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2021 Music

Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2021

15 December 2021

In Heaven - Strand of Oaks

Magnet Magazine: Top 25 Albums of 2021

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. In Heaven
    Strand of Oaks
  2. Hey What
    Low
  3. Collapsed in Sunbeams
    Arlo Parks
  4. Ignorance
    The Weather Station
  5. Observatory
    Aeon Station
  6. Stand For Myself
    Yola
  7. Green to Gold
    The Antlers
  8. As The Love Continues
    Mogwai
  9. Afrique Victime
    Mdou Moctar
  10. It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!
    Guided By Voices
  11. Earth Man Blues
    Guided By Voices
  12. Clang Clang Ho
    Cub Scout Bowling Pins
  13. The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
    Valerie June
  14. Glow On
    Turnstile
  15. -io
    Circuit Des Yeux
  16. The Million Masks Of God
    Manchester Orchestra
  17. Black Encyclopedia of the Air
    Moor Mother
  18. Since Grazed
    Eleventh Dream Day
  19. Nine
    Sault
  20. Serpentine Prison
    Matt Berninger
  21. Cool
    Colleen Green
  22. The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
    Damon Albarn
  23. Jubilee
    Japanese Breakfast
  24. Crawler
    Idles
  25. Peace Meter
    Marissa Paternoster
  26. Endless Arcade
    Teenage Fanclub
  27. I Don’t Live Here Anymore
    The War on Drugs

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