Year-End Lists

Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2021

1. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
   Barn
2. The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band
   Both Ways
3. Spillage Village
   Spilligion
4. Olivia Rodrigo
   Sour
5. Burnt Sugar / The Arkestra Chamber
   Angels Over Oakanda
6. Peter Stampfel
   Peter Stampfel's 20th Century in 100 Songs
7. Tune-Yards
   sketchy.
8. illuminati hotties
   Let Me Do One More
9. Low Cut Connie
   Tough Cookies: Best of the Quarantine Broadcasts
10. Nathan Bell
    Red, White and American Blues (it couldn't happen here)
11. Carly Pearce
    29
12. The Front Bottoms
    In Sickness & In Flames
13. Sleater-Kinney
    Path of Wellness
14. Chuck Berry
    Live From Blueberry Hill
15. CHAI
    WINK
16. Body Meπa
    The Work Is Slow
17. Billie Eilish
    Happier Than Ever
18. R.A.P. Ferreira
    purple moonlight pages
19. Lori McKenna
    Christmas is Right Here
20. various artists
    Sacred Soul of North Carolina
21. Joseph Spence
    Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing
22. Morgan Wade
    Reckless
23. Kalie Shorr
    I Got Here by Accident
24. Sarah Mary Chadwick
    Me & Ennui Are Friends, Baby
25. James McMurtry
    The Horses and the Hounds
26. Khaira Arby
    Live In New York
27. The Plastic People of the Universe
    Apokalyptickej Pták
28. Dry Cleaning
    Sweet Princess
29. Anansy Cissé
    Anoura
30. Onetwothree
    Onetwothree
31. Dave
    Psychodrama
32. Lucy Dacus
    Home Video
33. Paris
    Safe Space Invader
34. Juice WRLD
    Legends Never Die
35. Dave
    We're All Alone in This Together
36. Courtney Barnett
    Things Take Time, Take Time
37. Hayes Carll
    You Get It All
38. Gift Of Gab
    Finding Inspiration Somehow
39. Mereba
    AZEB
40. Dry Cleaning
    New Long Leg
41. Joe Fahey
    February On Ice
42. Thomas Anderson
    Ladies And Germs
43. Lana Del Rey
    Chemtrails over the Country Club
44. Mickey Guyton
    Remember Her Name
45. Mach-Hommy
    Pray For Haiti
46. Liz Phair
    Soberish
47. Idles
    Ultra Mono
48. Carly Pearce
    29: Written In Stone
49. Asleep At The Wheel
    Half A Hundred Years
50. Parquet Courts
    Sympathy for Life
51. Doja Cat
    Planet Her
52. Emily Duff
    Razor Blade Smile
53. Anthony Joseph
    The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives
54. Kasai Allstars
    Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound
55. R.A.P. Ferreira
    bob’s son: R.A.P. Ferreira in the garden level cafe of the scallops hotel
56. Sho Madjozi
    Limpopo Champions League
57. Lithics
    Tower of Age
58. Girl in Red
    If I Could Make It Go Quiet
59. Loretta Lynn
    Still Woman Enough
60. No-No Boy
    1975
61. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley
    11th Street, Sekondi
62. Garbage
    No Gods No Masters
63. illuminati hotties
    FREE I.H: This Is Not The One You've Been Waiting For
64. various artists
    I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico
65. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
    Georgia Blue
66. Carsie Blanton
    Love & Rage
67. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
    Way Down in the Rust Bucket
68. Vic Mensa
    I Tape
69. Eminem
    Music to Be Murdered By – Side B (Deluxe Edition)
70. Naeem
    Startisha
71. MIKE
    weight of the world