Year-End Lists

Vinyl Me, Please: The Best Albums of 2021

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

• Vulture Prince
  Arooj Aftab
• Black Metal 2
  Dean Blunt
• There’s A Nightclub Inside My Head
  Boston Bun
• gelato
  boylife
• Inside (The Songs)
  Bo Burnham
• Downtiming
  Camp Trash
• Wink
  Chai
• Cosmic Transitions
  Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few
• Sensational
  Erika de Casier
• Any Shape You Take
  Indigo De Souza
• Absolutely
  Dijon
• Vincent Neil Emerson
  Vincent Neil Emerson
• Promises
  Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
• Music for Living Spaces
  Green-House
• Shade
  Grouper
• Remember Her Name
  Mickey Guyton
• Haram
  Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
• Far In
  Helado Negro
• Mood Valiant
  Hiatus Kaiyote
• Jubilee
  Japanese Breakfast
• Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma
  Topaz Jones
• Cool Dry Place
  Katy Kirby
• Butterfly 3000
  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
• A Color of the Sky
  Lightning Bug
• Montero
  Lil Nas X
• Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
  Little Simz
• Fatigue
  L'Rain
• Mercurial World
  Magdalena Bay
• Disco!
  MIKE
• Rare Pleasure
  Mndsgn
• Star-Crossed
  Kacey Musgraves
• When Smoke Rises
  Mustafa
• Notes With Attachments
  Blake Mills and Pino Palladino
• GUMBO'!
  Pink Siifu
• All Day Gentle Hold !
  Porches
• Sour
  Olivia Rodrigo
• Surrender
  Rüfüs Du Sol
• Deacon
  serpentwithfeet
• The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
  Sturgill Simpson
• Space 1.8
  Nala Sinephro
• Mother
  Cleo Sol
• Entertainment, Death
  The Spirit Of The Beehive
• Heaux Tales
  Jazmine Sullivan
• Call Me If You Get Lost
  Tyler, The Creator
• Ookii Gekkou
  Vanishing Twin
• With Opened Eyes
  Vindata
• Public Storage
  Hana Vu
• See You Next Time
  Joshua Ray Walker
• Twin Plagues
  Wednesday
• Urban Driftwood
  Yasmin Williams