top 100 albums of 2021 presents:
Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
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1 | Beyoncé | RENAISSANCE | Parkwood / Columbia |
2 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino |
3 | The Smile | A Light for Attracting Attention | XL |
4 | Los Bitchos | Let the Festivities Begin! | City Slang |
5 | Danger Mouse | Cheat Codes | BMG |
6 | Automatic | Excess | Stones Throw |
7 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Cool It Down | Secretly Canadian |
8 | Afro-Zen Allstars | The Buzz and the Bells | Aza Music |
9 | Russian Circles | Gnosis | Sargent House |
10 | Toro y Moi | MAHAL | Dead Oceans |
11 | Nilufer Yanya | PAINLESS | ATO / Fontana North |
12 | Mitski | Laurel Hell | Dead Oceans |
13 | Angel Olsen | Big Time | Jagjaguwar |
14 | Fly Anakin | Frank | Lex |
15 | Piranha Rama | Omniscient Cloud Cover | Brokers Tip |
16 | Butcher Brown & Michael Millions | BLACK MAN – Single | Concord |
17 | Trombone Shorty | Lifted | Blue Note |
18 | Justin Golden | Hard Times and a Woman | self-released |
19 | Ibibio Sound Machine | Electricity | Merge |
20 | Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin | Ali | Dead Oceans / Night Time Stories Ltd. |
21 | Doechii | she / her / black bitch – EP | Top Dawg / Capitol |
22 | Quelle Chris | Deathfame | Mello |
23 | Pusha T | It’s Almost Dry | GOOD / Def Jam |
24 | Kendrick Lamar | Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers | pgLang / Top Dawg Entertainment / Aftermath / Interscope |
25 | Big Thief | Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You | 4AD |
26 | TV Priest | My Other People | Sub Pop |
27 | Dumb Waiter | Gauche Gists | Ossein |
28 | The Beths | Expert in a Dying Field | Carpark |
29 | Marlowe | Marlowe 3 | Mello |
30 | Sudan Archives | Natural Brown Prom Queen | Stones Throw |
31 | Just Mustard | Heart Under | Partisan / Liberator Music |
32 | Björk | Fossora | One Little Independent |
33 | Belle and Sebastian | A Bit of Previous | Matador |
34 | Mister Earthbound | The Great Silence – Single | self-released |
35 | Sam Bush | Radio John: Songs of John Hartford | Smithsonian Folkways |
36 | Rina Sawayama | Hold The Girl | Dirty Hit |
37 | Calexico | El Mirador | Anti- |
38 | Secret Shame | Autonomy | self-released |
39 | Ett Eko | Modern Content | self-released |
40 | Makaya McCraven | In These Times | International Anthem / Nonesuch |
41 | Panic Shack | Baby Shack – EP | Brace Yourself |
42 | Noah-O | TRILLipino | Charged Up Ent |
43 | Deau Eyes | Legacies | Tone Tree Music / Subflora |
44 | Tomberlin | i don’t know who needs to hear this… | Saddle Creek |
45 | Spooky Cool | Existential Pie | self-released |
46 | Lizzo | Special | Nice Life / Atlantic |
47 | Shilpa Ray | Portrait of a Lady | Northern Spy |
48 | The Black Angels | Wilderness of Mirrors | Partisan / Liberator Music |
49 | Rikki Rakki | Quarantine Sessions – EP | self-released |
50 | Cate Le Bon | Pompeii | Mexican Summer |
51 | Viagra Boys | Cave World | YEAR0001 |
52 | Black Country, New Road | Ants From Up There | Ninja Tune |
53 | Porridge Radio | Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To the Sky | Secretly Canadian |
54 | Tanya Tagaq | Tongues | Six Shooter |
55 | Beach House | Once Twice Melody | Sub Pop |
56 | Strawberry Moon | Habitual Creatures | Sockhead |
57 | Noori & His Dorpa Band | Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast | Ostinato |
58 | Beth Orton | Weather Alive | Partisan / Liberator Music |
59 | Kevin Morby | This Is a Photograph | Dead Oceans |
60 | Spiritualized | Everything Was Beautiful | Fat Possum |
61 | The Cool Greenhouse | Sod’s Toastie | Melodic |
62 | Sadurn | Radiator | Run For Cover |
63 | Stereolab | Pulse of the Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5] | Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp |
64 | Seratones | Love & Algorhythms | New West |
65 | Sugaray Rayford | In Too Deep | Forty Below |
66 | Spread Joy | II | Feel It |
67 | Guerilla Toss | Famously Alive | Sub Pop |
68 | Wilco | Cruel Country | dBpm |
69 | Ben Harper | Bloodline Maintenance | Chrysalis |
70 | Lee Fields | Sentimental Fool | Dapone |
71 | Courtney Marie Andrews | Loose Future | Fat Possum |
72 | The Bug Club | Green Dream in F# | Bingo |
73 | Special Interest | Endure | Rough Trade |
74 | BKO | Djine Bora | Bongo Joe |
75 | Butcher Brown | Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey | Concord Jazz |
76 | Jake Blount | The New Faith | Smithsonian Folkways |
77 | Catherine Russell | Send For Me | Dot Time |
78 | Twain | Noon | Keeled Scales |
79 | Shemekia Copeland | Done Come Too Far | Alligator |
80 | Cola | Deep in View | Fire Talk |
81 | Cat Power | Covers | Domino |
82 | Arooj Aftab | Vulture Prince (Deluxe Edition) | Verve |
83 | NO BS! Brass | Undying | self-released |
84 | Elvis Costello & The Imposters | The Boy Named If | EMI |
85 | Panda Bear & Sonic Boom | Reset | Domino |
86 | Holy Fuck | Ninety Five – Single | self-released |
87 | Plains | I Walked with You a Ways | Anti- |
88 | The Comet Is Coming | Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam | Impulse! |
89 | Gorillaz | Cracker Island (feat. Thundercat) – Single | Parlophone |
90 | Dehd | Blue Skies | Fat Possum |
91 | Billy Mohler | Anatomy | Contagious Music |
92 | Exek | Advertise Here | Castle Face |
93 | Boris | W | Sacred Bones |
94 | Billy Drummond & Freedom of Ideas | Valse Sinistre | Cellar Live |
95 | Arctic Monkeys | The Car | Domino |
96 | Xiomara Torres | La Voz Del Mar | Patois |
97 | Josean Jacobo Trio | Herencia Criolla | self-released |
98 | Alex G | God Save the Animals | Domino |
99 | Ghost Power | Ghost Power | Duophonic Super 45s |
100 | Kurt Vile | (watch my moves) | Verve |
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Anna C. January 1st, 2023
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