Year-End Lists

Esquire: The Best Albums of 2021

[see also 2022 • 2010s]

• The Future
  Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
• Valentine
  Snail Mail
• New Long Leg
  Dry Cleaning
• Glow On
  Turnstile
• 30
  Adele
• Space 1.8
  Nala Sinephro
• Raise The Roof
  Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
• Heaux Tales
  Jazmine Sullivan
• Hall of Fame
  Polo G
• Encore
  Wanda Jackson
• Half God
  Wiki
• If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
  Halsey
• Afrique Victime
  Mdou Moctar
• Promises
  Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
• Delta Kream
  The Black Keys
• Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
  Little Simz
• Hey What
  Low
• Sob Rock
  John Mayer
• Call Me If You Get Lost
  Tyler, The Creator
• The Marfa Tapes
  Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall
• Sour
  Olivia Rodrigo
• Pray For Haiti
  Mach-Hommy
• Jubilee
  Japanese Breakfast
• Collapsed in Sunbeams
  Arlo Parks
• Ignorance
  The Weather Station
• When You See Yourself
  Kings of Leon
• An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
  Cassandra Jenkins
• Gold-Diggers Sound
  Leon Bridges
• Seek Shelter
  Iceage
• Stand For Myself
  Yola