01-30-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Jan. 20-26

Add Date: Jan. 30 

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. M83 – Fantasy (Mute) 
2. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
3. boygenius – The Record (Interscope)  
4. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
5. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
6. Hibou – Arc EP (self-released)  
7. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals) 
8. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
9. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
10. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek) 
11. The Murder Capital – Gigi's Recovery (Human Season)  
12. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic)  
13. The Winston Brothers – Drift (Colemine)  
14. Vagabon – Carpenter (Nonesuch)  
15. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
16. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
17. Galactic – Ready For Me (Tchoup-Zilla)  
18. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO) 
19. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
20. Temples – Exotico (ATO)  
21. Flyying Colours – You Never Know (Poison City)  
22. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released)  
23. Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)  
24. The Smile – The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022) (XL)  
25. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
26. Petite Noir – Simple Things (Roya)  
27. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)  
28. John Cale – Mercy (Domino)  
29. Dutch Uncles – True Entertainment (Memphis Industries)  
30. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes)  
31. Stormzy – This Is What I Mean (Def Jam)  
32. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge) 
33. Algiers – Shook (Matador)  
34. Frankie Rose – Love as Projection (Slumberland)  
35. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
36. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
37. Biig Piig – Bubblegum EP (Columbia)  
38. Fred Again.. - Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9, 2022) (Atlantic)  
39. Screaming Females – Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni)  
40. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group)  
41. Tanukichan – Gizmo (Company)  
42. Billy Nomates – CACTI (Invada)  
43. Ladytron – Time's Arrow (Cooking Vinyl) 
44. Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop) 
45. PVA – Blush (Ninja Tune)  
46. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals)  
47. Noah Coinflip – God is Love (self-released)  
48. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.)  
49. Mugs and Pockets – The Adventures of Mugs and Pockets (self-released)  
50. Fousheé - softCORE (RCA)  
51. (Soundtrack) - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Def Jam)  
52. Parannoul – We Shine at Night (POCLANOS)  
53. U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess (4AD)  
54. Yves Tumor – God is a Circle (Warp)  
55. Debby Friday – GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop)  
56. Velvet Negroni – Bulli (4AD)  
57. Nosaj Thing - Continua (LuckyMe)  
58. Belle and Sebastian – Late Developers (Matador) 
59. Overmono – Good Lies (XL)  
60. Sleaford Mods – UK GRIM (Rough Trade)  
61. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)  
62. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life)  
63. Heartworms – A Comforting Notion (Speedy Wunderground) 
64. Shame – Food for Worms (Dead Oceans)  
65. Adrian Quesada – Jaguar Sound (ATO)  
66. King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust (Sub Pop)  
67. Shana Cleveland – Manzanita (Hardly Art)  
68. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador)  
69. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan)  
70. Iggy Pop – Every Loser (Gold Tooth/Atlantic)  
71. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80)  
72. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista)  
73. Tom Skinner – Voices of Bishara (Brownswood Recordings/International Anthem/Nonesuch)  
74. Gladie – Don't Know What You’re In Until You’re Out (Plum)  
75. Homeboy Sandman – Still Champion (Mello Music Group)  
76. Aaron Frazer – Live From Easy Eye Sound EP (Dead Oceans) 
77. Civic – Taken By Force (ATO)  
78. London Brew – London Brew (Downtown/Concord Jazz)  
79. Caution – To Decide (Hardly Art)  
80. Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK)  
81. Nakhane – Bastard Jargon (BMG)  
82. Death Valley Girls – Island in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)  
83. Theo Croker – By the Way EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony)  
84. Skinny Pelembe – Oh, Silly George (Partisan)  
85. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody (True Panther)  
86. Naomi Sharon – Another Life (OVO Sound)  
87. Lust For Youth – Accidental Win (Sacred Bones) 
88. Bonobo & Jacques Greene – Fold (OUTLIER)  
89. Wesley Joseph – GLOW (Secretly Canadian)   
90. Smokey Brights – Broken Too EP (Freakout)        

Americana: 

1. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans) 
2. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista) 
3. Iris DeMent – Workin' on a World (Flariella)  
4. Lucero – Should’ve Learned By Now (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers) 
5. Dom Flemons – Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways) 
6. Willie Nelson – I Don’t Know a Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard (Legacy) 
7. Dougie Poole – Rainbow Wheel of Death (Wharf Cat) 
8. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (New West) 
9. Rachel Baiman – Common Nation of Sorrow (Signature Sounds) 
10. Plains – I Walked With You a Ways (ANTI-) 

Global: 

1. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
2. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
3. (Soundtrack) - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Def Jam)  
4. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80) 
5. Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK) 
6. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Dost 2 (Les Disques Bongo Joe) 
7. Chancha Via Circuito – La Estrella (Wonderwheel Recordings) 
8. Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)  
9. SFDK & Lia Kali – El Blues de Condenado (Altafonte)  
10. Fatoumata Diawara – Nsera (3eme Bureau)  

Hip Hop: 

1. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
2. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)  
3. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown) 
4. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
5. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released) 
6. Stormzy – This Is What I Mean (Def Jam)  
7. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80)  
8. Homeboy Sandman – Still Champion (Mello Music Group)  
9. BLK ODYSSY & BNXN – Law Low (EMPIRE) 
10. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista)  

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
2. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
3. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic) 
4. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
5. Fred Again.. - Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9, 2022) (Atlantic)  
6. Ladytron – Time's Arrow (Cooking Vinyl) 
7. PVA – Blush (Ninja Tune) 
8. Nosaj Thing - Continua (LuckyMe) 
9. Overmono – Good Lies (XL)  
10. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody (True Panther)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
2. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
3. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
4. The Winston Brothers – Drift (Colemine)  
5. Galactic – Ready For Me (Tchoup-Zilla)  
6. Petite Noir – Simple Things (Roya) 
7. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
8. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group)  
9. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals)  
10. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.) 

Jazz: 

1. Noah Coinflip – God is Love (self-released)  
2. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan) 
3. Tom Skinner – Voices of Bishara (Brownswood Recordings/International Anthem/Nonesuch)  
4. London Brew – London Brew (Downtown/Concord Jazz) 
5. Theo Croker – By the Way EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony) 
6. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)  
7. Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID016 (Jazz Is Dead) 
8. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)  
9. Garrett Saracho, Adriam Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Garrett Saracho JID015 (Jazz Is Dead)  
10. STR4TA – STR4TASFEAR (Brownswood Recordings)  

Northwest: 

1. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
2. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released) 
3. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes) 
4. Noah Coinflip – God is Love (self-released)  
5. Mugs and Pockets – The Adventures of Mugs and Pockets (self-released)  
6. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.)  
7. Smokey Brights – Broken Too EP (Freakout) 
8. Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic)  
9. Model Shop – Love Interest (Meritorio)  
10. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)     

Adds: 

Fucked Up – One Day (Merge)  
Samia – Honey (Grand Jury) 
Hammock – Love in the Void (Hammock Music)  
Adwaith – Mato Bato (Libertino) 
Strawberry Fuzz – Strongs Dr. (CandyShop Recordings) 
Bass Drum of Death – Say I Won’t (Fat Possum) 
Sam Himself – Never Let Me Go (Taxi Gauche/Sony)  
The Arcs – Electrophonic Chronic (Easy Eye Sound)  
H.C. McEntire – Every Acre (Merge) 
King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust (Sub Pop) 
White Reaper – Asking for a Ride (Elektra)  
R. Ring – War Poems, We Rested (Don Giovanni)  
Megadose – Heating Up (self-released)  
Guided By Voices – La La Land (Guided By Voices, Inc.) 
Meg Baird – Furling (Drag City) 
Smokey Brights – Broken Too EP (Freakout) 
Complete Mountain Almanac – Complete Mountain Almanac (Bella Union) 
Dave Okumu & The 7 Generations – The Intolerable Suffering of (the) Other EP (Transgressive)