Year-End Lists

Carl Wilson: Top 10 Albums of 2021, as published by Slate, alphabetical by artist

• Julien Baker
  Little Oblivions
• Black Midi
  Cavalcade
• Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson
  Searching For The Disappeared Hour
• Dry Cleaning
  New Long Leg
• Myriam Gendron
  Ma délire - Songs of love, lost & found
• James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
  Jesup Wagon
• Low
  Hey What
• Mustafa
  When Smoke Rises
• Liz Phair
  Soberish
• Tyler, The Creator
  Call Me If You Get Lost

25 more of note (alphabetical by artist)

• ABBA
  Voyage
• Billy Bragg
  The Million Things That Never Happened
• Elvis Costello
  Spanish Model
• Theon Cross
  Intra-I
• Lucy Dacus
  Home Video
• Dave
  We're All Alone in This Together
• Willie Dunn
  Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology
• Mickey Guyton
  Remember Her Name
• Injury Reserve
  By the Time I Get to Phoenix
• Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
  Uneasy
• Rochelle Jordan
  Play With the Changes
• Nicholas Krgovich
  This Spring: Songs by Veda Hille
• Aimee Mann
  Queens of the Summer Hotel
• William Parker
  Mayan Space Station
• Dawn Richard
  Second Line
• Allison Russell
  Outside Child
• Amir ElSaffar and Rivers of Sound
  The Other Shore
• Skillibeng
  Crocodile Teeth
• Sons of Kemet
  Black To The Future
• various artists
  Anastenaria: Thracian Firewalking Ritual Music
• Caetano Veloso
  Meu Coco
• Tierra Whack
  Rap?
• Tierra Whack
  Pop?
• Tierra Whack
  R&B?
• Wild Up
  Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine
• Leslie Winer
  When I Hit You — You'll Feel It
• Lainey Wilson
  Sayin' What I'm Thinkin'