Year-End Lists

AllMusic: Best of 2021

• Adele
  30
• Aimee Mann
  Queens of the Summer Hotel
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
  Raise The Roof
• Allison Russell
  Outside Child
• Amyl and The Sniffers
  Comfort To Me
• BADBADNOTGOOD
  Talk Memory
• Ben LaMar Gay
  Open Arms to Open Us
• Billie Eilish
  Happier Than Ever
• Billy F Gibbons
  Hardware
• Bo Burnham
  Inside (The Songs)
• Bomba Estéreo
  Deja
• Brandi Carlile
  In These Silent Days
• C. Tangana
  El Madrileño
• Cadence Weapon
  Parallel World
• Cassandra Jenkins
  An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
• Chelsea Carmichael
  The River Doesn’t Like Strangers
• Chvrches
  Screen Violence
• Clark
  Playground In A Lake
• Cleo Sol
  Mother
• Cola Boyy
  Prosthetic Boombox
• Colleen
  The Tunnel and the Clearing
• Converge & Chelsea Wolfe
  Bloodmoon: I
• Curtis Harding
  If Words Were Flowers
• Damon Albarn
  The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
• Dry Cleaning
  New Long Leg
• Ed Dowie
  The Obvious I
• The Eivind Aarset 4-tet
  Phantasmagoria, or A Different Kind of Journey
• Eric Bibb
  Dear America
• Field Music
  Flat White Moon
• Foo Fighters
  Medicine at Midnight
• Geoffrey O'Connor
  For As Long As I Can Remember
• Grouper
  Shade
• Halsey
  If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
• Helado Negro
  Far In
• Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek
  Pärt: Passio
• Hiatus Kaiyote
  Mood Valiant
• Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall
  The Marfa Tapes
• James McMurtry
  The Horses and the Hounds
• Japanese Breakfast
  Jubilee
• Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force
  Dear Love
• Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
  Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9
• Jerry Cantrell
  Brighten
• John Carroll Kirby
  Septet
• Jon Batiste
  We Are
• Jorge Elbrecht
  Presentable Corpse 002
• Karol G
  KG0516
• Kenneth Whalum
  Broken Land 2
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
  Butterfly 3000
• Klenke Quartett & Nicola Jürgensen & Stephan Katte
  Mozart: Clarinet Quintet & Horn Quintet
• L'Rain
  Fatigue
• Laura Mvula
  Pink Noise
• Lil Nas X
  Montero
• Lindsey Buckingham
  Lindsey Buckingham
• Little Simz
  Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
• Liz Phair
  Soberish
• LoneLady
  Former Things
• Los Lobos
  Native Sons
• Makthaverskan
  För Allting
• Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
  Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
• Marisa Monte
  Portas
• Marissa Nadler
  The Path of the Clouds
• Mastodon
  Hushed and Grim
• Matthias Goerne and Seong-Jin Cho
  Im Abendrot At Sunset Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss
• Mdou Moctar
  Afrique Victime
• Mocky
  Overtones for the Omniverse
• Mogwai
  As the Love Continues
• Mouse On Mars
  AAI
• Nala Sinephro
  Space 1.8
• Olivia Rodrigo
  Sour
• Olivier Latry
  Liszt: Inspirations
• PinkPantheress
  To Hell with It
• Playboi Carti
  Whole Lotta Red
• Polo & Pan
  Cyclorama
• Rene Jacobs
  Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
• Robert Finley
  Sharecropper's Son
• Rochelle Jordan
  Play With the Changes
• Roxana Amed
  Ontology
• Saint Etienne
  I've Been Trying To Tell You
• Smile Machine
  Bye For Now
• Sons of Kemet
  Black To The Future
• Squid
  Bright Green Field
• Steve Gunn
  Other You
• TEKE::TEKE
  Shirushi
• Terrace Martin
  Drones
• The Armed
  Ultrapop
• The Coral
  Coral Island
• The Hold Steady
  Open Door Policy
• The Mountain Goats
  Dark in Here
• The Reds, Pinks & Purples
  Uncommon Weather
• The Weather Station
  Ignorance
• William Loveday Intention
  The Dept. Of Discontinued Lines
• Theo Croker
  BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST
• Torres
  Thirstier
• Turnstile
  Glow On
• Tyler, The Creator
  Call Me If You Get Lost
• Valerie June
  The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
• Viktoria Mullova and Alasdair Beatson
  Beethoven: Sonatas 4, 5 & 7
• Wolf Alice
  Blue Weekend
• Yasmin Williams
  Urban Driftwood
• Yola
  Stand For Myself