Charts

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 30 - June 5

Add Date: June 9

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. The Budos Band - VII (Diamond West)
  2. Wet Leg - moisturizer (Domino)
  3. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  4. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)
  5. Obongjayar - Paradise Now (September Recordings)
  6. World News - “Don't Want To Know” (self-released)
  7. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  8. Ty Segall - Possession (Drag City)
  9. Indigo De Souza - Precipice (Loma Vista Recordings)
  10. Panda Bear - “Virginia Tech” (Domino)
  11. Blondshell - If You Asked For A Picture (Partisan Records)
  12. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  13. Garbage - Let All That We Imagine Be The Light (BMG)
  14. MRCY - VOLUME 2 (Dead Oceans)
  15. yeule - Evangelic Girl is a Gun (Ninja Tune)
  16. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  17. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  18. Nation of Language - “Inept Apollo” (Sub Pop)
  19. NoSo - When Are You Leaving? (Partisan Records)
  20. TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
  21. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  22. Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming (4AD)
  23. SAULT - 10 (Forever Living Originals)
  24. Perfume Genius - Glory (Matador)
  25. Cerrone & Christine and the Queens - “Catching feelings” (Because)
  26. Pulp - More (Rough Trade Records)
  27. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  28. Elbow - “Sober” (Polydor)
  29. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  30. Kali Uchis - Sincerely, (Capitol)
  31. Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop)
  32. Flying Mojito Bros - Just Passing Through (Ubiquity)
  33. TAMTAM - Where They Dwell (Peoples Potential Unlimited)
  34. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (Big Crown)
  35. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  36. Wolf Alice - The Clearing (Columbia/RCA)
  37. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  38. Black Polish - “BE WITH YOU” (BMG Rights Management)
  39. L'Eclair - CLOUD DRIFTER (Innovative Leisure)
  40. Sudan Archives - “DEAD” (Stones Throw)
  41. The Youth Play - “A Fair Life” (self-released)
  42. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - CURSE EP (Jagjaguwar)
  43. Death Valley Girls - Sisters of the Moon b/w Fire and Brimstone (Suicide Squeeze)
  44. The Lemonheads - Deep End / Sad Cinderella (Fire)
  45. The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World (Lost Music Limited/Polydor)
  46. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)
  47. The Maya Experience - Are You Influenced (Youth Riot)
  48. Lifeguard - Ripped and Torn (Matador)
  49. mariin k. - rose skin (Seksound)
  50. Florry - Sounds Like... (Dear Life)
  51. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
  52. Men I Trust - Equus Caballus (self-released)
  53. KennyHoopla - rebirth // renaissance (GARBAGEHILL)
  54. Various Artists - ANTHEMS: A Celebration of Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People (Arts & Crafts)
  55. Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
  56. Pachyman - Another Place (ATO)
  57. Madame Gandhi - Let Me Be Water (We Make Noise)
  58. Cumulus - We’ve Got It All (Share It Music)
  59. BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R - “Found a Light (Beale Street)” (XL Recordings/Innovative Leisure)
  60. Curtis Harding - “There She Goes” (ANTI-)
  61. Original Koffee - “KOFFEE” (Promised Land)
  62. Shame - Cutthroat (Dead Oceans)
  63. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
  64. Byland - “These Days” (self-released)
  65. Emi Pop - “Quiero Bailar Rocanrol” (Emi Pop Studios)
  66. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  67. Alex G - Headlights (RCA)
  68. Buscabulla - Se Amaba Así (Domino)
  69. Gilligan Moss - “Do It For Yourself” (feat. Pollena) (Foreign Family Collective)
  70. HAAi - HUMANiSE (Mute)
  71. HEALTH & Chelsea Wolfe - “MEAN” (Loma Vista Recordings)
  72. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Phantom Island ((p)doom Records)
  73. Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant - “Majestic Fantasies” (Peace World)
  74. Chong the Nomad - “Out The Window” (self-released)
  75. glass egg - “one of a kind of” (self-released)
  76. Sababa 5 - Nadir (Batov)
  77. Saint Etienne - International (Heavenly Recordings)
  78. Thee Sacred Souls - “We Don’t Have to Be Alone” (Daptone)
  79. Mei Semones - Animaru (Bayonet)
  80. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
  81. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  82. Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune)
  83. Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla (Bella Union)
  84. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? (Get Better Records)
  85. Night Heron - ESCAPISM (Literal Gold)
  86. Phoebe Rings - Aseurai (Carpark)
  87. Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends (Play It Again Sam)
  88. Sunsick Daisy - Yonder EP (Community Music)
  89. Now Always Fades - Into the Doldrums (Northern Underground)
  90. Miso Extra - Earcandy (Transgressive)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  2. Florry - Sounds Like... (Dear Life)
  3. Byland - “These Days” (self-released)
  4. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
  5. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  6. Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends (Play It Again Sam)
  7. Samantha Crain - Gumshoe (Real Kind)
  8. Foxwarren - 2 (Anti-)
  9. Sedona - Getting Into Heaven (Kiss This)
  10. Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles - Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles (Sub Pop)

Global: 

  1. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  2. WITCH - SOGOLO (Desert Daze Sound)
  3. TAMTAM - Where They Dwell (Peoples Potential Unlimited)
  4. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (Big Crown)
  5. Pachyman - Another Place (ATO)
  6. Original Koffee - “KOFFEE” (Promised Land)
  7. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  8. Buscabulla - Se Amaba Así (Domino)
  9. Sababa 5 - Nadir (Batov)
  10. Adrian Younge - Something About April III (Linear Labs)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  2. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (Big Crown)
  3. Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
  4. Original Koffee - “KOFFEE” (Promised Land)
  5. Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Bahidorá (World Circuit)
  6. Boldy James & Real Bad Man - Conversational Pieces (Real Bad Man Records)
  7. Kae Tempest - Statue In The Square [single, Island
  8. NxWorries - “Everybody Gets Down” (Stones Throw Records)
  9. Clipse - “Ace Trumpets” (Roc Nation)
  10. Fly Anakin - (The) Forever Dream (Lex Records)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)
  2. yeule - Evangelic Girl is a Gun (Ninja Tune)
  3. Barry Can’t Swim - Loner (Ninja Tune)
  4. Cerrone & Christine and the Queens - “Catching feelings” (Because)
  5. Flying Mojito Bros - Just Passing Through (Ubiquity)
  6. L'Eclair - CLOUD DRIFTER (Innovative Leisure)
  7. Sudan Archives - “DEAD” (Stones Throw)
  8. The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World (Lost Music Limited/Polydor)
  9. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)
  10. Pachyman - Another Place (ATO)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  2. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  3. MRCY - VOLUME 2 (Dead Oceans)
  4. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  5. SAULT - 10 (Forever Living Originals)
  6. Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO)
  7. Kali Uchis - Sincerely, (Capitol)
  8. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (Big Crown)
  9. Sudan Archives - “DEAD” (Stones Throw)
  10. Erika de Casier - Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music)

Jazz: 

  1. The Budos Band - VIII (Diamond West)
  2. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  3. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  4. BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R - “Found a Light (Beale Street)” (XL Recordings/Innovative Leisure)
  5. Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
  6. Mei Semones - Animaru (Bayonet)
  7. Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune)
  8. Phoebe Rings - Aseurai (Carpark)
  9. Adrian Younge - Something About April III (Linear Labs)
  10. Charif Megarbane - Hawalat (Habibi Funk)

Northwest: 

  1. Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (Luminelle Recordings)
  2. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  3. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  4. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (Matador)
  5. The Maya Experience - Are You Influenced (Youth Riot)
  6. Cumulus - We’ve Got It All (Share It Music)
  7. Byland - “These Days” (self-released)
  8. Emi Pop - “Quiero Bailar Rocanrol” (Emi Pop Studios)
  9. Chong the Nomad - “Out The Window” (self-released)
  10. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? (Get Better Records)

Adds: 

Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
Pulp - More (Rough Trade Records)
TURNSTILE - NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
Dam Swindle - Open (Heist Recordings)
Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Trash Classic (Greenway/The Reverberation Appreciation Society)
Lifeguard - Ripped and Torn (Matador)
Loaded Honey - Love Made Trees (Vetra Records/AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
McKinley Dixon - Magic, Alive! (City Slang)
Phoebe Rings - Aseurai (Carpark)
Revival Season - Formless (Heavenly)
54 Ultra - First Works (self-released)
A/S/L - Live From Selby (Future Gods)
Calibro 35 - Exploration (Record Kicks)
CIVIC - Chrome Dipped (ATO)
DARGZ - Friends & Family (Studio DARGZ)
Demise Of Love - Demise Of Love EP (Domino)
Glazyhaze - SONIC (self-released)
KennyHoopla - rebirth // renaissance (GARBAGEHILL)
MONSTERWATCH - The Head (Killroom)
Munan - Everything in Between (self-released)
Sally Shapiro - Ready to Live a Lie (Italians Do It Better)
Various Artists - ANTHEMS: A Celebration of Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People (Arts & Crafts)