04-13-2020

KEXP Charts for the Week of Apr. 3-9 

Top 90:  

1. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder) 
2. Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp) 
3. Caribou – Suddenly (Merge) 
4. Yaeji – What We Drew (XL) 
5. Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (Wolf + Rothstein/RCA) 
6. Tomo Nakayama – Melonday (self-released) 
7. The Weeknd – After Hours (XO/Republic) 
8. Little Dragon – New Me, Same Us (Ninja Tune) 
9. Knxwledge – 1988 (Stones Throw) 
10. Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (Modular) 
11. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop) 
12. Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open (Matador) 
13. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge) 
14. Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (4AD) 
15. Empress Of – I’m Your Empress Of (Terrible) 
16. Purity Ring – WOMB (4AD) 
17. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – Temple (Ribbon) 
18. Tres Leches – Nieve (self-released) 
19. Soccer Mommy – color theory (Loma Vista)  
20. Nick Hakim – Will This Make Me Good (ATO) 
21. Amber Mark – Heart-Shaped Box (PMR) 
22. EOB – Earth (Capitol) 
23. Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter (Chrysalis/Partisan) 
24. Jay Som – A Thousand Words/Can’t Sleep (Polyvinyl)  
25. Pearl Jam – Gigaton (Monkeywrench) 
26. Sorry – 925 (Domino) 
27. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy (Sub Pop) 
28. Hinds – The Prettiest Curse (Mom+Pop) 
29. Gorillaz – Song Machine (Parlophone) 
30. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice (World Circuit) 
31. Yppah – Sunset in the Deep End (Future Archives) 
32. The Black Tones – The Devil and Grandma / Where Do We Go (Hockey Talkter)  
33. Parisalexa – Troubled Waters (self-released) 
34. Hotels – Queens (West African Peanut Soup) (self-released) 
35. Moses Sumney - græ (Jagjaguwar)  
36. U.S. Girls – Heavy Light (4AD)  
37. Orville Peck – Summertime (Columbia) 
38. Frank Ocean – Dear April (Acoustic) (Blonded) 
39. Woods – Strange to Explain (Woodsist) 
40. The Strokes – The New Abnormal (Cult) 
41. Chromatics – Famous Monsters (Italians Do It Better) 
42. The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (feat. Blood Orange) (Modular)  
43. Frank Ocean - Cayendo (Acoustic) (Blonded) 
44. Wajatta – Don't Let Get You Down (Brainfeeder) 
45. Caroline Rose – Superstar (New West) 
46. Deep Sea Diver – Stop Pretending (self-released) 
47. Torres – Wandering Star (Merge) 
48. Mavis Staples – All In It Together (ANTI-) 
49. TOPS – I Feel Alive (Musique TOPS) 
50. Gil Scott-Heron – We're New Again (A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven) (XL) 
51. Dogleg – Melee (Triple Crown) 
52. Christine and the Queens – La Vita Nuova EP (Because Music) 
53. Four Tet – Sixteen Oceans (Text) 
54. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador) 
55. Archers of Loaf – Raleigh Days (Merge) 
56. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 4 (BMG) 
57. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (Dead Oceans) 
58. Swamp Dogg – Sorry You Couldn’t Make It (Joyful Noise) 
59. Ellis – Born Again (Fat Possum) 
60. Cornershop – England is a Garden (Ample Play) 
61. Worriers – You or Someone You Know (6131) 
62. Empty Country – Empty Country (Get Better) 
63. Moaning – Uneasy Laughter (Sub Pop) 
64. Best Coast – Always Tomorrow (Concord) 
65. Disq – Collector (Saddle Creek)  
66. Margaret Glaspy – Devotion (ATO) 
67. Real Estate – The Main Thing (Domino)  
68. Smokey Brights - 72 (Freakout)  
69. Damien Jurado – What's New, Tomboy? (Mama Bird) 
70. Aminé - Shimmy (Republic)  
71. Diet Cig – Do You Wonder About Me? (Frenchkiss)  
72. Andrew Bird – Capitol Crimes (Loma Vista)  
73. Iceage – Lockdown Blues (Escho) 
74. Ana Tijoux – Antifa Dance (Victoria Producciones)  
75. The Radio Dept. - You Fear the Wrong Thing Baby (self-released) 
76. Burna Boy – Odogwu (Atlantic) 
77. The Avalanches – Running Red Lights (feat. Rivers Cuomo & Pink Siifu) (Modular) 
78. Jessy Lanza – Lick in Heaven (Hyperdub)  
79. Daisies – Cherries EP (self-released) 
80. Cleo Sol – Rose in the Dark (Forever Living Originals) 
81. Eyelids – The Accidental Falls (Jealous Butcher) 
82. Orion Sun – Hold Space For Me (Mom+Pop) 
83. Michael The Lion & Amy Douglas – Michael The Lion x Amy Douglas EP (Soul Clap) 
84. Obongjayar – Which Way Is Forward? EP (September)  
85. Shopping – All or Nothing (FatCat) 
86. Porridge Radio – Every Bad (Secretly Canadian) 
87. Half Waif – The Caretaker (ANTI-) 
88. Jungle Fire – Jungle Fire (Nacional)  
89. Stephen Malkmus – Traditional Techniques (Matador)  
90. Cable Ties – Far Enough (Merge) 

Americana: 

1. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge) 
2. Orville Peck – Summertime (Columbia) 
3. Swamp Dogg – Sorry You Couldn’t Make It (Joyful Noise)  
4. Drive-By Truckers – The Unraveling (ATO)  
5. Clem Snide – Forever Just Beyond (Ramseur)  
6. Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman (37d03d)  
7. Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers (Fat Possum)  
8. Silver Torches – Bermuda Dunes (self-released) 
9. Chuck Prophet – The Land That Time Forgot (Yep Roc)  
10. Honey Harper – Starmaker (ATO)  

World Music: 

1. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice (World Circuit) 
2. Ana Tijoux – Antifa Dance (Victoria Producciones)  
3. Burna Boy – Odogwu (Atlantic)  
4. Obongjayar – Which Way Is Forward? EP (September)  
5. Jungle Fire – Jungle Fire (Nacional)  
6. Brownout – Berlin Sessions (Fat Beats) 
7. ChocQuibTown – Fresa (Sony Latin)  
8. dumama + kechou – buffering juju (Mushroom Hour Half Hour) 
9. Sunny Jain – Wild Wild East (Smithsonian Folkways) 
10. Hailu Mergia – Yene Mircha (Awesome Tapes From Africa)  

Hip Hop: 

1. Knxwledge – 1988 (Stones Throw) 
2. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop) 
3. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 4 (BMG) 
4. Aminé - Shimmy (Republic)  
5. Julie-C – Sovereign Queendom Archives, Vol. 1 (self-released)  
6. Kassa Overall – I Think I’m Good (Brownswood)  
7. Essam & Petty Pro – chapter20six (self-released)  
8. Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats - Unlocked (Loma Vista)  
9. EARTHGANG – Mirrorland (Dreamville/Interscope)  
10. Nigel – Tantrum (Ted)     

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)  
2. Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp)  
3. Caribou – Home (Merge)  
4. Yaeji – What We Drew (XL)  
5. Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (4AD)  
6. Yppah – Sunset in the Deep End (Future Archives)  
7. Chromatics – Famous Monsters (Italians Do It Better)  
8. The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (feat. Blood Orange) (Modular)  
9. Wajatta – Don't Let Get You Down (Brainfeeder)  
10. Four Tet – Sixteen Oceans (Text)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)   
2. Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (Wolf + Rothstein/RCA)  
3. The Weeknd – After Hours (XO/Republic)  
4. Amber Mark – Heart-Shaped Box (PMR)  
5. Parisalexa – Troubled Waters (self-released)  
6. Frank Ocean – Dear April (Acoustic) (Blonded) 
7. Frank Ocean - Cayendo (Acoustic) (Blonded)  
8. Mavis Staples – All In It Together (ANTI-)  
9. Gil Scott-Heron – We're New Again (A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven) (XL) 
10. Swamp Dogg – Sorry You Couldn’t Make It (Joyful Noise) 

Northwest: 

1. Tomo Nakayama – Melonday (self-released)  
2. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop)  
3. Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open (Matador)  
4. Tres Leches – Nieve (self-released)  
5. Pearl Jam – Gigaton (Monkeywrench) 
6. The Black Tones – The Devil and Grandma / Where Do We Go (Hockey Talkter) 
7. Parisalexa – Troubled Waters (self-released) 
8. Hotels – Queens (West African Peanut Soup) (self-released)  
9. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador)  
10. Smokey Brights - 72 (Freakout)  

Adds: 

Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder) 
Yaeji – What We Drew (XL) 
Tomo Nakayama – Melonday (self-released) 
Hamilton Leithauser – The Loves Of Your Life (Glassnote) 
Empress Of – I’m Your Empress Of (Terrible) 
Purity Ring – WOMB (4AD) 
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice (World Circuit) 
Catholic Action – Celebrated By Strangers (Palo Santo)  
Warm Digits – Flight of Ideas (Memphis Industries) 
Knxwledge – 1988 (Stones Throw) 
Flat Worms – Antarctica (GOD?)  
Trace Mountains – Lost in the Country (Lame-O)  
SAVAK – Rotting Teeth in the Horse’s Mouth (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)  
Whitmer Thomas – Songs from The Golden One (Hardly Art)  
Logan Ledger – Logan Ledger (Rounder)  
Stuck – Change Is Bad (Born Yesterday) 
Jackie Lynn – Jacqueline (Drag City) 
Bullion – We Had A Good Time (Deek Recordings/PIAS) 
Michael The Lion & Amy Douglas – Michael The Lion x Amy Douglas EP (Soul Clap) 
Pantha Du Prince – Conference of Trees (Modern)  
Everything Is Recorded – Friday Forever (XL) 
Wilma Archer – A Western Circular (Domino) 
Chiiild – Synthetic Soul EP (Avant Garden/Island) 
WMD – Saudade (self-released) 
Methyl Ethel – Hurts to Laugh EP (Dot Dash)