Year-End Lists

Dan DeLuca: The Best Albums of 2021, as published by The Philadelphia Inquirer

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019]

• Outside Child
  Allison Russell
• I Don’t Live Here Anymore
  The War on Drugs
• Sour
  Olivia Rodrigo
• Jubilee
  Japanese Breakfast
• Call Me If You Get Lost
  Tyler, The Creator
• Heaux Tales
  Jazmine Sullivan
• Hey What
  Low
• Home Video
  Lucy Dacus
• The Horses and the Hounds
  James McMurtry
• Afrique Victime
  Mdou Moctar

Honorable Mentions

• New Long Leg
  Dry Cleaning
• Happier Than Ever
  Billie Eilish
• The Marfa Tapes
  Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall
• The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
  Valerie June
• Cooler Returns
  Kiwi jr
• Raise The Roof
  Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
• Nine
  Sault
• In Heaven
  Strand of Oaks
• Ignorance
  The Weather Station
• I Know I'm Funny haha
  Faye Webster