Year-End Lists

Albumism: The 100 Best Albums of 2021

1. Little Simz
   Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
2. Nitin Sawhney
   Immigrants
3. Wolf Alice
   Blue Weekend
4. Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London 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
11. Halsey
    If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
12. Chvrches
    Screen Violence
13. Duran Duran
    Future Past
14. Saint Etienne
    I've Been Trying To Tell You
15. Laura Mvula
    Pink Noise
16. Sault
    Nine
17. Kacey Musgraves
    Star-Crossed
18. Lady Blackbird
    Black Acid Soul
19. Liz Phair
    Soberish
20. Morcheeba
    Blackest Blue
21. Juliana Hatfield
    Blood
22. London Grammar
    Californian Soil
23. Billie Eilish
    Happier Than Ever
24. Nas
    King's Disease II
25. Black Coffee
    Subconsciously
26. Dave
    We're All Alone in This Together
27. Róisín Murphy
    Crooked Machine
28. Marina
    Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land
29. Natalie Imbruglia
    Firebird
30. Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy
    Son
31. Elbow
    Flying Dream 1
32. Wesley Joseph
    Ultramarine
33. Jon Batiste
    We Are
34. Texas
    Hi
35. Julien Baker
    Little Oblivions
36. STR4TA
    Aspects
37. Damon Albarn
    The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
38. Kate Ceberano
    Sweet Inspiration
39. Foo Fighters
    Medicine at Midnight
40. Mustafa
    When Smoke Rises
41. Aimee Mann
    Queens of the Summer Hotel
42. Yebba
    Dawn
43. Lana Del Rey
    Chemtrails over the Country Club
44. Joel Culpepper
    Sgt Culpepper
45. Adele
    30
46. Mara TK
    Bad Meditation
47. Scrimshire
    Nothing Feels Like Everything
48. Esther Rose
    How Many Times
49. Madlib
    Sound Ancestors
50. Celeste
    Not Your Muse
51. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
    Hunter and the Dog Star
52. The Weather Station
    Ignorance
53. Olivia Rodrigo
    Sour
54. Curtis Harding
    If Words Were Flowers
55. Tyler, The Creator
    Call Me If You Get Lost
56. Manic Street Preachers
    The Ultra Vivid Lament
57. Jane Weaver
    Flock
58. Alfa Mist
    Bring Backs
59. St. Vincent
    Daddy's Home
60. Natalie Hemby
    Pins and Needles
61. Brandee Younger
    Somewhere Different
62. Japanese Breakfast
    Jubilee
63. Jordan Rakei
    What We Call Life
64. Valerie June
    The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
65. Puma Blue
    In Praise of Shadows
66. Lucy Dacus
    Home Video
67. Brandi Carlile
    In These Silent Days
68. James Blake
    Friends That Break Your Heart
69. Emma-Jean Thackray
    Yellow
70. Dry Cleaning
    New Long Leg
71. Rosie Frater-Taylor
    Bloom
72. Ladyhawke
    Time Flies
73. Nao
    And Then Life Was Beautiful
74. Modest Mouse
    The Golden Casket
75. Snail Mail
    Valentine
76. Silk Sonic
    An Evening with Silk Sonic
77. Dot Allison
    Heart-Shaped Scars
78. The Killers
    Pressure Machine
79. Yola
    Stand For Myself
80. Dean Wareham
    I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A.
81. H.E.R.
    Back of My Mind
82. Idles
    Crawler
83. Cassandra Jenkins
    An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
84. Martha Wainwright
    Love Will Be Reborn
85. Tasha
    Tell Me What You Miss The Most
86. Joy Orbison
    still slipping vol. 1
87. Low
    Hey What
88. Sleater-Kinney
    Path of Wellness
89. Charlotte Day Wilson
    Alpha
90. Mogwai
    As The Love Continues
91. The Staves
    Good Woman
92. Sananda Maitreya
    Pandora's Playhouse
93. Laura Stevenson
    Laura Stevenson
94. Terrace Martin
    Drones
95. The Coral
    Coral Island
96. The War on Drugs
    I Don’t Live Here Anymore
97. Myles Sanko
    Memories Of Love
98. SG Lewis
    Times
99. John Mayer
    Sob Rock
100. Kacy Hill
     Simple, Sweet, and Smiling