09-29-2025

KEXP Charts for the Week of Sept. 19 - Sept. 25

Add Date: Sept. 29

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. Nation of Language - Dance Called Memory (Sub Pop)
  2. Cut Copy - Moments (Cutters)
  3. Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)
  4. Gorillaz - The Mountain (KONG)
  5. Indigo De Souza - Precipice (Loma Vista)
  6. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (Polyrhythmics)
  7. Alabama Shakes - “Another Life” (Island)
  8. NoSo - When Are You Leaving? (Partisan)
  9. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  10. Genesis Owusu - “PIRATE RADIO” (OURNESS)
  11. Wednesday - Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
  12. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  13. Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (ANTI-)
  14. David Byrne - Who Is The Sky? (Matador Records)
  15. Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
  16. Automatic - Is It Now? (Stones Throw)
  17. Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
  18. Anna von Hausswolff - ICONOCLASTS (YEAR0001)
  19. Stereolab - Fed Up With Your Job / Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown (Warp)
  20. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  21. Thundercat - I Wish I didn’t Waste Your Time / Children of The Baked Potato (Brainfeeder)
  22. SPRINTS - All That Is Over (Sub Pop)
  23. Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
  24. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  25. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! (RCA)
  26. Wolf Alice - The Clearing (Columbia/RCA)
  27. james K - Friend (AD 93)
  28. Jay Som - Belong (Polyvinyl)
  29. Factory Floor - “Tell Me” (Phantasy Sound)
  30. Geese - Getting Killed (Partisan)
  31. shame - Cutthroat (Dead Oceans)
  32. The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie (ANTI-)
  33. DEBBY FRIDAY - The Starrr Of The Queen Life (Sub Pop)
  34. bloom effect - oscilón (Kingfisher Bluez)
  35. Suede - Antidepressants (BMG Rights Management)
  36. TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
  37. Hatchie - Liquorice (Secretly Canadian)
  38. Nine Inch Nails - TRON: Ares: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Interscope)
  39. Phantogram & Whethan - “In My Head” (Neon Gold/Futures)
  40. POLIÇA - Dreams Go (Memphis Industries)
  41. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  42. Water From Your Eyes - It’s a Beautiful Place (Matador)
  43. The Youth Play - someday, forever EP (self-released)
  44. Chitra - You Can See It When It's Dark (self-released)
  45. Bass Drum of Death - Six (Cobraside)
  46. Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party (Post Atlantic)
  47. Land of Echo - Almost Music (Wah Wah 45s)
  48. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  49. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  50. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  51. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  52. Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE (Partisan)
  53. Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun (Loma Vista)
  54. Rocket - R is for Rocket (Transgressive/Canvasback)
  55. Tame Impala - Deadbeat (Columbia)
  56. Ya Tseen - Stand On My Shoulders (Sub Pop)
  57. Earl Sweatshirt - Live Laugh Love (Warner)
  58. Lady Wray - Cover Girl (Big Crown Records)
  59. Matt Berninger - “Blue Monday” (Amazon Music)
  60. Melody's Echo Chamber - “Daisy” (feat. El Michels Affair) (Domino)
  61. Miguel - CAOS (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA Records)
  62. Spoon - “Chateau Blues” (Matador)
  63. TATYANA - “Overdue” (Sinderlyn)
  64. The Belair Lip Bombs - Again (Third Man Records)
  65. World News - “Everything Is Coming Up Roses” (Pie & Mash)
  66. Yumi Zouma - No Love Lost to Kindness (Nettwerk)
  67. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  68. Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
  69. Dijon - Baby (R&R/Warner)
  70. Hand Habits - Blue Reminder (Fat Possum)
  71. Dancer - More or Less (Merotorio)
  72. Kadhja Bonet - Battlewear EP (self-released)
  73. pôt-pot - Warsaw 480km (Felte)
  74. Die Spitz - Something to Consume (Third Man)
  75. Guerilla Toss - You’re Weird Now (Sub Pop)
  76. Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
  77. JID - God Does Like Ugly (Dreamville)
  78. Tei Shi - Make believe I make believe (Tei Shi LLC)
  79. The Hives - The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives (Play It Again Sam)
  80. Hunx and His Punx - Walk Out On This World (Get Better)
  81. Kerala Dust - An Echo of Love (Play It Again Sam)
  82. Alison Goldfrapp - Flux (A.G. Records)
  83. No Joy - Bugland (Hand Drawn Dracula)
  84. Lila Iké - Treasure Self Love (Ineffable)
  85. Halima - SWEET TOOTH (drink sum wtr)
  86. Saint Etienne - International (Heavenly/[PIAS])
  87. Sir Chloe - Swallow The Knife (ONErpm)
  88. Various Artists - Sitting on the Moon (Mexican Summer)
  89. Shaki Tavi - Minor Slip (Felte)
  90. Raekwon - The Emperor’s New Clothes (Mass Appeal)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Wednesday - Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
  2. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  3. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  4. Hand Habits - Blue Reminder (Fat Possum)
  5. Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green (ANTI-)
  6. Jordan Patterson - The Hermit (self-released)
  7. Greg Freeman - Burnover (Canvasback/Transgressive)
  8. Cass McCombs - Interior Live Oak (Domino)
  9. mark william lewis - Mark William Lewis (A24)
  10. Racing Mount Pleasant - Racing Mount Pleasant (R&R)

Global: 

  1. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  2. Lila Iké - Treasure Self Love (Ineffable)
  3. Antibalas - Hourglass (Daptone)
  4. SANAM - Sametou Sawtan (Constellation)
  5. Yalla Miku - “Alemuye ኣለሙየ” (Bongo Joe)
  6. Guedra Guedra - MUTANT (Smugglers Way)
  7. SE SO NEON - <NOW> (AWAL)
  8. Frente Cumbiero - Inconcreto & Asociados (Salgaelsol / Discos Biche)
  9. Jiri Jiri - Give Me Disco, Vol. 1 (Batov)
  10. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)
  2. Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
  3. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  4. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! (RCA)
  5. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  6. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  7. Earl Sweatshirt - Live Laugh Love (Warner)
  8. Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
  9. JID - God Does Like Ugly (Dreamville)
  10. Lila Iké - Treasure Self Love (Ineffable)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Cut Copy - Moments (Cutters)
  2. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  3. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! (RCA)
  4. james K - Friend (AD 93)
  5. Factory Floor - “Tell Me” (Phantasy Sound)
  6. DEBBY FRIDAY - The Starrr Of The Queen Life (Sub Pop)
  7. Nine Inch Nails - TRON: Ares: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Interscope)
  8. POLIÇA - Dreams Go (Memphis Industries)
  9. Land of Echo - Almost Music (Wah Wah 45s)
  10. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)
  2. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  3. Alabama Shakes - “Another Life” (Island)
  4. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  5. Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (ANTI-)
  6. Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS (Columbia)
  7. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  8. Thundercat - I Wish I didn’t Waste Your Time / Children of The Baked Potato (Brainfeeder)
  9. Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
  10. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)

Jazz: 

  1. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  2. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  3. Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
  4. Maruja - Pain to Power (Music For Nations)
  5. Jamie Leeming - Sequent (Sekito)
  6. El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown)
  7. KeiyaA - hooke’s law (XL Recordings)
  8. Lance Ferguson - Rare Groove Spectrum, Vol. 3 (Tru Thoughts)
  9. Temporary Blessings - Fata Morgana / Silence Leaves An Open Wound (College Of Knowledge Records)
  10. Beverly Glenn-Copeland - What’s Going On / Save The Children (Transgressive)

Northwest: 

  1. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  2. Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
  3. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  4. bloom effect - oscilón (Kingfisher Bluez)
  5. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  6. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  7. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  8. A.G. Joints - “RAINIER” (feat. Sleepwalkers Baseball Club) (CVNBAG)
  9. Semisoft - “Stuck” (Den Tapes)
  10. Acapulco Lips - Now (Killroom Records)

Adds: 

Geese - Getting Killed (Partisan)
Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green (ANTI-)
SPRINTS - All That Is Over (Sub Pop)
Absolute Losers - The In Crowd (We Are Busy Bodies)
Automatic - Is It Now? (Stones Throw)
CARRTOONS - Space Cadet (+1)
Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer)
crushed - no scope (Ghostly International)
Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override (dBpm Records)
Purity Ring - purity ring (the fellowship)
SHIMA - Welcome to SHIMAJIMA (Young Art)
Smokey Brights - Dashboard Heat (Share It Music)
SONS - Hallo ([PIAS] Recordings)
Cochemea - Vol III: Ancestros Futuros (Daptone)
Hash Adams & WIZDUMB - Worst Case Scenario (Lo-Flydelity)
KennyHoopla - conditions of an orphan// (GARBAGEHILL)
Lila Iké - Treasure Self Love (Ineffable)
Meklit - A Piece of Infinity (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Night Tapes - portals//polarities (Nettwerk)
Snuggle - Goodbyehouse (Escho)