Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2021

1. Japanese Breakfast
   Jubilee
2. Wolf Alice
   Blue Weekend
3. Low
   Hey What
4. Dry Cleaning
   New Long Leg
5. Cassandra Jenkins
   An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
6. The War on Drugs
   I Don’t Live Here Anymore
7. Arlo Parks
   Collapsed in Sunbeams
8. Lucy Dacus
   Home Video
9. The Weather Station
   Ignorance
10. Lump
    Animal
11. Nation of Language
    A Way Forward
12. Magdalena Bay
    Mercurial World
13. Ora The Molecule
    Human Safari
14. Julien Baker
    Little Oblivions
15. Piroshka
    Love Drips & Gathers
16. Modest Mouse
    The Golden Casket
17. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
    Carnage
18. Snail Mail
    Valentine
19. Chvrches
    Screen Violence
20. Squid
    Bright Green Field
21. Courtney Barnett
    Things Take Time, Take Time
22. Penelope Isles
    Which Way To Happy
23. John Grant
    Boy from Michigan
24. Arab Strap
    As Days Get Dark
25. Geese
    Disco
26. Little Simz
    Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
27. illuminati hotties
    Let Me Do One More
28. Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine
    A Beginner's Mind
29. Still Corners
    The Last Exit
30. Flock of Dimes
    Head of Roses
31. Self Esteem
    Prioritise Pleasure
32. Spellling
    The Turning Wheel
33. Mdou Moctar
    Afrique Victime
34. The Goon Sax
    Mirror II
35. Black Country, New Road
    For the First Time
36. Hovvdy
    True Love
37. Faye Webster
    I Know I'm Funny Haha
38. St. Vincent
    Daddy's Home
39. Jane Weaver
    Flock
40. Iceage
    Seek Shelter
41. Elbow
    Flying Dream 1
42. Sleaford Mods
    Spare Ribs
43. Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
    Promises
44. CHAI
    WINK
45. Idles
    Crawler
46. Gruff Rhys
    Seeking New Gods
47. Mogwai
    As The Love Continues
48. Water From Your Eyes
    Structure
49. Torres
    Thirstier
50. Ducks Ltd.
    Modern Fiction
51. Mega Bog
    Life, and Another
52. Field Music
    Flat White Moon
53. The Anchoress
    The Art of Losing
54. W.H. Lung
    Vanities
55. Sam Evian
    Time To Melt
56. Pom Pom Squad
    Death of a Cheerleader
57. Deafheaven
    Infinite Granite
58. Parquet Courts
    Sympathy for Life
59. Wednesday
    Twin Plagues
60. Indigo De Souza
    Any Shape You Take
61. serpentwithfeet
    Deacon
62. Aeon Station
    Observatory
63. Shame
    Drunk Tank Pink
64. Villagers
    Fever Dreams
65. Turnstile
    Glow On
66. Bachelor
    Doomin' Sun
67. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    G_d's Pee at State's End!
68. Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth
    Utopian Ashes
69. Pip Blom
    Welcome Break
70. Viagra Boys
    Welfare Jazz
71. Lael Neale
    Acquainted with Night
72. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
    Butterfly 3000
73. Lost Girls
    Menneskekollektivet
74. Damon Albarn
    The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
75. Goat Girl
    On All Fours
76. Beachy Head
    Beachy Head
77. Low Hummer
    Modern Tricks for Living
78. Makthaverskan
    För Allting
79. Saint Etienne
    I've Been Trying To Tell You
80. Midnight Sister
    Painting the Roses
81. Baio
    Dead Hand Control
82. Manic Street Preachers
    The Ultra Vivid Lament
83. Desperate Journalist
    Maximum Sorrow!
84. Joy Formidable
    Into The Blue
85. UV-TV
    Always Something
86. Kiwi Jr.
    Cooler Returns
87. Public Service Broadcasting
    Bright Magic
88. Clinic
    Fantasy Island
89. Black Midi
    Cavalcade
90. Allie Crow Buckley
    Moonlit and Devious
91. Hayden Thorpe
    Moondust For My Diamond
92. James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra
    The Wide, Wide River
93. Middle Kids
    Today We're the Greatest
94. Colleen Green
    Cool
95. Lost Horizons
    In Quiet Moments
96. Remember Sports
    Like a Stone
97. Ryley Walker
    Course In Fable
98. Steve Gunn
    Other You
99. Madi Diaz
    History Of A Feeling
100. Matthew E. White
     K Bay

Honorable Mentions

• Ada Lea
  one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
• Amyl and The Sniffers
  Comfort To Me
• Anika
  Change
• bernice
  Eau De Bonjourno
• The Besnard Lakes
  The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
• Calicoco
  Underneath
• Clairo
  Sling
• Coco
  Coco
• Darkside
  Spiral
• Garbage
  No Gods No Masters
• Gone to Color
  Gone to Color
• Hard Feelings
  Hard Feelings
• Helado Negro
  Far In
• Katy Kirby
  Cool Dry Place
• koleżanka
  place is
• La Luz
  La Luz
• The Mountain Goats
  Dark in Here
• My Morning Jacket
  My Morning Jacket
• Marissa Nadler
  The Path of the Clouds
• Silk Sonic
  An Evening with Silk Sonic
• Strand of Oaks
  In Heaven
• Tonstartssbandht
  Petunia
• We Were Promised Jetpacks
  Enjoy the View
• Wild Pink
  A Billion Little Lights
• The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
  Illusory Walls