08-25-2025
KEXP Charts for the Week of Aug 15 - Aug 21
Add Date: August 25
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:
- Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
- WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
- Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
- TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
- Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
- Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
- Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
- Wet Leg - moisturizer (Domino)
- Ty Segall - Possession (Drag City)
- Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
- Tame Impala - “End Of Summer” (Columbia)
- Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
- Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
- Obongjayar - Paradise Now (September Recordings)
- Black Whales - A Guide To Photographing The Sun (Cult Of Maybe)
- Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
- Nation of Language - Dance Called Memory (Sub Pop)
- Wednesday - Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
- Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE (Partisan Records)
- MONSTERWATCH - The Head (Killroom)
- Dijon - Baby (R&R/Warner)
- Indigo De Souza - Precipice (Loma Vista)
- Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
- Saba & No ID - From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID (self-released)
- The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
- Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
- Safe Mind - Cutting the Stone (Nude Club)
- L'Éclair - Cloud Drifter (Innovative Leisure)
- Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
- Geese - Getting Killed (Partisan)
- SPRINTS - All That Is Over (Sub Pop)
- Wolf Alice - The Clearing (Columbia/RCA)
- Ya Tseen - Taste On My Lips (Sub Pop)
- Cut Copy - Moments (Cutters)
- Lady Wray - Cover Girl (Big Crown Records)
- El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown)
- Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
- DEBBY FRIDAY - The Starrr Of The Queen Life (Sub Pop)
- Pulp - More (Rough Trade Records)
- Hibou - It Seems To Me (Spirit Goth)
- Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
- M.O.S.S. - Youth Loser (Den Tapes)
- Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
- Water From Your Eyes - It’s a Beautiful Place (Matador)
- Cass McCombs - Interior Live Oak (Domino)
- Murs - Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation) (Mello Music Group)
- Galore - Dirt (Speakeasy Studios SF)
- Osees - ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST (Deathgod)
- Durand Jones & The Indications - Flowers (Dead Oceans)
- Mae Powell - Making Room for the Light (Karma Chief Records)
- Land of Echo - Almost Music (Wah Wah 45s)
- Chatham Rise - Trillium (Infinite Spin)
- The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World (Lost Music Limited/Polydor)
- Dark Chisme - “Breathe, Break it” (self-released)
- Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
- Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (ANTI-)
- Hot Chip - Joy In Repetition (Domino)
- Jay Som - Belong (Polyvinyl)
- Wunderhorse - “The Rope” (Communion)
- Yves Tumor & NINA - “WE DONT COUNT” (Warp)
- IDLES - “Rabbit Run” (Protozoa/Partisan)
- KennyHoopla - “orphan//” (GARBAGEHILL)
- POLIÇA - Dreams Go (Memphis Industries)
- The Hives - The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives (Play It Again Sam)
- Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon (Third Man Records)
- Acapulco Lips - Now (Killroom Records)
- Winter - Adult Romantix (Winspear)
- Alison Goldfrapp - Flux (A.G. Records)
- The Youth Play - someday, forever EP (self-released)
- Chitra - You Can See It When It's Dark (self-released)
- Gordi - Like Plasticine (Mushroom Music)
- Lord Huron - The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 (Mercury Records)
- Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings)
- Small Shake - Platonics EP (self-released)
- Rounak Maiti - Brute Fact/Home Truth (self-released)
- Anamanaguchi - Anyway (Polyvinyl)
- Evidence - Unlearning, Vol. 2 (Rhymesayers)
- They Say Stories - Daydreams Will Do (self-released)
- Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
- Arc De Soleil - Lumin Rain (Maison)
- Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
- Kali Uchis - Sincerely, (Capitol)
- Jorja Smith - “With You” (FAMM)
- Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun (Loma Vista Recordings)
- NoSo - When Are You Leaving? (Partisan)
- Saint Etienne - International (Heavenly Recordings)
- shame - Cutthroat (Dead Oceans)
- Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
- Captain Planet & Tony Allen - “Tony's House” (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
- Courting - “the twins (1969)” (Lower Third)
Americana/Folk:
- Wednesday - Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
- Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
- Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
- Cass McCombs - Interior Live Oak (Domino)
- Mae Powell - Making Room for the Light (Karma Chief Records)
- Lord Huron - The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 (Mercury Records)
- Daffo - Where the Earth Bends (Concord)
- Hand Habits - Blue Reminder (Fat Possum)
- Annahstasia - Tether (drink sum wtr)
- M.A. Sampson - Pistons of the Ages (Den Tapes)
Global:
- WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
- Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
- Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings)
- Rounak Maiti - Brute Fact/Home Truth (self-released)
- Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
- Arc De Soleil - Lumin Rain (Maison)
- Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
- Captain Planet & Tony Allen - “Tony's House” (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
- Hermanos Gutiérrez - “Elegantly Wasted” (feat. Leon Bridges) (Easy Eye Sound)
- Go Kurosawa - soft shakes (Guruguru Brain)
Hip-Hop:
- Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
- Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
- Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
- Saba & No ID - From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID (self-released)
- Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
- Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
- Murs - Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation) (Mello Music Group)
- Evidence - Unlearning, Vol. 2 (Rhymesayers)
- A.G Joints x Eric G - Concentricity (CVNBAG)
- Mechatok - Wide Awake (Young)
RPM/Electronic:
- Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
- Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
- Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
- L'Éclair - Cloud Drifter (Innovative Leisure)
- Cut Copy - Moments (Cutters)
- DEBBY FRIDAY - The Starrr Of The Queen Life (Sub Pop)
- Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
- Land of Echo - Almost Music (Wah Wah 45s)
- The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World (Lost Music Limited/Polydor)
- Dark Chisme - “Breathe, Break it” (self-released)
R&B/Blues/Soul:
- Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
- Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
- Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
- Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
- Dijon - Baby (R&R/Warner)
- Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
- The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
- Lady Wray - Cover Girl (Big Crown Records)
- El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown)
- Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
Jazz:
- Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
- The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
- L'Éclair - Cloud Drifter (Innovative Leisure)
- Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
- Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings)
- Arc De Soleil - Lumin Rain (Maison)
- Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
- Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
- sunking - I DON'T LIKE MY TELEPHONE (ANTI-)
- Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Dom Salvador JID024 (Jazz Is Dead)
Northwest:
- Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
- Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
- Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
- Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
- Black Whales - A Guide To Photographing The Sun (Cult Of Maybe)
- MONSTERWATCH - The Head (Killroom)
- Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
- Hibou - It Seems To Me (Spirit Goth)
- Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
- M.O.S.S. - Youth Loser (Den Tapes)
Adds:
Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
Dijon - Baby (R&R/Warner)
Hand Habits - Blue Reminder (Fat Possum)
Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)
Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
Emma Louise & Flume - DUMB (self-released)
Greg Freeman - Burnover (Canvasback/Transgressive)
Hunx and His Punx - Walk Out On This World (Get Better)
Jenevieve - CRYSALIS (Interscope)
KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! RCA)
Kerala Dust - An Echo of Love (Play It Again Sam)
Superchunk - Songs in the Key of Yikes (Merge)
TOPS - Bury the Key (Ghostly International)
Water From Your Eyes - It’s a Beautiful Place (Matador)
Wolf Alice - The Clearing (Columbia/RCA)
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele 2 (Mass Appeal)
Glitterfox - decoder (Jealous Butcher)
Mac Demarco - Guitar (Mac’s Record Label)
Racing Mount Pleasant - Racing Mount Pleasant (R&R)
Rounak Maiti - Brute Fact/Home Truth (self-released)
Winter - Adult Romantix (Winspear)