2021 end of year lists

That Cassandra Jenkins album is bloody fantastic. I only heard it for the first time this week.

Surprised Black Midi don't feature.

The Courtney Barnett album isn't even out until tomorrow!

as always a wonderful list from uncut.

they're 70 on the uncut list. clearly krburg isn't one of their writers.

They should have held off until IDLES had released ‘Crawler’. Definitely the album of the year.

Mojo top 75 is out.

1. Floating Points, Pharoah Saunders & The LSO - Promises
2. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
3. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club
4. Low - Hey What
5. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage
6. Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume One)
7. The Coral - Coral Island
8. Sons Of Kemet - Back To The Future
9. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof
10. Villagers - Fever Dreams
11. John Grant - Boy From Michigan
12. The Weather Station - Ignorance
13. Sleaford Mods - Spair Ribs
14. Black Country, New Roads - For The First Time
15. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
16. Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament
17. The War On Drugs - I Don't Live Here Any More
18. Idles - Crawler
19. David Crosby - For Free
20. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
21. The Bug - Fire
22. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort To Me
23. Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade
24. Sault - Nine
25. The Black Keys - Delta Kream
26. Mogwai - As The Love Continues
27. Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham
28. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
29. Field Music - Flat White Moon
30. Yola - Stand For Myself
31. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - LW
32. Paul McCartney - McCartney III
33. Endless Boogie - Admonitions
34. Greentea Pemg - Man Made
35. The Stranglers - Dark Matters
36. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
37. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass Vol. 2. The Cowboy Arms Sessions
38. Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You
39. Jane Weaver - Flock
40. Chrissie Hynde - Standing In The Doorway
41. Nala Sinfield - Space 1.8
42. Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space
43. Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows
44. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
45. Jungle - Loving In Stereo
46. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny Ha Ha
47. Tyler The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
48. Squid - Bright Green Field
49. Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic
50. Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Superwolves
51. Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
52. Nathan Salsburg - Psalms
53. Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood - Live
54. Tony Joe White - Smoke From The Chimney
55. Badbadnotgood - Talk Memory
56. Lorde - Solar Power
57. Reigning Sound - A Little More Time With…
58. Ryley Walker - Course In Fable
59. Billy F Gibbons - Hardware
60. Cedric Burnside - I Be Trying
61. Steve Gunn - Other You
62. Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life
63. Howlin' Rain - The Dharma Wheel
64. Tony Allen - There Is No End
65. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_G's Pee At State's End
66. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
67. AC/DC - Power Up
68. Loretta Lynn - Still Woman Enough
69. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep Into Space
70. Black Midi - Cavalcade
71. Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow
72. Hiss Golden Messenger - Quietly Blowing It
73. Stephen Fretwell - Busy Guy
74. Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods
75. Blk Jks - Abantu/Before Humans

And the additional Mojo lists:

Re Issues

1. The Beach Boys - Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surfs Up Sessions 1969-'71
2. Can - Live In Stuttgart 1975
3. Neil Young - Archives Volume II
4. David Bowie - The Width Of A Circle
5. Spritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
6. Bob Dylan - Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol.16 (1980-1985)
7. Joni Mitchell - Archives Volume 2: The Reprise Years 1968-1971
8. Aretha Franklin - Aretha
9. The Who - The Who Sell Out [Deluxe Edition]
10. Prince - Welcome To America
11. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Charisma Years 1970-1978
12. Laura Nyro - American Dreamer
13. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass [Deluxe Edition]
14. Various Artists - Edo Funk Explosion Vol.1
15. The Beatles - Let It Be [Deluxe Edition]
16. Faust - 1971-1974
17. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band [Deluxe Edition]
18. Buzzcocks - Complete United Artists Singles 1977-1980
19. Carroll Thompson - Hopelessly In Love
20. Lewis Taylor - Lewis Taylor


Americana

1. Steve Earle & The Dukes - J.T.
2. Shannon McNally - The Waylon Sessions
3. Malcolm Holcombe - Tricks Of The Trade
4. Son Volt - Electro Melodier
5. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof
6. Tony Joe White - Smoke From The Chimney
7. Lucas Nelson & Promise Of The Real - A Few Stars Apart
8. Loretta Lynn - Still Woman Enough
9. Felice Brothers - From Dreams To Dust
10. Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home


Electronica
1. Loraine Jones - Reflection
2. Space Africa - Honest Labour
3. Hanna Peel - Fir Wave
4. Bicep - Isles
5. Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever
6. Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals
7. DJ Seinfield - Mirrors
8. Joy Orbison - Still Sleeping Vol.1
9. Koreless - Agor
10. Herbert - Musca

Folk

1. Peggy Seeger - First Farewell
2. Lunatraktors - The Missing Star
3. Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home
4. Spiers & Boden - Fallow Ground
5. John Francis Flynn - I Would Not Live Always
6. Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan - Still As Your Sleeping
7. Martin Simpson - Home Recordings
8. Tru - No Fixed Abode
9. Patterson Dipper - Unearthing
10. Kathryn Priddy - The Eternal Rocks Beneath


Soundtracks

1. Clint Mansell - In The Earth
2. Mica Levi - Zola
3. Aaron Cupples - Island Of The Hungry Ghosts
4. Stephen Vitiello - Soundtracks For Lynne Sachs Vol 1 & 2
5. Sarah Warne - Des
6. Alberto Lucendo - Wonderful Losers
7. Emile Levienaise-Farrouch - Censor
8. Gazelle Twin & Max De Wardener - The Power
9. Gazelle Twin - Welcome To The Blumhouse: Nocturne
10. Tim Hecker - The North Water

Blues

1. Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram - 662
2. Tia Carroll - You Gotta Have It
3. Chris Cain - Raisin' Cain
4. Chris Bergson - All I Got Left
5. New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers - Vol. 2
6. Eddie Martin - The Birdcage Sessions
7. Carolyn Wonderland - Tempting Fate
8. Smokey Hogg - The Texas Blues Of…
9. Various Artists - Matchbox Bluesmaster Series Sets 1-5
10. Various Artists - Something Inside Of Me. The British Blues Years 1963-'76

Jazz

1. Sons Of Kemet - Back To The Future
2. Fergus Mccreadie - Cairn
3. Angel Bat Dawid & The Brotherhood - Live
4. Binker Golding, John Edwards, Steve Noble - Moon Day
5. Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates
6. Portico Quartet - Terrain
7. Maridalen - Maridalen
8. Mark Feldman - Sounding Point
9. Emma-Jean Thakray - Yellow
10. Flukten - Velkommen Hap

Rough Trade top 100 here: www.roughtrade.com/gb/albums-of-the-year-2021

1. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
2. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
3. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
4. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
5. Idles - CRAWLER
6. Squid - Bright Green Field
7. Jane Weaver - Flock
8. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
9. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
10. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
11. The Weather Station - Ignorance
12. black midi - Cavalcade
13. For Those I Love - For Those I Love
14. Bicep - Isles
15. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
16. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
17. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
18. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The TCOTU Symphony Orchestra - Promises
19. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
20. 박 혜진 [Park Hye Jin] - Before I Die

Liking the Rough Trade list

Recordstore top 30: www.recordstore.co.uk/2021-The-Year-in-Music/Albums-of-the-Year/

Lists from record shops or online stores now seem to boil down to whoever is prepared to release a tie in exclusive vinyl version for the retailer.

Oh, you cynic.

How dare you.

We know you've turned on Dry Cleaning but they are deserved Rough Trade winners.

Rough Trade must have decided that Dry Cleaning was album of the year before it was even realised to get that exclusive pressed on time.

DRY CLEANING more like EAR BLEEDING.

THANKS,

WHY AREN’T BLACK MIDI HIGHER ON THESE LISTS 😭😭

Worst band in history

Will probably do my list nearer the end of December this year rather than on the 15th. Have fallen behind on my listening.

I haven't had a good year this year. Probably listened to 40 albums from 2021, maybe less. I might only end up doing a Top 10.