09-28-2026

KEXP Charts for the Week of Sept. 18 - Sept. 24

Add Date: Sept. 28

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. Erykah Badu & The Alchemist - Before The World Blows (Young)
  2. Bonobo - Distance In Static (Ninja Tune)
  3. Shabazz Palaces - It’s a Style Sport (Sub Pop)
  4. Boy Harsher - GET MEAN (Atlantic)
  5. Dabda - On(百) (Electric Muse)  
  6. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)  
  7. Black Marble - Life in Small Spaces (Sacred Bones)
  8. Francisca Valenzuela - MALDITA (Frantastic Records)
  9. ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever (Artoffact)
  10. hazy waters - “take me home” (self-released)
  11. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)
  12. Alabama Shakes - I Must Be Dreaming (Island)
  13. Fat Dog - Cancel Me (I’m Tired) (Domino)
  14. Leon Bridges - Happiness Anytime (Columbia)
  15. The War On Drugs - “Who’s That” (Super High Quality Records)
  16. GIFT - Frenzy For The Thrill (Captured Tracks)
  17. Westside Cowboy - It Goes On (Island) 
  18. Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Cannonball (Fiction Records)
  19. Jungle - Sunshine (Caiola Records)
  20. The Womack Sisters - The Womack Sisters (Daptone) 
  21. Dummy - do you love the color of the sky? (Polyvinyl)
  22. Party Dozen - 21 Bum Salute (City Slang)
  23. Ceremony - Tell Me Your Dream (Relapse)
  24. Dahi - Black Boy (Alternative) (ALTER) 
  25. Jorja Smith - What Are The Odds (FAMM)
  26. Syd - Beard (Free Lunch/Warner Records)
  27. Sàigòn Soul Revival - Chốn Ta Về (Saigon Supersound)
  28. Genesis Owusu - “HUMAN AGAIN” (Ourness)
  29. The Avalanches - No Bad Memories (Modular)
  30. Dark Chisme - “Suffer Like Me” (self-released)
  31. Spiral XP - “Blue Earth” (Danger Collective)
  32. The Black Tones - “Bombs” (Reptar)
  33. AZ Chike - “Look Like My Mama” (feat. Tyler, the Creator) (Warner)
  34. Echo & the Bunnymen - Apples For Isaac (BMG) 
  35. Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark (Loma Vista)
  36. Lex Walton - ULTIMATE LOVE FOREVER (Sub Pop) 
  37. Sweeping Promises - You Say I Romanticize (Sub Pop)
  38. Lambrini Girls - No Refunds (City Slang)
  39. Beach House - “April Suzanne” (Anthology Recordings)
  40. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - “Googoo Gaga” (DEEWEE/Because)
  41. Death Valley Girls - Welcome to Earth (Suicide Squeeze)
  42. Meshell Ndgeocello - Synonym (Blue Note)
  43. Spanish Horses - “Hey Man (Hey Man!)” (So Young Records)
  44. Cold War Kids & Phantogram - “Hang Me Up to Dry (Phantogram version)” (UMe)
  45. Dina Summer - Children of the Night (Iptamenos Discos)
  46. MorMor - No One Alive Will Listen (Promised Land Recordings)
  47. Interpol - This Mirror Weighs A Ton (Partisan)
  48. Wild Pink - Still Coming Down (Fire Talk)
  49. Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend (Dead Oceans)
  50. Czarface & Frankie Pulitzer - Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer (Silver Age)
  51. Rapsody - God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops (We Each Other/Roc Nation)
  52. Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - ii (Loma Vista Recordings) 
  53. Empanadas Ilegales - LABORATORIO TROPICAL (We Are Time)
  54. Lusine - Melting Days (Ghostly International)
  55. Chrome Sparks - Ball of Light (Chrome Sounds)
  56. abracadabra - peel away EP (Melodic)
  57. Catherine Moan - CM Ultra (Born Losers)
  58. Steve Lacy - Oh yeah? (RCA)
  59. Kelela - new avatar (Warp) 
  60. Blondshell - Violins (Partisan)
  61. Caroline Rose - Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall (SUCK Records)
  62. Julia Jacklin - The Gem (4AD)
  63. Ruti - “FLOWERS” (Big Family Music Limited)
  64. Wishy - Nature’s Pill (Winspear)
  65. Chinese American Bear - “Dance Dance Dance (跳舞跳舞跳舞)” (Moshi Moshi)
  66. Growing Pains - Daniel Loves Mandy Forever (Photo Finish Records)
  67. Russian Blue - “Already Dead” (Pegasus Theory)
  68. David Byrne - Who Is The Sky? (Digital Deluxe Edition) (Matador)
  69. GWEN - UMA (Libertino)
  70. Liars - A Ban On Plastic Bag Bans (Mute)
  71. RIO KOSTA - “Slowly” b/w “She” (Verdigris Records)
  72. Sampa the Great - Nu Zamrock (Loma Vista Recordings)
  73. Shygirl - SWALLOW! (Because)
  74. World News - In Purgatory (Pie & Mash)
  75. Aesop Rock x BlockHead - Trouble Mountain (Rhymesayers)
  76. Ghost Funk Orchestra - “Yours” (Karma Chief)
  77. Hermanos Gutiérrez - Los Ojos Del Cóndor (Easy Eye Sound)
  78. Land of Talk - LASTS (Saddle Creek)
  79. IAN SWEET - Shiverstruck (Polyvinyl)
  80. Soft Science - Sand (Shelflife)
  81. Kareen Lomax - NAJI (music is fun)
  82. Slow Pulp - Melodie (ANTI-)  
  83. Sylvan Esso - Ow ∞ (Psychic Hotline)
  84. Thandii x Regalado - Coco Okayo (Sama Sama)
  85. This is Lorelei - The Singer in My Band (Matador) 
  86. Blind Yeo - The Lemoine Point (Bongo Joe)
  87. The Linda Lindas - GOTTA GET OUT (Reprise/Warner)
  88. Dinosaur Jr. - There Near (Jagjaguwar) 
  89. Latroit House Ensemble - Classics Vol. 1 (House of Latroit) 
  90. Squirrel Flower - Say A Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going (Polyvinyl) 

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark (Loma Vista)
  2. Wild Pink - Still Coming Down (Fire Talk)
  3. Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend (Dead Oceans)
  4. Julia Jacklin - The Gem (4AD)
  5. This is Lorelei - The Singer in My Band (Matador) 
  6. Squirrel Flower - Say A Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going (Polyvinyl) 
  7. Babehoven - I See Them, I See Me (Double Double Whammy)  
  8. Sera Cahoone - I’ve Missed You All These Years (Sub Pop)
  9. Liana Flores - And so it goes… EP (Verve)
  10. Grace Cummings - Bloodhorse! (ATO)

Global: 

  1. Dabda - On(百) (Electric Muse)  
  2. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  3. Francisca Valenzuela - MALDITA (Frantastic Records)
  4. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)
  5. Sàigòn Soul Revival - Chốn Ta Về (Saigon Supersound)
  6. Empanadas Ilegales - LABORATORIO TROPICAL (We Are Time)
  7. Hermanos Gutiérrez - Los Ojos Del Cóndor (Easy Eye Sound)
  8. Thandii x Regalado - Coco Okayo (Sama Sama)
  9. Sara Hebe - NEGOCIONISMO (self-released) 
  10. Curió Curió - Curió Curió (Mr Bongo) 

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Erykah Badu & The Alchemist - Before The World Blows (Young)
  2. Shabazz Palaces - It’s a Style Sport (Sub Pop)
  3. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)
  4. Dahi - Black Boy (Alternative) (ALTER) 
  5. AZ Chike - “Look Like My Mama” (feat. Tyler, the Creator) (Warner)
  6. Czarface & Frankie Pulitzer - Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer (Silver Age)
  7. Rapsody - God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops (We Each Other/Roc Nation)
  8. Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - ii (Loma Vista Recordings) 
  9. Sampa the Great - Nu Zamrock (Loma Vista Recordings)
  10. Aesop Rock x BlockHead - Trouble Mountain (Rhymesayers)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Bonobo - Distance In Static (Ninja Tune)
  2. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  3. Fat Dog - Cancel Me (I’m Tired) (Domino)
  4. Jorja Smith - What Are The Odds (FAMM)
  5. Genesis Owusu - “HUMAN AGAIN” (Ourness)
  6. The Avalanches - No Bad Memories (Modular)
  7. Dark Chisme - “Suffer Like Me” (self-released)
  8. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - “Googoo Gaga” (DEEWEE/Because)
  9. Dina Summer - Children of the Night (Iptamenos Discos)
  10. Lusine - Melting Days (Ghostly International)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Erykah Badu & The Alchemist - Before The World Blows (Young)
  2. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  3. Alabama Shakes - I Must Be Dreaming (Island)
  4. Leon Bridges - Happiness Anytime (Columbia)
  5. Jungle - Sunshine (Caiola Records)
  6. The Womack Sisters - The Womack Sisters (Daptone) 
  7. Dahi - Black Boy (Alternative) (ALTER) 
  8. Jorja Smith - What Are The Odds (FAMM)
  9. Syd - Beard (Free Lunch/Warner Records)
  10. Sàigòn Soul Revival - Chốn Ta Về (Saigon Supersound)

Jazz: 

  1. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)
  2. Meshell Ndgeocello - Synonym (Blue Note)
  3. Empanadas Ilegales - LABORATORIO TROPICAL (We Are Time)
  4. Ghost Funk Orchestra - “Yours” (Karma Chief)
  5. Ships Of The Pharaohs - Part 1 (First Word)
  6. Liana Flores - And so it goes… EP (Verve)
  7. Aquiestoy - Til We Dissolve (self-released)
  8. FKJ - Tyber (Mom+Pop)
  9. FATHERS - FATHERS (Blue Note) 
  10. Saul Williams - Leap Life (Big Dada) 

Northwest: 

  1. Shabazz Palaces - It’s a Style Sport (Sub Pop)
  2. ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever (Artoffact)
  3. Dark Chisme - “Suffer Like Me” (self-released)
  4. Spiral XP - “Blue Earth” (Danger Collective)
  5. The Black Tones - “Bombs” (Reptar)
  6. Empanadas Ilegales - LABORATORIO TROPICAL (We Are Time)
  7. Lusine - Melting Days (Ghostly International)
  8. Chinese American Bear - “Dance Dance Dance (跳舞跳舞跳舞)” (Moshi Moshi)
  9. Growing Pains - Daniel Loves Mandy Forever (Photo Finish Records)
  10. Russian Blue - “Already Dead” (Pegasus Theory)

Bay Area: 

  1. Ceremony - Tell Me Your Dream (Relapse)
  2. abracadabra - peel away EP (Melodic)
  3. Soft Science - Sand (Shelflife)
  4. Edgar - Pavor (Dark Entries) 
  5. Imperial Teen - All Over You (Merge)
  6. THAO - Show Me (Kill Rock Stars)
  7. Louie El Ser - “sex drugs reggaeton” feat. MARCHANTE  (Text Me Records)
  8. Darlynn - Dyke Den (Dark Entries) 
  9. Sour Widows - Sigil (Julia’s War)
  10. John Vanderslice - FOCUS (Tiny Telephone)

Adds: 

Blondshell - Violins (Partisan) 
Julia Jacklin - The Gem (4AD)
Leon Bridges - Happiness Anytime (Columbia)  
Adult DVD - Adult DVD (Fat Possum)
beabadoobee - Pylon (Dirty Hit/Interscope)
Chloé Caillet - Dance Again EP (Ninja Tune)
Freak Slug - Amulet (Future Classic) 
Gurriers - Nobody's Coming To Save You (Play It Again Sam) 
Kiefer - Memory Bomb (Blue Note)
UCHE YARA - BODYSCANNER (goldendays FM) 
YEИDRY - Como agua (Sony Music Latin)
Babehoven - I See Them, I See Me (Double Double Whammy) 
Beck - Ride Lonesome (Capitol) 
Bullion - Nearly (Ghostly International)
Dogs on Shady Lane - Knots (Lauren)
Hermanos Gutiérrez - Los Ojos Del Cóndor (Easy Eye Sound)
ISHA - Feel At Home (Sidekick Music)
Jam City - My World (Mad Decent/Earthly)
Maria Usbeck - Canciones De Amor EP (Cascine)
megiapa - Intentions (International Anthem)  
Pokey LaFarge - Rent Money (Boxer Boy)
Starcleaner Reunion - Umbrella (Take Care Records) 
Thee Sinseers - Love Stories (Colemine)  
Tokyo Tea Room - Feel Forever (Nice Guys)
Your Old Droog - Bread & Butter (Rem-U-Lak/Nature Sounds)