Year-End Lists

No Ripcord: The Best Albums of 2021

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022]

1. Prioritise Pleasure
   Self Esteem
2. Jubilee
   Japanese Breakfast
3. New Long Leg
   Dry Cleaning
4. Blue Weekend
   Wolf Alice
5. I Don’t Live Here Anymore
   The War on Drugs
6. Black To The Future
   Sons of Kemet
7. Let Me Do One More
   illuminati hotties
8. An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
   Cassandra Jenkins
9. Entertainment, Death
   The Spirit Of The Beehive
10. Call Me If You Get Lost
    Tyler, The Creator
11. Collapsed in Sunbeams
    Arlo Parks
12. Carnage
    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
13. Cooler Returns
    Kiwi Jr.
14. Seek Shelter
    Iceage
15. Hey What
    Low
16. I Know I'm Funny haha
    Faye Webster
17. Drunk Tank Pink
    Shame
18. Valentine
    Snail Mail
19. Bright Green Field
    Squid
20. Ignorance
    The Weather Station
21. Promises
    Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
22. Ultrapop
    The Armed
23. Modern Fiction
    Ducks Ltd.
24. Draw Down The Moon
    Foxing
25. Home Video
    Lucy Dacus
26. Menneskekollektivet
    Lost Girls
27. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
    Little Simz
28. Infinite Granite
    Deafheaven
29. Cool Dry Place
    Katy Kirby
30. Cavalcade
    black midi
31. The Shadow I Remember
    Cloud Nothings
32. Sensational
    Erika de Casier
33. Glow On
    Turnstile
34. Shade
    Grouper
35. For the First Time
    Black Country, New Road
36. Introducing...
    Aaron Frazer
37. How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
    Big Red Machine
38. Black Metal 2
    Dean Blunt
39. Geist
    Shannon Lay
40. Doomin' Sun
    Bachelor
41. Smiling with No Teeth
    Genesis Owusu
42. Mirror II
    The Goon Sax
43. Nine
    Sault
44. Afrique Victime
    Mdou Moctar
45. Sympathy for Life
    Parquet Courts
46. The Golden Casket
    Modest Mouse
47. Sour
    Olivia Rodrigo
48. Chemtrails over the Country Club
    Lana Del Rey
49. Daddy's Home
    St. Vincent
50. Sling
    Clairo