5-19-2025

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 9 - May 15

Add Date: May 19

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. Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky (Polyvinyl)
  3. Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart (Sub Pop)
  4. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  5. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)
  6. Mei Semones - Animaru (Bayonet)
  7. Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla (Bella Union)
  8. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  9. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? (Get Better Records)
  10. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
  11. Obongjayar - Paradise Now (September Recordings)
  12. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  13. Men I Trust - Equus Caballus (self-released)
  14. Pink Breath of Heaven - Colors Make a Sound (self-released)
  15. SAULT - 10 (Forever Living Originals)
  16. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)
  17. Witch Post - Beast EP (self-released)
  18. Yukimi - For You (Ninja Tune)
  19. Pulp - More (Rough Trade Records)
  20. The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
  21. Wet Leg - moisturizer (Domino)
  22. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  23. The Maya Experience - Are You Influenced (Youth Riot)
  24. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)
  25. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
  26. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  27. Perfume Genius - Glory (Matador)
  28. SPELLLING - Portrait of My Heart (Sacred Bones)
  29. Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (Dead Oceans)
  30. Σtella - Adagio (Sub Pop)
  31. Chaos in the CBD - A Deeper Life (In Dust We Trust)
  32. Sextile - yes, please. (Sacred Bones)
  33. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  34. BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R - Found a Light (Beale Street) (XL Recordings/Innovative Leisure)
  35. Indigo De Souza - Precipice (Loma Vista Recordings)
  36. TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
  37. Elbow - “Sober” (Polydor)
  38. Guerilla Toss - “Psychosis Is Just A Number” (Sub Pop)
  39. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Phantom Island ((p)doom Records)
  40. Tommy Guerrero - “Tone of the Blade” (Too Good)
  41. Blondshell - If You Asked For A Picture (Partisan)
  42. Night Heron - ESCAPISM (Literal Gold)
  43. Yuno - Blest (Sub Pop)
  44. Deradoorian - Ready For Heaven (Fire Records)
  45. Samantha Crain - Gumshoe (Real Kind)
  46. Flying Mojito Bros - Just Passing Through (Ubiquity)
  47. Dead Pioneers - PO$T AMERICAN (Hassle)
  48. Anika - Abyss (Sacred Bones)
  49. L.A. Witch - DOGGOD (Suicide Squeeze)
  50. Scowl - Are We All Angels (Dead Oceans)
  51. Sharp Pins - Radio DDR (K/Perennial)
  52. Provoker - Mausoleum (YEAR0001)
  53. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - IC-02 Bogotá (Jagjaguwar)
  54. Panda Bear - Sinister Grift (Domino)
  55. Girl and Girl - “Okay” (Sub Pop)
  56. Matt Berninger - Get Sunk (Concord)
  57. Nation of Language - “Inept Apollo” (Sub Pop)
  58. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  59. Ty Segall - Possession (Drag City)
  60. Black Whales - A Guide To Photographing The Sun (Cult of Maybe)
  61. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  62. Florry - Sounds Like… (Dear Life)
  63. Garbage - Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (BMG)
  64. Nilüfer Yanya - “Cold Heart” (Ninja Tune)
  65. Original Koffee - “KOFFEE” (Promised Land)
  66. Death Valley Girls - Sisters of the Moon b/w Fire and Brimstone (Suicide Squeeze)
  67. Lady Wray - “Be A Witness” (Big Crown)
  68. Bria Salmena - Big Dog (Sub Pop)
  69. Greentea Peng - TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  70. quickly, quickly - I Heard That Noise (Ghostly International)
  71. Swamp Wife - Your Love Is All I Know EP (LACE Records)
  72. tUnE-yArDs - Better Dreaming (4AD)
  73. AMORE - Top Hits, Ballads, etc… (self-released)
  74. Boldy James & Real Bad Man - Conversational Pieces (Real Bad Man)
  75. Carriers - Every Time I Feel Afraid (Brassland)
  76. MIEN - MIIEN (Fuzz Club)
  77. Ribbon Skirt - Bite Down (Mint)
  78. Backxwash - Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag)
  79. Mandrake Handshake - Earth-Sized Worlds (Tip Top Recordings)
  80. Madame Gandhi - Let Me Be Water (We Make Noise)
  81. Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Tall Tales (Warp)
  82. Lucius - Lucius (Fantasy)
  83. Röyksopp - True Electric (Dog Triumph)
  84. Salami Rose Joe Louis - Lorings (Brainfeeder)
  85. Orchidae - True Beginning (Birthday Cake)
  86. Sunbathe - Myself To You (Time Release)
  87. Ali - Patterns EP (self-released)
  88. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  89. Curtis Harding - “There She Goes” (ANTI-)
  90. Jorja Smith - “The Way I Love You” (FAMM)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)
  2. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
  3. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  4. Samantha Crain - Gumshoe (Real Kind)
  5. quickly, quickly - I Heard That Noise (Ghostly International)
  6. Matt Berninger - Get Sunk (Concord)
  7. Florry - Sounds Like… (Dear Life)
  8. Carriers - Every Time I Feel Afraid (Brassland)
  9. Lucius - Lucius (Fantasy)
  10. Esther Rose - Want (New West)

Global: 

  1. Tommy Guerrero - “Tone of the Blade” (Too Good)
  2. Original Koffee - “KOFFEE” (Promised Land)
  3. AMORE - Top Hits, Ballads, etc… (self-released)
  4. Madame Gandhi - Let Me Be Water (We Make Noise)
  5. Ali - Patterns EP (self-released)
  6. Raissa - “MANZANA” (Neon Gold Records)
  7. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  8. Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
  9. The Bombillas - “Hatif” (F-Spot)
  10. Arooj Aftab - “raat ki rani” (Khruangbin Remix) (Verve)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  2. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  3. Original Koffee - “KOFFEE” (Promised Land)
  4. Greentea Peng - TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  5. Boldy James & Real Bad Man - Conversational Pieces (Real Bad Man)
  6. Backxwash - Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag)
  7. Leikeli47 - Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Only (Acrylic/Hardcover/Thirty Tigers)
  8. Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)
  9. Ilajide - POCKET JAMS 2 (self-released)
  10. Luke Titus - From What Was Will Grow A Flower (Sooper Records)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
  2. Chaos in the CBD - A Deeper Life (In Dust We Trust)
  3. Sextile - yes, please. (Sacred Bones)
  4. Flying Mojito Bros - Just Passing Through (Ubiquity)
  5. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  6. Madame Gandhi - Let Me Be Water (We Make Noise)
  7. Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Tall Tales (Warp)
  8. Röyksopp - True Electric (Dog Triumph)
  9. Salami Rose Joe Louis - Lorings (Brainfeeder)
  10. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  2. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  3. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
  4. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  5. SAULT - 10 (Forever Living Originals)
  6. Yukimi - For You (Ninja Tune)
  7. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  8. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  9. Chaos in the CBD - A Deeper Life (In Dust We Trust)
  10. BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R - Found a Light (Beale Street) (XL Recordings/Innovative Leisure)

Jazz: 

  1. Mei Semones - Animaru (Bayonet)
  2. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  3. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  4. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  5. Chaos in the CBD - A Deeper Life (In Dust We Trust)
  6. BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R - Found a Light (Beale Street) (XL Recordings/Innovative Leisure)
  7. Tommy Guerrero - “Tone of the Blade” (Too Good)
  8. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - IC-02 Bogotá (Jagjaguwar)
  9. Salami Rose Joe Louis - Lorings (Brainfeeder)
  10. Kamasi Washington - Lazarus, Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack (Milan)

Northwest: 

  1. Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart (Sub Pop)
  2. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)
  3. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? (Get Better Records)
  4. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  5. The Maya Experience - Are You Influenced (Youth Riot)
  6. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)
  7. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  8. Night Heron - ESCAPISM (Literal Gold)
  9. Black Whales - A Guide To Photographing The Sun (Cult of Maybe)
  10. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)

Adds: 

Adult Mom - Natural Causes (Epitaph)
Kali Uchis - Sincerely, (Capitol)
Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming (4AD)
Ezra Furman - Goodbye Small Head (Bella Union)
M(h)aol - Something Soft (Merge)
Miso Extra - Earcandy (Transgressive)
Preoccupations - Ill at ease (Born Losers Records)
Soot Sprite - Wield Your Hope Like A Weapon (Specialist Subject)
spill tab - ANGIE (Because)
Tagua Tagua - RAIO (Wonderwheel Recordings)
Yuno - Blest (Sub Pop)
100%WET - 100%WET (Crunchy Frog)
Bouquet - Spellbreaker (Ulrike Records)
EKKSTACY - FOREVER (UnitedMasters/Dine Alone)
Friendship - Caveman Wakes Up (Merge)
Ilajide - POCKET JAMS 2 (self-released)
Madame Gandhi - Let Me Be Water (We Make Noise)
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Carpe Diem, Moonman (What Reality?)
Surprise Chef - Superb (Big Crown)
Tanika Charles - Reasons To Stay (Record Kicks)
Your Grandparents - The Dial (drink sum wtr)