05-04-2026

KEXP Charts for the Week of Apr. 24 - Apr. 30

Add Date: May 4

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. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  2. Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew (Night School)
  3. Dead Pioneers - Wagon Burner (Hassle Records)
  4. Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire (Transgressive)
  5. Avalon Emerson & The Charm - Written into Changes (Dead Oceans)
  6. Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower (ANTI-)
  7. Angélique Kidjo - HOPE!! (Parlophone/Warner) 
  8. TV Star - Music For Heads (Father/Daughter Records)
  9. Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (OURNESS)
  10. Future Islands - From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth (4AD)
  11. Makthaverskan - Glass and Bones (Welfare Sounds & Records) 
  12. Honey Dijon - The Nightlife (SOS)
  13. Lime Garden - Maybe Not Tonight (So Young) 
  14. Nubiyan Twist - Chasing Shadows (Strut)
  15. Robyn - Sexistential (Young)
  16. Snail Mail - Ricochet (Matador) 
  17. Courtney Barnett - Creature of Habit (Mom+Pop/Fiction)
  18. Liz Cooper - New Day (Sleepyhead)
  19. Ali & Charif Megarbane - Tirakat (Habibi Funk) 
  20. Dark Chisme - “Dominance of Truth” (self-released)
  21. Getdown Services - “The Radiator” (Breakfast Records)
  22. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  23. Jessie Ware - Superbloom (Interscope/EMI) 
  24. Kim Gordon - PLAY ME (Matador)
  25. Metric - Romanticize The Dive (Metric Music International/Thirty Tigers)
  26. Yaya Bey - Fidelity (drink sum wtr) 
  27. Ms Ray - Melt EP (Scenic Route) 
  28. Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize - Nine Inch Noize (The Null Corporation/Interscope)
  29. Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG - POMPEII // UTILITY (10k/Tan Cressida)
  30. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  31. Asha Puthli & Say She She - “Pawa!” (Naya Beat)
  32. Kurt Vile - Philadelphia's been good to me (Verve Records)
  33. Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Cannonball (Fiction Records)
  34. Suki Waterhouse - “Back In Love” (Island)
  35. Telehealth - Green World Image (Sub Pop)
  36. Chong the Nomad - “JAWBREAKER” (self-released)
  37. Ecca Vandal - Looking For People To Unfollow (Loma Vista)
  38. Francis of Delirium - Run, Run Pure Beauty (Dalliance)
  39. Kelela - “idea 1” (Warp)
  40. Khun Narin - III (Innovative Leisure)
  41. Fcukers - Ö (Ninja Tune)
  42. Gladie - No Need to be Lonely (Get Better) 
  43. Mitski - Nothing’s About to Happen to Me (Dead Oceans)
  44. Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern (Blues Babe/Human Re Sources)
  45. Pigeon - OUTTANATIONAL (Memphis Industries)
  46. Weird Nightmare - Hoopla (Sub Pop) 
  47. Cadence Weapon - Forager (Six Shooter)
  48. Miss Grit - Under My Umbrella (Mute) 
  49. CHROMA - 25 Forever (Alcopop! Records)
  50. GiGi Girls - Greatest Hits (Papercup Records)
  51. Adrian Quesada - Trio Asesino (ATO)
  52. Holy Fuck - Event Beat (Satellite Services)
  53. The New Pornographers - The Former Site Of (Merge) 
  54. Champagne Bubblebath - Mixtape: Volume One (self-released) 
  55. Madame Gandhi - Love Letters from Brooklyn (Gender Amplified)
  56. Parlor Greens - Emeralds (Colemine) 
  57. Twisted Teens - Blame the Clown (Jazz Life) 
  58. Chalk - Crystalpunk (ALTER Music) 
  59. Joshua Idehen - I know you’re hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try (Heavenly/PIAS)
  60. GENA - The Pleasure Is Yours (Lex) 
  61. Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some (Moshi Moshi)
  62. Dua Saleh - Of Earth & Wires (Ghostly International)
  63. Gelli Haha  - “Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep” (Innovative Leisure)
  64. Chico Detour - “Snake Pit” (self-released)
  65. Modest Mouse - An Eraser and A Maze (Glacial Pace Recordings/Virgin Music Group)
  66. Digitalism - Optimism (Magnetism)
  67. Jalen Ngonda - Doctrine of Love (Daptone)
  68. Lykke Li - The Afterparty (Neon Gold/Futures)
  69. Miki Berenyi Trio - “Island Of One” (Bella Union)
  70. The Black Tones - “Troublemaker” (feat. Death Valley Girls) (self-released)
  71. Midpak - Torpedo EP (Middy P Ink)
  72. Eaves Wilder - Little Miss Sunshine (Secretly Canadian)
  73. TOMORA - COME CLOSER (Fontana/Capitol)
  74. Body Shop - Sex Body EP (Future Shock)
  75. Iguana Death Cult - Guns Out (Greenway)
  76. Angine de Poitrine - Vol. II (Spectacles Bonzaï)
  77. deary - Birding (Bella Union)
  78. Lewis OfMan - 50KWTTS (Profil de Face) 
  79. Son Little - Cityfolk (ANTI-) 
  80. White Fence - Orange (Drag City) 
  81. Gia Margaret - Singing (Jagjaguwar) 
  82. Loukeman - Sd-3 (September Recordings)
  83. Strange Fruit - Drips (Gentle Tuesday Recordings)
  84. The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Acknowledge Kindness (Fire)
  85. Frog - Frog For Sale (Audio Antihero/tapewormies)
  86. Leven Kali - LK99 (Def Jam) 
  87. Adrian Younge - Younge (Linear Labs)
  88. BCUC - The Road Is Never Easy (Outhere Records)  
  89. Mt Fog - Every Stone is Green (Save the Forest for the Trees)
  90. Naïka - ECLESIA (AWAL)  

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Twisted Teens - Blame the Clown (Jazz Life) 
  2. Son Little - Cityfolk (ANTI-) 
  3. Gia Margaret - Singing (Jagjaguwar) 
  4. Frog - Frog For Sale (Audio Antihero/tapewormies)
  5. Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans)
  6. tofusmell - All My Time (Hardly Art)
  7. Charlotte Cornfield - Hurts Like Hell (Merge) 
  8. Ratboys - Singin’ to an Empty Chair (New West)
  9. villagerrr - Carousel (Winspear)
  10. Sean Solomon - The World Is Not Good Enough (ANTI-)  

Global: 

  1. Angélique Kidjo - HOPE!! (Parlophone/Warner)
  2. Nubiyan Twist - Chasing Shadows (Strut)
  3. Ali & Charif Megarbane - Tirakat (Habibi Funk) 
  4. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  5. Khun Narin - III (Innovative Leisure)
  6. Pigeon - OUTTANATIONAL (Memphis Industries)
  7. GiGi Girls - Greatest Hits (Papercup Records)
  8. Adrian Quesada - Trio Asesino (ATO)
  9. Strange Fruit - Drips (Gentle Tuesday Recordings)
  10. BCUC - The Road Is Never Easy (Outhere Records)  

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  2. Nubiyan Twist - Chasing Shadows (Strut)
  3. Yaya Bey - Fidelity (drink sum wtr) 
  4. Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG - POMPEII // UTILITY (10k/Tan Cressida)
  5. Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern (Blues Babe/Human Re Sources)
  6. Cadence Weapon - Forager (Six Shooter)
  7. Champagne Bubblebath - Mixtape: Volume One (self-released) 
  8. Joshua Idehen - I know you’re hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try (Heavenly/PIAS)
  9. GENA - The Pleasure Is Yours (Lex) 
  10. Lewis OfMan - 50KWTTS (Profil de Face) 

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Avalon Emerson & The Charm - Written into Changes (Dead Oceans)
  2. Honey Dijon - The Nightlife (SOS) 
  3. Robyn - Sexistential (Young)
  4. Dark Chisme - “Dominance of Truth” (self-released)
  5. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  6. Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize - Nine Inch Noize (The Null Corporation/Interscope)
  7. Chong the Nomad - “JAWBREAKER” (self-released)
  8. Fcukers - Ö (Ninja Tune)
  9. Miss Grit - Under My Umbrella (Mute) 
  10. Holy Fuck - Event Beat (Satellite Services)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  2. Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire (Transgressive)
  3. Honey Dijon - The Nightlife (SOS) 
  4. Nubiyan Twist - Chasing Shadows (Strut)
  5. Ali & Charif Megarbane - Tirakat (Habibi Funk) 
  6. Jessie Ware - Superbloom (Interscope/EMI) 
  7. Yaya Bey - Fidelity (drink sum wtr) 
  8. Ms Ray - Melt EP (Scenic Route) 
  9. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  10. Asha Puthli & Say She She - “Pawa!” (Naya Beat)

Jazz: 

  1. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  2. Nubiyan Twist - Chasing Shadows (Strut)
  3. Ali & Charif Megarbane - Tirakat (Habibi Funk) 
  4. Yaya Bey - Fidelity (drink sum wtr) 
  5. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  6. Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern (Blues Babe/Human Re Sources)
  7. Parlor Greens - Emeralds (Colemine) 
  8. Adrian Younge - Younge (Linear Labs)
  9. BCUC - The Road Is Never Easy (Outhere Records)  
  10. ZENA - TEMESGEN (Brownswood Recordings)

Northwest: 

  1. Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower (ANTI-)
  2. TV Star - Music For Heads (Father/Daughter Records)
  3. Dark Chisme - “Dominance of Truth” (self-released)
  4. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  5. Telehealth - Green World Image (Sub Pop)
  6. Chong the Nomad - “JAWBREAKER” (self-released)
  7. Champagne Bubblebath - Mixtape: Volume One (self-released) 
  8. Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some (Moshi Moshi)
  9. Chico Detour - “Snake Pit” (self-released)
  10. Modest Mouse - An Eraser and A Maze (Glacial Pace Recordings/Virgin Music Group)

Adds: 

duendita - existential thottie (10k)
Emma Louise - Sunshine For Happiness (Future Classic)
Modern Woman - Johnny's Dreamworld (One Little Independent)
Pigeon - OUTTANATIONAL (Memphis Industries) 
Tori Amos - In Times of Dragons (Universal/Fontana) 
Weird Nightmare - Hoopla (Sub Pop) 
Angelo de Augustine - Angel in Plainclothes (Asthmatic Kitty)
Bathing Suits - KILL BATHING SUITS EP (Underplay Recordings)
Bel Cobain - Kizzy EP (Brownswood Recordings)
IZCO - POWERSCROFT (Brownswood Recordings)
Joya Mooi - All the Things (Unity)
Julia Cumming - Julia (Partisan)
Jump Source - Fold (NAFF)
Kathryn Mohr - Carve (The Flesner) 
KNEECAP - FENIAN (Heavenly Recordings/[PIAS])
Maya Hawke - MAITREYA CORSO (Mom+Pop) 
Mildred - Fenceline (Memorials of Distinction/Dog Day)
Serafima and the Shakedowns - Ride Easy (BWGiBWGAN) 
White Fence - Orange (Drag City) 
youbet - youbet (Hardly Art)