09-11-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Sept 1-7  

Add Date: Sept. 11     

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. Slowdive - everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
  2. Noname - Sundial (Self-Released)
  3. Burna Boy - I Told Them … (Atlantic)
  4. Jungle - Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)
  5. Sea Lemon - Stop at Nothing EP (Liminelle Recordings)
  6. L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
  7. Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness (Sub Pop)
  8. Jorja Smith - falling or flying (FAMM)
  9. The Budos Band - Frontier’s Edge EP (Diamond West)
  10. Genesis Owusu - STRUGGLER (Ourness/AWAL)
  11. Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination (Hyperdub)
  12. Little Dragon - Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune)
  13. La Sécurité - Stay Safe! (Mothland)
  14. Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  15. Being Dead - When Horses Would Run (Bayonet)
  16. Who Is She? - Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)
  17. Speedy Ortiz - Rabbit Rabbit (Wax Nine)
  18. Danger Mouse & Jemini - Born Again (Lex)
  19. Black Milk - Everybody Good? (Mass Appeal)
  20. Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Data Doom (Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway)  
  21. Jamila Woods - Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar) 
  22. Say She She - Silver (Karma Chief) 
  23. James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven (Republic)
  24. The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Disque Hives)
  25. Blur - The Ballad of Darren (Warner)
  26. 다브다 / Dabda - Yonder (Electric Muse)
  27. Turnstile & BADBADNOTGOOD - New Heart Designs (Roadrunner)
  28. Sampha - Lahai (Young)
  29. Girl Ray - Prestige (Moshi Moshi)
  30. High Pulp - Days In The Desert (ANTI-)
  31. Deeper - Careful! (Sub Pop)
  32. Polyrhythmics - Filter System (self-released) 
  33. Jenn Champion - “Famous” (Gay Forever)
  34. Mannequin Pussy - “I Got Heaven” (Epitaph)
  35. Maribou State - “Blackoak” (Ninja Tune)
  36. Nation of Language - Strange Disciple (Play It Again Sam) 
  37. Nia Archives - Bad Gyalz (Island/HIJINXX)  
  38. The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (EMI/Virgin)
  39. Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)
  40. Osees - Intercepted Message (In The Red)
  41. Palehound - Eye on the Bat (Polyvinyl)
  42. Shamir - Homo Anxietatem (Kill Rock Stars)
  43. Tony Allen, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed - JID018 (Jazz Is Dead)
  44. Various Artists - Tell Everybody!: 21st Century Juke Joint Blues (Easy Eye Sound)
  45. Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music (Brownswood) 
  46. George Clanton - Oh Rap I Ya (100% Electronica)
  47. Golden Features - Sisyphus (Foreign Family Collective)
  48. Mary Jane Dunphe - Stage of Love (Pop Wig) 
  49. SPELLLING - Spellling & Mystery School (Sacred Bones)
  50. Bully - Lucky For You (Sub Pop)
  51. Kassa Overall - ANIMALS (Warp)
  52. WITCH - Zango (Desert Daze Sound)
  53. Death Cab For Cutie - An Arrow In The Wall
  54. Mitski - The Land Is INhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
  55. CHAI - CHAI (Sub Pop)
  56. Sa-Roc - “Talk To Me Nice” (Rhymesayers)
  57. Wild Nothing - Hold (Captured Tracks)
  58. The Bug Club - “Marriage” (Bingo)
  59. George Riley - Un/limited Love (Ninja Tune)
  60. Plantoid - “Dog’s Life” (Bella Union)
  61. Strange Ranger - Pure Music (Fire Talk)
  62. Be Your Own Pet - Mommy (Third Man)
  63. Becca Mancari - Left Hand (Captured Tracks)
  64. Haviah Mighty - Crying Crystals (Mighty Gang)
  65. KAYTRAMINÉ - KAYTRAMINÉ (Venice Music) 
  66. Margaret Glaspy - Echo the Diamond (ATO)
  67. Mick Jenkins - The Patience (RBC/BMG)
  68. MMYYKK - The Midst of Things (Sway Heavy)
  69. Cindy Wilson - Realms (Kill Rock Stars)  
  70. ODESZA & Yellow House - Flaws in Our Design (Foreign Family Collective)
  71. Small Paul - Come Alive & Live Again (self-released)
  72. Speakers Corner Quartet - Further Out Than the Edge (OTIH)
  73. Bush Tetras - They Live in My Head (Wharf Cat)
  74. Film School - Field (Felte)
  75. Stag - We Got It All EP (Pop Maelstrom)
  76. Kaidi Tatham - The Only Way (First Word)
  77. Supershy - Happy Music (Beyond The Groove)
  78. Fever Ray - Radical Romantics (Mute)
  79. Killer Mike - Michael (Loma Vista)
  80. Big Thief - “Vampire Empire” (4AD)
  81. Cherry Glazerr - I Don’t Want You Anymore (Secretly Canadian)
  82. Fred Again.. - “Adore You” (feat. Obongjayar) (Atantic) 
  83. Miguel feat. Lil Yachty - “Number 9” (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA)
  84. Sheer Mag - “All Lined Up” (Third Man)
  85. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
  86. Tomo Nakayama - Contigo (Ricebelly Music)  
  87. A Beacon School - yoyo (rind Select)
  88. Al Green - “Perfect Day” (Fat Possum)
  89. Benét - Can I Go Again? (Bayonet)
  90. Empty Country - Empty Country II (Get Better)

Americana: 

  1. Various Artists - Tell Everybody!: 21st Century Juke Joint Blues (Easy Eye Sound)
  2. Wilco - Cousin (dBpm)
  3. Dean Johnson - Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)
  4. Florry - The Holey Bible (Dear Life) 
  5. Nat Myers - Yellow Peril (Easy Eye Sound)
  6. Margo Cilker – Valley of Heart’s Delight (Fluff & Gravy) 
  7. Buck Meek - Haunted Mountain (4AD)
  8. Rhiannon Giddens – You’re the One (Nonesuch) 
  9. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern)
  10. Lucinda Wiliams – Stories from a Rock N Roll Heart (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers)

Global: 

  1. Burna Boy - I Told Them … (Atlantic)
  2. Tony Allen, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed - JID018 (Jazz Is Dead)
  3. WITCH - Zango (Desert Daze Sound)
  4. Kali Uchis, El Alfa & JT – Munekita (Geffen) 
  5. Bebel Gilberto - João (PIAS) 
  6. Hollie Cook - Happy Hour in Dub (Merge)
  7. Bombino – Sahel (Partisan) 
  8. Nana Benz du Togo – AGO (Komos)  
  9. Various Artists - Middle Eastern Grooves (Selected by DJ Koboyashi) (Batov)
  10. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset in Dub (Domino)

Hip Hop: 

  1. Noname - Sundial (Self-Released)
  2. Burna Boy - I Told Them … (Atlantic)
  3. Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness (Sub Pop)
  4. Danger Mouse & Jemini - Born Again (Lex)
  5. Black Milk - Everybody Good? (Mass Appeal)
  6. Kassa Overall - ANIMALS (Warp)
  7. Sa-Roc - “Talk To Me Nice” (Rhymesayers)
  8. Haviah Mighty - Crying Crystals (Mighty Gang)
  9. KAYTRAMINÉ - KAYTRAMINÉ (Venice Music) 
  10. Mick Jenkins - The Patience (RBC/BMG)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Jungle - Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)
  2. Little Dragon - Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune)
  3. James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven (Republic)
  4. Turnstile & BADBADNOTGOOD - New Heart Designs (Roadrunner)
  5. Maribou State - “Blackoak” (Ninja Tune)
  6. Nia Archives - Bad Gyalz (Island/HIJINXX)  
  7. The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (EMI/Virgin)
  8. George Clanton - Oh Rap I Ya (100% Electronica)
  9. Golden Features - Sisyphus (Foreign Family Collective)
  10. George Riley - Un/limited Love (Ninja Tune)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Burna Boy - I Told Them … (Atlantic)
  2. Jungle - Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)
  3. Jorja Smith - falling or flying (FAMM)
  4. The Budos Band - Frontier’s Edge EP (Diamond West)
  5. Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  6. Sampha - Lahai (Young)
  7. Polyrhythmics - Filter System (self-released) 
  8. Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)
  9. MMYYKK - The Midst of Things (Sway Heavy)
  10. Miguel feat. Lil Yachty - “Number 9” (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA)

Jazz: 

  1. Black Milk - Everybody Good? (Mass Appeal)
  2. High Pulp - Days In The Desert (ANTI-)
  3. Tony Allen, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed - JID018 (Jazz Is Dead)
  4. Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music (Brownswood) 
  5. Kassa Overall - ANIMALS (Warp)
  6. Kaidi Tatham - The Only Way (First Word)
  7. Nubya Garcia – Lean In (Concord Jazz)
  8. Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) (International Anthem)
  9. Kamaal Williams – Stings (Black Focus) 
  10. Steven Bamidele - Summing Up (Tru Thoughts)

Northwest: 

  1. Sea Lemon - Stop at Nothing EP (Liminelle Recordings)
  2. Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness (Sub Pop)
  3. Who Is She? - Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)
  4. High Pulp - Days In The Desert (ANTI-)
  5. Polyrhythmics - Filter System (self-released) 
  6. Jenn Champion - “Famous” (Gay Forever)
  7. Death Cab For Cutie - An Arrow In The Wall
  8. ODESZA & Yellow House - Flaws in Our Design (Foreign Family Collective)
  9. Small Paul - Come Alive & Live Again (self-released)
  10. Gabriel Teodros – Spacetime (self-released)

Adds: 

James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven (Republic)
Romy - Mid Air (Young)
The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (Republic)
Tirzah - trip9love...??? (Domino)
Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)
Anjimile - The King (4AD)
Sparklehorse - Bird Machine (ANTI-)
Deeper - Careful! (Sub Pop)
Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music (Brownswood) 
Allison Russell - The Returner (Fantasy)
DAIISTAR – Good Time (Fuzz Club)
NCY Milky Band – Our Gurus 2 (BMM)
Kaidi Tatham – The Only Way (First Word)
Adekunle Gold – Tequila Ever After (Def Jam)
Paris Texas – MID AIR (self-released)
Black Market Brass - Hox (Colemine) 
Knopha – Kwong (Mood Hut)
Alabaster DePlume – Come With Fierce Grace (International Anthem)
Marina Zispin - Life And Death: The Five Chandeliers Of The Funereal Exorcisms (Night School)
Bastien Keb – The Only Angel I Ever Saw Wore Black (Def Pressé)
GAIKA – Drift (Big Dada)