06-08-2026

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 29 - June 4

Add Date: June 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. Black Ends - “All I’m Bone” (Youth Riot) 
  2. Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (OURNESS)
  3. Boards of Canada - Inferno (Warp)
  4. Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew (Night School)
  5. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  6. Vince Staples - Cry Baby (Loma Vista)
  7. Dead Pioneers - Wagon Burner (Hassle Records)
  8. Francis of Delirium - Run, Run Pure Beauty (Dalliance)
  9. Iceage - For Love of Grace & the Hereafter (Mexican Summer) 
  10. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  11. Angélique Kidjo - HOPE!! (Parlophone/Warner)
  12. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  13. Kurt Vile - Philadelphia's been good to me (Verve Records)
  14. Baby Rose - YEARNALISM (Secretly Canadian)
  15. Getdown Services - Massive Champion (Breakfast)
  16. Telehealth - Green World Image (Sub Pop)
  17. Lime Garden - Maybe Not Tonight (So Young) 
  18. Chico Detour - Wash It Down EP (Den Tapes)
  19. Asha Puthli & Say She She - “Pawa!” (Naya Beat)
  20. Blondshell - “Heart Has To Work So Hard” (Partisan)
  21. Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Cannonball (Fiction Records)
  22. Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some (Moshi Moshi)
  23. TV Star - Music For Heads (Father/Daughter Records)
  24. Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans) 
  25. Honey Dijon - The Nightlife (SOS)
  26. Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Black Butterfly (Dorado Records) 
  27. Aldous Harding - Train On The Island (4AD)
  28. Brian Jackson - Now More Than Ever (BBE)
  29. Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower (ANTI-)
  30. Gelli Haha  - “Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep” (Innovative Leisure)
  31. GENER8ION & Yung Lean - STORM (Iconoclast)
  32. Spacemoth - Inward Eye (Greenway Records)
  33. Black Marble - Life in Small Spaces (Sacred Bones)
  34. Jungle - Sunshine (Caiola Records)
  35. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  36. Little Simz - Sugar Girl EP (AWAL)
  37. MUNA - Dancing On The Wall (Saddest Factory) 
  38. Kelley Stoltz - If You Don’t Know Me, Buy Now! (Dandy Boy)
  39. Sosyete '25 - Yaygara (Tru Thoughts)
  40. Brother Wallace - Electric Love (ATO)
  41. Frog - Frog For Sale (Audio Antihero/tapewormies) 
  42. GiGi Girls - Greatest Hits (Papercup) 
  43. Ladytron - Paradises (Nettwerk) 
  44. Kelela - new avatar (Warp)
  45. Ruti - “I'LL BE YOUR FRIEND” (Big Family Music)
  46. Sera Cahoone - “Say Something” (Sub Pop)
  47. Downtown Boys - Public Luxury (Sub Pop)
  48. Kiwi Jr. - Blowin’ Up (perennial/K)
  49. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - A ? of WHEN (Domino)
  50. Makthaverskan - Glass and Bones (Welfare Sounds & Records) 
  51. Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire (Transgressive)
  52. Waves Crashing - In The Blur (Audiomanic)
  53. Konyikeh - Cinere (FAMM)
  54. Thee Marloes - Di Hotel Malibu (Big Crown)
  55. Isaiah Rashad - IT’S BEEN AWFUL (Top Dawg Entertainment/Warner)
  56. Khun Narin - III (Innovative Leisure)
  57. Lykke Li - The Afterparty (Neon Gold/Futures)
  58. Pigeon - OUTTANATIONAL (Memphis Industries) 
  59. Future Islands - From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth (4AD)
  60. The Bug Club - Every Single Muscle (Sub Pop)
  61. Divers - Odd Dog in the Capital (Community Music)
  62. KNEECAP - FENIAN (Heavenly Recordings/[PIAS])
  63. Midpak - Torpedo EP (Middy P Ink) 
  64. IAN SWEET - Shiverstruck (Polyvinyl)
  65. Modest Mouse - An Eraser and A Maze (Glacial Pace Recordings/Virgin Music Group)
  66. Alewya - ZERO (Because London)
  67. Blind Yeo - The Lemoine Point (Bongo Joe)
  68. Catherine Moan - CM Ultra (Born Losers)
  69. Cerrone & Adi Oasis - “New Highs” (Because Music)
  70. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - “Chicken Leg” b/w “If I Could” (Colemine)
  71. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)
  72. Fat Dog - “Go Fuck Urself” (Domino)
  73. Father John Misty - “The Payoff” (Sub Pop)
  74. Gurriers - Nobody's Coming To Save You (Play It Again Sam)
  75. Kelsey Lu - So Help Me God (Dirty Hit)
  76. Kerala Dust - “FEVER” (Play It Again Sam)
  77. RIP Magic - “Screwdark” (section1)
  78. BALTHVS - “Eternal Flow” (Mixto Records)
  79. Chanel Beads - Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar)
  80. Ed O’Brien - Blue Morpho (Transgressive)
  81. Hannah Peel & Beibei Wang - The Endless Dance (Real World)
  82. The Early Years - Modern Moonlight (Sonic Cathedral)
  83. Dua Saleh - Of Earth & Wires (Ghostly International)
  84. Jessie Ware - Superbloom (Interscope/EMI) 
  85. Lauren Auder - Whole World As Vigil (untitled) 
  86. Heavy Bloom - Back To Us (self-released) 
  87. La Doña - Corrientes (Text Me Records)
  88. Black Milk - CEREMONIAL (Computer Ugly)
  89. Ecca Vandal - LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW (Loma Vista) 
  90. Hyd - Hold Onto Me Infinity (Cascine) 

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans)
  2. Aldous Harding - Train On The Island (4AD)
  3. Frog - Frog For Sale (Audio Antihero/tapewormies) 
  4. Sera Cahoone - “Say Something” (Sub Pop)
  5. La Doña - Corrientes (Text Me Records)
  6. Fruit Bats - The Landfill (Merge)
  7. Laura Veirs - Temple Songs (Raven Marching Band)
  8. villagerrr - Carousel (Winspear)
  9. Widemouth - No Gasoline (Urban Scandal)
  10. Marika Christine - Enjoy The Clouds (Anxiety Blanket Records) 

Global: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  2. Angélique Kidjo - HOPE!! (Parlophone/Warner)
  3. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  4. Sosyete '25 - Yaygara (Tru Thoughts)
  5. GiGi Girls - Greatest Hits (Papercup) 
  6. Thee Marloes - Di Hotel Malibu (Big Crown)
  7. Khun Narin - III (Innovative Leisure)
  8. Pigeon - OUTTANATIONAL (Memphis Industries) 
  9. Blind Yeo - The Lemoine Point (Bongo Joe)
  10. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (OURNESS)
  2. Vince Staples - Cry Baby (Loma Vista)
  3. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  4. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  5. Brian Jackson - Now More Than Ever (BBE)
  6. Little Simz - Sugar Girl EP (AWAL)
  7. Isaiah Rashad - IT’S BEEN AWFUL (Top Dawg Entertainment/Warner)
  8. KNEECAP - FENIAN (Heavenly Recordings/[PIAS])
  9. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)
  10. Black Milk - CEREMONIAL (Computer Ugly)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Boards of Canada - Inferno (Warp)
  2. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  3. Honey Dijon - The Nightlife (SOS) 
  4. GENER8ION & Yung Lean - STORM (Iconoclast)
  5. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  6. MUNA - Dancing On The Wall (Saddest Factory) 
  7. Ladytron - Paradises (Nettwerk) 
  8. Cerrone & Adi Oasis - “New Highs” (Because Music)
  9. Hannah Peel & Beibei Wang - The Endless Dance (Real World)
  10. Dua Saleh - Of Earth & Wires (Ghostly International)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (OURNESS)
  2. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  3. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  4. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  5. Baby Rose - YEARNALISM (Secretly Canadian)
  6. Asha Puthli & Say She She - “Pawa!” (Naya Beat)
  7. Honey Dijon - The Nightlife (SOS) 
  8. Brian Jackson - Now More Than Ever (BBE)
  9. Jungle - Sunshine (Caiola Records)
  10. Little Simz - Sugar Girl EP (AWAL)

Jazz: 

  1. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  2. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  3. Brian Jackson - Now More Than Ever (BBE)
  4. Thee Marloes - Di Hotel Malibu (Big Crown)
  5. Pigeon - OUTTANATIONAL (Memphis Industries) 
  6. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - “Chicken Leg” b/w “If I Could” (Colemine)
  7. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)
  8. Black Milk - CEREMONIAL (Computer Ugly)
  9. Nu Genea - People of the Moon (NG) 
  10. Adrian Younge - Afro Disco Makossa EP (Linear Labs)

Northwest: 

  1. Black Ends - “All I’m Bone” (Youth Riot) 
  2. Telehealth - Green World Image (Sub Pop)
  3. Chico Detour - Wash It Down EP (Den Tapes)
  4. Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some (Moshi Moshi)
  5. TV Star - Music For Heads (Father/Daughter Records)
  6. Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower (ANTI-)
  7. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  8. Sera Cahoone - “Say Something” (Sub Pop)
  9. Waves Crashing - In The Blur (Audiomanic)
  10. Midpak - Torpedo EP (Middy P Ink) 

Bay Area: 

  1. Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew (Night School)
  2. Spacemoth - Inward Eye (Greenway Records)
  3. Kelley Stoltz - If You Don’t Know Me, Buy Now! (Dandy Boy)
  4. La Doña - Corrientes (Text Me Records)
  5. Orbit 17 - Betrayer (self-released)
  6. lucky break - made it! (Fire Records)
  7. Marika Christine - Enjoy The Clouds (Anxiety Blanket Records) 
  8. Mildred - Fenceline (Memorials of Distinction/Dog Day)
  9. Kathryn Mohr - Carve (The Flesner) 
  10. Cindy - Another Country (Tough Love)

Adds: 

Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower (ANTI-)
Vince Staples - Cry Baby (Loma Vista/Concord) 
Blue Lab Beats - The Blue Lab Beats Show (Blue Adventure)
DJ Seinfeld - If This Is It (Ninja Tune)
Jalen Ngonda - Doctrine of Love (Daptone) 
Modest Mouse - An Eraser and A Maze (Glacial Pace Recordings/Virgin)
PawPaw Rod - Picture Day: A PawPaw Rod Album (Independent Co.)
Rosa Walton - Tell Me It’s A Dream (Transgressive) 
Slippers - Slippers 08 (K/perennial)
Sparklmami - in this body (Verve/Slowplay)
Widowspeak - Roses (Captured Tracks)
Zoh Amba - Eyes Full (Matador)
Asal - Kiss the Sun (self-released)
Crackazat - SUN (Freerange)
Dollpile - Someone Else’s Heaven (Grand Jr.)
Fatoumata Diawara - Massa (No Førmat!)
Les Big Byrd - Ruin Everything (Chimp Limbs)
Montoya - Tayta (ZZK)
Moses Yoofee Trio - CHASING LIGHT (LEITER)
Phoenix James - Teeth EP (+1 Records)
RaiNao - Marcriá (Rimas Entertainment, LLC)
Satya - Yellow House (Checker Print)
zzzahara - Distant Lands (Lex)