10-09-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Sept 29 - Oct 5  

Add Date: Oct. 9     

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. Say She She - Silver (Karma Chief/Colemine)
  2. The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (Republic)
  3. Jorja Smith - falling or flying (FAMM)
  4. Jungle - Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)
  5. Polyrhythmics - Filter System (self-released) 
  6. Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner (section1)
  7. Cleo Sol - Gold (Forever Living Originals)
  8. Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)
  9. Slowdive - everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
  10. Genesis Owusu - STRUGGLER (Ourness/AWAL)
  11. The Budos Band - Frontier’s Edge EP (Diamond West)
  12. Nation of Language - Strange Disciple (PIAS)
  13. Vagabon - Sorry I Haven’t Called (Nonesuch)
  14. Noname - Sundial (self-released)
  15. Roosevelt - Embrace (Counter/Ninja Tune)
  16. Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  17. DEBBY FRIDAY - “let u in” (Sub Pop)
  18. Romy - Mid Air (Young)
  19. Burna Boy - I Told Them … (Atlantic)
  20. DAIISTAR - Good Time (Fuzz Club)
  21. Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness (Sub Pop)
  22. TORRES - What an enormous room (Merge)
  23. Brimheim - “Literally Everything” (TAMBOURHINOCEROS)
  24. Sea Lemon - Stop at Nothing EP (Luminelle Recordings)
  25. Cherry Glazerr - I Don’t Want You Anymore (Secretly Canadian)
  26. Slow Pulp - Yard (ANTI-)
  27. zzzahara - Tender (Lex)
  28. Tirzah - trip9love...??? (Domino)
  29. Kamaal Williams - Stings (Black Focus)
  30. Sampha - Lahai (Young)
  31. L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
  32. Bar Italia - The Twits (Matador)
  33. Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
  34. James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven (Republic)
  35. Animal Collective - Isn’t It Now? (Domino)
  36. Benét - Can I go again? (Bayonet)
  37. Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows (Thirty Tigers)
  38. 다브다 / Dabda - Yonder (Electric Muse)
  39. Shamir - Homo Anxietatem (Kill Rock Stars)
  40. Osees - Intercepted Message (In The Red)
  41. Pachyman - Switched-On (ATO)
  42. Little Dragon with April + VISTA - Slipping Into Color EP (Ninja Tune)
  43. Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation (Hyperdub)
  44. Margo Cilker - Valley of Heart’s Delight (Fluff & Gravy) 
  45. Diego Raposo - YO NO ERA ASÍ PERO DE AHORA EN ADELANTE, SÍ (Gran Vaina)
  46. Little Dragon - Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune)
  47. Death Cab For Cutie - An Arrow In The Wall (Atlantic)
  48. Big Thief - “Vampire Empire” b/w “Born For Loving You” (4AD)
  49. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  50. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (Fat Possum)
  51. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  52. Nia Archives - Bad Gyalz (Island/HIJINXX)  
  53. Crumb & Melody’s Echo Chamber - “Le Temple Volant” (self-released)
  54. The National - Laugh Track (4AD)
  55. Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination (Hyperdub)
  56. Who Is She? - Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)
  57. yeule - softscars (Ninja Tune)
  58. Subsonic Eye - All Around You (Topshelf)
  59. Danger Mouse & Jemini - Born Again (Lex)
  60. BAMBII - Infinity Club (Innovative Leisure)
  61. TV Star - Tv3 EP (self-released)
  62. Wilco - Cousin (dBpm)
  63. Wajatta - Waiting For The Get Down EP (Brainfeeder)
  64. Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Data Doom (Reverberation Appreciation Society/Greenway)  
  65. Kultur Shock - Acoustic Live (Old Age Recording Co.)
  66. Oneohtrix Point Never - Again (Warp)
  67. Advertisement - Escorts (Feel It)
  68. Kaidi Tatham - The Only Way (First Word)
  69. Vinyl Williams - Aeterna (Harmony)
  70. The Replacements - Tim: Let It Bleed Edition (Rhino)
  71. Geese - 3D Country (Partisan)
  72. WITCH - Zango (Desert Daze Sound)
  73. Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles (Play It Again Sam)
  74. Jamila Woods - Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar) 
  75. 070 Shake - “Black Dress” (Getting Out Our Dreams/Def Jam)
  76. Dua Saleh - daylight falls (Ghostly International)
  77. The Bug Club - Rare Birds: Hour of Song (Bingo)
  78. Allah-Las - Zuma (Innovative Leisure)
  79. The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Disque Hives)
  80. Lusine - Long Light (Ghostly International)
  81. Molly Burch - Daydreamer (Captured Tracks)
  82. Al Menne - Freak Accident (Double Double Whammy)
  83. Bombino - Sahel (Partisan) 
  84. Pale Jay - Bewilderment (Karma Chief)
  85. Becca Mancari - Left Hand (Captured Tracks)
  86. Mick Jenkins - The Patience (RBC/BMG)
  87. MMYYKK - The Midst of Things (Sway Heavy)
  88. Gabriel Teodros - From the Ashes of Our Homes (self-released)
  89. FLTY BRGR GRL - Happily Ever Never (self-released)
  90. JOHN - A Life Diagrammatic (Brace Yourself)

Americana: 

  1. Slow Pulp - Yard (ANTI-)
  2. Margo Cilker - Valley of Heart’s Delight (Fluff & Gravy) 
  3. Wilco - Cousin (dBpm)
  4. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
  5. Sally Anne Morgan – Carrying (Thrill Jockey)
  6. Nat Myers - Yellow Peril (Easy Eye Sound)
  7. Allison Russell - The Returner (Fantasy)
  8. Florry - The Holey Bible (Dear Life) 
  9. Various Artists - Tell Everybody!: 21st Century Juke Joint Blues (Easy Eye Sound)
  10. Willie Nelson - Bluegrass (Legacy)

Global: 

  1. Burna Boy - I Told Them … (Atlantic)
  2. Pachyman - Switched-On (ATO)
  3. Diego Raposo - YO NO ERA ASÍ PERO DE AHORA EN ADELANTE, SÍ (Gran Vaina)
  4. Kultur Shock - Acoustic Live (Old Age Recording Co.)
  5. WITCH - Zango (Desert Daze Sound)
  6. Bombino - Sahel (Partisan) 
  7. Angelica Garcia - “El Que” / “Y Grito” (Partisan)
  8. Eparapo - Take to the Streets (Wah Wah 45s)
  9. Holly Cook - Happy Hour In Dub (Merge)
  10. Dengue Fever - Ting Mong (TUK TUK)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Noname - Sundial (self-released)
  2. Burna Boy - I Told Them … (Atlantic)
  3. Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness (Sub Pop)
  4. Kamaal Williams - Stings (Black Focus)
  5. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (Fat Possum)
  6. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  7. Danger Mouse & Jemini - Born Again (Lex)
  8. BAMBII - Infinity Club (Innovative Leisure)
  9. Gabriel Teodros - From the Ashes of Our Homes (self-released)
  10. Mick Jenkins - The Patience (RBC/BMG)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (Republic)
  2. Jungle - Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)
  3. Roosevelt - Embrace (Counter / Ninja Tune)
  4. DEBBY FRIDAY - “let u in” (Sub Pop)
  5. Romy - Mid Air (Young)
  6. Brimheim - “Literally Everything” (TAMBOURHINOCEROS)
  7. Tirzah - trip9love...??? (Domino)
  8. Kamaal Williams - Stings (Black Focus)
  9. James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven (Republic)
  10. Little Dragon with April + VISTA - Slipping Into Color EP (Ninja Tune)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Say She She - Silver (Karma Chief/Colemine)
  2. Jorja Smith - falling or flying (FAMM)
  3. Jungle - Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)
  4. Polyrhythmics - Filter System (self-released) 
  5. Cleo Sol - Gold (Forever Living Originals)
  6. Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)
  7. The Budos Band - Frontier’s Edge EP (Diamond West)
  8. Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  9. Burna Boy - I Told Them … (Atlantic)
  10. Sampha - Lahai (Young)

Jazz: 

  1. Kamaal Williams - Stings (Black Focus)
  2. Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows (Thirty Tigers)
  3. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  4. Kaidi Tatham - The Only Way (First Word)
  5. NCY Milky Band - Our Gurus 2 (BMM)
  6. Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music (Brownswood) 
  7. Tony Allen, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed - JID018 (Jazz Is Dead)
  8. Khalab - Layers (Hyperjazz)
  9. Kassa Overall - ANIMALS (Warp)
  10. Alfa Mist - Variables (ANTI-) 

Northwest: 

  1. Polyrhythmics - Filter System (self-released) 
  2. Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness (Sub Pop)
  3. Sea Lemon - Stop at Nothing EP (Luminelle Recordings)
  4. Death Cab For Cutie - An Arrow In The Wall (Atlantic)
  5. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  6. Who Is She? - Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)
  7. TV Star - Tv3 EP (self-released)
  8. Kultur Shock - Acoustic Live (Old Age Recording Co.)
  9. Lusine - Long Light (Ghostly International)
  10. Gabriel Teodros - From the Ashes of Our Homes (self-released)

Adds: 

Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
Aiko el grupo - Me están apuntando con un arma (Elefant)
Eparapo - Take to the Streets (Wah Wah 45s)
Glasser - crux (One Little Independent)
Onipa - Off The Grid (Real World)
A. Savage - Several Songs About Fire (Rough Trade)
CARRTOONS - Saturday Night (Wichita)
Charlie Vettuno - Lime Juice EP (Innovative Leisure)
Jolie Holland - Haunted Mountain (Cinquefoil)
Meernaa - So Far So Good (Keeled Scales)
MNDSGN - Snaxxx (Stones Throw)
Souleance - Beautiful (Heavenly Sweetness/First Word)
The Seshen - Nowhere (self-released)
Dominique Fils-Aimé - Our Roots Run Deep (Ensoul)
Guilty Simpson - Ratz (Uncommon)
Kultur Shock - Kultur Shock: Acoustic Live (Old Age)
Sally Anne Morgan - Carrying (Thrill Jockey)