Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2021

1. L'Rain
   Fatigue
2. Moor Mother
   Black Encyclopedia of the Air
3. Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
   Promises
4. Low
   Hey What
5. Daniel Bachman
   Axacan
6. John Cage
   Number Pieces
7. Hamid Drake / Elaine Mitchener / William Parker / Orphy Robinson / Pat Thomas
   Some Good News
8. Jana Rush
   Painful Enlightenment
9. Circuit Des Yeux
   -io
10. Phew
    New Decade
11. Dry Cleaning
    New Long Leg
12. Angel Bat Dawid
    Hush Harbor Mixtape Vol. 1 Doxology
13. James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
    Jesup Wagon
14. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
    Made Out of Sound
15. Les Filles de Illighadad
    At Pioneer Works
16. Tomaga
    Intimate Immensity
17. Anthony Braxton
    12 Comp (ZIM) 2017
18. The Bug
    Fire
19. Sons of Kemet
    Black To The Future
20. Maggie Nicols
    Creative Contradiction: Poetry, Story, Song & Sound
21. George Lewis with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Minds in Flux
22. Muqata'a
    Kamil Manqus
23. Alpha Maid
    Chuckle
24. William Parker
    Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World
25. Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt
    Lucy & Aaron
26. Space Afrika
    Honest Labour
27. Clarissa Connelly
    The Voyager
28. perila
    How much time it is between you and me?
29. Grouper
    Shade
30. sourdure
    De Mòrt Viva
31. Madlib
    Sound Ancestors
32. Moor Mother & billy woods
    BRASS
33. Divide and Dissolve
    Gas Lit
34. RP Boo
    Established!
35. Eliane Radigue
    Occam Ocean 3
36. Karkhana
    Al Azraqayn
37. Pauline Anna Strom
    Angel Tears in Sunlight
38. Pamela Z
    A Secret Code
39. Patricia Brennan
    Maquishti
40. Rambutan
    parallel systems
41. Mdou Moctar
    Afrique Victime
42. Azita
    Glen Echo
43. Raed Yassin
    Archeophony
44. Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble
    NOW
45. William Parker
    Mayan Space Station
46. Meemo Comma
    Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter²
47. Patrick Shiroishi
    Hidemi
48. [Ahmed]
    Nights on Saturn (communication)
49. Ben LaMar Gay
    Open Arms to Open Us
50. IZ Band
    Drop by Old Heaven Books