05-25-2020

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 15-21

Top 90:  

1. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador) 
2. Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open (Matador)  
3. Khruangbin – Mordechai (Dead Oceans)  
4. Little Simz – Drop 6 EP (AWAL)  
5. Parisalexa – 2 Real (self-released) 
6. Polyrhythmics – Man From the Future (Code Red)  
7. Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp) 
8. Nation of Language – Introduction, Presence (self-released) 
9. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – Temple (Ribbon Music) 
10. Yaeji – What We Drew (XL)  
11. Woods – Strange to Explain (Woodsist)  
12. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero’s Death (Partisan)  
13. Tomo Nakayama – Melonday (self-released)  
14. Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic)  
15. The Weeknd – After Hours (XO/Republic)  
16. Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (BMG)  
17. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (Dead Oceans)  
18. Moses Sumney - græ (Jagjaguwar)  
19. Little Dragon – New Me, Same Us (Ninja Tune)  
20. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop)  
21. IDLES – Mr. Motivator (Partisan)  
22. Buscabulla – Regresa (Ribbon Music)  
23. Charli XCX – how i'm feeling now (Asylum)  
24. Nick Hakim – WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD (ATO)  
25. Chicano Batman – Invisible People (ATO)  
26. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice (World Circuit)  
27. Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (Wolf + Rothstein/RCA)  
28. Hinds – The Prettiest Curse (Mom+Pop)  
29. James Blake – You're Too Precious (Polydor)  
30. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy (Sub Pop)  
31. Gorillaz – Song Machine (Parlophone)  
32. Hazel English – Wake UP! (Polyvinyl)  
33. Cut Copy – Love Is All We Share (Cutters)  
34. Caribou – Suddenly (Merge)  
36. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)  
37. Sorry – 925 (Domino)  
38. Pottery – Welcome to Bobby’s Motel (Partisan)  
35. BRONSON – BRONSON (Foreign Family Collective)  
39. Pearl Jam – Gigaton (Monkeywrench)  
40. Moby – All Visible Objects (Mute)  
41. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Mosaic of Transformation (Ghostly International)  
42. Bread & Butter – Psycho World (Killroom)  
43. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge)  
44. Hamilton Leithauser – The Loves Of Your Life (Glassnote)  
45. X – ALPHABETLAND (Fat Possum)  
46. Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia (ANTI-)  
47. RVG – Feral (Fire)  
48. Silverbacks – Fad (Central Tones)  
49. Bon Iver – PDLIF (Jagjaguwar) 
50. Ana Tijoux – Antifa Dance (Victoria Producciones) 
51. Houses of Heaven – Silent Places (felte)  
52. TOKiMONSTA – Oasis Nocturno (self-released) 
53. Jah9 – Note To Self (VP) 
54. Soccer Mommy – color theory (Loma Vista) 
55. Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison (Book/Concord)  
56. Squid – Sludge (Warp)  
57. Frank Ocean - Cayendo (Acoustic) (Blonded) 
58. Deep Sea Diver – Stop Pretending (self-released) 
59. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions (Southeastern)  
60. MAITA – Best Wishes (Kill Rock Stars)  
61. Pure X – Pure X (Fire Talk)  
62. Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers)  
63. Empress Of – I’m Your Empress Of (Terrible)  
64. The Strokes – The New Abnormal (Cult/RCA)  
65. EOB – Earth (Capitol)  
66. Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today (Domino)  
67. Bettye Lavette – Blackbirds (Verve)  
68. Dirty Projectors – Flight Tower EP (Domino)  
69. Built to Spill – Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)  
70. Jade Hairpins – Harmony Avenue (Merge)  
71. Chuck Prophet – The Land That Time Forgot (Yep Roc)  
72. The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers (Carpark)  
73. Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure (PMR)  
74. Girl Friday – Androgynous Mary (Hardly Art)  
75. Brittany Howard – You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks (ATO) 
76. No Age – Goons Be Gone (Drag City)  
77. Torres – Wandering Star (Merge)  
78. Helado Negro – I Fell In Love (Super Music Group)  
79. Tei Shi – Die 4 Ur Love (Diktator)  
80. Jamie xx – Idontknow (Young Turks)  
81. Chemtrails – The Peculiar Smell of the Inevitable (Mexican Summer)  
82. Public Practice – Gentle Grip (Wharf Cat)  
83. Knxwledge – 1988 (Stones Throw)  
84. Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers (Fat Possum)  
85. Moaning – Uneasy Laughter (Sub Pop)  
86. Christine and the Queens – La Vita Nuova EP (Because Music)  
87. Damien Jurado – What's New, Tomboy? (Mama Bird) 
88. Alice Bag – Sister Dynamite (In The Red) 
89. dvsn – A Muse in Her Feelings (OVO Sound/Warner) 
90. Ambar Lucid – Garden of Lucid (Downtown)    

Americana: 

1. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge)  
2. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions (Southeastern)  
3. Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers)  
4. Chuck Prophet – The Land That Time Forgot (Yep Roc)  
5. Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers (Fat Possum)  
6. Faye Webster – In A Good Way (Secretly Canadian)  
7. Orville Peck – Summertime (Columbia)  
8. Clem Snide – Forever Just Beyond (Ramseur)  
9. Logan Ledger – Logan Ledger (Rounder)  
10. Western Centuries – Call the Captain (Free Dirt)  

World Music: 

1. Buscabulla – Regresa (Ribbon Music)  
2. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice (World Circuit)  
3. Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia (ANTI-) 
4. Ana Tijoux – Antifa Dance (Victoria Producciones)  
5. Jah9 – Note To Self (VP)  
6. Blakkamoore – Upward Spiral (Baco)  
7. DakhaBrakha – Alambari (self-released)  
8. Hailu Mergia – Yene Mircha (Awesome Tapes From Africa)  
9. Obongjayar – Which Way Is Forward? EP (September)  
10. Brownout – Berlin Sessions (Fat Beats)  

Hip Hop: 

1. Little Simz – Drop 6 EP (AWAL) 
2. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 4 (BMG)  
3. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop) 
4. Essam & Petty Pro – chapter20six (self-released)  
5. Knxwledge – 1988 (Stones Throw) 
6. R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages (Ruby Yacht) 
7. Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats - Unlocked (Loma Vista)  
8. Kassa Overall – I Think I’m Good (Brownswood)  
9. Aminé - Shimmy (Republic)  
10. Julie-C – Sovereign Queendom Archives, Vol. 1 (self-released)   

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp)  
2. Yaeji – What We Drew (XL)  
3. Charli XCX – how i'm feeling now (Asylum)  
4. James Blake – You're Too Precious (Polydor)  
5. Cut Copy – Love Is All We Share (Cutters)  
6. Caribou – Home (Merge)  
7. BRONSON – BRONSON (Foreign Family Collective)  
8. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)  
9. Moby – All Visible Objects (Mute) 
10. TOKiMONSTA – Oasis Nocturno (self-released)

R&B/Blues: 

1. Parisalexa – 2 Real (self-released)  
2. Polyrhythmics – Man From the Future (Color Red)  
3. The Weeknd – After Hours (XO/Republic)  
4. Chicano Batman – Invisible People (ATO)  
5. Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (Wolf + Rothstein/RCA)  
6. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)   
7. Frank Ocean - Cayendo (Acoustic) (Blonded)  
8. Bettye Lavette – Blackbirds (Verve)  
9. Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? (PMR)  
10. Brittany Howard – You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks (ATO)   

Northwest: 

1. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador)  
2. Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open (Matador)  
3. Parisalexa – 2 Real (self-released)  
4. Polyrhythmics – Man From the Future (Color Red)  
5. Tomo Nakayama – Melonday (self-released)  
6. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop)  
7. Pearl Jam – Gigaton (Monkeywrench) 
8. Bread & Butter – Psycho World (Killroom)  
9. Deep Sea Diver – Stop Pretending (self-released)  
10. Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers (Fat Possum) 

Adds: 

Woods – Strange to Explain (Woodsist) 
Charli XCX – how i'm feeling now (Asylum) 
PEDRO - Da Linha (Enchufada)  
The Magnetic Fields – Quickies (Nonesuch) 
Deerhoof – Future Teenage Cave Artists (Joyful Noise)  
Steve Earle & The Dukes – Ghosts of West Virginia (New West)  
Jeff Rosenstock – NO DREAM (Polyvinyl) 
Moses Sumney - græ Part Two (Jagjaguwar) 
Primo! - Sogni (Upset The Rhythm)  
K-LONE - Cape Cira (Wisdom Teeth) 
2nd Grade – Hit To Hit (Double Double Whammy) 
Café Racer – Shadow Talk (Born Yesterday) 
Sepalot Quartet - NOWNEXT (Eskapaden Musik)  
The Orb – Abolition of the Royal Familia (Cooking Vinyl) 
Es – Less of Everything (Upset The Rhythm)  
White Poppy - Paradise Gardens (Not Not Fun)  
Moby – All Visible Objects (Mute) 
Nathan Fake - Blizzards (Cambria Instruments) 
Crisman - Crisman (Topshelf) 
Los Cumpleaños - Agua EP (self-released) 
Disclosure – Ecstasy EP (Island) 
Pantayo - Pantayo (Telephone Explosion) 
Andrew Weatherall - Unknown Plunderer / End Times Sound (Byrd Out) 
Lila Iké – The ExPerience EP (RCA, 5/15/20)  
Dinky - I Am Away EP (Horizontal)