10-10-2022

KEXP Charts for the Week of Sep. 30-Oct. 6

Add Date: Oct. 10 

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. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)  
2. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)  
3. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)  
4. LCD Soundsystem – new body rhumba (Columbia) 
5. (Various) - Live at KEXP Volume 10 (KEXP)  
6. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)  
7. Nation of Language – From the Hill (Play It Again Sam)  
8. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista)  
9. Alvvays – Blue Rev (Celsius Girls/Polyvinyl)  
10. Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic)  
11. Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes (BMG)  
12. Protoje – Third Time’s the Charm (In.Digg.Nation Collective/RCA)  
13. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.)  
14. The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark)  
15. Santigold – Spirituals (Little Jerk)  
16. MorMor – Semblance (Don’t Guess)  
17. Aidan Noell & Nancy Whang – Sharevari (Nation of Language) 
18. Sol Messiah – GOD CMPLX (Rhymesayers)  
19. Hot Chip – Freakout/Release (Domino)  
20. (Various) - After Dark 4 (Italians Do It Better)  
21. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)  
22. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan) 
23. Shygirl – Nymph (Because Music) 
24. Greentea Peng – GREENZONE 108 (EMI/Universal)  
25. Cheekface – Too Much to Ask (New Professor)  
26. Say She She - Prism (Karma Chief)  
27. Little Dragon – Opening the Door EP (Ninja Tune)  
28. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  
29. Björk - fossura (One Little Independent)  
30. The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!)  
31. Bomba Estéreo & Manu Chao – Me Duele (Elegancia Tropical)  
32. Kenny Beats – Louie (XL)  
33. (Various) - Blue Note Re:Imagined II (Blue Note)  
34. Nia Archives – Baiana (Island/HIJINXX)  
35. WITCH – Waile (Desert Daze Sound/Partisan)  
36. First Aid Kit – Palomino (Columbia)  
37. New Age Healers – Demolition Stories (self-released)  
38. Yahritza y su Esencia – Obsessed (Deluxe) (Lumbre/Columbia)  
39. Cumulus – Something Brighter (Share It Music)  
40. ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective)  
41. Alex G – God Save the Animals (Domino)  
42. Built to Spill – When the Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)  
43. The Mountain Goats – Bleed Out (Merge)  
44. Algiers – Bite Back (Matador) 
45. KAYTRANADA & Anderson .Paak - Twin Flame (RCA) 
46. Titus Andronicus – The Will to Live (Merge)  
47. High Vis – Blending (Dais)  
48. Gabriels – Angels & Queens: Part 1 (Atlas Artists)  
49. The Lounge Society – Tired of Liberty (Speedy Wunderground)  
50. Blood Orange – Four Songs EP (Domino/RCA)  
51. George Riley - Running In Waves (PLZ Make It Ruins)  
52. The Black Angels – Wilderness of Mirrors (Partisan)  
53. Goat – Oh Death (Rocket Recordings)  
54. Nilüfer Yanya – Rid of Me (ATO)  
55. The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part Two (Memphis Industries)  
56. Wild Pink – ILYSM (Royal Mountain)  
57. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)  
58. Alewya – Let Go (Because London)  
59. Let’s Eat Grandma – Give Me a Reason (Transgressive) 
60. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Parlophone)  
61. Broken Bells – Into the Blue (30th Century/AWAL)  
62. Perera Elsewhere – Home (Friends of Friends)  
63. Lizzo – Special (Nice Life/Atlantic)  
64. Jockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)  
65. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)  
66. Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ (Drag City)  
67. Phoenix – Alpha Zulu (Glassnote)   
68. Cassandra Lewis – Always, All Ways (Low Country Sound/Elektra) 
69. Hudson Mohawke – Cry Sugar (Warp)  
70. Julia Jacklin – Pre Pleasure (Polyvinyl)  
71. Son Little – Like Neptune (ANTI-)  
72. Kaidi Tatham – Don’t Rush the Process (First Word)  
73. NNAMDÏ – Please Have a Seat (Sooper/Secretly Canadian)  
74. Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (Sub Pop)  
75. Loshh – akole EP (Don’t Sleep)  
76. Martha – Please Don’t Take Me Back (Dirtnap)  
77. Homeboy Sandman – Still Champion (Mello Music Group)  
78. (Various) - Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album (no label) 
79. PVA – BLUSH (Ninja Tune)  
80. Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop) 
81. Bonobo – ATK (OUTLIER)  
82. Preoccupations – Arrangements (self-released)  
83. Danielle Ponder – Some Of Us Are Brave (Future Classic)  
84. Amythyst Kiah – Pensive Pop EP (Rounder)  
85. Charles Stepney – Step on Step (International Anthem)  
87. Kingsley Ibeneche – Udo (Dirty Deity)  
86. Peter Matthew Bauer – Flowers (Fortune Tellers)  
88. Kelela – Washed Away (Warp)  
89. DOMi & JD Beck – NOT TIGHT (Apeshit/Blue Note)  
90. Burna Boy – Love, Damini (Atlantic)        

Americana: 

1. Cassandra Lewis – Always, All Ways (Low Country Sound/Elektra)  
2. Plains – I Walked With You a Ways (ANTI-) 
3. Jake Blount – The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways)  
4. Nikki Lane – Denim & Diamonds (New West)  
5. Early James – Strange Time to Be Alive (Easy Eye Sound)  
6. Calexico – Runner (ANTI-) 
7. Valerie June – Under Cover EP (Fantasy)  
8. Amanda Shires – Take It Like a Man (ATO)  
9. Lee Bains + The Glory Fires – Old-Time Folks (Don Giovanni)  
10. Paisley Fields – Limp Wrist (Don Giovanni)  

Global: 

1. Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)  
2. Protoje – Third Time’s the Charm (In.Digg.Nation Collective/RCA)  
3. Bomba Estéreo & Manu Chao – Me Duele (Elegancia Tropical) 
4. WITCH – Waile (Desert Daze Sound/Partisan)  
5. Yahritza y su Esencia – Obsessed (Deluxe) (Lumbre/Columbia) 
6. Burna Boy – Love, Damini (Atlantic)  
7. Kokoroko – Could We Be More (Brownswood)  
8. Meridian Brothers - Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento (Ansonia)  
9. Tinariwen – Kel Tinariwen (Wedge) 
10. Bruno Berle - No Reino Dos Afetos (Far Out Recordings) 

Hip Hop: 

1. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista)  
2. Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes (BMG)  
3. Sol Messiah – GOD CMPLX (Rhymesayers) 
4. Kenny Beats – Louie (XL)  
5. Lizzo – Special (Nice Life/Atlantic)  
6. Homeboy Sandman – Still Champion (Mello Music Group) 
7. Butcher Brown – Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (Concord Jazz)  
8. DAM & Brother Ali – Overdose (Cooking Vinyl)  
9. Open Mike Eagle – Component with the Auto Reverse (Auto Reverse)  
10. Grynch – Born in ‘86 (self-released)   

RPM/Electronic: 

1. LCD Soundsystem – new body rhumba (Columbia)  
2. Aidan Noell & Nancy Whang – Sharevari (Nation of Language)  
3. Hot Chip – Freakout/Release (Domino)  
4. (Various) - After Dark 4 (Italians Do It Better)  
5. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)  
6. Shygirl – Nymph (Because Music)  
7. Little Dragon – Opening the Door EP (Ninja Tune)  
8. Nia Archives – Baiana (Island/HIJINXX)  
9. ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective)  
10. George Riley - Running In Waves (PLZ Make It Ruins) 

R&B/Blues: 

1. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)  
2. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.)  
3. Santigold – Spirituals (Little Jerk)  
4. Greentea Peng – GREENZONE 108 (EMI/Universal)  
5. KAYTRANADA & Anderson .Paak - Twin Flame (RCA)  
6. Gabriels – Angels & Queens: Part 1 (Atlas Artists)  
7. George Riley - Running In Waves (PLZ Make It Ruins)  
8. Alewya – Let Go (Because London)  
9. Son Little – Like Neptune (ANTI-) 
10. Danielle Ponder – Some Of Us Are Brave (Future Classic) 

Jazz: 

1. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL) 
2. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)  
3. The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!)  
4. (Various) - Blue Note Re:imagined II (Blue Note)  
5. Kaidi Tatham – Don’t Rush the Process (First Word)  
6. Charles Stepney – Step on Step (International Anthem)  
7. DOMi & JD Beck – Smile (Apeshit/Blue Note)  
8. Henry Franklin, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Henry Franklin JID014 (Jazz Is Dead) 
9. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (ANTI-)  
10. Theo Croker – Love Quantum (Star People Nation/Sony)  

Northwest: 

1. Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic)  
2. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.)  
3. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle) 
4. New Age Healers – Setting Sun (self-released)  
5. Yahritza y su Esencia – Obsessed (Deluxe) (Lumbre/Columbia) 
6. Cumulus – Something Brighter (Share It Music)  
7. ODESZA – The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective) 
8. Cassandra Lewis – Always, All Ways (Low Country Sound/Elektra)  
9. Scarves – Delicate Creatures (Good Eye)  
10. Grynch – Born in ‘86 (self-released) 

Adds: 

Alvvays – Blue Rev (Polyvinyl) 
Bjork – fossora (One Little Independent) 
TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)  
Sorry – Anywhere But Here (Domino) 
George Riley - Running In Waves (PLZ Make It Ruins)  
NNAMDÏ – Please Have a Seat (Sooper/Secretly Canadian)  
Say She She - Prism (Karma Chief) 
Gabriels – Angels & Queens: Part 1 (Atlas Artists) 
Indigo Sparke – Hysteria (Sacred Bones) 
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Ice, Death, Planet, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava (KGLW) 
George FitzGerald - Stellar Drifting (Double Six) 
Disq – Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet (Saddle Creek) 
Courtney Marie Andrews – Loose Future (Fat Possum) 
Sam Gellaitry - VF VOL II (FFRR)  
THUS LOVE – Memorial (Captured Tracks) 
Mura Masa - demon time (Anchor Point/Polydor) 
Nora O’Connor - My Heart (Pravda) 
Dungen - En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog (Mexican Summer) 
Ruth Radelet – The Other Side EP (Like LTD/Gweilo) 
Bonny Light Horseman – Rolling Golden Holy (37d03d) 
Peter Matthew Bauer – Flowers (Fortune Tellers) 
Johanna Warren – Lessons For Mutants (Carpark/Wax Nine) 
Peel Dream Magazine – Pad (Slumberland) 
Coco Peila – Confessions of a Black Feminist Rapper Part 3: Elevate (Miss Behave)  
saib. - Unwind (Jakarta) 
Shoko Igarashi - Simple Sentences (Tigersushi) 
United Freedom Collective – Am Ta EP (Dama Dama)  
Ela Minus & DJ Python - ♡ EP (Smugglers Way) 
Bodysync - BIG WOOF EP (self-released)