5-26-2025

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 16 - May 22

Add Date: May 26

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. Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming (4AD)
  2. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  3. Wolf Alice - The Clearing (Columbia/RCA)
  4. SPELLLING - Portrait of My Heart (Sacred Bones)
  5. Preoccupations - Ill at ease (Born Losers Records)
  6. Nation of Language - “Inept Apollo” (Sub Pop)
  7. Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop)
  8. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  9. Kali Uchis - Sincerely, (Capitol)
  10. Yuno - Blest (Sub Pop)
  11. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
  12. Dark Chisme - “Lost in the Night” (self-released)
  13. Curtis Harding - “There She Goes” (ANTI-)
  14. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  15. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)
  16. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)
  17. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  18. Miso Extra - Earcandy (Transgressive)
  19. Ribbon Skirt - Bite Down (Mint)
  20. 100%WET - 100%WET (Crunchy Frog)
  21. Greentea Peng - TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  22. Jorja Smith - “The Way I Love You” (FAMM)
  23. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  24. The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
  25. HEALTH & Chelsea Wolfe - “MEAN” (Loma Vista Recordings)
  26. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  27. The Maya Experience - Are You Influenced (Youth Riot)
  28. Blondshell - If You Asked For A Picture (Partisan)
  29. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  30. Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla (Bella Union)
  31. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? (Get Better Records)
  32. Fly Anakin - (The) Forever Dream (Lex Records)
  33. Flying Mojito Bros - Just Passing Through (Ubiquity)
  34. SAULT - 10 (Forever Living Originals)
  35. Dead Pioneers - PO$T AMERICAN (Hassle)
  36. Madame Gandhi - Let Me Be Water (We Make Noise)
  37. Obongjayar - Paradise Now (September Recordings)
  38. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
  39. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
  40. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  41. Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky (Polyvinyl)
  42. Bria Salmena - Big Dog (Sub Pop)
  43. Perfume Genius - Glory (Matador)
  44. Night Heron - ESCAPISM (Literal Gold)
  45. Soot Sprite - Wield Your Hope Like A Weapon (Specialist Subject)
  46. spill tab - ANGIE (Because)
  47. Tagua Tagua - RAIO (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  48. Men I Trust - Equus Caballus (self-released)
  49. Pink Breath of Heaven - Colors Make a Sound (self-released)
  50. Deerhoof - Noble and Godlike in Ruin (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  51. Femi Kuti - Journey Through Life (Partisan)
  52. Chaos in the CBD - A Deeper Life (In Dust We Trust)
  53. Charif Megarbane - Hawalat (Habibi Funk)
  54. SASAMI - Blood On the Silver Screen (Domino)
  55. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  56. Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon (Third Man Records)
  57. Indigo De Souza - Precipice (Loma Vista Recordings)
  58. Pulp - More (Rough Trade Records)
  59. TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
  60. Ty Segall - Possession (Drag City)
  61. Wet Leg - moisturizer (Domino)
  62. Emi Pop - “Quiero Bailar Rocanrol” (Emi Pop Studios)
  63. Original Koffee - “KOFFEE” (Promised Land)
  64. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  65. Chong the Nomad - “Out The Window” (self-released)
  66. Death Valley Girls - Sisters of the Moon b/w Fire and Brimstone (Suicide Squeeze)
  67. Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
  68. The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World (Lost Music Limited/Polydor)
  69. Adult Mom - Natural Causes (Epitaph)
  70. Mei Semones - Animaru (Bayonet)
  71. Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune)
  72. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)
  73. Now Always Fades - Into the Doldrums (Northern Underground)
  74. Ezra Furman - Goodbye Small Head (Bella Union)
  75. M(h)aol - Something Soft (Merge)
  76. Deradoorian - Ready For Heaven (Fire Records)
  77. Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist (4AD)
  78. Samantha Crain - Gumshoe (Real Kind)
  79. Julien Baker & TORRES - Send A Prayer My Way (Matador)
  80. EKKSTACY - FOREVER (UnitedMasters/Dine Alone)
  81. Bouquet - Spellbreaker (Ulrike Records)
  82. Surprise Chef - Superb (Big Crown)
  83. Nell Smith - Anxious (Bella Union)
  84. Bobbyy x DERO - 20/40 (Stone Pixels)
  85. Pillowprince - pretty, baby! (Dune Altar)
  86. Jawdropped - Just Fantasy EP (Fire Talk)
  87. Romano - Güle Güle (Batov)
  88. Salami Rose Joe Louis - Lorings (Brainfeeder)
  89. Adrian Younge - Something About April III (Linear Labs)
  90. Pierre Kwenders - Tears on the Dancefloor (Moonshine)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
  2. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  3. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)
  4. Samantha Crain - Gumshoe (Real Kind)
  5. Julien Baker & TORRES - Send A Prayer My Way (Matador)
  6. Bouquet - Spellbreaker (Ulrike Records)
  7. Alan Sparhawk & Trampled By Turtles - With Trampled by Turtles (Sub Pop)
  8. Esther Rose - Want (New West)
  9. Samia - Bloodless (Grand Jury)
  10. Colin Miller - Losin’ (Mtn Laurel Recording Co.)

Global: 

  1. Tagua Tagua - RAIO (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  2. Femi Kuti - Journey Through Life (Partisan)
  3. Charif Megarbane - Hawalat (Habibi Funk)
  4. Original Koffee - “KOFFEE” (Promised Land)
  5. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  6. Romano - Güle Güle (Batov)
  7. Adrian Younge - Something About April III (Linear Labs)
  8. Pierre Kwenders - Tears on the Dancefloor (Moonshine)
  9. Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - DOM SALVADOR JID024 (Jazz Is Dead)
  10. Lido Pimienta - La Belleza (ANTI-)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  2. Greentea Peng - TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  3. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  4. Fly Anakin - (The) Forever Dream (Lex Records)
  5. Original Koffee - “KOFFEE” (Promised Land)
  6. Surprise Chef - Superb (Big Crown)
  7. Bobbyy x DERO - 20/40 (Stone Pixels)
  8. Revival Season - Formless (Heavenly Recordings)
  9. MIKE & Tony Seltzer - Pinball II (10k)
  10. Reginald Omas Mamode IV - “No Maybes” (Melting Pot Music)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  2. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
  3. Dark Chisme - “Lost in the Night” (self-released)
  4. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)
  5. Miso Extra - Earcandy (Transgressive)
  6. 100%WET - 100%WET (Crunchy Frog)
  7. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  8. HEALTH & Chelsea Wolfe - “MEAN” (Loma Vista Recordings)
  9. Flying Mojito Bros - Just Passing Through (Ubiquity)
  10. Madame Gandhi - Let Me Be Water (We Make Noise)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  2. Kali Uchis - Sincerely, (Capitol)
  3. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
  4. Curtis Harding - “There She Goes” (ANTI-)
  5. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  6. Greentea Peng - TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  7. Jorja Smith - “The Way I Love You” (FAMM)
  8. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  9. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  10. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)

Jazz: 

  1. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  2. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  3. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  4. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
  5. Chaos in the CBD - A Deeper Life (In Dust We Trust)
  6. Charif Megarbane - Hawalat (Habibi Funk)
  7. Mei Semones - Animaru (Bayonet)
  8. Surprise Chef - Superb (Big Crown)
  9. Romano - Güle Güle (Batov)
  10. Salami Rose Joe Louis - Lorings (Brainfeeder)

Northwest: 

  1. Dark Chisme - “Lost in the Night” (self-released)
  2. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  3. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)
  4. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  5. The Maya Experience - Are You Influenced (Youth Riot)
  6. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? (Get Better Records)
  7. Night Heron - ESCAPISM (Literal Gold)
  8. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  9. Chong the Nomad - “Out The Window” (self-released)
  10. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover)

Adds: 

Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)
Artificial Go - Musical Chairs (Feel It)
Florry - Sounds Like... (Dear Life)
lavender - we’re having a barn dance (Night Time Stories)
Now Always Fades - Into the Doldrums (Northern Underground)
Sparks - MAD! (Transgressive)
Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (Big Crown)
Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 - Fontana Rosa (Légère Recordings)
DJ Dadaman & Moscow Dollar - Ka Gaza (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
Home Is Where - Hunting Season (Wax Bodega)
Ken Pomeroy - Cruel Joke (Rounder)  
Kills Birds - Crave (Lucky Number)
Maria Usbeck - Naturaleza (Cascine)
pablopablo - Canciones En Mí (Mom+Pop)
Pachyman - Another Place (ATO)
S.3.R - N?C EP (self-released)
Say Sue Me - Time is Not Yours (Damnably)
Sedona - Getting Into Heaven (Kiss This)
Shamir - Ten (Kill Rock Stars)
Shanti Celeste - Romance (METHOD 808)