Favorite albums and songs of 2021
 

Top 20 songs :
1. black midi – John L
2. Backxwash – Songs of Sinners ft. Sad3 and Ada Rook
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Government Came (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz) / Cliffs Gaze / cliffs' gaze at empty waters' rise / Ashes to Sea or Nearer to Thee
4. Papangu – Holoceno
5. Panopticon – A Snowless Winter
6. St. Vincent – Live In The Dream
7. Squid – Narrator ft. Martha Skye Murphy
8. Lingua Ignota – Pennsylvania Furnace
9. Little Simz – Introvert
10. Beach House – Through Me
11. IDLES – The Beachland Ballroom
12. BADBADNOTGOOD – Signal From The Noise
13. Black Country, New Road – Opus
14. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen – Like I Used To
15. Yves Tumor – Jackie
16. JPEGMAFIA – Hazard Duty Pay!
17. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
18. Lucy Dacus – Hot & Heavy
19. Silk Sonic – Skate
20. Lana Del Rey – White Dress

Top 50 albums :
1. Lingua Ignota – Sinner Get Ready
2. black midi – Cavalcade
3. Backxwash – I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee at State’s End!
5. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
6. Black Dresses – Forever In Your Heart
7. Papangu – Holoceno
8. Squid – Bright Green Field
9. St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home
10. Panopticon - …And Again Into The Light
11. Ad Nauseam – Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
12. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions
13. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Haram
14. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage
15. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
16. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine – A Beginner’s Mind
17. Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia of the Air
18. Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8
19. Parannoul – To See the Next Part of the Dream
20. IDLES – Crawler
21. BADBADNOTGOOD – Talk Memory
22. Genesis Owusu – Smiling with No Teeth
23. Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost
24. Mare Cognitum – Solar Paroxysm
25. Skee Mask – Pool
26. Worm – Foreverglade
27. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – L.W.
28. DARKSIDE – Spiral
29. Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take
30. Silk Sonic – An Evening with Silk Sonic
31. Nas – King’s Disease II
32. Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Superwolves
33. Westside Gunn – Hitler Wears Hermes 8 : Side B
34. JPEGMAFIA – LP!
35. Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined
36. Aesop Rock x Blockhead – Garbology
37. Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark
38. Iceage – Seek Shelter
39. Carcass – Torn Arteries
40. quickly, quickly – The Long and Short of It
41. illuminati hotties – Let Me Do One More
42. Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
43. Atvm – Famine, Putrid and ****ing Endless
44. Lucy Dacus – Home Video
45. Wau Wau Collectif – Yaral Sa Doom
46. Lana Del Rey – Blue Banisters
47. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant
48. Yola – Stand for Myself
49. Snail Mail – Valentine
50. Remi Wolf – Juno

Honorable mentions :
Spirit of the Beehive – Entertainment, Death
Daniel Knox – Won’t You Take Me with You
Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
Conway the Machine & Big Ghost Ltd - If It Bleeds It Can Be Killed
Parquet Courts – Sympathy For Life
Altin Gün – Yol
Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
Grouper – Shade
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000
Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time
Pond – 9
Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future

Extended (200+ songs) Spotify playlist of the songs I liked (1 song/artist) :

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/24...VBBSidrkJmnTHN

Top 20 of 2021

1 Andor - Go! Go! Year of the Cow (Breakbeat/Electro House/Outsider House)
2 Don Zilla - Ekizikiza Mubwengula (Deconstructed Club/Hard Drum/Gqom)
3 Acetantina - Carmen Winstead (Vaportrap/IDM/Dark Ambient)
4 Porter Robinson - Nurture (Electropop/EDM)
5 Wednesday & MJ Lenderman - Guttering (Bedroom Pop/Slowcore)
6 Osquinn - drive-by lullabies (Hyperpop/Indietronica)
7 Kanye West - Donda (Pop Rap/Christian Hip Hop)
8 Lolina - Fast Fashion (Glitch/Sound Collage/Free Improv)
9 Golden Boy - I Never Meant For This to Happen (Hardcore Breaks/Breakcore)
10 Wednesday - Twin Plagues (Shoegaze/Indie Rock)
11 De Schuurman - Bubbling Inside (Bubbling/Bubbling House)
12 PAXIL PARTY vs. Windsock - We're Just Here for the Bad Guys (Trip Hop/Illbient)
13 Këkht Arähk - Pale Swordsman (Black Metal/Atmospheric Black Metal/Dark Folk)
14 Doss - 4 New Hit Songs (Future House/Trance)
15 Mike - Disco! (Experimental Hip Hop/Abstract Hip Hop)
16 Scotch Rolex - Tewari (Experimental Hip Hop/Deconstructed Club/Trap/Gqom)
17 Louie Seasonz - Live from the Fertile Crescent (Deep House/Funky House)
18 Must Die! - Crisis Vision (Riddim/Brostep/Trance/Acid Techno)
19 For Your Health - In Spite Of (Screamo/Metalcore/Sasscore)
20 Polo Perks - Punk Goes Drill+** (Drill/Emo Rap)

It's fascinating people are able to find 50 albums worth listing in a year as mediocre as this one.

There are many of those that I haven't heard of so adding genres was helpful, thanks!

To be honest, I find almost every year mediocre haha
But considering the huge amount of albums that comes out each year, 50 albums is truly nothing.

1. Drake- Certified Lover Boy
2. Duran Duran- Future Past
3. Majid Jordan- Wildest Dreams
4. Richard Ashcroft- Acoustic Hymns
5. Sting- The Bridge

Top 11 favorite songs of 2021

- Adele “Easy on me”
- Billie Eilish “Future me”
- Olivia Rodrigo “Enough for you”
- Dhiky kartomi- A380
- Lorde “Solar power”
- Yellow Claw “Soda pop”
- Major Lazer “ Que Calor”
- Purple disco machine “ Rise”
- Silva Hound “Vox interlude”
- Lvndo “Move”
- Gregor salto “Bagene”


My top 6 favorite albums of 2021

- Adele “30”
- Major Lazer “ Music is the weapon”
- Billie Eilish “Happier than ever”
- Teen Daze “Interior”
- ABBA “Voyage”
- VAPPEROR “Open Tournament 27XX”

Here's my top ten so far. I've done a lot more contemporary listening this year than years past but I'm still not where I used to be at so this list is subject to change.

1. San Salvador - La Grande Folie
2. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
3. Black Midi - Cavalcade
4. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
5. Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou
6. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
7. BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory
8. TEKE::TEKE - Shirushi
9. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
10. La Femme - Paradigmes