Charts

KEXP Charts for the Week of July 11 - July 17

Add Date: July 21

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. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  2. Wet Leg - moisturizer (Domino)
  3. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  4. Jay Som - Belong (Polyvinyl)
  5. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)
  6. Dark Chisme - “Breathe, Break it” (self-released)
  7. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  8. Pulp - More (Rough Trade Records)
  9. TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
  10. The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World (Lost Music Limited/Polydor)
  11. Geese - Getting Killed (Partisan)
  12. Indigo De Souza - Precipice (Loma Vista)
  13. The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie (ANTI-)
  14. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  15. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  16. Obongjayar - Paradise Now (September Recordings)
  17. The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
  18. Cerrone & Christine and the Queens - Catching feelings EP (Because)
  19. NoSo - When Are You Leaving? (Partisan)
  20. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  21. Ty Segall - Possession (Drag City)
  22. Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming (4AD)
  23. Black Whales - A Guide To Photographing The Sun (Cult Of Maybe)
  24. Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out (Roc Nation)
  25. Dam Swindle - Open (Heist Recordings)
  26. They Say Stories - Daydreams Will Do (self-released)
  27. Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
  28. Hot Chip - Joy In Repetition (Domino)
  29. Nation of Language - Dance Called Memory (Sub Pop)
  30. Syd - “Die For This” (Free Lunch/Warner)
  31. Wolf Alice - The Clearing (Columbia/RCA)
  32. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  33. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  34. Saba & No ID - From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID (self-released)
  35. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  36. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  37. Gwenno - Utopia (Heavenly Recordings)
  38. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  39. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
  40. sunking - I DON'T LIKE MY TELEPHONE (ANTI-)
  41. Florry - Sounds Like... (Dear Life)
  42. Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop)
  43. The Hives - The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives (Play It Again Sam)
  44. Mary Lambert - “The Tempest” (Tender Heart Records)
  45. Soulwax - All Systems Are Lying (DEEWEE/Because)
  46. supermodel* - “i used to live in england” (f***ing whatever.)
  47. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)
  48. Kali Uchis - Sincerely, (Capitol)
  49. Small Paul - I Was Love, I Was Light (self-released)
  50. Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings)
  51. Neggy Gemmy - She Comes From Nowhere (100% Electronica)
  52. Arc De Soleil - Lumin Rain (Maison)
  53. Yaya Bey - do it afraid (drink sum wtr)
  54. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Phantom Island (p(doom))
  55. The Bug Club - Very Human Features (Sub Pop)
  56. yeule - Evangelic Girl is a Gun (Ninja Tune)
  57. Leroi Conroy - A Tiger’s Tale (Colemine)
  58. Dávila 666 - Dávila 666 EP (In The Red Records)
  59. Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
  60. Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles - Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles (Sub Pop)
  61. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (Big Crown)
  62. Madame Gandhi - Let Me Be Water (We Make Noise)
  63. Four Tet - “Into Dust (Still Falling)” (XL Recordings)
  64. Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green (ANTI-)
  65. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  66. Rocket - R is for Rocket (Transgressive/Canvasback)
  67. SPRINTS - All That Is Over (Sub Pop)
  68. Acapulco Lips - Now (Killroom Records)
  69. Byland - “These Days” (self-released)
  70. Small Shake - Platonics EP (self-released)
  71. Alex G - Headlights (RCA)
  72. Alison Goldfrapp - Flux (A.G. Records)
  73. Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
  74. Automatic - Is It Now? (Stones Throw Records)
  75. DEBBY FRIDAY - The Starrr Of The Queen Life (Sub Pop)
  76. Guerilla Toss - You’re Weird Now (Sub Pop)
  77. Kerala Dust - An Echo Of Love (Play It Again Sam)
  78. Lady Wray - Cover Girl (Big Crown Records)
  79. Land of Echo - Almost Music (Wah Wah 45s)
  80. Purity Ring - purity ring (the fellowship)
  81. The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers (Warner)
  82. Greg Kramer - “Heat Check” (Krameroriginals)
  83. FaltyDL - Neurotica (Planet Mu)
  84. Night Tapes - portals//polarities (Nettwerk)
  85. LCD Soundsystem - “Home (Tom Sharkett Edit)” (DFA)
  86. Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon (Third Man Records)
  87. Leikeli47 - Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Only (Acrylic/Hardcover/Thirty Tigers)
  88. Mei Semones - Animaru (Bayonet)
  89. Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Dom Salvador JID024 (Jazz Is Dead)
  90. Raissa - DESIRE PATH EP (Neon Gold/Futures/Virgin)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Florry - Sounds Like... (Dear Life)
  2. Mary Lambert - “The Tempest” (Tender Heart Records)
  3. Small Paul - I Was Love, I Was Light (self-released)
  4. Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles - Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles (Sub Pop)
  5. Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green (ANTI-)
  6. Byland - “These Days” (self-released)
  7. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  8. Matt Berninger - Get Sunk (Book/Concord)
  9. Natalie Bergman - My Home Is Not In This World (Third Man Records)
  10. Sedona - Getting Into Heaven (Kiss This)

Global: 

  1. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  2. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  3. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  4. Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings)
  5. Arc De Soleil - Lumin Rain (Maison)
  6. Dávila 666 - Dávila 666 EP (In The Red Records)
  7. Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
  8. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (Big Crown)
  9. Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Dom Salvador JID024 (Jazz Is Dead)
  10. Raissa - DESIRE PATH EP (Neon Gold/Futures/Virgin)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  2. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  3. Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out (Roc Nation)
  4. Dam Swindle - Open (Heist Recordings)
  5. Saba & No ID - From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID (self-released)
  6. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  7. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
  8. Yaya Bey - do it afraid (drink sum wtr)
  9. Leroi Conroy - A Tiger’s Tale (Colemine)
  10. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (Big Crown)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  2. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)
  3. Dark Chisme - “Breathe, Break it” (self-released)
  4. The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World (Lost Music Limited/Polydor)
  5. Cerrone & Christine and the Queens - Catching feelings EP (Because)
  6. Dam Swindle - Open (Heist Recordings)
  7. Hot Chip - Joy In Repetition (Domino)
  8. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  9. sunking - I DON'T LIKE MY TELEPHONE (ANTI-)
  10. Neggy Gemmy - She Comes From Nowhere (100% Electronica)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  2. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  3. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  4. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  5. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  6. Dam Swindle - Open (Heist Recordings)
  7. Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
  8. Syd - “Die For This” (Free Lunch/Warner)
  9. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  10. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)

Jazz: 

  1. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  2. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  3. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  4. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
  5. sunking - I DON'T LIKE MY TELEPHONE (ANTI-)
  6. Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood Recordings)
  7. Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
  8. Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
  9. Greg Kramer - “Heat Check” (Krameroriginals)
  10. Mei Semones - Animaru (Bayonet)

Northwest: 

  1. Dark Chisme - “Breathe, Break it” (self-released)
  2. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  3. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  4. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  5. Black Whales - A Guide To Photographing The Sun (Cult Of Maybe)
  6. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  7. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  8. sunking - I DON'T LIKE MY TELEPHONE (ANTI-)
  9. Mary Lambert - “The Tempest” (Tender Heart Records)
  10. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)

Adds: 

Alex G - Headlights (RCA)
Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
Acapulco Lips - Now (Killroom Records)
Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
Jim Legxacy - black british music (2025) (XL Recordings)
M.O.S.S. - Youth Loser (Den Tapes)
RIO KOSTA - Unicorn (Verdigris)
Chanpan - endlessly (EQT Recordings)
Chicarica - Invierno en la playa (self-released)
Dream, Ivory - When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You (AWAL Recordings)
Felly - Ambroxyde (everwonder)
Forth Wanderers - The Longer This Goes On (Sub Pop)
Goon - Dream 3 (Born Losers Records)
Jessica Winter - My First Album (Lucky Number)
Madeline Kenney - Kiss From the Balcony (Carpark)
Natalie Bergman - My Home Is Not In This World (Third Man Records)
Panic Shack - Panic Shack (Brace Yourself Records)
Reginald Omas Mamode IV - Rivière Noire (Melting Pot Music)
SHIRAN & BAKAL - Electro Baghdad (Batov)
Slick Rick - VICTORY (Mass Appeal)