Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2021

1. Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
   Promises
2. Turnstile
   Glow On
3. The Weather Station
   Ignorance
4. Little Simz
   Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
5. Japanese Breakfast
   Jubilee
6. Tyler, The Creator
   Call Me If You Get Lost
7. Dry Cleaning
   New Long Leg
8. The Armed
   Ultrapop
9. The Spirit Of The Beehive
   Entertainment, Death
10. Snail Mail
    Valentine
11. Mdou Moctar
    Afrique Victime
12. Low
    Hey What
13. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
    Carnage
14. serpentwithfeet
    Deacon
15. Fiddlehead
    Between the Richness
16. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
    Haram
17. Cassandra Jenkins
    An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
18. Squid
    Bright Green Field
19. Madlib
    Sound Ancestors
20. The War on Drugs
    I Don’t Live Here Anymore
21. Arlo Parks
    Collapsed in Sunbeams
22. Mach-Hommy
    Pray For Haiti
23. Lingua Ignota
    Sinner Get Ready
24. Jazmine Sullivan
    Heaux Tales
25. Indigo De Souza
    Any Shape You Take
26. Sons of Kemet
    Black To The Future
27. Deafheaven
    Infinite Granite
28. Lucy Dacus
    Home Video
29. Geese
    Projector
30. Remi Wolf
    Juno
31. Wednesday
    Twin Plagues
32. Sault
    Nine
33. Katy Kirby
    Cool Dry Place
34. Boldy James & The Alchemist
    Bo Jackson
35. Gojira
    Fortitude
36. Julien Baker
    Little Oblivions
37. Dazy
    MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs
38. L'Rain
    Fatigue
39. Faye Webster
    I Know I'm Funny Haha
40. Black Country, New Road
    For the First Time
41. Porter Robinson
    Nurture
42. Arooj Aftab
    Vulture Prince
43. The Mountain Goats
    Dark in Here
44. Pom Pom Squad
    Death of a Cheerleader
45. Wiki
    Half God
46. Fire-Toolz
    Eternal Home
47. Dawn Richard
    Second Line
48. Pink Siifu
    GUMBO'!
49. Courtney Barnett
    Things Take Time, Take Time
50. Genesis Owusu
    Smiling with No Teeth