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2021 Music

Spin: The 30 Best Albums Of 2021

13 December 2021

Glow On - Turnstile

Spin: The 30 Best Albums Of 2021

[see also 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Glow On
    Turnstile
  2. Jubilee
    Japanese Breakfast
  3. Sound Ancestors
    Madlib
  4. Sour
    Olivia Rodrigo
  5. Home Video
    Lucy Dacus
  6. Call Me If You Get Lost
    Tyler, The Creator
  7. New Long Leg
    Dry Cleaning
  8. In These Silent Days
    Brandi Carlile
  9. 333
    Tinashe
  10. Valentine
    Snail Mail
  11. The Plugs I Met 2
    Benny the Butcher & Harry Fraud
  12. Hushed and Grim
    Mastodon
  13. I Don’t Live Here Anymore
    The War on Drugs
  14. Ignorance
    The Weather Station
  15. Bright Green Field
    Squid
  16. Haram
    Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
  17. Collapsed in Sunbeams
    Arlo Parks
  18. Yol
    Altın Gün
  19. By the Time I Get to Phoenix
    Injury Reserve
  20. Any Shape You Take
    Indigo De Souza
  21. Daddy's Home
    St. Vincent
  22. Entertainment, Death
    The Spirit Of The Beehive
  23. When Smoke Rises
    Mustafa
  24. Butterfly 3000
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
  25. Chemtrails over the Country Club
    Lana Del Rey
  26. A Martyr’s Reward
    Ka
  27. Tide Turns Eternal
    Dream Unending
  28. Una Rosa
    Xenia Rubinos
  29. Tha YOD Fahim
    Your Old Droog, Tha God Fahim
  30. An Evening with Silk Sonic
    Silk Sonic

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