04-01-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of March 22 - 28

Add Date: Apr. 1 

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. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  3. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  4. Gossip - Real Power (Columbia)
  5. Brimheim - RATKING (TAMBOURHINOCEROS)
  6. Khruangbin - A LA SALA (Dead Oceans/NIght TIme Stories Ltd.)
  7. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
  8. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  9. Francis of Delirium - Lighthouse (Dalliance Recordings)
  10. SPRINTS - Letter to Self (City Slang)
  11. Logic1000 - Mother (Therapy/Because Music)
  12. Salt Cathedral - Before It’s Gone (Independent/The Orchard)
  13. Four Tet - Three (Text)
  14. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours - “Watch This” (feat. Gifted Gab) (MOOR COLOURS)
  15. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  16. Ducks Ltd. - Harm’s Way (Carpark)
  17. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas (Island)
  18. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  19. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD
  20. IDLES - TANGK (Partisan)
  21. TORRES - What an enormous room (Merge)
  22. GHLOW - Levitate (PNKSLM)
  23. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  24. La Sécurité - Stay Safe! REMIXED (Mothland)
  25. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  26. Blondshell - “Docket (feat. Bully)” (Partisan Records)
  27. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  28. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  29. Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites (Third Man)
  30. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia? (Republic)
  31. Lætitia Sadier - Rooting for Love (Drag City)
  32. Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1 (AWAL)
  33. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  34. Future Islands - People Who Aren’t There Anymore (4AD)
  35. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  36. Glass Beams - Mahal EP (Ninja Tune)
  37. TATYANA - It’s Over (Sinderlyn)
  38. Boeckner - Boeckner! (Sub Pop)
  39. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  40. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)
  41. freekind. - Since Always and Forever (Butter92)
  42. Camera Obscura - Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
  43. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You: Everasking Edition (Perpetual Novice/The Orchard)
  44. girl in red - I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! (Columbia)
  45. Gustaf - Package Pt. 2 (Royal Mountain)
  46. Justice - Hyperdrama (Ed Banger Records/Because)
  47. Cloud Nothings - Final Summer (Pure Noise Records)
  48. DAIISTAR - “Clear” (Fuzz Club)
  49. Rapsody - Please Don’t Cry (Jamla/Roc Nation)
  50. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  51. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  52. elbow - AUDIO VERTIGO (Polydor/Geffen)
  53. Rosali - Bite Down (Merge)
  54. Mildlife - Chorus (Heavenly Recordings)
  55. LAIR - Ngélar (Guruguru Brain)
  56. Orgone - Chimera (3 Palm)
  57. Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  58. Mexican Institute of Sound - Algo‐Ritmo : Mexican Institute of Sound Hits 2004–2024 (Soy Sauce)
  59. Kim Gordon - The Collective (Matador)
  60. Topographies - Interior Spring (Dark Entries)
  61. Jlin - Akoma (Planet Mu)
  62. Discovery Zone - Quantum Web (RVNG Intl.)
  63. Dehd - Poetry (Fat Possum)
  64. Hana Vu - Romanticism (Ghostly International)
  65. Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice (Matador)
  66. Ride - Interplay (Wichita)
  67. Seafood Sam - Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  68. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming (Virgin)
  69. The Black Keys - Ohio Players (Nonesuch)
  70. Wonder 45 - “Make It Happen” (Big AC)
  71. bad tuner - look at me but through me EP (Foreign Family Collective)
  72. Chicano Batman - Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  73. clipping. - “Tipsy” b/w “Midnight” (Sub Pop)
  74. Crystal Murray - SAD LOVERS & GIANTS (Because)
  75. Joan & the Giants - “Born in the Wrong Time” (self-released)
  76. La Luz - News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  77. Sinkane - We Belong (City Slang)
  78. somesurprises - Perseids (Doom Trip)
  79. New Age Healers - The Spin Out (self-released)
  80. Merryn Jeann - Dog Beach (Rescue + Return)
  81. Erick The Architect - I’ve Never Been Here Before (self-released)
  82. Les Amazones d'Afrique - Musow Danse (Real World Records)
  83. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  84. Cléa Vincent - Ad vitam æternamour (Midnight Special)
  85. Cakes da Killa - Black Sheep (Young Art)
  86. Meatbodies - Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom (In The Red)
  87. Gen and the Degenerates - ANTI‐FUN PROPAGANDA (Marshall)
  88. Aili - Nandakke? (Eskimo Recordings)
  89. serpentwithfeet - GRIP (Secretly Canadian)
  90. J Mascis - What Do We Do Now (Sub Pop)

Americana: 

  1. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  2. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  3. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  4. Camera Obscura - Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
  5. Rosali - Bite Down (Merge)
  6. Mama Zu - Quilt Floor (Thirty Tigers)
  7. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well (MCA Nashville/Interscope)
  8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
  9. The Decemberists - “Burial Ground” (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  10. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)

Global: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  3. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  4. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  5. Glass Beams - Mahal EP (Ninja Tune)
  6. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)
  7. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  8. LAIR - Ngélar (Guruguru Brain)
  9. Orgone - Chimera (3 Palm)
  10. Mexican Institute of Sound - Algo‐Ritmo : Mexican Institute of Sound Hits 2004–2024 (Soy Sauce)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours - “Watch This” (feat. Gifted Gab) (MOOR COLOURS)
  2. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  3. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  4. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)
  5. Rapsody - Please Don’t Cry (Jamla/Roc Nation)
  6. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  7. Seafood Sam - Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  8. clipping. - “Tipsy” b/w “Midnight” (Sub Pop)
  9. Erick The Architect - I’ve Never Been Here Before (self-released)
  10. Cakes da Killa - Black Sheep (Young Art)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  3. Logic1000 - Mother (Therapy/Because Music)
  4. Four Tet - Three (Text)
  5. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
  6. La Sécurité - Stay Safe! REMIXED (Mothland)
  7. TATYANA - It’s Over (Sinderlyn)
  8. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  9. Justice - Hyperdrama (Ed Banger Records/Because)
  10. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  3. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  4. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  5. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
  6. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  7. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  8. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  9. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)
  10. Wonder 45 - “Make It Happen” (Big AC)

Jazz: 

  1. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  2. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  3. freekind. - Since Always and Forever (Butter92)
  4. Club Plaisir - Planète Vacances (Woodblock)
  5. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  6. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement (Young)
  7. Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip To The Moon (Karma Chief)
  8. DJ Harrison - Shades of Yesterday (Stones Throw)
  9. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  10. Church Chords - elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)

Northwest: 

  1. Gossip - Real Power (Columbia)
  2. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours - “Watch This” (feat. Gifted Gab) (MOOR COLOURS)
  3. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  4. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  5. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  6. La Luz - News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  7. somesurprises - Perseids (Doom Trip)
  8. New Age Healers - The Spin Out (self-released)
  9. Black Nite Crash - Signal To Noise (Neon Sigh)
  10. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)

Adds: 

Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze)
Chicano Batman - Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
Cléa Vincent - Ad vitam æternamour (Midnight Special)
Cor.Ece & Bad Colours - Been Here Before (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
gglum - The Garden Dream (Secretly Canadian)
Reyna Tropical - Malegría (Psychic Hotline)
Ride - Interplay (Wichita)
Alena Spanger - Fire Escape (Ruination Record Co.)
​​Bedbug - Pack Your Bags The Sun is Growing (Disposable America)
Byland - Heavy For A While (Mother West)
Dent May - What’s For Breakfast? (Carpark)
Shabazz Palaces - Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
Tyla - TYLA (FAX/Epic)
Wahid - feast, by ravens EP (Innovative Leisure)
1010benja - Ten Total (Three Six Zero Recordings)
Abdallah Oumbadougou - AMGHAR: The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (Petaluma)
Alejandro Escovedo - Echo Dancing (Yep Roc)
Caius - Strange Motions (strange pack)
dj gummy bear - Intercession Before Charlotte (Lord’s Child.)
Non La - Like Before (Mint)
Savan - Antes del Amanecer (Real World)
Saya Gray - QWERTY II EP (DIrty Hit)
The Fourth Wall - Return Forever (DevilDuck)