04-08-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of Mar 29 - Apr 4

Add Date: Apr. 8 

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. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  2. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  3. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  4. Francis of Delirium - Lighthouse (Dalliance Recordings)
  5. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  6. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD
  7. Shabazz Palaces - Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
  8. Chicano Batman - Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  9. Khruangbin - A LA SALA (Dead Oceans/NIght TIme Stories Ltd.)
  10. IDLES - TANGK (Partisan)
  11. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  12. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  13. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  14. Les Amazones d'Afrique - Musow Danse (Real World Records)
  15. Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze)
  16. Gossip - Real Power (Columbia)
  17. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  18. Reyna Tropical - Malegría (Psychic Hotline)
  19. Brimheim - RATKING (TAMBOURHINOCEROS)
  20. Blondshell - “Docket (feat. Bully)” (Partisan Records)
  21. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You: Everasking Edition (Perpetual Novice/The Orchard)
  22. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming (Virgin)
  23. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  24. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  25. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  26. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)
  27. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  28. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  29. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement (Young)
  30. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  31. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
  32. Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites (Third Man)
  33. Logic1000 - Mother (Therapy/Because Music)
  34. Salt Cathedral - Before It’s Gone (Independent/The Orchard)
  35. Four Tet - Three (Text)
  36. Meatbodies - Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom (In The Red)
  37. GHLOW - Levitate (PNKSLM)
  38. Glass Beams - Mahal EP (Ninja Tune)
  39. SPRINTS - Letter to Self (City Slang)
  40. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  41. Gustaf - Package Pt. 2 (Royal Mountain)
  42. Lava La Ru - STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  43. The Marías - Submarine (Nice Life/Atlantic)
  44. ACTORS - “In Real Life” (Artoffact)
  45. New Age Healers - The Spin Out (self-released)
  46. The Black Keys - Ohio Players (Nonesuch)
  47. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  48. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)
  49. Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1 (AWAL)
  50. Cléa Vincent - Ad vitam æternamour (Midnight Special)
  51. gglum - The Garden Dream (Secretly Canadian)
  52. Ride - Interplay (Wichita)
  53. Dina ögon - Orion (Playground Music Scandinavia)
  54. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  55. Byland - Heavy For A While (Mother West)
  56. Halo Maud - Celebrate (Heavenly)
  57. DJ Harrison - Shades of Yesterday (Stones Throw)
  58. Tyla - TYLA (FAX/Epic)
  59. Saya Gray - QWERTY II EP (DIrty Hit)
  60. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  61. Girl and Girl - Call A Doctor (Sub Pop)
  62. Revival Season - Golden Age Of Self Snitching (Heavenly)
  63. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  64. BODEGA - Our Brand Could Be Yr Life (Chrysalis)
  65. Bruk Rogers - Loopholes (Tru Thoughts)
  66. DAIISTAR - “Clear” (Fuzz Club)
  67. KOKOKO! - BUTU (Transgressive)
  68. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Don’t Wanna Lose You (Daptone)
  69. Various Artists - My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy Records)
  70. Amanda Whiting - The Liminality of Her (First Word)
  71. Buffalo Tom - Jump Rope (Scrawny Records)
  72. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia? (Republic)
  73. Erick The Architect - I’ve Never Been Here Before (self-released)
  74. Cor.Ece & Bad Colours - Been Here Before (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
  75. Bondax - Journey (Future Disco)
  76. Branko - Soma (Enchufada)
  77. Gen and the Degenerates - ANTI‐FUN PROPAGANDA (Marshall)
  78. Mildlife - Chorus (Heavenly Recordings)
  79. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  80. Lime Garden - One More Thing (So Young)
  81. Helado Negro - Phasor (4AD)
  82. Lewis OfMan - Cristal Medium Blue (Virgin Records France/Profil de Face)
  83. Orgone - Chimera (3 Palm)
  84. Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  85. Mexican Institute of Sound - Algo‐Ritmo : Mexican Institute of Sound Hits 2004–2024 (Soy Sauce)
  86. Bolis Bupul - Letter to Yu (Deewee)
  87. SAVAK - Flavors of Paradise (Peculiar Works Music/Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
  88. Chromeo - Adult Contemporary (BMG)
  89. Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip To The Moon (Karma Chief)
  90. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)

Americana: 

  1. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  2. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  3. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  4. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)
  5. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  6. Various Artists - My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy Records)
  7. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  8. Camera Obscura - Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
  9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
  10. Pedro The Lion - Santa Cruz (Polyvinyl)

Global: 

  1. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  2. Les Amazones d'Afrique - Musow Danse (Real World Records)
  3. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  4. Reyna Tropical - Malegría (Psychic Hotline)
  5. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  6. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  7. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)
  8. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  9. Glass Beams - Mahal EP (Ninja Tune)
  10. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Shabazz Palaces - Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
  2. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  3. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  4. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)
  5. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  6. DJ Harrison - Shades of Yesterday (Stones Throw)
  7. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  8. Revival Season - Golden Age Of Self Snitching (Heavenly)
  9. Bruk Rogers - Loopholes (Tru Thoughts)
  10. Erick The Architect - I’ve Never Been Here Before (self-released)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  2. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
  3. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  4. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  5. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  6. Logic1000 - Mother (Therapy/Because Music)
  7. Four Tet - Three (Text)
  8. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  9. Saya Gray - QWERTY II EP (DIrty Hit)
  10. Bruk Rogers - Loopholes (Tru Thoughts)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  2. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  3. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  4. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
  5. Chicano Batman - Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  6. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  7. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  8. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  9. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  10. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)

Jazz: 

  1. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  2. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  3. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  4. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement (Young)
  5. DJ Harrison - Shades of Yesterday (Stones Throw)
  6. Bruk Rogers - Loopholes (Tru Thoughts)
  7. Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip To The Moon (Karma Chief)
  8. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  9. Sly5thAve - Liberation (Tru Thoughts)
  10. Mo Kolours - Original Flow (WRWTFWW)

Northwest: 

  1. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  2. Shabazz Palaces - Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
  3. Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze)
  4. Gossip - Real Power (Columbia)
  5. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  6. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  7. ACTORS - “In Real Life” (Artoffact)
  8. New Age Healers - The Spin Out (self-released)
  9. Byland - Heavy For A While (Mother West)
  10. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)

Adds: 

Gustaf - Package, Pt. 2
Khruangbin - A LA SALA (Dead Oceans/Night Time Stories Ltd.)
The Black Keys - Ohio Players (Nonesuch/Warner)
Alice Russell - I Am  (Tru Thoughts)
bad tuner - look at me but through me EP (Foreign Family Collective)
Bnny - One Million Love Songs (Fire Talk)
Drahla - angeltape (Captured Tracks)
Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino (Paul Institute/XL Recordings)
Grace Cummings - Ramona (ATO)
Mount Kimbie - The Sunset Violent (Warp)
RiTchie - Triple Digits [112] (self-released)
Sinkane - We Belong (City Slang)
Tipa Tipo - Cintas (Bit Rosie)
Valebol - Valebol (Otherly Love)
A Country Western - Life On the Lawn (Crafted Sounds)
Babebee - whatislove2u? EP (Epitaph)
Bruno Berle - No Reino Dos Afetos 2 (Psychic Hotline/Far Out Recordings)
Catching Flies - Tides (Indigo Soul)
Jane Weaver - Love In Constant Spectacle (Fire)
Kenya Vaun - The Honeymoon Phase (3000 Entertainment)
PEEL - Acid Star (Innovative Leisure)
Still Corners - Dream Talk (Wrecking Light)
Vegyn - The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions (PLZ Make It Ruins)
Vessel - Wrapped In Cellophane (Double Phantom)
Club Angel - Soundbwoy’s Destiny EP (Astral People Recordings)
Holiday Ghosts - Coat Of Arms (FatCat)
Jane Penny - Surfacing (Luminelle Recordings)
​Kasper Bjørke - Puzzles (hfn music)