Best Music of 2021

Sorry for this being quite late, but here's finally my subjectively picked favorite 38 albums of Q3. As usual I've included the last release week of Q2 and excluded the last Friday of Q3. A lot of great albums had been released, and there are many still pretty good albums that didn't make my cut. They`re ranked according to what I like most, but of course this is due to change later on. :)


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1) Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
2) Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space
3) Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul
4) Tigercub - Stop Beating on My Heart (Like a Bass Drum)
5) Kanye West - DONDA

6) Turnstile - Glow On
7) LINGUA IGNOTA - SINNER GET READY
8) Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
9) Low - HEY WHAT
10) Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

11) Half Waif - Mythopoetics
12) Sleigh Bells - Texis
13) Gemma Cullingford - Let Me Speak
14) Blockhead - Space Werewolves Will Be the End of Us All
15) Web Web - WEB MAX

16) Soda Blonde - Small Talk
17) Men I Trust - Untourable Album
18) Prince - Welcome 2 America
19) Orla Gartland - Woman on the Internet
20) Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - 662

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21) Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort To Me
22) Breeze - Only Up
23) CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
24) Villagers - Fever Dreams
25) Lil Nas X - MONTERO
26) Desperate Journalist - Maximum Sorrow!

27) Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic
28) Tommy Genesis - goldilocks x
29) Yola - Stand For Myself
30) Imagine Dragons - Mercury - Act 1
31) The Bug - Fire
32) THE DIABOLICAL LIBERTIES - Birds of Paradise

33) Maty Noyes - The Feeling's Mutual
34) Jake Bugg - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
35) The Garrys - Get Thee to a Nunnery
36) Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
37) Haiku Salut - The Hill, The Light, The Ghost
38) Cavs - CAVS
 
Sorry for this being quite late, but here's finally my subjectively picked favorite 38 albums of Q3. As usual I've included the last release week of Q2 and excluded the last Friday of Q3. A lot of great albums had been released, and there are many still pretty good albums that didn't make my cut. They`re ranked according to what I like most, but of course this is due to change later on. :)


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1) Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
2) Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space
3) Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul
4) Tigercub - Stop Beating on My Heart (Like a Bass Drum)
5) Kanye West - DONDA

6) Turnstile - Glow On
7) LINGUA IGNOTA - SINNER GET READY
8) Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
9) Low - HEY WHAT
10) Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

11) Half Waif - Mythopoetics
12) Sleigh Bells - Texis
13) Gemma Cullingford - Let Me Speak
14) Blockhead - Space Werewolves Will Be the End of Us All
15) Web Web - WEB MAX

16) Soda Blonde - Small Talk
17) Men I Trust - Untourable Album
18) Prince - Welcome 2 America
19) Orla Gartland - Woman on the Internet
20) Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - 662

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21) Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort To Me
22) Breeze - Only Up
23) CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
24) Villagers - Fever Dreams
25) Lil Nas X - MONTERO
26) Desperate Journalist - Maximum Sorrow!

27) Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic
28) Tommy Genesis - goldilocks x
29) Yola - Stand For Myself
30) Imagine Dragons - Mercury - Act 1
31) The Bug - Fire
32) THE DIABOLICAL LIBERTIES - Birds of Paradise

33) Maty Noyes - The Feeling's Mutual
34) Jake Bugg - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
35) The Garrys - Get Thee to a Nunnery
36) Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
37) Haiku Salut - The Hill, The Light, The Ghost
38) Cavs - CAVS

Web Web!!
 
Top albums

In the running: (NOT THE FINAL LIST THIS IS A RANDOM ORDER)
  1. Death By Rock And Roll ~ The Pretty Reckless
  2. Screen Violence ~ CHVRCHES
  3. Sour ~ Olivia Rodrigo
  4. This Is The Way ~ The Brown Goose
  5. Mammoth WVH ~ Mammoth WVH
  6. The Ides Of March ~ Myles Kennedy
  7. FLOWERS FOR VASES/Decansos ~ Hayley Williams
  8. Cry Forever ~ Amy Shark
  9. American Dream ~ Diamanté
  10. Medicine At Midnight ~ Foo Fighters
  11. Versatile ~ Pop Evil
  12. Umbra ~ Grayscale
  13. Solar Power ~ Lorde
  14. Senjutsu ~ Iron Maiden
  15. Nowhere Generation ~ Rise Against
  16. A Touch of the Beat Gets You Up on Your Feet Gets You Out and Then Into the Sun ~ Aly & AJ
  17. Xoxo: From Love & Anxiety In Real Time ~ The Maine

To listen to:

  1. When Facing The Things We Turn Away From ~ Luke Hemings
  2. I Only Want To Live Once ~ John The Ghost
  3. Eternal Blue ~ Spiritbox
  4. Below ~ Beartooth
  5. Valentine ~ Snail Mail
  6. Daddy’s Home ~ St. Vincent
  7. Sound Ancestors ~ Madlib




Just missed

  1. Dearly Beloved ~ Daughtry
 
A little late but here's my updated end of the year list after Q3. The top 3 are all pretty interchangeable for me right now so that'll be fun to figure out at the end of the year.

  1. Celeste - Not Your Muse
  2. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
  3. Yola - Stand For Myself
  4. Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
  5. Aaron Frazer - Introducing…
  6. Justin Bieber - Justice
  7. The Black Keys - Delta Kream
  8. Pink Sweat$ - PINK PLANET
  9. Jungle - Loving In Stereo
  10. Jeremiah Fraites - Piano Piano
  11. Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space
  12. Kacey Musgraves - Star-Crossed
  13. Lake Street Dive - Obviously

Enjoy:
-Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
-Jade Bird - Different Kinds of Light
-True Loves - Sunday Afternoon
-El Michels Affair Meets Liam Bailey ‎– Ekundayo Inversions
-Surfaces - Pacifico
-Kanye West - Donda
-Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams
-John Splithoff - All In
-Jorja Smith - Be Right Back
-Amythyst Kiah - Wary + Strange
-Mat Kearney - January Flower
-Robert Finley - Sharecropper’s Son
-Greentea Peng - MAN MADE
-Madlib - Sound Ancestors
-Greta Van Fleet - The Battle at Garden's Gate
-Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Told You So
-Lushlife - Redamancy
-Jane Weaver - Flock
-Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood
-Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes with Attachments
-Langhorne Slim - Strawberry Mansion

Need More Time With:
-Holy Hive - Holy Hive
-Solemn Brigham - South Sinner Street
-Anderson East - Maybe We Never Die
-Dakota Jones - Black Light
-Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic
-Yebba - Dawn
-Lil Nas X - MONTERO

Most Anticipated:
-Ed Sheeran - = (10/29)
-Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - The Future (11/5)
-Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers (11/5)
-Silk Sonic (if it happens haha)
 
Sorry for this being quite late, but here's finally my subjectively picked favorite 38 albums of Q3. As usual I've included the last release week of Q2 and excluded the last Friday of Q3. A lot of great albums had been released, and there are many still pretty good albums that didn't make my cut. They`re ranked according to what I like most, but of course this is due to change later on. :)


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1) Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
2) Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space
3) Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul
4) Tigercub - Stop Beating on My Heart (Like a Bass Drum)
5) Kanye West - DONDA

6) Turnstile - Glow On
7) LINGUA IGNOTA - SINNER GET READY
8) Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
9) Low - HEY WHAT
10) Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

11) Half Waif - Mythopoetics
12) Sleigh Bells - Texis
13) Gemma Cullingford - Let Me Speak
14) Blockhead - Space Werewolves Will Be the End of Us All
15) Web Web - WEB MAX

16) Soda Blonde - Small Talk
17) Men I Trust - Untourable Album
18) Prince - Welcome 2 America
19) Orla Gartland - Woman on the Internet
20) Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - 662

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21) Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort To Me
22) Breeze - Only Up
23) CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
24) Villagers - Fever Dreams
25) Lil Nas X - MONTERO
26) Desperate Journalist - Maximum Sorrow!

27) Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic
28) Tommy Genesis - goldilocks x
29) Yola - Stand For Myself
30) Imagine Dragons - Mercury - Act 1
31) The Bug - Fire
32) THE DIABOLICAL LIBERTIES - Birds of Paradise

33) Maty Noyes - The Feeling's Mutual
34) Jake Bugg - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
35) The Garrys - Get Thee to a Nunnery
36) Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
37) Haiku Salut - The Hill, The Light, The Ghost
38) Cavs - CAVS
Glad to see Orla getting some love! One of my faves of Q3 as well ✌
 
If any one of you want a download code for Ducks Ltd's Get Bleak EP, I have an extra.

There was one with the record and I already got one from purchasing via bandcamp.
They should have just included the EP with the LP. The LP is so short I have a feeling I will be listening to them a lot together. Both are great though. All killer, no filler.
 
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