YEAR END MEGALIST 2021!!!!!!

Here’s my list. Points listed to the right of the album.

1. John R. Miller - Depricated (20)
2. Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood (15)
3. Vincent Neil Emerson - S/T (10)
4. Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolves (10)
5. Scott Hirsch - Windless Day (10)
6. Hiss Golden Messenger - Quietly Blowing It (10)
7. Charlie Parr - Last of the Better Days Ahead (10)
8. Natalie Bergman - Mercy (5)
9. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air (5)
10. Margo Cilker - Pohorylle (5)

11. Rose City Band - Earth Trip
12. James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds
13. Billy Strings - Renewal
14. Allison Russell - Outside Child
15. Rosali - No Medium
16. Modern Nature - Island of Noise
17. Helado Negro - Far In
18. Buffalo Nichols - S/T
19. Wiki - Half God
20. Ryley Walker - Course In Fable

21. The Weather Station - Ignorance
22. Tre Burt - You, Yeah, You
23. Phil Cook - All These Years
24. Tonstartssbandht - Petunia
25. Trevor Sensor - On Account of Exile, Vol 1 & 2
26. Cory Hanson - Pale Horse Rider
27. Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us
28. Matthew E. White - K Bay
29. Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow
30. Bobby Lee - Origin Myths

31. Myriam Gendron - Ma delire - Songs of love, lost & found
32. Jeff Parker - Forfolks
33. Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises
34. Mouth Painter - Tropicale Moon
35. Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti/Balens Cho
36. Hayden Pedigo - Letting Go
37. Nathan Salsburg - Psalms
38. Joseph Allred - Branches and Leaves
39. Ty Segall - Harmonizer
40. Low - HEY WHAT

41. Natalie Jane Hill - Solely
42. The Reds, Pinks, and Purples - Uncommon Weather
43. Steve Gunn - Other You
44. Lee Bagget - Just a Minute
45. Chales Wesley Godwin - How the Mighty Fall
46. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
47. Doran - Doran
48. Tobacco City - Tobacco City, USA
49. Dori Freeman - Ten Thousand Roses
50. Danny Kroha - Detroit Blue


Others that I really liked..
Adeline Hotel - The Cherries Are Speaking/Good Timing
Ryley Walker, Ryan Jewell, Andrew Scott Young - Post Wook
Pachyman - The Return of..
Valerie June - The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
Sierra Ferrel - Long Time Coming
Special Friend - Ennemi Commun
Maston - Souvenir
Eight Point Star - S/T
Erika de Casier - Sensational
Neal Francis - In Plain Sight
Karima Walker - Walking the Dreaming Body
Julian Lage - Squint
Men I Trust - Untourable Album
Bill MacKay & Nathan Bowles - Keys
Cindy - 1:2
Golden Brown - Gems and Minerals
Amaro Freitas - Sankofa
Black Twig Pickers - Friends Peace
Patrick Shiroishi - Hidemi
Matthew J. Rolin - The Dreaming Bridge
Irreversible Entanglements - Open the Gates
Hiss Golden Messenger - Oh Come All Ye Faithful
 
Lone - Always Inside Your head 20
Celeste - Not Your Muse 20
Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power 10
El Michels Affair Meets Liam Bailey ‎– Ekundayo Inversions 10
Badbadnotgood - Talk Memory 8
Kanye West - Donda 8
Madlib - Sound Ancestors 8
Jane Weaver - Flock 5
edIT - Come to Grips 5
Blanck Mass - In Ferneaux 2
Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost 2
Tha God Fahim / Your Old Droog - Tha Wolf On Wall St 2

Below has no points and I need more time to absorb but if I did they probably would have points:
Gaspard Auge - Escapades
Maple Glider - To Enjoy Is The Only Thing
Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of Hell
Atmosphere - WORD?
Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic
Aaron Frazer - Introducing…
Hiatus Kayote - Mood Valiant
Altin Gün (Yol)
Low - HEY WHAT
Durand Jones & the Indications - Private Space
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee at State's End!
Mogwai - As the Love Continues
Your old droog - Space bar
Mach-hommy Balens cho
 
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Not my final list but hoping to get some points in for my faves.

10 points each

Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
The Killers - Pressure Machine
Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
Sons of Kemet- Black To The Future
Turnstile - Glow On
Self Esteem - Prioritize Pleasure
Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament
Squid- Bright Green Field
Foxing - Draw Down The Moon
Faye Webster- I Know I’m Funny haha
 
Top 10

01. TOBACCO - Fucked Up Friends 3
02. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
03. Panopticon - …And Again Into The Light
04. Dr. Colossus - I’m A Stupid Moron With An Ugly Face And A Big Butt And My Butt Smells And I Like To Kiss My Own Butt
05. Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
06. Mild High Club - Going Going Gone
07. Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of Hell
08. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - L.W.
09. Sunn O))) - Metta, Benevolence. BBC 6Music: Live on the Invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs
10. Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

Honorable mentions / EPs

•Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - First Flight to Tokyo: the Lost 1961 Recordings
•Abiotic - Ikigai
•Bongzilla - Weedconsin
•Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - Helm of Sorrow EP
•Shirley Collins - Crowlink EP
 
Enji - Ursgal (20 points)
Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends 3 (10 points)
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker - descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (10 points)
Eivind Aarset - Phantasmagoria or a Different Kind of Journey (10 points)
BLACK MIDI - Cavalcade (10 points)
Merope - Salm (10 points)
Turnstile - Glow On (10 points)
Fly Pan Am - Frontera (10 points)
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 points)

Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises (feat. London Symphony Orchestra)
Silver Synthetic - Silver Synthetic
THE DRIN - Engines Sing for the Pale Moon
Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals
Green-House - Music for Living Spaces
Yuma Uesaka, Cat Toren, Colin Hinton - Ocelot
Bobby Lee - Origin Myths
Madlib - Sound Ancestors
Hiro Kone - Silvercoat the throng
Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us
Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
MICROCORPS - XMIT
Soccer96 - Dopamine
Taqbir - Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause EP
Barry Adamson - Steal Away EP
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Ding Dong. You're Dead.
Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life
picnic - picnic
Garage A Trois - Calm Down Cologne
Robert Plant, Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof
Jonny Greenwood - The Power Of The Dog (Music from the Netflix Film)

Edit: Removed list formatting to (hopefully) help @Woob_woob!
 
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Yeah I don't know - I feel like I was pretty checked out this year, but these were the blips on my radar (shoutout to the JQBX crew for introducing me to most of these!)

1. Lord Huron - Long Lost (12 points)
2. Danielle Durack - No Place (11 points)
3. James Blake - Friends that Break Your Heart (11 points)
4. Darkside - Spiral (10 points)
5. Celeste - Not Your Muse (10 points)
6. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind (10 points)
7. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (9 points)
8. Pauline Anna Strom - Angel Tears in Sunlight (9 points)
9. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home (9 points)
10. Sun June - Somewhere (9 points)

EDIT: corrected spelling of Angelo De Augustine's name
 
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SQUID - Bright Green Field (20)

Shad - TAO (15)

Isaiah Rashad - The House is Burning (10)
Jon Batiste - WE ARE (10)
Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket (10)
Shame - Drunk Tank Pink (10)
Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz (10)

Every Time I Die - Radical (5)
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (5)
MONO - Pilgrimage of the Soul (5)

Honourable Mention
Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort To Me
Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory
Black Country, New Road - for the first time
Błoto - Kwasy i zasady
Chet Faker - Hotel Surrender
Constant Follower - Neither Is, nor Ever Was
Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Ducks Ltd - Modern Fiction
Fiddlehead - Between the Richness
Floatie - Voyage Out
IDLES - Crawler
Iceage - Seek Shelter
Kiwi Jr - Cooler Returns
Makaya McCraven - Deciphering The Message
Mogwai - As The Love Continues
Sir Was - Let The Morning Come
Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
Villagers - Fever Dreams
Vince Staples - Vince Staples
 
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mutem said:
SQUID - Bright Green Field (20)

Shad - TAO (15)

Isaiah Rashad - The House is Burning (10)
Jon Batiste - WE ARE (10)
Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket (10)
Shame - Drunk Tank Pink (10)
Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz (10)

Every Time I Die - Radical (5)
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (5)
MONO - Pilgrimage of the Soul (5)

Honourable Mention
Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort To Me
Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory
Black Country, New Road - for the first time
Błoto - Kwasy i zasady
Chet Faker - Hotel Surrender
Constant Follower - Neither Is, nor Ever Was
Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Ducks Ltd - Modern Fiction
Fiddlehead - Between the Richness
IDLES - Crawler
Iceage - Seek Shelter
Kiwi Jr - Cooler Returns
Makaya McCraven - Deciphering The Message
Mogwai - As The Love Continues
Sir Was - Let The Morning Come
Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
Villagers - Fever Dreams
Vince Staples - Vince Staples
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Way cool to see Shad so high on your list!
 
Woob_woob said:
Also next year I'm 100% requiring a single format of Band Name - Album (points). Yall are going to be the death of me with your charts and spreadsheets and bullet lists and number lists. It all just makes my life more difficult
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I mean, pretty sure if we all posted in a unified format a script could do the heavy lifting for you.
 
That means I can sneak some votes in here?

Deafheaven - Infinite Granite (20)
Low - Hey what (15)
Squid - Bright Green Fields (15)
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime (10)
My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket (7)
The War on Drugs - I don't Live Here Anymore (5)
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee (5)
Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This (5)
Really From - Really From (5)
Darkside - Spiral (5)
The Goon Sax - Mirror II (3)
Strand of Oaks - In Heaven. (3)
Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God (2)
 
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Ok, if you insist, I'll sneak my votes in last minute.

The Coral - Coral Island (20)
Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life (15)
W.H. Lung - Vanities (15)
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (15)
L'Imperatrice - Tako Tsubo (10)
Kiwi Jr - Cooler Returns (10)
Orgone - Moonshadows (5)
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (2)
Amyl And The Sniffers - Comfort To Me (2)
Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates (2)
La Femme - Paradigmes (1)
Jungle - Loving In Stereo (1)
Delvon Lamarr Trio - I Told You So (1)
Nation Of Language - A Way Forward (1)

EDIT: fixed my point allocation to respect the 20pt/album limit
 
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Turbo said:
Ok, if you insist, I'll sneak my votes in last minute.

The Coral - Coral Island (30)
Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life (15)
W.H. Lung - Vanities (15)
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (10)
L'Imperatrice - Tako Tsubo (10)
Kiwi Jr - Cooler Returns (5)
Orgone - Moonshadows (5)
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (2)
Amyl And The Sniffers - Comfort To Me (2)
Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates (2)
La Femme - Paradigmes (1)
Jungle - Loving In Stereo (1)
Delvon Lamarr Trio - I Told You So (1)
Nation Of Language - A Way Forward (1)
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Did I underestimate a 2021 album from The Coral?
 
Woob_woob said:
Also next year I'm 100% requiring a single format of Band Name - Album (points). Yall are going to be the death of me with your charts and spreadsheets and bullet lists and number lists. It all just makes my life more difficult
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Sorry the kiddo is sick but happy I could get my list in.

Armand Hammer - Haram - 10
Lukah - When the Black Hand Touches You - 10
Boldy James - Bo Jackson - 10
Wavves - Hideaway -10
King Gizzard - Butterfly 3000 - 10
The Murlocs - Bittersweet Demons - 10
Cory Hanson - Pale Horse Rider - 10
Wharflurch - Psychedelic Realms ov Hell -10
Khemmis - Deceiver - 10
Enforced - Kill Grid - 10
 
Mach-Hommy - Balens Cho - (10)
Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti (9)
Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern (8)
Tyler the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost (7)
Kanye West - Donda (7)
My Morning Jacket - S/T (6)
Vince Staples - S/T (6)
Boldy James x Alchemist Bo Jackson (5)
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be an Introvert (5)
BBNG - Talk Memory (5)
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever (4)
Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic (4)
CRIMEAPPLE - YDFWC? (3)
Homeshake - Under The Weather (3)
Wiki - Half God (3)
Isaiah Rashad - The House is Burning (2)
Leon Bridges - Gold Diggers Sound (2)
Giveon - When It's All Said And Done... Take Time (2)
Baby Keem - Melodic Blue (2)
Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth (2)
BLK ODYSSY - BLK VINTAGE (1)
Your Old Droog Space Bar (1)
Westside Gunn HWH8(A+B) (1)
CRIMEAPPLE - Sancocho (1)
Evidence - Unlearning Vol. 1 (1)

HONORABLE MENTION - Zach Fox - Shut the fuck up talking to me
 
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