Rønnenfelt - Heavy Glory (Escho)
Fashion Club - A Love You Cannot Shake (felte)
Fievel Is Glauque - Rong Weicknes (Fat Possum)
GEMZ - See the Future EP (Sonic Ritual)
Jean Dawson - Glimmer of God (P+)
King Pari - There It Goes (Stones Throw)
Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat (Chrysalis/Partisan)
Lyrics Born - Goodbye, Sticky Rice (self-released)
Miners - A Healthy Future on Earth (Kitty/Flesh and Bone)
Nap Eyes - The Neon Gate (Paradise of Bachelors)
RIP Swirl - Perfectly Blue (In Real Life Music/Heavy Duty Music)
Shower Curtain - words from a wishing well (Angel Tapes/Fire Talk)
Two Shell - Two Shell (Young)
Briana Marela - Teardrop Star (self-released)
Ruthven - Rough & Ready (Paul Institute)
Sleeping Bag - Beam Me Up (Earth Libraries)
TeZATalks - Black Girl American Horror Story (self-released)
Vessna Scheff - NEVERMIND THE MOON (self-released)