Charts

KEXP Charts for the Week of Sept 5 - Sept 11

Add Date: Sept. 15

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. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  2. Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (ANTI-)
  3. Alabama Shakes - “Another Life” (Island)
  4. Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
  5. Cut Copy - Moments (Cutters)
  6. Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
  7. Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)
  8. Wet Leg - moisturizer (Domino)
  9. Ivy - Traces of You (Bar/None)
  10. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  11. David Byrne - Who Is The Sky? (Matador Records)
  12. Alison Goldfrapp - Flux (A.G. Records)
  13. Geese - Getting Killed (Partisan)
  14. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  15. Tame Impala - Deadbeat (Columbia)
  16. Ya Tseen - Stand On My Shoulders (Sub Pop)
  17. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  18. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  19. The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie (ANTI-)
  20. Anna von Hausswolff - ICONOCLASTS (YEAR0001)
  21. Hatchie - Liquorice (Secretly Canadian)
  22. Lava La Rue - “easy come, easy go” (BMG)
  23. Shame - Cutthroat (Dead Oceans)
  24. Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
  25. Dijon - Baby (R&R/Warner)
  26. DEBBY FRIDAY - The Starrr Of The Queen Life (Sub Pop)
  27. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  28. Hunx and His Punx - Walk Out On This World (Get Better)
  29. Wolf Alice - The Clearing (Columbia/RCA)
  30. The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
  31. SPRINTS - All That Is Over (Sub Pop)
  32. Linda From Work - Linda From Work (self-released)
  33. CARRTOONS - Space Cadet (+1)
  34. Indigo De Souza - Precipice (Loma Vista)
  35. Osees - ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST (Deathgod)
  36. Nation of Language - Dance Called Memory (Sub Pop)
  37. Wunderhorse - “The Rope” (Communion)
  38. Tomo Nakayama - “Ocean” (Porchlight Records/Den Tapes)
  39. Die Spitz - Something To Consume (Third Man)
  40. Night Tapes - portals//polarities (Nettwerk)
  41. The Belair Lip Bombs - Again (Third Man Records)
  42. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  43. KIRBY - Miss Black America (self-released)
  44. Thandii - FREE UP (HaloHalo)
  45. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! RCA)
  46. Galore - Dirt (Speakeasy Studios SF)
  47. Safe Mind - Cutting the Stone (Nude Club)
  48. Saint Etienne - International (Heavenly/[PIAS])
  49. Natalie Bergman - My Home Is Not In This World (Third Man Records)
  50. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  51. Pulp - More (Rough Trade Records)
  52. TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
  53. Obongjayar - Paradise Now (September Recordings)
  54. Jamie xx - “Dream Night” (Young)
  55. Jay Som - Belong (Polyvinyl)
  56. NoSo - When Are You Leaving? (Partisan)
  57. Rocket - R is for Rocket (Transgressive/Canvasback)
  58. Yves Tumor & NINA - “WE DONT COUNT” (Warp)
  59. Cataldo - Two Way Mirror (self-released)
  60. Automatic - Is It Now? (Stones Throw)
  61. Factory Floor - “Tell Me” (Phantasy Sound)
  62. Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE (Partisan)
  63. Lady Wray - Cover Girl (Big Crown Records)
  64. Nine Inch Nails - TRON: Ares: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Interscope)
  65. Overmono & High Contrast - “If We Ever” (XL Recordings)
  66. Phantogram & Whethan - “In My Head” (Neon Gold/Futures)
  67. Spoon - “Chateau Blues” (Matador)
  68. The Haunted Youth - “Emo Song” (Mayway)
  69. Georgia Knight - Beanpole (Poison City)
  70. Nightbus - Passenger (Melodic)
  71. Peki Momés - Peki Momés (Mocambo Records)
  72. Shungu - Faith In The Unknown (Lex Records)
  73. Elisapie - Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass) (Remix) (Yotanka)
  74. Hand Habits - Blue Reminder (Fat Possum)
  75. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  76. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  77. Titanic - HAGEN (Unheard Of Hope)
  78. The Hives - The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives (Play It Again Sam)
  79. Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
  80. JID - God Does Like Ugly (Dreamville)
  81. Kerala Dust - An Echo of Love (Play It Again Sam)
  82. TOPS - Bury the Key (Ghostly International)
  83. Cass McCombs - Interior Live Oak (Domino)
  84. Murs - Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation) (Mello Music Group)
  85. Shaki Tavi - Minor Slip (Felte)
  86. No Joy - Bugland (Hand Drawn Dracula)
  87. Blush - Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever (Kanine)
  88. Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
  89. james K - Friend (AD 93)
  90. Anushka - Ancestry (BBE Music)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  2. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  3. Hand Habits - Blue Reminder (Fat Possum)
  4. Anna Tivel - Animal Poem (Fluff & Gravy)
  5. Wednesday - Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
  6. Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band - New Threats From the Soul (Sophomore Lounge)
  7. Natalie Bergman - My Home Is Not In This World (Third Man Records)
  8. Beverly Glenn-Copeland - “What's Going On” (Transgressive)
  9. Mavis Staples - Sad And Beautiful World (ANTI-)
  10. Annahstasia - Tether (drink sum wtr)

Global: 

  1. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  2. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  3. Peki Momés - Peki Momés (Mocambo Records)
  4. Titanic - HAGEN (Unheard Of Hope)
  5. Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
  6. Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG Intl)
  7. Guedra Guedra - MUTANT (Smugglers Way)
  8. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  9. Dávila 666 - Dávila 666 EP (In The Red Records)
  10. Mechatok - Wide Awake (Young)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)
  2. Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
  3. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! RCA)
  4. Shungu - Faith In The Unknown (Lex Records)
  5. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  6. JID - God Does Like Ugly (Dreamville)
  7. Murs - Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation) (Mello Music Group)
  8. El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown)
  9. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)
  10. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Cut Copy - Moments (Cutters)
  2. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  3. DEBBY FRIDAY - The Starrr Of The Queen Life (Sub Pop)
  4. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  5. Night Tapes - portals//polarities (Nettwerk)
  6. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! RCA)
  7. Jamie xx - “Dream Night” (Young)
  8. Factory Floor - “Tell Me” (Phantasy Sound)
  9. Nine Inch Nails - TRON: Ares: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Interscope)
  10. Overmono & High Contrast - “If We Ever” (XL Recordings)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (ANTI-)
  2. Alabama Shakes - “Another Life” (Island)
  3. Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
  4. Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)
  5. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  6. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  7. Chance the Rapper - Star Line (self-released)
  8. Dijon - Baby (R&R/Warner)
  9. The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
  10. CARRTOONS - Space Cadet (+1)

Jazz: 

  1. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  2. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  3. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  4. Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
  5. Anushka - Ancestry (BBE Music)
  6. El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown)
  7. Brian Jackson & Masters At Work - EP One (BBE Music)
  8. Cookin' On 3 Burners - “Cookin' the Books” (Soul Messin’)
  9. Mádé Kuti - Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From? (self-released)
  10. Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Dom Salvador JID024 (Jazz Is Dead)

Northwest: 

  1. Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
  2. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  3. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  4. Linda From Work - Linda From Work (self-released)
  5. Tomo Nakayama - “Ocean” (Porchlight Records/Den Tapes)
  6. Cataldo - Two Way Mirror (self-released)
  7. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  8. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)
  9. Acapulco Lips - Now (Killroom Records)
  10. Jarv Dee X Bad Colours - BLAKHOUSE 2: TRIAL BY FIRE (Moor Colours)

Adds: 

Maruja - Pain to Power (Music For Nations)
Boyish - Gun (R&R)
BRNDA - Total Pain (Crafted Sounds)
Die Spitz - Something to Consume (Third Man)
Gilligan Moss - À La Mode (Foreign Family Collective)
Guerilla Toss - You’re Weird Now (Sub Pop)
Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
King Princess - Girl Violence (section1)
Peki Momés - Peki Momés (Mocambo Records)
Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (Polyrhythmics)
Titanic - HAGEN (Unheard Of Hope)
Algernon Cadwallader - Trying Not to Have a Thought (Saddle Creek)
Alicia Clara - Nothing Dazzled (self-released)
Bass Drum of Death - Six (Cobraside)
Cafuné - Bite Reality (Aurelians Club)
Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party (Post Atlantic)
james K - Friend (AD 93)
mark william lewis - Mark William Lewis (A24)
Parcels - LOVED (Because Music)
Robin Kester - Dark Sky Reserve (Memphis Industries)
Saint Etienne - International (Heavenly/[PIAS])
Sir Chloe - Swallow The Knife (ONErpm)