09-08-2025

KEXP Charts for the Week of Aug 29 - Sept 4

Add Date: Sept. 8

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. Wet Leg - moisturizer (Domino)
  2. Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
  3. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  4. Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
  5. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  6. Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
  7. Nation of Language - Dance Called Memory (Sub Pop)
  8. Alabama Shakes - “Another Life” (Island)
  9. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  10. Ya Tseen - Stand On My Shoulders (Sub Pop)
  11. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  12. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  13. Geese - Getting Killed (Partisan)
  14. NoSo - When Are You Leaving? (Partisan)
  15. Yves Tumor & NINA - “WE DONT COUNT” (Warp)
  16. Tomo Nakayama - “Ocean” (Porchlight Records/Den Tapes)
  17. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  18. The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie (ANTI-)
  19. Dijon - Baby (R&R/Warner)
  20. Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)
  21. Indigo De Souza - Precipice (Loma Vista)
  22. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! RCA)
  23. Wolf Alice - The Clearing (Columbia/RCA)
  24. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  25. The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
  26. SPRINTS - All That Is Over (Sub Pop)
  27. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  28. Anna von Hausswolff - ICONOCLASTS (YEAR0001)
  29. Automatic - Is It Now? (Stones Throw)
  30. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  31. Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (ANTI-)
  32. Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
  33. DEBBY FRIDAY - The Starrr Of The Queen Life (Sub Pop)
  34. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  35. The Hives - The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives (Play It Again Sam)
  36. Kerala Dust - An Echo of Love (Play It Again Sam)
  37. TOPS - Bury the Key (Ghostly International)
  38. Big Freedia - Pressing Onward (Queen Diva Music)
  39. Winter - Adult Romantix (Winspear)
  40. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  41. TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
  42. Obongjayar - Paradise Now (September Recordings)
  43. David Byrne - Who Is The Sky? (Matador Records)
  44. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  45. Captain Planet & Tony Allen - “Tony's House” (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
  46. Chalk - “Pain” (ALTER Music)
  47. Factory Floor - “Tell Me” (Phantasy Sound)
  48. Hollie Cook - Shy Girl (Mr Bongo)
  49. Jamie xx - “Dream Night” (Young)
  50. Lady Wray - Cover Girl (Big Crown Records)
  51. Soulwax - All Systems Are Lying (DEEWEE/Because)
  52. Spoon - “Chateau Blues” (Matador)
  53. Cookin' On 3 Burners - “Cookin' the Books” (Soul Messin’)
  54. Hand Habits - Blue Reminder (Fat Possum)
  55. Saba & No ID - From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID (self-released)
  56. Hibou - It Seems To Me (Spirit Goth)
  57. JID - God Does Like Ugly (Dreamville)
  58. Hunx and His Punx - Walk Out On This World (Get Better)
  59. Gordi - Like Plasticine (Mushroom Music)
  60. Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
  61. Anna Tivel - Animal Poem (Fluff & Gravy)
  62. Divine Earth - LAVENDER (Brownswood Recordings)
  63. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  64. Shame - Cutthroat (Dead Oceans)
  65. Tame Impala - Deadbeat (Columbia)
  66. Wednesday - Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
  67. Wunderhorse - “The Rope” (Communion)
  68. CARRTOONS - Space Cadet (+1)
  69. Hermanos Gutiérrez - “Elegantly Wasted” (feat. Leon Bridges) (Easy Eye Sound)
  70. Ivy - Traces of You (Bar/None)
  71. Nine Inch Nails - TRON: Ares: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Interscope)
  72. Patti Smith - Horses (50th Anniversary) (Legacy)
  73. The Wytches - Talking Machine (Alcopop Records)
  74. Worries And Other Plants - “Changin Me” (Nice Guys Records)
  75. Delicate Steve - Luke’s Garage (Have Fun Thinking)
  76. Disclosure & Anderson .Paak - “NO CAP” (Disorder/Capitol)
  77. MADMADMAD - Hey! [Run EP, Def Pressé)
  78. Steve Lacy - “Nice Shoes” (RCA Records)
  79. Leikeli47 - Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Only (Acrylic/Hardcover/Thirty Tigers)
  80. Emma Louise & Flume - DUMB (self-released)
  81. Jenevieve - CRYSALIS (Interscope
  82. The Youth Play - someday, forever EP (self-released)
  83. Chitra - You Can See It When It's Dark (self-released)
  84. No Joy - Bugland (Hand Drawn Dracula)
  85. Jim Legxacy - black british music (2025) (XL Recordings)
  86. RIO KOSTA - Unicorn (Verdigris)
  87. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  88. Lathe of Heaven - Aurora (Sacred Bones)
  89. Pearly Drops - The Voices Are Coming Back (Music Website)
  90. Anamanaguchi - Anyway (Polyvinyl)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  2. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  3. Hand Habits - Blue Reminder (Fat Possum)
  4. Anna Tivel - Animal Poem (Fluff & Gravy)
  5. Wednesday - Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
  6. Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band - New Threats From the Soul (Sophomore Lounge)
  7. Natalie Bergman - My Home Is Not In This World (Third Man Records)
  8. Beverly Glenn-Copeland - “What's Going On” (Transgressive)
  9. Mavis Staples - Sad And Beautiful World (ANTI-)
  10. Annahstasia - Tether (drink sum wtr)

Global: 

  1. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  2. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  3. Captain Planet & Tony Allen - “Tony's House” (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
  4. Hollie Cook - Shy Girl (Mr Bongo)
  5. Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
  6. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  7. Hermanos Gutiérrez - “Elegantly Wasted” (feat. Leon Bridges) (Easy Eye Sound)
  8. Mádé Kuti - Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From? (self-released)
  9. Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings)
  10. Arc De Soleil - Lumin Rain (Maison)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  2. Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
  3. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  4. Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)
  5. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! RCA)
  6. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  7. Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
  8. Big Freedia - Pressing Onward (Queen Diva Music)
  9. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  10. Saba & No ID - From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID (self-released)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  2. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! RCA)
  3. DEBBY FRIDAY - The Starrr Of The Queen Life (Sub Pop)
  4. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  5. Kerala Dust - An Echo of Love (Play It Again Sam)
  6. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  7. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  8. Captain Planet & Tony Allen - “Tony's House” (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
  9. Factory Floor - “Tell Me” (Phantasy Sound)
  10. Jamie xx - “Dream Night” (Young)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
  2. Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
  3. Alabama Shakes - “Another Life” (Island)
  4. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  5. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  6. Dijon - Baby (R&R/Warner)
  7. Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)
  8. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  9. The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
  10. Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (ANTI-)

Jazz: 

  1. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  2. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  3. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  4. Cookin' On 3 Burners - “Cookin' the Books” (Soul Messin’)
  5. Mádé Kuti - Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From? (self-released)
  6. Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings)
  7. Arc De Soleil - Lumin Rain (Maison)
  8. Beverly Glenn-Copeland - “What's Going On” (Transgressive)
  9. Cochemea - Vol III: Ancestros Futuros (Daptone)
  10. Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)

Northwest: 

  1. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  2. Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
  3. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  4. Tomo Nakayama - “Ocean” (Porchlight Records/Den Tapes)
  5. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  6. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  7. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  8. Anna Tivel - Animal Poem (Fluff & Gravy)
  9. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  10. Beach Vacation - “Heal Again” (16 Entertainment)

Adds: 

Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (ANTI-)
Cut Copy - Moments (Cutters)
David Byrne - Who Is The Sky? (Matador Records)
Shame - Cutthroat (Dead Oceans)
Forty Feet Tall - Clean the Cage (Le Cèpe Records)
Ivy - Traces of You (Bar/None)
KIRBY - Miss Black America (self-released)
Thandii - FREE UP (HaloHalo)
Venna - MALIK (Cashmere Thoughts)
Anushka - Ancestry (BBE Music)
Double Wish - Double Wish (Hit The North)
El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown)
Go Kurosawa - soft shakes (Guruguru Brain)
Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG Intl)
Ok Bucko - Ok Bucko (Youth Riot)
Steven Bamidele - THE CRASH! (Tru Thoughts)
Weval - CHOROPHOBIA (Technicolour)