09-08-2026

KEXP Charts for the Week of Aug 28 - Sept 3

Add Date: Sept. 7

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. Erykah Badu & The Alchemist - Before The World Blows (Young)
  2. Interpol - This Mirror Weighs A Ton (Partisan)
  3. Alabama Shakes - I Must Be Dreaming (Island)
  4. Black Marble - Life in Small Spaces (Sacred Bones)
  5. Chinese American Bear - :Dance Dance Dance (跳舞跳舞跳舞)” (Moshi Moshi)
  6. Wishy - Nature’s Pill (Winspear)
  7. Ceremony - Tell Me Your Dream (Relapse)
  8. Shabazz Palaces - It’s a Style Sport (Sub Pop)
  9. Boy Harsher - GET MEAN (Atlantic)
  10. Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber (XL Recordings)
  11. Leon Bridges - Happiness Anytime (Columbia)
  12. The Avalanches - No Bad Memories (Modular)
  13. Jorja Smith - What Are The Odds (FAMM)
  14. Nia Archives - Emotional Junglist (HIJINXX/Island Records)
  15. Steve Lacy - Oh yeah? (RCA)
  16. Yard Act - You’re Gonna Need A Little Music (Republic)
  17. Ty Segall - Chrome (Drag City)
  18. The Womack Sisters - The Womack Sisters (Daptone)
  19. Spike - Spike (Gob Nation)
  20. Vince Staples - Cry Baby (Loma Vista)
  21. Genesis Owusu - “HUMAN AGAIN” (Ourness)
  22. Sylvan Esso - Ow ∞ (Psychic Hotline)
  23. Death Valley Girls - Welcome to Earth (Suicide Squeeze)
  24. Dahi - Black Boy (Alternative) (ALTER) 
  25. Wild Pink - Still Coming Down (Fire Talk)
  26. Catherine Moan - CM Ultra (Born Losers)
  27. Baby Rose - YEARNALISM (Secretly Canadian)
  28. Sera Cahoone - I’ve Missed You All These Years (Sub Pop)
  29. Jungle - Sunshine (Caiola Records)
  30. Lusine - Melting Days (Ghostly International)
  31. Julia Jacklin - The Gem (4AD)
  32. Bonobo - Distance In Static (Ninja Tune)
  33. Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend (Dead Oceans)
  34. Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Cannonball (Fiction Records)
  35. Kelela - new avatar (Warp)
  36. New Age Healers - Blowing Smoke Through The Choir (self-released)
  37. Cleo Sol - Gentlewoman (Forever Living Originals)
  38. Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - ii (Loma Vista Recordings)
  39. Diary - Spiral Bound (Kanine)  
  40. Mike D - Thank You (Capitol)
  41. Sweeping Promises - You Say I Romanticize (Sub Pop)
  42. Tricky - Different When It's Silent (False Idols) 
  43. twisted teens - Florida Water Blues (Going Underground)
  44. Chloé Caillet - “Bad Bara” (Ninja Tune)
  45. Fat Dog - Cancel Me (I’m Tired) (Domino)
  46. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  47. Ruti - “FLOWERS” (Big Family Music Limited)
  48. UCHE YARA - BODYSCANNER (goldendays FM)
  49. Blonde Redhead - “Blood Spilled” (section1)
  50. DIIV - ZIRP! (Fantasy)
  51. Girl Ultra - RRRomeo (Big Dada)
  52. GWEN - UMA (Libertino)
  53. Imperial Teen - All Over You (Merge)
  54. untitled (halo) - untitled (halo) (Dirty Hit)
  55. Brittany Davis - “Behind the Door” (Loosegroove)
  56. MorMor - “Don’t Need It” (Promised Land Recordings)
  57. Shygirl - “Alyse” (Because Music)
  58. Westside Cowboy - It Goes On (Island Records)
  59. Francisca Valenzuela - MALDITA (Frantastic Records)
  60. Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark (Loma Vista)
  61. Getdown Services - Massive Champion (Breakfast Records)
  62. Mallory Hawk - Chinook (self-released)
  63. Shearwater - The New World (Polyborus)
  64. Suki Waterhouse - Loveland (Island) 
  65. Darkswoon - Antivenom (Viasonde) 
  66. Edgar - Pavor (Dark Entries) 
  67. ZAINAB - Canal View EP (Technicolour)
  68. Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower (ANTI-) 
  69. Alewya - ZERO (Because London)
  70. Black Ends - “All I’m Bone” (Youth Riot) 
  71. Blondshell - Violins (Partisan)
  72. hazy waters - “blue” (self-released)
  73. Dark Chisme - “Suffer Like Me” (self-released)
  74. The Black Tones - “Bombs” (Reptar)
  75. Barry Can’t Swim - “Dance Dance Dance!” (Atlantic Records UK)
  76. Billboard Style - Pull of the Moon (Good English)
  77. Chad Hugo & Leikeli47 - “Jumpupw!nya” (feat.Tierra Whack) (Galaxie Records)
  78. Dawn Richard - creole culture (Merge)
  79. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)
  80. Gurriers - Nobody's Coming To Save You (Play It Again Sam)
  81. Logic1000 - Confirmation! (Because Music/Therapy)
  82. Portraits Of Tracy - Q: From Where Do Our Primal Instincts Originate A: MTV! (self-released)
  83. The Watergirls - The Whole of the Moon (DFA)
  84. TVOD - The Farm (Motherland)
  85. World News - In Purgatory (Pie & Mash)
  86. beabadoobee - Pylon (Dirty Hit/Interscope)
  87. Surprise Chef - Frogs in a Pond (Concord Jazz)
  88. The Strokes - Reality Awaits (Cult Records/RCA Records)
  89. Syd - Beard (Free Lunch/Warner Records)
  90. abracadabra - peel away EP (Melodic)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Wild Pink - Still Coming Down (Fire Talk)
  2. Sera Cahoone - I’ve Missed You All These Years (Sub Pop)
  3. Julia Jacklin - The Gem (4AD)
  4. Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend (Dead Oceans)
  5. twisted teens - Florida Water Blues (Going Underground)
  6. Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark (Loma Vista)
  7. Grace Cummings - Bloodhorse! (ATO) 
  8. Josaleigh Pollett - If I Let It Quiet (Audio Antihero)  
  9. Ibeyi - Offerings (AWAL) 
  10. Greg Freeman - All Set The Bone (Transgressive/Canvasback)

Global: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  2. Girl Ultra - RRRomeo (Big Dada)
  3. Francisca Valenzuela - MALDITA (Frantastic Records)
  4. ZAINAB - Canal View EP (Technicolour)
  5. Alewya - ZERO (Because London)
  6. MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS - Iwaou (祝おう) (FLAKE SOUNDS) 
  7. Fred again.. & LATIN MAFIA - 9 months and 50 hours (Atlantic)
  8. Empanadas Ilegales - LABORATORIO TROPICAL (We Are Time)
  9. Ibeyi - Offerings (AWAL) 
  10. BALTHVS - Manifest (Mixto)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Erykah Badu & The Alchemist - Before The World Blows (Young)
  2. Shabazz Palaces - It’s a Style Sport (Sub Pop)
  3. Vince Staples - Cry Baby (Loma Vista)
  4. Dahi - Black Boy (Alternative) (ALTER) 
  5. Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - ii (Loma Vista Recordings)
  6. Mike D - Thank You (Capitol)
  7. Tricky - Different When It's Silent (False Idols) 
  8. Chad Hugo & Leikeli47 - “Jumpupw!nya” (feat.Tierra Whack) (Galaxie Records)
  9. Sango - RHYTHM & MELODY (Mass Appeal)
  10. Saul Williams - Leap Life (Big Dada)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. The Avalanches - No Bad Memories (Modular)
  2. Jorja Smith - What Are The Odds (FAMM)
  3. Nia Archives - Emotional Junglist (HIJINXX/Island Records)
  4. Genesis Owusu - “HUMAN AGAIN” (Ourness)
  5. Catherine Moan - CM Ultra (Born Losers)
  6. Lusine - Melting Days (Ghostly International)
  7. Bonobo - Distance In Static (Ninja Tune)
  8. Kelela - new avatar (Warp)
  9. Tricky - Different When It's Silent (False Idols) 
  10. Chloé Caillet - “Bad Bara” (Ninja Tune)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Erykah Badu & The Alchemist - Before The World Blows (Young)
  2. Alabama Shakes - I Must Be Dreaming (Island)
  3. Leon Bridges - Happiness Anytime (Columbia)
  4. Jorja Smith - What Are The Odds (FAMM)
  5. Nia Archives - Emotional Junglist (HIJINXX/Island Records)
  6. Steve Lacy - Oh yeah? (RCA)
  7. The Womack Sisters - The Womack Sisters (Daptone)
  8. Dahi - Black Boy (Alternative) (ALTER) 
  9. Baby Rose - YEARNALISM (Secretly Canadian)
  10. Jungle - Sunshine (Caiola Records)

Jazz: 

  1. Baby Rose - YEARNALISM (Secretly Canadian)
  2. Brittany Davis - “Behind the Door” (Loosegroove)
  3. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)
  4. Surprise Chef - Frogs in a Pond (Concord Jazz)
  5. DOMi & JD BECK - WHO ASKED? (APESHIT/Blue Note)
  6. WILLOW - The Thread (Three Six Zero) 
  7. Empanadas Ilegales - LABORATORIO TROPICAL (We Are Time)
  8. Saul Williams - Leap Life (Big Dada)
  9. Meshell Ndgeocello - Synonym (Blue Note)
  10. Dana & Alden - Papa’s Boat (Concord Jazz)

Northwest: 

  1. Chinese American Bear - :Dance Dance Dance (跳舞跳舞跳舞)” (Moshi Moshi)
  2. Shabazz Palaces - It’s a Style Sport (Sub Pop)
  3. Sera Cahoone - I’ve Missed You All These Years (Sub Pop)
  4. Lusine - Melting Days (Ghostly International)
  5. New Age Healers - Blowing Smoke Through The Choir (self-released)
  6. Brittany Davis - “Behind the Door” (Loosegroove)
  7. Darkswoon - Antivenom (Viasonde) 
  8. Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower (ANTI-) 
  9. Black Ends - “All I’m Bone” (Youth Riot) 
  10. Dark Chisme - “Suffer Like Me” (self-released)

Bay Area: 

  1. Ceremony - Tell Me Your Dream (Relapse)
  2. Imperial Teen - All Over You (Merge)
  3. Edgar - Pavor (Dark Entries) 
  4. abracadabra - peel away EP (Melodic)
  5. Darlynn - Dyke Den (Dark Entries) 
  6. THAO - Show Me (Kill Rock Stars)
  7. Louie El Ser - Cerebral (Text Me Records)
  8. Nappy Nina & Swarvy - Sow & So (Lucid Haus)
  9. Sour Widows - Sigil (Julia’s War)
  10. Tricky FM - Twin Star Fantasy (Cherub Dream Records)

Adds: 

Blind Yeo - The Lemoine Point (Bongo Joe)
corto.alto - SOME SMALL FORTUNE (Ninja Tune) 
Eden Samara - Odyssey (Lapsus/Local Action)
Rapsody - God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops (We Each Other/Roc Nation)
Sofie Royer - before/after (Stones Throw) 
Soft Science - Sand (Shelflife)
The Linda Lindas - GOTTA GET OUT (Reprise/Warner)
Beach Vacation - Delayed Affection (16 Entertainment)
Diary - Spiral Bound (Kanine)  
FATHERS - FATHERS (Blue Note)
Jim James - Wowed Out (ATO)
LA Priest - Into the Sky (Domino)
Lex Walton - ULTIMATE LOVE FOREVER (Sub Pop)
Liim - A Sunflower Garden in Harlem Is Hard to Find (three times LOUDER)
Lily Seabird - Lightspheres on Their Way (Lame-O Records) 
Mona et Toi - Radical Romance of Mind (Hey Boy)
Odeal - For A Good Time… (OVMBR/LVRN)
Russian Circles - Nine (Sargent House)
Sibille Attar - Amor Fati (PNKSLM Recordings) 
Siichaq - The Righteous Sword (self-released)