04-17-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Apr. 7-13  

Add Date: Apr. 17      

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. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
2. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)  
3. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
4. Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune)  
5. DEBBY FRIDAY – GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop) 
6. Blondshell – Blondshell (Partisan)  
7. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)  
8. Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume… (Warp) 
9. Algiers – Shook (Matador) 
10. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown) 
11. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL) 
12. Nappy Nina – Mourning Due (LucidHaus) 
13. Black Ends – My Own Dead (self-released) 
14. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
15. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori (Columbia) 
16. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL) 
17. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice) 
18. M83 – Fantasy (Mute) 
19. Kali Uchis – Red Room in Venus (Geffen)  
20. WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)  
21. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
22. Bully – Lucky for You (Sub Pop)  
23. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge)  
24. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – V (Jagjaguwar)
25. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush) 
26. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans) 
27. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek) 
28. U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess (4AD) 
29. Navy Blue – Ways of Knowing (Freedom Sounds/Def Jam) 
30. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Warner) 
31. ODESZA – To Be Yours (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) 
32. Nation of Language – Strange Disciple (Play It Again Sam)  
33. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
34. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
35. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop)  
36. London Brew – London Brew (Concord Jazz)  
37. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
38. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group)  
39. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
40. Hannah Jadagu – Aperture (Sub Pop)  
41. Abra – FKA MESS (Acid Palace)  
42. Moreish Idols – Lock Eyes and Collide EP (Speedy Wunderground) 
43. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention (BMG) 
44. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune) 
45. The Transmissionary Six – Often Sometimes Rarely Never (Drums and Wires Recordings)  
46. B. Cool-Aid – Leather Blvd (Lex)  
47. CHAI – We the Female! (Sub Pop)  
48. Desire Marea – On the Romance of Being (Mute)  
49. The Murder Capital – Gigi's Recovery (Human Season)  
50. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
51. boygenius – The Record (Interscope)  
52. Shalom – Sublimation (Saddle Creek)  
53. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)  
54. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)  
55. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
56. Screaming Females – Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni)  
57. Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP (HIJINXX/Island) 
58. Daughter – Stereo Mind Game (Glassnote) 
59. BAMBII – One Touch (Innovative Leisure)  
60. Jenny Lewis – Joy’All (Blue Note)  
61. Dijon – coogie (Warner)  
62. Bartees Strange – Tisched Off (Sub Pop)  
63. Youth Lagoon – Heaven is a Junkyard (Fat Possum)  
64. A Certain Ratio – 1982 (Mute)  
65. Brandee Younger - Brand New Life (Impulse!) 
66. Coral Grief – Daydrops (self-released)  
67. Lil Yachty – Let's Start Here. (Quality Control/Motown/UMG)  
68. Bar Italia – Nurse! (Matador)  
69. Indigo De Souza – All Of This Will End (Saddle Creek)  
70. Róisín Murphy – CooCool (Ninja Tune) 
71. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)  
72. Jessy Lanza – Don’t Leave Me Now (Hyperdub) 
73. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man)  
74. Devon Gilfillian – Love You Anyway (Fantasy)  
75. Flyying Colours – You Never Know (Poison City) 
76. Glüme - Main Character (Italians Do It Better)  
77. Death Valley Girls – Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)  
78. Skrillex - Quest For Fire (OWSLA/Atlantic)  
79. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern)  
80. Cable Ties – All Her Plans (Merge)  
81. Overmono – Good Lies (XL)  
82. Geese – 3D Country (Partisan)  
83. Thee Sacred Souls – Running Away (Penrose/Daptone)  
84. Momma – Bang Bang (Polyvinyl)  
85. Feeble Little Horse – Girl with Fish (Saddle Creek)  
86. Say She She – Reeling (Karma Chief)  
87. Deerhoof – Miracle-Level (Joyful)  
88. babybaby_explores – Food Near Me, Weather Tomorrow (No Gold)  
89. Heartworms – A Comforting Notion (Speedy Wunderground)  
90. Model/Actriz - Godsbody (True Panther)    

Americana: 

1. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans) 
2. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern) 
3. Cassandra Lewis – Six Stars (Low Country Sound/Elektra)  
4. Stephanie Anne Johnson – Jewels (self-released) 
5. Robbie Fulks – Bluegrass Vacation (Compass) 
6. Dougie Poole – The Rainbow Wheel of Death (Wharf Cat)  
7. Slaid Cleaves – Together Through the Dark (Candy House Media)  
8. Iris DeMent – Workin' on a World (Flariella) 
9. Lucero – Should’ve Learned By Now (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers)  
10. Rachel Baiman – Common Nation of Sorrow (Signature Sounds) 

Global: 

1. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
2. WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)  
3. Desire Marea – On the Romance of Being (Mute)  
4. Zuco 103 – Telenova (Six Degrees) 
5. Kimi Djabaté - Dindin (Cumbancha)  
6. Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK) 
7. Ali Farka Touré - Voyageur (World Circuit) 
8. Rema – Holiday (Mavin)  
9. Baaba Maal – Being (Marathon Artists) 
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. Navy Blue – Ways of Knowing (Freedom Sounds/Def Jam) 
5. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
6. B. Cool-Aid – Leather Blvd (Lex)  
7. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune) 
8. Maxo – Even God Has a Sense of Humor (Def Jam)  
9. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – Bad Man Lighter 2.0 (SKE80)  
10. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note) 

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
2. Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune) 
3. DEBBY FRIDAY – GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop)  
4. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori (Columbia) 
5. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL)  
6. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
7. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
8. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush) 
9. ODESZA – To Be Yours (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) 
10. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya) 
2. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)  
3. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL) 
4. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life)  
5. Kali Uchis – Red Room in Venus (Geffen) 
6. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
7. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own/Believe)  
8. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group) 
9. Abra – FKA MESS (Acid Palace) 
10. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  

Jazz: 

1. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE) 
2. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)  
3. London Brew – London Brew (Downtown/Concord Jazz)  
4. Brandee Younger - Brand New Life (Impulse!) 
5. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
6. (Various) - Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre (Blue Note)  
7. Terrace Martin – Chucks (Sounds of Crenshaw/BMG)  
8. Theo Croker – By the Way EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony)  
9. Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID016 (Jazz Is Dead)  
10. James Brandon Lewis – Eye of I (ANTI-) 

Northwest: 

1. Black Ends – My Own Dead (self-released) 
2. NAVVI – V EP (Hush Hush) 
3. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
4. ODESZA – To Be Yours (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) 
5. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
6. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop) 
7. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
8. The Transmissionary Six – Often Sometimes Rarely Never (Drums and Wires Recordings) 
9. Coral Grief – Daydrops (self-released) 
10. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man)  

Adds: 

Kara Jackson – Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (September) 
Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago (Glass Cane) 
The Tallest Man on Earth – Henry St. (Anti-) 
Feist – Multitudes (Interscope) 
Temples – Exotico (ATO) 
Davido - Timeless (RCA) 
Brian Dunne – Loser on the Ropes (Kill Rock Stars) 
Fenne Lily – Big Picture (Dead Oceans) 
Nakhane – Bastard Jargon (BMG) 
Metallica – 72 Seasons (Blackened) 
Fruit Bats – A River Running To Your Heart (Merge) 
Brandee Younger - Brand New Life (Impulse!) 
Terry – Call Me Terry (Upset the Rhythm) 
Royel Otis – Sofa Kings EP (House Anxiety/OURNESS) 
Angel Olsen – Forever Means EP (Jagjaguwar) 
Poison Ruin - Harvest (Relapse)
Alan Braxe / Fred Falke - The Upper Cuts (2023 Edition) (Smugglers Way) 
Lucinda Chua – YIAN (4AD) 
FACS – Still Life in Decay (Trouble in Mind) 
audiobooks – Gulliver (Heavenly) 
Proc Fiskal – Rt Hon EP (Hyperdub) 
strongboi - strongboi (self-released) 
Boston Chery - Channel 8 (Part I) EP (Styles Upon Styles)