Album of the Year - 2021

Annual tradition. What ripped for you this year? Tell us about your album/albums/EP etc. of 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R7wpcw1Z4A

1. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life
   
2. Turnstile - Glow On
   
3. Fiddlehead - Between the Richness
   
4. Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place
   
5. illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More
   
6. Snail Mail - Valentine
   
7. Citizen - Life in Your Glass World
   
8. Kane Strang - Happy to Perform
   
9. Glitterer - Life is Not a Lesson
   
10. Tigers Jaw - I Won't Care How You Remember Me
    

https://youtu.be/lNJtdgtPggU

1. The Bronx - VI
   
2. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life
   
3. Ty Segal - Harmonizer
   
4. Biffy Clyro - The Myth of Happily Ever After
   
5. Rise Against - Nowhere Generation
   
6. Melvins - Five Legged Dog
   

https://youtu.be/MlnGYcMpxgU

Only one for me, clear winner

Archspire - Bleed the future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6i681VcRpA

1. The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
   
2. Darkside - Spiral
   
3. Pond - 9
   
4. Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
   
5. Tyler, The Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
   
6. BROCKHAMPTON - ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE
   
7. slowthai - TYRON
   
8. Lewsberg - In Your Hands
   
9. Kitten - Personal Hotspots
   
   

I'm cheating with a late 2020 album on #1, but it got by far the most spins this year. Special shoutout to tiny band from my hometown Lewsberg, folky with an endearing Dutch accent. Kitten is purely on the list for the song Angelina, pop in its purest form.

This for me.

Ross from Friends - Tread

https://youtu.be/DfYV_iemp5Y

Shit all honestly

Erika de Casier - Sensational

Hough/Collins - Brahms - 3 Sonatas

Hailu Mergia - Tezete

Alicia Keys - KEYS

Courtney Barnett - Things take time, take time

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NUXvlpS0TvE

And Client Liason - Divine intervention

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aLmiPS2d1qo

I bought about a million albums, of which about 6 were actually released this year. Best ones were, in order:

For Those I Love - For Those I Love
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
Amyl & the Sniffers - Comfort to Me
The Bug - Fire

records of the year 2021
You'll Never Get To Heaven - Wave Your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train
Hassan Wargui - ⵜⵉⴷⴷⵓⴽⵍⴰ = Tiddukla
Maxine Funke - Seance
Ignatz & De Stervende Honden - Saturday's Den
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
James Brandon Lewis, Red Lily Quintet – Jesup Wagon
Enhet För Fri Musik - Ömhet & Skilsmässa
Space Afrika - Honest Labour
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker - Descension (Out Of Our Constrictions)
Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future
Contours - Balafon Sketches
Nala Sinephro ‎– Space 1.8

Re-issues
Niko Tzoukmanis - Hope Is The Sister Of Despair
Mário Rui Silva - Stories From Another Time 1982​-​1988
K.S. Eden - Passed Beyond
Various - Heisei No Oto (Japanese Left-Field Pop From The CD Age, 1989-1996)
Kara-Lis Coverdale - A 480
Snd - 4,5,6
Pub - Do you ever regret pantomime?
Kevin McCormick & David Horridge - Light Patterns
Neil Young With Crazy Horse - Way Down In The Rust Bucket

Nine - Sault
Sometimes I might be introvert - Little Simz

No folk releases really grabbed me last year, which is a shame.

No folk releases really grabbed me last year, which is a shame.

I liked Johnny Flynn's Lost in the Cedar Wood.

Listening now, thanks! I've always been a bit uncertain of Flynn, some great songs and some rather earnest average songs...