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:  

  1. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  2. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  3. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  4. TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
  5. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  6. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  7. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  8. Wet Leg - moisturizer (Domino)
  9. Ty Segall - Possession (Drag City)
  10. Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
  11. Tame Impala - “End Of Summer” (Columbia)
  12. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  13. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  14. Obongjayar - Paradise Now (September Recordings)
  15. Black Whales - A Guide To Photographing The Sun (Cult Of Maybe)
  16. Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
  17. Nation of Language - Dance Called Memory (Sub Pop)
  18. Wednesday - Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
  19. Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE (Partisan Records)
  20. MONSTERWATCH - The Head (Killroom)
  21. Dijon - Baby (R&R/Warner)
  22. Indigo De Souza - Precipice (Loma Vista)
  23. Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
  24. Saba & No ID - From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID (self-released)
  25. The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
  26. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  27. Safe Mind - Cutting the Stone (Nude Club)
  28. L'Éclair - Cloud Drifter (Innovative Leisure)
  29. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  30. Geese - Getting Killed (Partisan)
  31. SPRINTS - All That Is Over (Sub Pop)
  32. Wolf Alice - The Clearing (Columbia/RCA)
  33. Ya Tseen - Taste On My Lips (Sub Pop)
  34. Cut Copy - Moments (Cutters)
  35. Lady Wray - Cover Girl (Big Crown Records)
  36. El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown)
  37. Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
  38. DEBBY FRIDAY - The Starrr Of The Queen Life (Sub Pop)
  39. Pulp - More (Rough Trade Records)
  40. Hibou - It Seems To Me (Spirit Goth)
  41. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  42. M.O.S.S. - Youth Loser (Den Tapes)
  43. Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
  44. Water From Your Eyes - It’s a Beautiful Place (Matador)
  45. Cass McCombs - Interior Live Oak (Domino)
  46. Murs - Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation) (Mello Music Group)
  47. Galore - Dirt (Speakeasy Studios SF)
  48. Osees - ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST (Deathgod)
  49. Durand Jones & The Indications - Flowers (Dead Oceans)
  50. Mae Powell - Making Room for the Light (Karma Chief Records)
  51. Land of Echo - Almost Music (Wah Wah 45s)
  52. Chatham Rise - Trillium (Infinite Spin)
  53. The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World (Lost Music Limited/Polydor)
  54. Dark Chisme - “Breathe, Break it” (self-released)
  55. Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
  56. Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (ANTI-)
  57. Hot Chip - Joy In Repetition (Domino)
  58. Jay Som - Belong (Polyvinyl)
  59. Wunderhorse - “The Rope” (Communion)
  60. Yves Tumor & NINA - “WE DONT COUNT” (Warp)
  61. IDLES - “Rabbit Run” (Protozoa/Partisan)
  62. KennyHoopla - “orphan//” (GARBAGEHILL)
  63. POLIÇA - Dreams Go (Memphis Industries)
  64. The Hives - The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives (Play It Again Sam)
  65. Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon (Third Man Records)
  66. Acapulco Lips - Now (Killroom Records)
  67. Winter - Adult Romantix (Winspear)
  68. Alison Goldfrapp - Flux (A.G. Records)
  69. The Youth Play - someday, forever EP (self-released)
  70. Chitra - You Can See It When It's Dark (self-released)
  71. Gordi - Like Plasticine (Mushroom Music)
  72. Lord Huron - The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 (Mercury Records)
  73. Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings)
  74. Small Shake - Platonics EP (self-released)
  75. Rounak Maiti - Brute Fact/Home Truth (self-released)
  76. Anamanaguchi - Anyway (Polyvinyl)
  77. Evidence - Unlearning, Vol. 2 (Rhymesayers)
  78. They Say Stories - Daydreams Will Do (self-released)
  79. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  80. Arc De Soleil - Lumin Rain (Maison)
  81. Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
  82. Kali Uchis - Sincerely, (Capitol)
  83. Jorja Smith - “With You” (FAMM)
  84. Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun (Loma Vista Recordings)
  85. NoSo - When Are You Leaving? (Partisan)
  86. Saint Etienne - International (Heavenly Recordings)
  87. shame - Cutthroat (Dead Oceans)
  88. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  89. Captain Planet & Tony Allen - “Tony's House” (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
  90. Courting - “the twins (1969)” (Lower Third)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Wednesday - Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
  2. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  3. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  4. Cass McCombs - Interior Live Oak (Domino)
  5. Mae Powell - Making Room for the Light (Karma Chief Records)
  6. Lord Huron - The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 (Mercury Records)
  7. Daffo - Where the Earth Bends (Concord)
  8. Hand Habits - Blue Reminder (Fat Possum)
  9. Annahstasia - Tether (drink sum wtr)
  10. M.A. Sampson - Pistons of the Ages (Den Tapes)

Global: 

  1. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  2. Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
  3. Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings)
  4. Rounak Maiti - Brute Fact/Home Truth (self-released)
  5. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  6. Arc De Soleil - Lumin Rain (Maison)
  7. Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
  8. Captain Planet & Tony Allen - “Tony's House” (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
  9. Hermanos Gutiérrez - “Elegantly Wasted” (feat. Leon Bridges) (Easy Eye Sound)
  10. Go Kurosawa - soft shakes (Guruguru Brain)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  2. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  3. Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
  4. Saba & No ID - From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID (self-released)
  5. Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
  6. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  7. Murs - Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation) (Mello Music Group)
  8. Evidence - Unlearning, Vol. 2 (Rhymesayers)
  9. A.G Joints x Eric G - Concentricity (CVNBAG)
  10. Mechatok - Wide Awake (Young)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  2. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  3. Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
  4. L'Éclair - Cloud Drifter (Innovative Leisure)
  5. Cut Copy - Moments (Cutters)
  6. DEBBY FRIDAY - The Starrr Of The Queen Life (Sub Pop)
  7. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  8. Land of Echo - Almost Music (Wah Wah 45s)
  9. The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World (Lost Music Limited/Polydor)
  10. Dark Chisme - “Breathe, Break it” (self-released)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  2. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  3. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  4. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  5. Dijon - Baby (R&R/Warner)
  6. Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
  7. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  8. Lady Wray - Cover Girl (Big Crown Records)
  9. El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown)
  10. Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)

Jazz: 

  1. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  2. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  3. L'Éclair - Cloud Drifter (Innovative Leisure)
  4. Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
  5. Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings)
  6. Arc De Soleil - Lumin Rain (Maison)
  7. Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
  8. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  9. sunking - I DON'T LIKE MY TELEPHONE (ANTI-)
  10. Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Dom Salvador JID024 (Jazz Is Dead)

Northwest: 

  1. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  2. Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
  3. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  4. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  5. Black Whales - A Guide To Photographing The Sun (Cult Of Maybe)
  6. MONSTERWATCH - The Head (Killroom)
  7. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  8. Hibou - It Seems To Me (Spirit Goth)
  9. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  10. 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)