03-06-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Feb. 24-Mar. 2

Add Date: Mar. 6    

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. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Warner)  
2. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
3. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
4. U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess (4AD)  
5. Algiers – Shook (Matador)  
6. Lil Yachty – Let's Start Here. (Quality Control/Motown/UMG)  
7. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
8. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL)  
9. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
10. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
11. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
12. Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (Warp)  
13. ODESZA – Hopeful (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune)  
14. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
15. Frankie Rose – Love as Projection (Slumberland)  
16. Glüme - Main Character (Italians Do It Better)  
17. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune)  
18. Kassa Overall – Shades 3 (self-released)  
19. Debby Friday – GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop)  
20. Janelle Monae – Float (Bad Boy) 
21. Adwaith – Mato Bato (Libertino)  
22. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek) 
23. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador)  
24. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
25. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian) 
26. Temples – Exotico (ATO)  
27. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
28. Bully – Lose You (Sub Pop)  
29. Kali Uchis – Red Room in Venus (Geffen) 
30. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)  
31. boygenius – The Record (Interscope)  
32. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man)  
33. Kimi Djabaté - Dindin (Cumbancha)  
34. Shame – Food for Worms (Dead Oceans)  
35. Tanukichan – GIZMO (Carpark)  
36. Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop) 
37. Aaron Frazer – Live From Easy Eye Sound EP (Dead Oceans) 
38. Heartworms – A Comforting Notion (Speedy Wunderground)  
39. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – V (Jagjaguwar)  
40. Zuco 103 – Telenova (Six Degrees)  
41. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori (Columbia)  
42. Jackie Venson – Evolution of Joy (self-released)  
43. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
44. Parannoul – After the Magic (Topshelf)  
45. The Murder Capital – Gigi's Recovery (Human Season)  
46. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
47. Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP (HIJINXX/Island)  
48. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
49. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
50. Kae Tempest – Nice Idea (American/Republic)  
51. Shalom – Sublimation (Saddle Creek)  
52. Death Valley Girls – Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)  
53. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
54. Screaming Females – Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni)  
55. Who Is She? - My My Orca Card (Father/Daughter) 
56. Hannah Jadagu – Aperture (Sub Pop)  
57. Flyying Colours – You Never Know (Poison City)  
58. Nakhane – Bastard Jargon (BMG) 
59. Overmono – Good Lies (XL)  
60. Hello Mary – Hello Mary (Frenchkiss)  
61. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
62. Galactic – Ready For Me (Tchoup-Zilla) 
63. Noble Rot – Heavenly Bodies, Repetition, Control (Joyful Noise) 
64. deary – Fairground (Sonic Cathedral) 
65. Grace Love – Work in Protest EP (self-released)  
66. Fousheé - softCORE (RCA)  
67. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)  
68. Squid – O Monolith (Warp)  
69. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge)  
70. John Cale – Mercy (Domino)  
71. Wesley Joseph – GLOW (Secretly Canadian)  
72. Strawberry Fuzz – Strongs Dr. (CandyShop Recordings)  
73. (Various) - Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre (Blue Note) 
74. Hammock – Love in the Void (Hammock Music)  
75. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista)  
76. Samia – Honey (Grand Jury)  
77. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
78. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group)  
79. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
80. Daisies – Great Big Open Sky (K)  
81. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes) 
82. London Brew – London Brew (Downtown/Concord Jazz)  
83. Miss Tiny – The Sound (Speedy Wunderground)  
84. Ayra Starr – Sability (Mavin)  
85. Y La Bamba – Lucha (Tender Loving Empire)  
86. Terrace Martin – Chucks (Sounds of Crenshaw/BMG) 
87. Yaya Bey – Exodus the North Star EP (Big Dada)  
88. HÆLOS - Last Days (SOLEAH)  
89. Andy Shauf – Norm (ANTI-)  
90. The Church – The Hypnogogue (Communicating Vessels)         

Americana: 

1. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista)  
2. Eilen Jewell – Get Behind the Wheel (Signature Sounds) 
3. Slaid Cleaves – Together Through the Dark (Candy House Media)  
4. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern) 
5. Stephanie Anne Johnson – Jewels (self-released) 
6. Rose City Band – Garden Party (Thrill Jockey) 
7. Iris DeMent – Workin' on a World (Flariella) 
8. Esther Rose – Safe to Run (New West) 
9. Willie Nelson – I Don’t Know a Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard (Legacy) 
10. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)

Global: 

1. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
2. Kimi Djabaté - Dindin (Cumbancha)  
3. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
4. Ayra Starr – Sability (Mavin)  
5. Rema – Holiday (Mavin)  
6. Alsarah – Farasha (Alsarah Productions) 
7. ROSALÍA - LLYLM (Columbia)  
8. Acid Arab – Trois (Crammed Discs)  
9. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Dost 2 (Les Disques Bongo Joe) 
10. Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK) 

Hip Hop: 

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

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
2. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
3. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL)  
4. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
5. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin) 
6. ODESZA – Hopeful (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) 
7. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
8. Glüme - Main Character (Italians Do It Better)  
9. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune)  
10. Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP (HIJINXX/Island)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
2. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
3. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life)  
4. Janelle Monae – Float (Bad Boy)  
5. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)  
6. Kali Uchis – Red Room in Venus (Geffen) 
7. Aaron Frazer – Live From Easy Eye Sound EP (Dead Oceans) 
8. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA) 
9. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya) 
10. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  

Jazz: 

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

Northwest: 

1. ODESZA – Hopeful (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune)   
2. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
3. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man)  
4. Who Is She? - My My Orca Card (Father/Daughter)  
5. Grace Love – Work in Protest EP (self-released)  
6. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
7. Daisies – Great Big Open Sky (K)  
8. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes)  
9. Spiral XP – It's Been a While EP (Danger Collective) 
10. Long Dark Moon – All Your Mountains (Factory Belt)  

Adds: 

Kali Uchis – Red Room in Venus (Geffen)  
Tanukichan – GIZMO (Carpark) 
Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity)  
Hello Mary – Hello Mary (Frenchkiss) 
Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
Steve Mason – Brothers & Sisters (Double Six/Domino)  
Iris DeMent – Workin' on a World (Flariella)  
Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK) 
Rogê - Curyman (Diamond West)  
Kate NV – WOW (RVNG Intl.)  
Slaid Cleaves – Together Through the Dark (Candy House Media) 
Taleen Kali – Flower of Life (Dum Dum) 
Aster Aweke – Soba (self-released) 
Object of Affection – Field of Appearances (Profound Lore)  
Wax Tailor – Fishing for Accidents (Lab’Oratoire) 
Constant Smiles – Kenneth Anger (Sacred Bones) 
Weval – Remember (Technicolour) 
LANNDS – Music for the Future (Run For Cover)  
Western Haunts – The Bottle (self-released) 
Ron Gallo – FOREGROUND MUSIC (Kill Rock Stars) 
Waves Crashing – The Viewing EP (Audiomanic) 
Dry Cleaning – Swampy EP (4AD) 
MCM – Stolen Moments EP (self-released)