Year-End Lists

Dan DeLuca: The Best Albums of 2021, as published by The Philadelphia Inquirer

• Allison Russell
  Outside Child
• The War on Drugs
  I Don’t Live Here Anymore
• Olivia Rodrigo
  Sour
• Japanese Breakfast
  Jubilee
• Tyler, The Creator
  Call Me If You Get Lost
• Jazmine Sullivan
  Heaux Tales
• Low
  Hey What
• Lucy Dacus
  Home Video
• James McMurtry
  The Horses and the Hounds
• Mdou Moctar
  Afrique Victime

Honorable Mentions

• Dry Cleaning
  New Long Leg
• Billie Eilish
  Happier Than Ever
• Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall
  The Marfa Tapes
• Valerie June
  The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
• Kiwi Jr.
  Cooler Returns
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
  Raise The Roof
• Sault
  Nine
• Strand of Oaks
  In Heaven
• The Weather Station
  Ignorance
• Faye Webster
  I Know I'm Funny Haha