Best Music of 2021

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Love it! It has a GOT vibe to it

LOL, I love that you got GOT out of this. You obviously didn’t go to Catholic school as a kid.

 

[Hollywood]

LOL, I love that you got GOT out of this. You obviously didn’t go to Catholic school as a kid.

As a matter of fact I did

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

As a matter of fact I did

and you got more of a GOT vibe than a Madonna with Child vibe?

 

[Hollywood]

and you got more of a GOT vibe than a Madonna with Child vibe?

Somehow I did

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Somehow I did

I blame the nuns.

 

[Hollywood]

New Courtney Barnett single drop and album announcement Things Take Time, Take Time will be released on November 12th

 

[Hollywood]

New Deafheaven single

 

[Hollywood]

15 Tracks That Prove 2021 Is the Year of the Cover Song | Exclaim!

With touring off the table, fans to entertain and an algorithm that demands a steady flow of fresh content, many artists have been releasing...

exclaim.ca

 

[avecigrec]

chamber folk / post-rock / modern classical

 

[musicjunkiegreg]

Just Bandcamp-discovered this band, A Formal Horse. Their sophomore album is dropping July 23rd. The two singles from the album are absolute

 

[Turbo]

I blame the nuns.

I had a grade 5 nun teacher that kept referring to the dictionary as "mon ami Dic" ("my friend Dic"). Like in the sentence "utilise ton ami Dic" ("you have to use your friend Dic"). I'm 49 and still chuckling about it.

 

[supahypeag]

I haven't been grabbed by many of the new releases this year. Here's my mid-year list.

Top Tier (Bought For Sure):
Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
The Alchemist - This Thing of Ours (EP)
Flying Lotus - Yasuke

Most Anticipated
I pre-ordered the new albums by Billie Eilish and Little Simz, based solely on my enjoyment of their previous work.

Second Tier (I liked a lot once but couldn't stream over and over and over)
Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha
Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

Third Tier (I liked a little but also couldn't really get into for whatever reason)
Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall - The Marfa Tapes
Squid - Bright Green Field

 

[Taevis]

Great post-rock!

 

[Rip_City]

Great post-rock!

This release is a mammoth and in my top10.

 

[avecigrec]

Great post-rock!

This release is a mammoth and in my top10

Incredible album. I expect it to climb higher on my list upon further listens, and really look forward to news of a vinyl release.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

The 10 Best Albums of 2021 (So Far)

Olivia Rodrigo captured the teens (and the old millennials). Tyler got all the heads. Who else captivated us in the first half of the year?

www.theringer.com

 

[Hollywood]

New Caroline Polachek! LETS GO!!

 

[Rip_City]

New Caroline Polachek! LETS GO!!

I was just OK on this. Seems that she partially eschewed that art pop sound I was enamored with from her debut.

 

[wokeupnew]

New Caroline Polachek! LETS GO!!

I was just OK on this. Seems that she partially eschewed that art pop sound I was enamored with from her debut.

It seems like a lot of indie rock/indie adjacent artists and bands are going more pop. Not something that I'm a fan of personally, thought there is the benefit of broader appeal from casual fans. Not to get too long winded, but over the past decade more pop music has been "accepted" more often by indie musicians/circles/publications so artists are freer to express themselves by creating more pop-friendly music. I'm not complaining, just an observation.

 

[Hollywood]

I was just OK on this. Seems that she partially eschewed that art pop sound I was enamored with from her debut.

I personally loved it