Charts

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 23 - May 29

Add Date: June 2

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. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)
  2. The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
  3. Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop)
  4. SAULT - 10 (Forever Living Originals)
  5. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  6. Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla (Bella Union)
  7. Cerrone & Christine and the Queens - “Catching feelings” (Because)
  8. Nation of Language - “Inept Apollo” (Sub Pop)
  9. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  10. TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
  11. Wolf Alice - The Clearing (Columbia/RCA)
  12. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  13. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  14. BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R - “Found a Light (Beale Street)” (XL Recordings/Innovative Leisure)
  15. Indigo De Souza - Precipice (Loma Vista Recordings)
  16. MxNxSTxR & Destructo - “What You Need” (feat. Thundercat & Channel Tres) (All My Friends)
  17. Alison Goldfrapp - Flux (A.G. Records)
  18. The Maya Experience - Are You Influenced (Youth Riot)
  19. Obongjayar - Paradise Now (September Recordings)
  20. Kali Uchis - Sincerely, (Capitol)
  21. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? (Get Better Records)
  22. Florry - Sounds Like... (Dear Life)
  23. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
  24. Men I Trust - Equus Caballus (self-released)
  25. TAMTAM - Where They Dwell (Peoples Potential Unlimited)
  26. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  27. Girl and Girl - “Okay” (Sub Pop)
  28. Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon (Third Man Records)
  29. NoSo - When Are You Leaving? (Partisan Records)
  30. Wet Leg - moisturizer (Domino)
  31. Arc De Soleil - Lumin Rain (Maison)
  32. Fontaines D.C. - Romance (Deluxe Edition) (XL Recordings)
  33. Hunx and His Punx - Walk Out On This World (Get Better Records)
  34. Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant - “Majestic Fantasies” (Peace World)
  35. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)
  36. Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming (4AD)
  37. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  38. Perfume Genius - Glory (Matador)
  39. Night Heron - ESCAPISM (Literal Gold)
  40. yeule - Evangelic Girl is a Gun (Ninja Tune)
  41. Now Always Fades - Into the Doldrums (Northern Underground)
  42. Sparks - MAD! (Transgressive)
  43. Preoccupations - Ill at ease (Born Losers Records)
  44. Pink Breath of Heaven - Colors Make a Sound (self-released)
  45. Yuno - Blest (Sub Pop)
  46. Samantha Crain - Gumshoe (Real Kind)
  47. Flying Mojito Bros - Just Passing Through (Ubiquity)
  48. Say Sue Me - Time is Not Yours (Damnably)
  49. Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Tall Tales (Warp)
  50. Provoker - Mausoleum (YEAR0001)
  51. Greentea Peng - TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  52. Dark Chisme - “Lost in the Night” (self-released)
  53. Annahstasia - Tether (drink sum wtr)
  54. Curtis Harding - “There She Goes” (ANTI-)
  55. Pulp - More (Rough Trade Records)
  56. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
  57. Wednesday - “Elderberry Wine” (Dead Oceans)
  58. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  59. Brian Jackson & Masters At Work - “It's Your World” (feat. Raheem DeVaughn & J. Ivy) (BBE Music)
  60. Forth Wanderers - The Longer This Goes On (Sub Pop)
  61. Girl Ultra - “Tomás” (feat. feat. Chromeo & Empress Of) (Big Dada)
  62. Moses Sumney & Hayley Williams - “I Like It I Like It” (TUNTUM Records)
  63. Nilüfer Yanya - “Cold Heart” (Ninja Tune)
  64. Rocket - “One Million” (Transgressive)
  65. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  66. Lady Wray - “Be A Witness” (Big Crown)
  67. Saint Etienne - International (Heavenly Recordings)
  68. Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
  69. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  70. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)
  71. Ty Segall - Possession (Drag City)
  72. Blondshell - If You Asked For A Picture (Partisan)
  73. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  74. Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune)
  75. Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky (Polyvinyl)
  76. MRCY - VOLUME 2 (Dead Oceans)
  77. Miso Extra - Earcandy (Transgressive)
  78. Boldy James & Real Bad Man - Conversational Pieces (Real Bad Man Records)
  79. Julien Baker & TORRES - Send A Prayer My Way (Matador)
  80. Witch Post - Beast EP (self-released)
  81. Smerz - Big city life (Escho)
  82. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (Big Crown)
  83. Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 - Fontana Rosa (Légère Recordings)
  84. Ken Pomeroy - Cruel Joke (Rounder)  
  85. pablopablo - Canciones En Mí (Mom+Pop)
  86. Pachyman - Another Place (ATO)
  87. Shamir - Ten (Kill Rock Stars)
  88. Friendship - Caveman Wakes Up (Merge)
  89. Chaos in the CBD - A Deeper Life (In Dust We Trust)
  90. Lucius - Lucius (Fantasy)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Florry - Sounds Like... (Dear Life)
  2. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  3. Samantha Crain - Gumshoe (Real Kind)
  4. Annahstasia - Tether (drink sum wtr)
  5. Wednesday - “Elderberry Wine” (Dead Oceans)
  6. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)
  7. Julien Baker & TORRES - Send A Prayer My Way (Matador)
  8. Ken Pomeroy - Cruel Joke (Rounder)  
  9. Friendship - Caveman Wakes Up (Merge)
  10. Lucius - Lucius (Fantasy)

Global: 

  1. TAMTAM - Where They Dwell (Peoples Potential Unlimited)
  2. Girl Ultra - “Tomás” (feat. feat. Chromeo & Empress Of) (Big Dada)
  3. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (Big Crown)
  4. Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 - Fontana Rosa (Légère Recordings)
  5. pablopablo - Canciones En Mí (Mom+Pop)
  6. Pachyman - Another Place (ATO)
  7. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  8. Empanadas Ilegales - “Gher Bede (Sanguijuela)” (We Are Time)
  9. AMORE - Top Hits, Ballads, etc… (self-released
  10. DJ Dadaman & Moscow Dollar - Ka Gaza (Nyege Nyege Tapes)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  2. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  3. Greentea Peng - TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  4. Boldy James & Real Bad Man - Conversational Pieces (Real Bad Man Records)
  5. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (Big Crown)
  6. Homeboy Sandman & yeyts. - Corn Hole Legend (Dirty Looks)
  7. Joe Armon-Jones - All The Quiet (Part II) (Aquarii)
  8. Leikeli47 - Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Only (Acrylic/Hardcover/Thirty Tigers)
  9. Fly Anakin - (The) Forever Dream (Lex Records)
  10. Luke Titus - From What Was Will Grow A Flower (Sooper Records)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)
  2. Cerrone & Christine and the Queens - “Catching feelings” (Because)
  3. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  4. MxNxSTxR & Destructo - “What You Need” (feat. Thundercat & Channel Tres) (All My Friends)
  5. Alison Goldfrapp - Flux (A.G. Records)
  6. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
  7. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  8. Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant - “Majestic Fantasies” (Peace World)
  9. yeule - Evangelic Girl is a Gun (Ninja Tune)
  10. Flying Mojito Bros - Just Passing Through (Ubiquity)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  2. SAULT - 10 (Forever Living Originals)
  3. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  4. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  5. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  6. BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R - “Found a Light (Beale Street)” (XL Recordings/Innovative Leisure)
  7. MxNxSTxR & Destructo - “What You Need” (feat. Thundercat & Channel Tres) (All My Friends)
  8. Kali Uchis - Sincerely, (Capitol)
  9. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
  10. Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant - “Majestic Fantasies” (Peace World)

Jazz: 

  1. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  2. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  3. BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R - “Found a Light (Beale Street)” (XL Recordings/Innovative Leisure)
  4. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
  5. Brian Jackson & Masters At Work - “It's Your World” (feat. Raheem DeVaughn & J. Ivy) (BBE Music)
  6. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  7. Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune)
  8. Chaos in the CBD - A Deeper Life (In Dust We Trust)
  9. Empanadas Ilegales - “Gher Bede (Sanguijuela)” (We Are Time)
  10. Joe Armon-Jones - All The Quiet (Part II) (Aquarii)

Northwest: 

  1. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  2. The Maya Experience - Are You Influenced (Youth Riot)
  3. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? (Get Better Records)
  4. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)
  5. Night Heron - ESCAPISM (Literal Gold)
  6. Dark Chisme - “Lost in the Night” (self-released)
  7. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  8. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  9. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)
  10. Swamp Wife - Your Love Is All I Know EP (LACE Records)

Adds: 

Obongjayar - Paradise Now (September Recordings)
Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
Ty Segall - Possession (Drag City)
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles - Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles (Sub Pop)
Boy Deluxe - Black Sheep To Icon (Industry Houseplant)
Garbage - Let All That We Imagine Be The Light (BMG)
mariin k. - rose skin (Seksound)
Matt Berninger - Get Sunk (Book/Concord)
MRCY - VOLUME 2 (Dead Oceans)
Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends (Play It Again Sam)
Sunsick Daisy - Yonder EP (Community Music)
yeule - Evangelic Girl is a Gun (Ninja Tune)
Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Amy Millan - I Went To Find You (Last Gang Records)
caroline - caroline 2 (Rough Trade)
Erick the Architect - ARCSTRUMENTALS 3 (Architect Recording Company)
Foxwarren - 2 (Anti-)
Host Family - Extended Play (Candlepin)
Immy Owusu & Sensible J - Spiritual War EP (Hopestreet Recordings)
SAVAK - SQUAWK! (Peculiar Works/Ernest Jenning)
Smerz - Big city life (Escho)
TAMTAM - Where They Dwell (Peoples Potential Unlimited)
The Minus 5 - Oar On, Penelope! (Yep Roc)