02-20-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Feb. 10-16

Add Date: Feb. 20   

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. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
2. Lil Yachty – Let's Start Here. (Quality Control/Motown/UMG)  
3. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
4. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL)  
5. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)  
6. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori (Columbia)  
7. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
8. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
9. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)  
10. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
11. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador)  
12. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
13. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian) 
14. Grace Love – Work in Protest EP (self-released)  
15. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
16. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
17. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
18. Adwaith – Mato Bato (Libertino)  
19. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
20. Algiers – Shook (Matador)  
21. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
22. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
23. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
24. Heartworms – A Comforting Notion (Speedy Wunderground)  
25. Y La Bamba – Lucha (Tender Loving Empire)  
26. Daughter – Stereo Mind Game (Glassnote)  
27. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
28. Kassa Overall – Shades 3 (self-released)  
29. The Murder Capital – Gigi's Recovery (Human Season)  
30. The Smile – The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022) (XL)  
31. Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (Warp)  
32. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge)  
33. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man)  
34. Hibou – Arc EP (self-released)  
35. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
36. Bartees Strange – Tisched Off (Sub Pop)  
37. Unknown Mortal Orchetra – V (Jagjaguwar)  
38. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Parlophone)  
39. Bonobo & Jacques Greene – Fold (OUTLIER)  
40. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic)  
41. Sault – Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals)  
42. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)  
43. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
44. ROSALÍA - LLYLM (Columbia)  
45. Bully – Lose You (Sub Pop)  
46. Indigo De Souza – All of This Will End (Saddle Creek)  
47. boygenius – The Record (Interscope)  
48. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
49. Frankie Rose – Love as Projection (Slumberland)  
50. U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess (4AD)  
51. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)  
52. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan)  
53. The Tubs – Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind)  
54. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista)  
55. Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop)  
56. Aaron Frazer – Live From Easy Eye Sound EP (Dead Oceans)  
57. Nosaj Thing - Continua (LuckyMe)  
58. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)  
59. Flyying Colours – You Never Know (Poison City)  
60. Terrace Martin – Chucks (Sounds of Crenshaw/BMG)  
61. deary – Fairground (Sonic Cathedral)  
62. Overmono – Good Lies (XL)  
63. Tanukichan – Gizmo (Company)  
64. Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID016 (Jazz Is Dead)  
65. Feist – Multitudes (Interscope) 
66. Parannoul – After the Magic (Topshelf)  
67. Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP (HIJINXX/Island)  
68. Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (Mute)  
69. Vagabon – Carpenter (Nonesuch)  
70. The Men – New York City (Fuzz Club)  
71. Fucked Up – One Day (Merge) 
72. Narrow Head – Moments of Clarity (Run For Cover) 
73. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
74. Strawberry Fuzz – Strongs Dr. (CandyShop Recordings)  
75. Hammock – Love in the Void (Hammock Music) 
76. The Black Tones – Blue Matrimony (self-released)  
77. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes)  
78. Ayra Starr – Sability (Mavin)  
79. Sleaford Mods – UK GRIM (Rough Trade)  
80. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group)  
81. St. Paul & the Broken Bones – Angels in Science Fiction (ATO) 
82. Temples – Exotico (ATO)  
83. Cable Ties – Perfect Client (Merge)  
84. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released)  
85. Acid Arab – Trois (Crammed Discs)  
86. Ladytron – Time's Arrow (Cooking Vinyl) 
87. The Arcs – Electrophonic Chronic (Easy Eye Sound)  
88. Tennis – Pollen (Mutually Detrimental)  
89. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  
90. Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)       

Americana: 

1. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista) 
2. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)  
3. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (New West)  
4. H.C. McEntire – Every Acre (Merge) 
5. Rose City Band – Garden Party (Thrill Jockey) 
6. Esther Rose – Safe to Run (New West) 
7. Slaid Cleaves – Together Through the Dark (Candy House Media) 
8. Willie Nelson – I Don’t Know a Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard (Legacy) 
9. Dougie Poole – Rainbow Wheel of Death (Wharf Cat)  
10. Stephanie Anne Johnson – Jewels (self-released) 

Global: 

1. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
2. ROSALÍA - LLYLM (Columbia)  
3. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
4. Ayra Starr – Sability (Mavin) - 2 (single)  
5. Acid Arab – Trois (Crammed Discs)  
6. Alsarah – Farasha (Alsarah Productions)  
7. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Dost 2 (Les Disques Bongo Joe) 
8. Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK) 
9. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80)  
10. SFDK & Lia Kali – El Blues de Condenado (Altafonte)  

Hip Hop: 

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

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
2. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
3. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL)  
4. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)  
5. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori (Columbia) 
6. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice) 
7. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
8. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin) 
9. Bonobo & Jacques Greene – Fold (OUTLIER)  
10. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic) 

R&B/Blues: 

1. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
2. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life)  
3. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
4. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)  
5. Grace Love – Work in Protest EP (self-released)  
6. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
7. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
8. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
9. Sault – Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals)  
10. Aaron Frazer – Live From Easy Eye Sound EP (Dead Oceans) 

Jazz: 

1. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
2. Kassa Overall – Shades 3 (self-released)  
3. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan) 
4. Terrace Martin – Chucks (Sounds of Crenshaw/BMG)  
5. Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID016 (Jazz Is Dead)  
6. Theo Croker – By the Way EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony)  
7. London Brew – London Brew (Downtown/Concord Jazz) 
8. James Brandon Lewis – Eye of I (ANTI-) 
9. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)  
10. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan) 

Northwest: 

1. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
2. Grace Love – Work in Protest EP (self-released) 
3. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man) 
4. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
5. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
6. The Black Tones – Blue Matrimony (self-released) 
7. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes)  
8. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released)  
9. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  
10. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop) 

Adds: 

Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice) 
Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL) 
Screaming Females – Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni) 
Wesley Joseph – GLOW (Secretly Canadian)  
Spiral XP – It's Been a While EP (Danger Collective)  
TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man)  
(Various) - Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre (Blue Note) 
Avey Tare – 7s (Domino) 
Pile – Loops (Exploding in Sound) 
koleżanka - Alone with the Sound the Mind Makes (Bar/None)  
Gabriel da Rosa - É o que a casa oferece (Stones Throw) 
dEUS – How to Replace It (PIAS Recordings)  
Jackie Venson – Evolution of Joy (self-released) 
Anna B Savage – in|FLUX (City Slang)  
Lowly – Keep Up the Good Work (Bella Union)  
Steve Aliment – Long Way to Go (self-released)