05-09-2022

KEXP Charts for the Week of Apr. 29-May 5 

Add Date: May 9

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. Toro y Moi – MAHAL (Dead Oceans)  
2. Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (Merge)  
3. ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective)  
4. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia (Partisan)  
5. Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future (Loma Vista)  
6. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum (KGLW)  
7. Ibeyi – Spell 31 (XL)  
8. Koffee – Gifted (Promised Land Recordings)  
9. Lizzo – Special (Nice Life/Atlantic)  
10. Sudan Archives – Home Maker (Stones Throw) 
11. The Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Epitaph)  
12. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal (Domino)  
13. Working Men’s Club – Fear Fear (Heavenly)  
14. Tank and the Bangas – Red Balloon (Verve Forecast)  
15. Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino)  
16. Sampa the Great – Lane (Loma Vista) 
17. Hot Chip – Freakout/Release (Domino)  
18. Angel Olsen – Big Time (Jagjaguwar)  
19. Hatchie – Giving the World Away (Secretly Canadian)  
20. Σtella - Up and Away (Sub Pop)  
21. Tres Leches - Fósil (Devil in the Woods)  
22. Syd – Broken Hearts Club (Columbia)  
23. Kojey Radical – Reason to Smile (Asylum/Atlantic)  
24. Rosalía - Motomami (Columbia)  
25. Dehd – Blue Skies (Fat Possum)  
26. Jamie xx – Let's Do It Again (Young)  
27. Confidence Man – TILT (Heavenly)  
28. Poppy Ajudha – The Power in Us (self-released)  
29. Chronixx – Never Give Up (Forever Living Originals)  
30. Mumu Fresh – Dance Daughter (self-released)  
31. Royksopp – Profound Mysteries (Dog Triumph/PIAS)  
32. SAULT – AIR (Forever Living Originals)  
33. Nilüfer Yanya – Painless (ATO)  
34. Kurt Vile - (watch my moves) (Verve)  
35. Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee - BAMANAN (Real World)  
36. Bartees Strange – Farm to Table (4AD)  
37. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)  
38. Fantastic Negrito – White Jesus Black Problems (Storefront)  
39. Let’s Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons (Transgressive)  
40. Nia Archives – Forbidden Feelingz EP (HIJINXX)  
41. Iceage – All the Junk on the Outskirts (Mexican Summer)  
42. DOMi & JD Beck – Smile (Apeshit/Blue Note)  
43. Neko Case – Wild Creatures (Anti-)  
44. Kokoroko – Could We Be More (Brownswood)  
45. Ravyn Lenae – Hypnos (Atlantic)  
46. Foals – Life is Yours (Warner)  
47. Hollis – Subliminal (AntiFragile Music)  
48. A. Billi Free & The Lasso – Holy Body Roll (Mello Music Group)  
49. Missy D – Case Départ (Birthday Cake)  
50. Robert Glasper – Black Radio III (Loma Vista)  
51. Stromae – Multitude (Mosaert/Darkroom/Interscope)  
52. Destroyer – LABYRINTHITIS (Merge)  
53. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (DEEWEE/Because)  
54. Orville Peck – Bronco (Columbia)  
55. Romero – Turn It On! (Feel It)  
56. Kae Tempest – The Line is a Curve (American/Republic)  
57. Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum)  
58. Built to Spill – When the Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)  
59. Congotronics International – Where's the One? (Crammed Discs)  
60. Diane Coffee – With People (Polyvinyl)  
61. Vince Staples – Ramona Park Broke My Heart (Blacksmith/Motown)  
62. Girlpool – Forgiveness (ANTI-)  
63. Omar Apollo – Ivory (Warner)  
64. Camp Cope – Running With the Hurricane (Run For Cover) 
65. The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Step Down (Colemine) 
66. Phife Dawg – Forever (Smokin’ Needles/AWAL)  
67. Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive (Sub Pop)  
68. Pierre Kwenders - José Louis & The Paradox of Love (Arts & Crafts) 
69. Calexico – El Mirador (ANTI-)  
70. Şatellites - Şatellites (Batov)  
71. New Age Healers – Don't Let Me Go (self-released)  
72. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Fried Soul (Colemine)  
73. Wilco – Cruel Country (dBpm)  
74. Ty Segall - “Hello, Hi”Drag City) 
75. Desire – Escape (Italians Do It Better) 
76. Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)  
77. Andrew Bird – Inside Problems (Loma Vista)  
78. POLIÇA - Madness (Memphis Industries)  
79. Adia Victoria – Ain’t Killed Me Yet (Canvasback/Atlantic) 
80. Porridge Radio – Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky (Secretly Canadian)  
81. Sofi Tukker – Wet Tennis (Ultra)  
82. Arcade Fire – We (Columbia)  
83. Branko - OBG (Enchufada)  
84. Willie Nelson – A Beautiful Time (Sony)  
85. Oceanator – Nothing's Ever Fine (Polyvinyl)  
86. Sarah MK – Wax & Gold (self-released)  
87. !!! - Let It Be Blue (Warp)  
88. Ural Thomas & The Pain – Dancing Dimensions (Bella Union)  
89. Superchunk – Wild Loneliness (Merge)  
90. Hurray For the Riff Raff – Life on Earth (Nonesuch)       

Americana: 

1. Orville Peck – Bronco (Columbia) 
2. Willie Nelson – A Beautiful Time (Sony)  
3. Lola Kirke – Lady For Sale (Third Man)  
4. Drive-By Truckers – Welcome to Club XIII (ATO) 
5. Steve Earle & the Dukes – Jerry Jeff (New West)  
6. Banditos – Right On (Egghunt)  
7. S.G. Goodman – Teeth Marks (Verve Forecast) 
8. Luke Winslow-King – If These Walls Could Talk (Ghost River) 
9. Mary Gauthier – Dark Enough to See the Stars (In the Black/Thirty Tigers) 
10. Lyle Lovett – 12th of June (Verve)   

Global: 

1. Koffee – Gifted (Promised Land Recordings)  
2. ROSALÍA - MOTOMAMI (Columbia)  
3. Chronixx – Never Give Up (Forever Living Originals)  
4. Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee - BAMANAN (Real World)  
5. Kokoroko – Could We Be More (Brownswood)  
6. Stromae – Multitude (Mosaert)  
7. Congotronics International – Where's the One (Crammed Discs)  
8. Pierre Kwenders - José Louis and the Paradox of Love (Arts & Crafts)  
9. Branko - OBG (Enchufada) 
10. Protoje – Hills (In.Digg.Nation Collective/RCA)  

Hip Hop: 

1. Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future (Loma Vista) 
2. Lizzo – Special (Nice Life/Atlantic)  
3. Sampa the Great – Lane (Loma Vista) 
4. Kojey Radical – Reason to Smile (Asylum/Atlantic)  
5. Mumu Fresh – Dance Daughter (self-released) 
6. Missy D – Case Départ (Birthday Cake)  
7. Robert Glasper – Black Radio III (Loma Vista)  
8. Vince Staples – Ramona Park Broke My Heart (Blacksmith/Motown) 
9. Phife Dawg – Forever (Smokin’ Needles/AWAL) 
10. Reginald Omas Mamode IV - Stand Strong (Five Easy Pieces) 

RPM/Electronic: 

1. ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective)  
2. Hot Chip – Freakout/Release (Domino)  
3. Jamie xx – Let's Do It Again (Young)  
4. Confidence Man – TILT (Heavenly)  
5. Royksopp – Profound Mysteries (Dog Triumph)  
6. Nia Archives – Forbidden Feelingz EP (HIJINXX)  
7. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (DEEWEE/Because)  
8. Desire – Escape (Italians Do It Better) 
9. Sofi Tukker – Wet Tennis (Ultra)  
10. Branko - OBG (Enchufada)      

R&B/Blues: 

1. Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (Merge)  
2. Ibeyi – Spell 31 (XL)  
3. Sudan Archives – Home Maker (Stones Throw)  
4. Tank and the Bangas – Red Balloon (Verve Forecast)  
5. Syd – Broken Hearts Club (Columbia)  
6. Poppy Ajudha – The Power in Us (self-released) 
7. Fantastic Negrito – White Jesus Black Problems (Storefront)  
8. Ravyn Lenae – Hypnos (Atlantic) 
9. Hollis – Subliminal (AntiFragile Music) 
10. A. Billi Free & The Lasso – Holy Body Roll (Mello Music Group)     

Jazz: 

1. DOMi & JD Beck – Smile (Apeshit/Blue Note)  
2. Melt Yourself Down - Pray For Me I Don't Fit In (Universal/Decca)  
3. High Pulp – Pursuit of Ends (ANTI-)  
4. Ebi Soda – Honk If You’re Sad (Tru Thoughts)  
5. John Carroll Kirby – Dance Ancestral (Stones Throw)  
6. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Jazz Is Dead 011 (Jazz Is Dead)  
7. Blue Lab Beats – Motherland Journey (Blue Note)  
8. Ezra Collective – May the Funk Be With You (Enter the Jungle)  
9. Binker & Moses – Feeding the Machine (Gearbox)  
10. Kamasi Washington – The Garden Path (Shoto Mas/Young) 

Northwest: 

1. ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective)  
2. Tres Leches - Fósil (Devil in the Woods)   
3. New Age Healers – Don't Let Me Go (self-released)  
4. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Fried Soul (Colemine) 
5. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Ninety Three EP (self-released)  
6. FRED – Creature EP (self-released)  
7. Smokey Brights – Fancy Ketchup (Freakout) 
8. Sea Lemon – Turn Away (self-released)  
9. The Black Tones – The End of Everything (Sub Pop)  
10. Enumclaw – 2002 (Luminelle)

Adds: 

Sharon Van Etten – We've Been Going About This All Wrong (Jagjaguwar)  
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms (Sub Pop)  
Ibeyi – Spell 31 (XL) 
Belle and Sebastian – A Bit of Previous (Matador) 
Warpaint – Radiate Like This (Heirlooms/Virgin) 
Sunflower Bean – Headful of Sugar (Mom+Pop) 
Hollis – Subliminal (AntiFragile Music)  
Arcade Fire – We (Columbia)  
Honeyglaze – Honeyglaze (Speedy Wunderground) 
Pink Mountaintops – Peacock Pools (ATO) 
Helms Alee – Keep This Be The Way (Sargent House) 
The Builders and The Butchers – Hell & High Water (Badman) 
!!! - Let It Be Blue (Warp) 
Action Bronson – Cocodrillo Turbo (Loma Vista) 
Layla McCalla – Breaking the Thermometer (ANTI) 
Chateau Chateau – Grow Up (Kill Rock Stars)  
Hater – Sincere (Fire)  
Suki Waterhouse – I Can’t Let Go (Sub Pop) 
Moon Palace – Love Lost EP (self-released) 
JOYFULTALK – Familiar Science (Constellation) 
Vero – Unsoothing Interior (PNKSLM)  
Sadurn – Radiator (Run For Cover) 
Anna Calvi – Tommy EP (Domino)  
Tombstones In Their Eyes – A Higher Place EP (Kitten Robot)