04-03-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Mar. 24-30  

Add Date: Apr. 3     

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. Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume… (Warp)  
2. DEBBY FRIDAY – GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop)  
3. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori (Columbia)  
4. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
5. Lil Yachty – Let's Start Here. (Quality Control/Motown/UMG)  
6. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Warner)  
7. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group)  
8. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
9. Algiers – Shook (Matador)  
10. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL) 
11. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)  
12. Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (Mute)  
13. Kali Uchis – Red Room in Venus (Geffen)  
14. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
15. boygenius – The Record (Interscope)  
16. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
17. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice) 
18. ODESZA – To Be Yours (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune)  
19. Bully – Lucky for You (Sub Pop)  
20. Nuovo Testamento – Love Lines (Discoteca Italia) 
21. Nappy Nina – Mourning Due (LucidHaus) 
22. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
23. Lana Del Rey – Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (Interscope)  
24. Indigo De Souza – All Of This Will End (Saddle Creek)  
25. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
26. U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess (4AD)  
27. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
28. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
29. Nation of Language – Sole Obsession (Play It Again Sam) 
30. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
31. Steve Mason – Brothers & Sisters (Double Six/Domino)  
32. Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP (HIJINXX/Island)  
33. Flyying Colours – You Never Know (Poison City)  
34. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – V (Jagjaguwar)  
35. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop)  
36. Alsarah – Farasha (Alsarah Productions)  
37. Kay Young – We Meet at Last EP (Play It Again Sam)  
38. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention (BMG)  
39. Hatchie – Rooftops (Secretly Canadian)  
40. Say She She – Reeling (Karma Chief)  
41. Terrace Martin – Chucks (Sounds of Crenshaw/BMG)  
42. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek) 
43. Shalom – Sublimation (Saddle Creek)  
44. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
45. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)  
46. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
47. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
48. Bar Italia – Nurse! (Matador)  
49. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge)  
50. Tanukichan – GIZMO (Carpark)  
51. Dinner Party – Insane (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)  
52. Moreish Idols – Between These Ears (Speedy Wunderground)  
53. Bartees Strange – Tisched Off (Sub Pop)  
54. Yaya Bey – Exodus the North Star EP (Big Dada)  
55. Shana Cleveland – Manzanita (Hardly Art)  
56. Cassandra Lewis – Six Stars (Low Country Sound/Elektra)  
57. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)  
58. Róisín Murphy – CooCool (Ninja Tune)  
59. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)  
60. Janelle Monae – Float (Bad Boy)  
61. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
62. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man)  
63. Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop)  
64. (Various) - Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre (Blue Note) 
65. Death Valley Girls – Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze) 
66. Adwaith – Mato Bato (Libertino) 
67. Sleaford Mods – UK GRIM (Rough Trade)  
68. London Brew – London Brew (Concord Jazz)  
69. The Black Tones – Blue Matrimony (self-released)  
70. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush)  
71. Who Is She? - My My Orca Card (Father/Daughter)  
72. Rose City Band – Garden Party (Thrill Jockey)  
73. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune)  
74. Cable Ties – All Her Plans (Merge)  
75. Geese – Cowboy Nudes (Partisan) 
76. Christine and the Queens – PARANOIA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE (Because Music) 
77. Zuco 103 – Telenova (Six Degrees)  
78. Dijon – coogie (Warner)  
79. The Beths – Watching the Credits (Carpark)  
80. Y La Bamba – Lucha (Tender Loving Empire)  
81. Fred Again.., The Streets & Dermot Kennedy – Mike (desert island duvet) (Warner/Atlantic)  
82. Temples – Exotico (ATO)  
83. Breaks and Swells – Entomology (self-released)  
84. Lonnie Holley – Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar)  
85. Heartworms – A Comforting Notion (Speedy Wunderground)  
86. Caroline Rose – The Art of Forgetting (New West)  
87. Genevieve Artadi – Forever Forever (Brainfeeder)  
88. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)  
89. Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)  
90. Harrison – Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees (Last Gang)       

Americana: 

1. Cassandra Lewis – Six Stars (Low Country Sound/Elektra)  
2. Rose City Band – Garden Party (Thrill Jockey)  
3. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)  
4. Long Dark Moon – All Your Mountains (Factory Belt)  
5. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans) 
6. Iris DeMent – Workin' on a World (Flariella) 
7. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (New West)  
8. Esther Rose – Safe to Run (New West) 
9. Dom Flemons – Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways)  
10. Rachel Baiman – Common Nation of Sorrow (Signature Sounds) 

Global: 

1. Alsarah – Farasha (Alsarah Productions) 
2. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
3. Zuco 103 – Telenova (Six Degrees) 
4. Kimi Djabaté - Dindin (Cumbancha)  
5. Ali Farka Touré - Voyageur (World Circuit) 
6. Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK) 
7. Rema – Holiday (Mavin)  
8. Ayra Starr – Sability (Mavin)  
9. Acid Arab – Trois (Crammed Discs) 
10. Malika Zarra – RWA (The Essence) (D.Zel Prod) 

Hip Hop: 

1. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
2. Nappy Nina – Mourning Due (LucidHaus)  
3. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp) 
4. Maxo – Even God Has a Sense of Humor (Def Jam)  
5. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
6. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune) 
7. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – Bad Man Lighter 2.0 (SKE80)  
8. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
9. Wax Tailor – Fishing for Accidents (Lab’Oratoire)  
10. TRUE||FORM – GENUFLEXION EP (self-released) 

RPM/Electronic: 

1. DEBBY FRIDAY – GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop)  
2. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori (Columbia) 
3. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
4. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL)  
5. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
6. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
7. ODESZA – To Be Yours (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) 
8. Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP (HIJINXX/Island) 
9. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention (BMG) 
10. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)

R&B/Blues: 

1. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group) 
2. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
3. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life)  
4. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL) 
5. Kali Uchis – Red Room in Venus (Geffen) 
6. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
7. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
8. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya) 
9. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
10. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)

Jazz: 

1. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
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. Kassa Overall – Shades 3 (self-released)  
7. Theo Croker – By the Way EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony)  
8. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan)  
9. Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID016 (Jazz Is Dead)  
10. James Brandon Lewis – Eye of I (ANTI-) 

Northwest: 

1. ODESZA – To Be Yours (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) 
2. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
3. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop) 
4. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
5. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man)  
6. The Black Tones – Blue Matrimony (self-released) 
7. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush) 
8. Who Is She? - My My Orca Card (Father/Daughter)  
9. Breaks and Swells – Entomology (self-released)  
10. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)  

Adds: 

boygenius – the record (Interscope)  
Lana Del Rey – Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (Interscope) 
The Hold Steady – The Price of Progress (Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers) 
Navy Blue – Ways of Knowing (Freedom Sounds/Def Jam) 
Altın Gün – Aşk (ATO) 
London Brew – London Brew (Concord Jazz) 
The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge) 
The No Ones – My Best Evil Friend (Yep Roc) 
Baaba Maal – Being (Marathon Artists) 
Lankum – False Lankum (Rough Trade) 
Cecile McLorin Salvant – Mélusine (Nonesuch) 
Mystic 100’s – On a Micro Diet (Listening House) 
B. Cool-Aid – Leather Blvd (Lex) 
Samiam – Stowaway (Pure Noise) 
Rachel Baiman – Common Nation of Sorrow (Signature Sounds) 
Eddie Chacon – Sundown (Stones Throw) 
NOIA – gisela (Cascine) 
A Certain Ratio – 1982 (Mute) 
Breaks and Swells – Entomology (self-released) 
The Transmissionary Six – Often Sometimes Rarely Never (Drums and Wires Recordings) 
Scott McMicken & THE EVER-EXPANDING – Shabang (ANTI-) 
PACKS – Crispy Crunchy Nothing (Fire Talk) 
Nick Waterhouse – The Fooler (Innovative Leisure) 
Jared Mattson – Peanut (Carpark) 
Eaves Wilder – Hookey EP (Secretly Canadian) 
Barrie – 5K EP (Winspear)