2021 end of year lists

Stereogum top 50: www.stereogum.com/2169206/the-50-best-albums-of-2021/lists/year-in-review/2021-in-review/

1. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
2. Snail Mail - Valentine
3. Turnstile - GLOW ON
4. Low - Hey What
5. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
6. serpentwithfeet - DEACON
7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolves
8. The Weather Station - Ignorance
9. Polo G - Hall Of Fame
10. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature

the war on drugs ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

how dead must you be inside to have that as #1

Ha, well... Let me answer that in a few weeks :/

now I feel bad

I know the soapbox was really concerned so I have worked extremely hard the past week & the end of year list should be ready for the 15th.

Hopefully nothing of interest gets released for a few weeks now & the new Crazy Horse album is shit so I don't have to include it.

I made big progress today. I reckon i'll have a top 50 this year with reviews for the top 20.

My number one is an easy decision - the rest of the top 20 is pretty much set, but tough ordering them.

consequence.net/2021/12/top-50-albums-2021-list/

Sorry, no neat list like Fuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy has been doing.

www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/2021/allmusic-best-of-2021

Allmusic's best of 2021, in alphabetical order.

Pitchfork top 50: pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2021/

1. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
2. L'Rain - Fatigue
3. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The TCOTU Symphony Orchestra - Promises
5. Low - Hey What
6. Turnstile - GLOW ON
7. The Weather Station - Ignorance
8. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
9. Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red
10. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

lol shitfork

Record Collector End Of Year Lists 2021

1. Carnage - Nick Cave And Warren Ellis
2. Blue Weekend - Wolf Alice
3. The Ultra Vivid Lament - Manic Street Preachers
4. Promises - Floating Points And Pharoah Sanders
5. Daddy's Home - St. Vincent
6. The Apple Drop - Liars
7. Prioritise Pleasure - Self Esteem
8. As The Love Continues - Mogwai
9. Sound Ancestors - Madlib
10. New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning
11. Collapesd Into Sunbeams - Arlo Parks
12. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz
13. I've Been Trying To Tell You - Saint Etienne
14. The Art Of Losing - The Anchoress
15. Nine - Sault
16. Call Me If You Get Lost - Typer The Creator
17. Setting The Dogs On The Post-Puk Postman - Luke Haines
18. Flying Dream 1 - Elbow
19. Raise The Roof - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
20. Downhill From Everywhere - Jackson Browne
21. Chemtrailes Over The Country Club - Lana Del Rey
22. Cavalcade - Black Midi
23. Busy Guy - Stephen Fretwell
24. In Translation - Peter Hammill
25. For Free - David Crosby


Albumism top 100: www.albumism.com/lists/best-albums-of-2021-index

1. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
2. Nitin Sawhney - Immigrants
3. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The TCOTU Symphony Orchestra - Promises
5. Garbage - No Gods No Masters
6. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future
7. Cleo Sol - Mother
8. Tori Amos - Ocean To Ocean
9. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
10. Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant

Slant Magazine top 50: www.slantmagazine.com/music/the-50-best-albums-of-2021/

1. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
2. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
3. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters
4. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
5. Low - Hey What
6. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
7. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
8. serpentwithfeet - DEACON
9. PinkPantheress - to hell with it
10. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time

Loud and Quiet top 40: www.loudandquiet.com/short/loud-and-quiet-albums-of-the-year-2021/

1. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
2. John Glacier - SHILOH: Lost for Words
3. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
4. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
5. Audiobooks - Astro Tough
6. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The TCOTU Symphony Orchestra - Promises
7. Anna B Savage - A Common Turn
8. Theon Cross - Intra-I
9. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
10. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

Popmatters top 75: www.popmatters.com/75-best-albums-of-2021

1. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
2. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The TCOTU Symphony Orchestra - Promises
3. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
4. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
5. Dawn Richard - Second Line
6. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
7. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed
8. Dave - We're All Alone In This Together
9. Lil Nas X - MONTERO
10. Rochelle Jordan - Play with the Changes

God Is In the TV top 100: www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2021/12/08/god-is-in-the-tv-albums-of-2021-50-1/

1. Desperate Journalist - Maximum Sorrow!
2. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
3. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
4. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
5. W. H. Lung - Vanities
6. The Anchoress - The Art Of Losing
7. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
8. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
9. The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy
10. Anna B Savage - A Common Turn
11. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
12. Drug Store Romeos - The world within our bedrooms
13. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
14. We Are Scientists - Huffy
15. Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
16. JOHN - Nocturnal Manoeuvres
17. Kiwi Jr. - Cooler Returns
18. The Felice Brothers - From Dreams to Dust
19. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
20. Lael Neale - Acquainted with Night

Desperate Journalist? Congrats on your #1 placement columbia rocks man!

Desperate forum gag? Congrats on your #1 placement Mahoney!

bit harsh m8

I woz only messing around m8

NME top 50: www.nme.com/big-reads/nme-best-albums-of-the-year-2021-3114833

1. Sam Fender, ‘Seventeen Going Under’
2. Little Simz, ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’
3. Wolf Alice, ‘Blue Weekend’
4. Self Esteem, ‘Prioritise Pleasure’
5. Tyler, the Creator, ‘Call Me If You Get Lost’
6. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, ‘Carnage’
7. Arlo Parks, ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’
8. Halsey, ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’
9. Turnstile, ‘Glow On’
10. Olivia Rodrigo, ‘Sour’