Best Music of 2021

So here's my Q4 chart. I haven't come around to listen to all new releases, so I might miss some great albums. Thanks a lot to @Rip_City for the great Ostrakon suggestion. Here's my Top 30. :)

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1. Irreversible Entanglements - Open the Gates

2. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters

3. Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

4. Lotic - Water

5. Ducks Ltd. - Modern Fiction

6. RAY BLK - Access Denied



7. Tori Amos - Ocean to Ocean

8. Joan as Police Woman - The Solution Is Restless

9. Poppy - Flux

10. Theon Cross - Intra-I

11. Audiobooks - Astro Tough

12. Snoop Dogg - Snoop Dogg Presents Algorithm


13. Adele - 30

14. Badflower - This Is How The World Ends

15. Remi Wolf - Juno

16. Aeon Station - Observatory

17. Summer Walker - Still Over It

18. Dave Gahan - Metal Heart




19. JPEGMAFIA - LP! [OFFLINE]

20. Haviah Mighty - Stock Exchange

21. Penelope Isles - Which Way To Happy

22. Makaya McCraven - Deciphering The Message

23. Die Ärzte - DUNKEL

24. Aesop Rock – Garbology


25. Pokey LaFarge - In The Blossom of Their Shade

26. Speedy Ortiz - Cutco

27. Tory Lanez - Alone At Prom

28. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats - The Future

29. Coeur de Pirate - Impossible à aimer

30. Pond - 9
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  1. Enji - Ursgal
  2. Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends 3
  3. Natural Information Society with Evan Parker - descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
  4. Eivind Aarset - Phantasmagoria or a Different Kind of Journey
  5. BLACK MIDI - Cavalcade
  6. Merope - Salm
  7. Turnstile - Glow On
  8. Fly Pan Am - Frontera
  9. CRAZY DOBERMAN - "everyone is rolling down a hill" or "the journey to the center of some arcane mystery and the entanglements of the vines and veins of the cosmic and unwieldy millieu encountered in the midst of that endeavor"
  10. Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises (feat. London Symphony Orchestra)
  11. Garage A Trois - Calm Down Cologne
  12. Silver Synthetic - Silver Synthetic
  13. THE DRIN - Engines Sing for the Pale Moon
  14. Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals
  15. Green-House - Music for Living Spaces
  16. Yuma Uesaka, Cat Toren, Colin Hinton - Ocelot
  17. Bobby Lee - Origin Myths
  18. Hiro Kone - Silvercoat the throng
  19. Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us
  20. Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
  21. MICROCORPS - XMIT
  22. Taqbir - Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause EP
  23. Barry Adamson - Steal Away EP
  24. Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Ding Dong. You're Dead.
  25. Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life
  26. picnic - picnic
  27. Robert Plant, Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof
  28. Jonny Greenwood - The Power Of The Dog (Music from the Netflix Film)
 
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So here's my Best of 2021 chart.

This was a year with lots and lots of great albums, checking out lots of new releases really paid off. I've discovered many artists new to me. It was quite difficult to pick my TOP 49, as there had been many more great releases. Positions are depending on mood. I'm looking forward to see what 2022 has in store for us musically.

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  1. Squid „Bright Green Field“
  2. Lana Del Rey „Blue Banisters“
  3. Celeste „Not my muse“
  4. Sons of Kemet „Black to the future“
  5. Billie Eilish „Happier than ever“
  6. Gemma Cullingford „Let me speak“
  7. Irreversible Entanglements „Open the gates“

  8. The Weather Station „Ignorance“
  9. Black Country, New Road „For the first time“
  10. St. Vincent „Daddy's home“
  11. Orla Gartland „Woman on the Internet“
  12. Still Corners „The Lost Exit“
  13. Halsey „If I can't have love, I want power“
  14. Japanese Breakfast „Jubilee“
  15. Lady Blackbird „Black Acid Soul“
  16. Soda Blonde „Small talk“
  17. Turnstile „Glow on“
  18. Francoiz Breut „Flux Flou de la foule“
  19. Altin Gün „Yol“
  20. Kanye West „Donda“
  21. Slayyyter „Troubled Paradise
  22. Matt Berry „The blue Elephant“
  23. Little Simz „Sometimes I may be introvert“
  24. Lana Del Rey „Chemtrails over the Country Club“
  25. Aaron Frazer „Introducing“
  26. Kiwi Jr. „Cooler Returns“
  27. Lingua Ignota „SINNER GET READY“
  28. Sleigh Bells „Texis“
  29. Damon Albarn „The nearer the fountain, more pure the stream flows“
  30. Chvrches „Screen Violence“
  31. Durand Jones & the Indications „Private Space“
  32. Men I Trust „Untourable album“
  33. Cassandra Jenkins „An Overview on Phenomenal Nature“
  34. Christone „Kingfish“ Ingram „662“
  35. The Notwist „Vertigo Days“
  36. Skeggs „Rehearsal“
  37. Middle Kids „Today we're the greatest“
  38. Dinosaur Jr. „Sweep it into Space“
  39. London Grammar „Californian Soil“
  40. Jane Weaver „Flock“
  41. Tori Amos „Ocean to Ocean“
  42. Royal Blood „Typhoons“
  43. Web Web „WEB MAX“
  44. Half Waif „Mythopoetics“
  45. Lotic „Water“
  46. Low „Hey What“
  47. Ray BLK „Access Denied“
  48. Prince „Welcome to America“
  49. Ducks LTD. „Modern Fiction“
 
wokeupnew said:
Update
  1. Men I Trust - Untourable Album
  2. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
  3. Kiwi Jr. - Cooler Returns
  4. Ducks Ltd. - Modern Fiction
  5. Laura Stevenson - Laura Stevenson
  6. Yung - Ongoing Dispute
  7. Molly Burch - Romantic Images
  8. Wednesday - Twin Plagues
  9. Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort to Me
  10. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
  11. Crumb - Ice Melt
  12. Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
  13. Snail Mail - Valentine
  14. Bedouine - Waysides
  15. Pledge - Haunted Visions
  16. Grouper - Shade
  17. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
  18. Eluvium - Virga II
  19. The Mountain Goats - Dark In Here
  20. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
  21. Cold Cave - Fate in Seven Lessons
  22. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
  23. The Antlers - Green to Gold
  24. Nils Frahm - Graz
  25. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind
  26. Nation of Language - A Way Forward
  27. CIVIC - Future Forecast
  28. Cloud Nothings - The Shadow I Remember
  29. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
  30. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Invisible Cities
  31. Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights
  32. Squid - Bright Green Field
  33. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
  34. Black Country, New Road - For the Frist Time
  35. black midi - Cavalcade
  36. Wet - Letter Blue
  37. The Weather Station - Ignorance
  38. Iceage - Seek Shelter
  39. Steady Holiday - Take The Corners Gently
  40. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space
  41. The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore

Decent, but not really my thing/just not enjoying it that much compared to other albums from the artist:
  • Faye Webster
  • Fiddlehead
  • Lightning Bug
  • Dry Cleaning
  • Mogwai
  • Idles
  • Teenage Fanclub
  • Middle Kids
  • Viagra Boys
  • Goat Girl
  • Death From Above 1979
  • Hurry

Still need to listen to more/excited for:
  • Remember Sports
  • Adult Mom
  • Ovlov
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Final Update!

 
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