5-12-2025

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 2 - May 8

Add Date: May 12

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. Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop)
  2. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)
  3. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  4. Mei Semones - Animaru (Bayonet)
  5. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  6. BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R - Found a Light (Beale Street) (XL Recordings/Innovative Leisure)
  7. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)
  8. SAULT - 10 (Forever Living Originals)
  9. Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla (Bella Union)
  10. Flying Mojito Bros - Just Passing Through (Ubiquity)
  11. Dead Pioneers - PO$T AMERICAN (Hassle)
  12. Blondshell - If You Asked For A Picture (Partisan)
  13. Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky (Polyvinyl)
  14. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)
  15. The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
  16. Ty Segall - Possession (Drag City)
  17. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Rec)
  18. TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
  19. Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart (Sub Pop)
  20. The Maya Experience - Are You Influenced (Youth Riot)
  21. Perfume Genius - Glory (Matador)
  22. SPELLLING - Portrait of My Heart (Sacred Bones)
  23. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  24. Greentea Peng - TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  25. Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (Dead Oceans)
  26. Obongjayar - Paradise Now (September Recordings)
  27. Indigo De Souza - Precipice (Loma Vista Recordings)
  28. Matt Berninger - Get Sunk (Concord)
  29. The Beths - “Metal” (ANTI-)
  30. Fontaines D.C. - Romance (Deluxe Edition) (XL Recordings)
  31. The Bug Club - Very Human Features (Sub Pop)
  32. Chong the Nomad - “OUT THE WINDOW” (self-released)
  33. Tommy Guerrero - “Tone of the Blade” (Too Good)
  34. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
  35. Bria Salmena - Big Dog (Sub Pop)
  36. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  37. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  38. MRCY - VOLUME 2 (Dead Oceans)
  39. Pulp - More (Rough Trade Records)
  40. The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives (Play It Again Sam)
  41. tUnE-yArDs - Better Dreaming (4AD)
  42. Pink Breath of Heaven - Colors Make a Sound (self-released)
  43. Carriers - Every Time I Feel Afraid (Brassland)
  44. Samantha Crain - Gumshoe (Real Kind)
  45. Femi Kuti - Journey Through Life (Partisan)
  46. MIEN - MIIEN (Fuzz Club)
  47. Original Koffee - “KOFFEE” (Promised Land)
  48. Nilüfer Yanya - “Cold Heart” (Ninja Tune)
  49. Floating Points - Lazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack) (Milan)
  50. Panda Bear - Sinister Grift (Domino)
  51. SASAMI - Blood On the Silver Screen (Domino0
  52. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  53. Girl and Girl - “Okay” (Sub Pop)
  54. Wet Leg - moisturizer (Domino)
  55. Boldy James & Real Bad Man - Conversational Pieces (Real Bad Man)
  56. Martin Luke Brown - man oh man ! (Kartel Music Group)
  57. Fly Anakin - (The) Forever Dream (Lex Records)
  58. Julien Baker & TORRES - Send A Prayer My Way (Matador)
  59. L.A. Witch - DOGGOD (Suicide Squeeze)
  60. Ribbon Skirt - Bite Down (Mint)
  61. Σtella - Adagio (Sub Pop)
  62. Mandrake Handshake - Earth-Sized Worlds (Tip Top Recordings)
  63. Buscabulla - Se Amaba Así (Domino)
  64. Garbage - Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (BMG)
  65. KennyHoopla - “NORTHERN LIGHTS//” (GARBAGEHILL)
  66. Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant - “Majestic Fantasies” (Peace World)
  67. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  68. Beirut - A Study of Losses (Pompeii)
  69. Lael Neale - Altogether Stranger (Sub Pop)
  70. Pillowprince - pretty, baby! (Dune Altar)
  71. Viagra Boys - viagr aboys (Shrimptech Enterprises)
  72. Oblé Reed & TeZATalks - “HARD COPIES” (UnderCurrent)
  73. Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
  74. Dazy - “Pay No Mind (To The Signs)” (Lame-O)
  75. Suki Waterhouse - “On This Love” (Sub Pop)
  76. My Morning Jacket - is (ATO)
  77. Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune)
  78. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  79. Doechii - “Anxiety” (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol)
  80. Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon (Third Man Records)
  81. Jorja Smith - “The Way I Love You” (FAMM)
  82. Yuno - “Blest” (Sub Pop)
  83. Esther Rose - Want (New West)
  84. Destroyer - Dan’s Boogie (Merge)
  85. Panchiko - Ginkgo (Nettwerk)
  86. quickly, quickly - I Heard That Noise (Ghostly International)
  87. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  88. Gelli Haha - Switcheroo (Innovative Leisure)
  89. Cloth - Pink Silence (Rock Action)
  90. Jawdropped - Just Fantasy EP (Fire Talk)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  2. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)
  3. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
  4. Carriers - Every Time I Feel Afraid (Brassland)
  5. Samantha Crain - Gumshoe (Real Kind)
  6. Julien Baker & TORRES - Send A Prayer My Way (Matador)
  7. Beirut - A Study of Losses (Pompeii)
  8. Lael Neale - Altogether Stranger (Sub Pop)
  9. My Morning Jacket - is (ATO)
  10. Esther Rose - Want (New West)

Global: 

  1. Femi Kuti - Journey Through Life (Partisan)
  2. Original Koffee - “KOFFEE” (Promised Land)
  3. Buscabulla - Se Amaba Así (Domino)
  4. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  5. Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
  6. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  7. Ana Tijoux & Hordatoj - SERPIENTE DE MADERA (Altafonte)
  8. Ali - Patterns EP (self-released)
  9. Empanadas Ilegales - Chancletazo (We Are Time)
  10. Charif Megarbane - Hawalat (Habibi Funk)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Greentea Peng - TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  2. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  3. Boldy James & Real Bad Man - Conversational Pieces (Real Bad Man)
  4. Fly Anakin - (The) Forever Dream (Lex Records)
  5. Oblé Reed & TeZATalks - “HARD COPIES” (UnderCurrent)
  6. Doechii - “Anxiety” (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol)
  7. Ana Tijoux & Hordatoj - SERPIENTE DE MADERA (Altafonte)
  8. clipping. - Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop)
  9. The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - Gemini (Colemine)
  10. Jim Legxacy - “father” (XL Recordings)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Flying Mojito Bros - Just Passing Through (Ubiquity)
  2. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Rec)
  3. Chong the Nomad - “OUT THE WINDOW” (self-released)
  4. Floating Points - Lazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack) (Milan)
  5. Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant - “Majestic Fantasies” (Peace World)
  6. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  7. Jorja Smith - “The Way I Love You” (FAMM)
  8. Air / Vegyn - Blue Moon Safari (Parlophone)
  9. Close Counters - LOVERS DANCE ACADEMY (HOLY SOUND)
  10. TOKiMONSTA - Eternal Reverie (Young Art)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  2. BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R - Found a Light (Beale Street) (XL Recordings/Innovative Leisure)
  3. SAULT - 10 (Forever Living Originals)
  4. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  5. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Rec)
  6. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  7. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  8. MRCY - VOLUME 2 (Dead Oceans)
  9. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  10. Jorja Smith - “The Way I Love You” (FAMM)

Jazz: 

  1. Mei Semones - Animaru (Bayonet)
  2. BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R - Found a Light (Beale Street) (XL Recordings/Innovative Leisure)
  3. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  4. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Rec)
  5. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  6. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  7. Floating Points - Lazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack) (Milan)
  8. Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant - “Majestic Fantasies” (Peace World)
  9. Close Counters - LOVERS DANCE ACADEMY (HOLY SOUND)
  10. Salami Rose Joe Louis - Lorings (Brainfeeder)

Northwest: 

  1. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)
  2. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  3. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)
  4. Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart (Sub Pop)
  5. The Maya Experience - Are You Influenced (Youth Riot)
  6. Chong the Nomad - “OUT THE WINDOW” (self-released)
  7. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  8. Oblé Reed & TeZATalks - “HARD COPIES” (UnderCurrent)
  9. Destroyer - Dan’s Boogie (Merge)
  10. quickly, quickly - I Heard That Noise (Ghostly International)

Adds: 

Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? (Get Better Records)
AMORE - Top Hits, Ballads, etc… (self-released)
Deradoorian - Ready For Heaven (Fire Records)
Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
Men I Trust - Equus Caballus (self-released)
Night Heron - ESCAPISM (Literal Gold)
TVOD - Party Time (Mothland)
AtticOmatic - Fold the World EP (self-released)
Chaos in the CBD - A Deeper Life (In Dust We Trust)
Julia Mestre - Maravilhosamente Bem (Mr Bongo)
Maia Friedman - Goodbye Long Winter Shadow (Last Gang)
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Tall Tales (Warp)
Melinda - Melinda (self-released)
Nell Smith - Anxious (Bella Union)
Provoker - Mausoleum (YEAR0001)