Year-End Lists

Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2021

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Japanese Breakfast
   Jubilee
2. Squid
   Bright Green Field
3. Low
   Hey What
4. Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
   Promises
5. Lucy Dacus
   Home Video
6. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
   Carnage
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
   G_d's Pee at State's End!
8. Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine
   A Beginner's Mind
9. Julien Baker
   Little Oblivions
10. Adele
    30
11. Arab Strap
    As Days Get Dark
12. Spellling
    The Turning Wheel
13. Panopticon
    ...And Again Into The Light
14. Sarah Mary Chadwick
    Me & Ennui Are Friends, Baby
15. Allison Russell
    Outside Child
16. JPEGMAFIA
    LP!
17. Olivia Rodrigo
    Sour
18. black midi
    Cavalcade
19. Mdou Moctar
    Afrique Victime
20. Halsey
    If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power