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2021 Music

New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Music of 2021

26 November 2021

Ignorance - The Weather Station

Amanda Petrusich: The Best Music of 2021, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. Ignorance
    The Weather Station
  2. Promises
    Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
  3. Little Oblivions
    Julien Baker
  4. Afrique Victime
    Mdou Moctar
  5. Second Line
    Dawn Richard
  6. Half God
    Wiki
  7. The Time of the Foxgloves
    Michael Hurley
  8. Hey What
    Low
  9. Valentine
    Snail Mail
  10. New Long Leg
    Dry Cleaning

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