Year-End Lists

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2021 Music

Time: The 10 Best Albums of 2021

04 December 2021

Promises - Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra

Time Magazine: The 10 Best Albums of 2021, compiled by Andrew R. Chow and Cady Lang

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2015]

  1. Promises
    Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
  2. Vince Staples
    Vince Staples
  3. to hell with it
    PinkPantheress
  4. Blue Weekend
    Wolf Alice
  5. Still Over It
    Summer Walker
  6. The Marfa Tapes
    Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall
  7. Donda
    Kanye West
  8. The Hands of Time
    Weedie Braimah
  9. Navy’s Reprise
    Navy Blue
  10. Heaux Tales
    Jazmine Sullivan

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