Year-End Lists

No Ripcord: The Best Albums of 2021

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020]

1. Self Esteem
   Prioritise Pleasure
2. Japanese Breakfast
   Jubilee
3. Dry Cleaning
   New Long Leg
4. Wolf Alice
   Blue Weekend
5. The War on Drugs
   I Don’t Live Here Anymore
6. Sons of Kemet
   Black To The Future
7. illuminati hotties
   Let Me Do One More
8. Cassandra Jenkins
   An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
9. The Spirit Of The Beehive
   Entertainment, Death
10. Tyler, The Creator
    Call Me If You Get Lost
11. Arlo Parks
    Collapsed in Sunbeams
12. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
    Carnage
13. Kiwi Jr.
    Cooler Returns
14. Iceage
    Seek Shelter
15. Low
    Hey What
16. Faye Webster
    I Know I'm Funny Haha
17. Shame
    Drunk Tank Pink
18. Snail Mail
    Valentine
19. Squid
    Bright Green Field
20. The Weather Station
    Ignorance
21. Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
    Promises
22. The Armed
    Ultrapop
23. Ducks Ltd.
    Modern Fiction
24. Foxing
    Draw Down The Moon
25. Lucy Dacus
    Home Video
26. Lost Girls
    Menneskekollektivet
27. Little Simz
    Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
28. Deafheaven
    Infinite Granite
29. Katy Kirby
    Cool Dry Place
30. black midi
    Cavalcade
31. Cloud Nothings
    The Shadow I Remember
32. Erika de Casier
    Sensational
33. Turnstile
    Glow On
34. Grouper
    Shade
35. Black Country, New Road
    For the First Time
36. Aaron Frazer
    Introducing...
37. Big Red Machine
    How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
38. Dean Blunt
    Black Metal 2
39. Shannon Lay
    Geist
40. Bachelor
    Doomin' Sun
41. Genesis Owusu
    Smiling with No Teeth
42. The Goon Sax
    Mirror II
43. Sault
    Nine
44. Mdou Moctar
    Afrique Victime
45. Parquet Courts
    Sympathy for Life
46. Modest Mouse
    The Golden Casket
47. Olivia Rodrigo
    Sour
48. Lana Del Rey
    Chemtrails over the Country Club
49. St. Vincent
    Daddy's Home
50. Clairo
    Sling