03-04-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of Feb 23 - Feb 29    

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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. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You: Everasking Edition (Perpetual Novice/The Orchard)
  2. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
  3. MGMT - Loss of Life (Mom+Pop)
  4. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)
  5. Les Amazones d'Afrique - Musow Danse (Real World Records)
  6. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  7. Aili - Nandakke? (Eskimo Recordings)
  8. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  9. Khruangbin - A LA SALA (Dead Oceans/NIght TIme Stories Ltd.)
  10. Erick The Architect - I’ve Never Been Here Before (self-released)
  11. Laetitia Sadier - Rooting for Love (Drag City)
  12. IDLES - TANGK (Partisan)
  13. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  14. Jalen Ngonda - “Illusions” (Daptone)
  15. somesurprises - Perseids (Doom Trip)
  16. Helado Negro - Phasor (4AD)
  17. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  18. Ride - Interplay (Wichita)
  19. clipping. - “Tipsy” b/w “Midnight” (Sub Pop)
  20. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  21. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  22. SPRINTS - Letter to Self (City Slang)
  23. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  24. Danny Brown - Quaranta (Warp)
  25. Mama Zu - Quilt Floor (Cosmic Twin/Thirty Tigers)
  26. Lee “Scratch” Perry - King Perry (False Idols)
  27. Chong the Nomad - “Shake Step” (self-released)
  28. Girl and Girl - Call A Doctor (Sub Pop)
  29. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  30. Suki Waterhouse - “OMG” (Sub Pop)
  31. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  32. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  33. Seafood Sam -Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  34. Tomo Nakayama - “Our House” (feat. Yuuki Matthews) (self-released)
  35. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  36. Future Islands - People Who Aren’t There Anymore (4AD)
  37. TORRES - What an enormous room (Merge)
  38. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  39. levitation room - Strange Weather (Greenway/The Reverberation Appreciation Society)
  40. Dina ögon - Orion (Playground Music Scandinavia)
  41. Orgone - Chimera (3 Palm)
  42. Ty Segall - Three Bells (Drag City)
  43. John Glacier - Like a Ribbon EP (Young)
  44. Liam Bailey - Zero Grace (Big Crown)
  45. DJ Harrison - Shades of Yesterday (Stones Throw)
  46. Black Pumas Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  47. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  48. Dehd - Poetry (Fat Possum)
  49. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas (Island)
  50. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice (Matador)
  51. Reyna Tropical - Malegría (Psychic Hotline)
  52. Bonny Light Horseman - “When I Was Younger” (Jagjaguwar)
  53. Four Tet - Three (Text)
  54. Hiatus Kaiyote - “Everything’s Beautiful” (Brainfeeder)
  55. Shannon & The Clams -  The Moon Is In the Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
  56. LEATHERS - “Crash” (Artoffact Records)
  57. RUB - RUB (self-released)
  58. Bolis Pupul - Letter To Yu (DEEWEE/Because)
  59. Donny Benét - Infinite Desires (Donnyland)
  60. Grace Cummings - Ramona (ATO)
  61. Squid - “Fugue (Bin Song)” (Warp)
  62. Wyatt C. Louis - Chandler (Royal Mountain)
  63. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  64. Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1 (AWAL)
  65. Ducks Ltd. - Harm’s Way (Carpark)
  66. David Holmes feat. Raven Violet - Blind On A Galloping Horse (Heavenly)
  67. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - The Silver Cord (KGLW)
  68. Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles (PIAS)
  69. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  70. ​​Faye Webster - Underdressed At The Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
  71. Mildlife - Chorus (Heavenly Recordings)
  72. LAIR - Ngélar (Guruguru Brain)
  73. Royel Otis - PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness)
  74. serpentwithfeet - GRIP (Secretly Canadian)
  75. Lewis OfMan - Cristal Medium Blue (Virgin Records France/Profil de Face)
  76. shygirl - Club Shy EP (Because)
  77. J Mascis - What DO We Do Now (Sub Pop)
  78. Mad Foxes - Inner Battles (El Muchacho)
  79. Vera Sola - Peacemaker (City Slang)
  80. Katie McBride - THE ANGELS ARE CALLING (Blue Water)
  81. Seven Davis Jr. - Stranger Than Fiction (Secret Angels)
  82. TV Star & Spiral XP - TVXP EP (self-released)
  83. Church Chords - elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)
  84. Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip To The Moon (Karma Chief)
  85. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (Loma Vista)
  86. Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police (R&R Digital)
  87. TR/ST - TR/ST (Dais)
  88. TAMTAM - Ramble in the Rainbow (Peoples Potential Unlimited)
  89. Elephant Stone - Back Into The Dream (Elephants on Parade)
  90. André 3000 - New Blue Sun (Epic)

Americana: 

  1. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)
  2. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  3. Mama Zu - Quilt Floor (Cosmic Twin/Thirty Tigers)
  4. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  5. Vera Sola - Peacemaker (City Slang)
  6. Beyoncé - ACT II (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  7. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  8. Astral Bakers - The Whole Story (Sage Music)
  9. Grandaddy - Blu Wav (Dangerbird)
  10. Various Artists - My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy/Thirty Tigers)

Global: 

  1. Les Amazones d'Afrique - Musow Danse (Real World Records)
  2. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  3. Aili - Nandakke? (Eskimo Recordings)
  4. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  5. Helado Negro - Phasor (4AD)
  6. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  7. Lee “Scratch” Perry - King Perry (False Idols)
  8. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  9. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  10. Orgone - Chimera (3 Palm)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  2. Erick The Architect - I’ve Never Been Here Before (self-released)
  3. clipping. - “Tipsy” b/w “Midnight” (Sub Pop)
  4. Danny Brown - Quaranta (Warp)
  5. Lee “Scratch” Perry - King Perry (False Idols)
  6. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  7. Seafood Sam -Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  8. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  9. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  10. John Glacier - Like a Ribbon EP (Young)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
  2. Les Amazones d'Afrique - Musow Danse (Real World Records)
  3. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  4. Aili - Nandakke? (Eskimo Recordings)
  5. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  6. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  7. Lee “Scratch” Perry - King Perry (False Idols)
  8. Chong the Nomad - “Shake Step” (self-released)
  9. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  10. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
  2. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  3. Jalen Ngonda - “Illusions” (Daptone)
  4. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  5. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  6. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  7. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  8. Orgone - Chimera (3 Palm)
  9. John Glacier - Like a Ribbon EP (Young)
  10. Liam Bailey - Zero Grace (Big Crown)

Jazz: 

  1. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  2. DJ Harrison - Shades of Yesterday (Stones Throw)
  3. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  4. Hiatus Kaiyote - “Everything’s Beautiful” (Brainfeeder)
  5. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  6. Church Chords - elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)
  7. Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip To The Moon (Karma Chief)
  8. André 3000 - New Blue Sun (Epic)
  9. La Dame Blanche - Atomatica (Nacional)
  10. Keyon Harrold - Foreverland (Concord Jazz)

Northwest: 

  1. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  2. somesurprises - Perseids (Doom Trip)
  3. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  4. Chong the Nomad - “Shake Step” (self-released)
  5. Tomo Nakayama - “Our House” (feat. Yuuki Matthews) (self-released)
  6. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  7. LEATHERS - “Crash” (Artoffact Records)
  8. RUB - RUB (self-released)
  9. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  10. TV Star & Spiral XP - TVXP EP (self-released)

Adds: 

Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites (Third Man)
Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia? (Republic)
Faye Webster - Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
Gen and the Degenerates - ANTI‐FUN PROPAGANDA (Marshall)
Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Liam Gallagher & John Squire (Warner)
Mildlife - Chorus (Heavenly Recordings)
STRFKR - Parallel Realms (Polyvinyl)
The Narcotix - Dying (self-released):
Chalk - Conditions II (Nice Swan Records)
Gulfer - Third Wind (Topshelf)
Heems & Lapgan - LAFANDAR (Veena Sounds/Mass Appeal India)
Late Bloomer - Another One Again (Self Aware/Dead Broke)
Mini Trees - Burn Out EP (Run For Cover)
Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced (Sub Pop)
RIP Dunes - RIP Dunes (self-released)
SAVAK - Flavors of Paradise (Peculiar Works Music/Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
Coco - 2 (First City Artists)
Lucie Antunes - Amazing Carnaval (InFiné)
Shelf Nunny - Pronoia (Bitter Boi)
Suite Simone - Bird (self-released)