Year-End Lists

Vinyl Me, Please: The Best Albums of 2021

• Arooj Aftab
  Vulture Prince
• Dean Blunt
  Black Metal 2
• Boston Bun
  There’s A Nightclub Inside My Head
• boylife
  gelato
• Bo Burnham
  Inside (The Songs)
• Camp Trash
  Downtiming
• Chai
  Wink
• Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few
  Cosmic Transitions
• Erika de Casier
  Sensational
• Indigo De Souza
  Any Shape You Take
• Dijon
  Absolutely
• Vincent Neil Emerson
  Vincent Neil Emerson
• Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
  Promises
• Green-House
  Music for Living Spaces
• Grouper
  Shade
• Mickey Guyton
  Remember Her Name
• Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
  Haram
• Helado Negro
  Far In
• Hiatus Kaiyote
  Mood Valiant
• Japanese Breakfast
  Jubilee
• Topaz Jones
  Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma
• Katy Kirby
  Cool Dry Place
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
  Butterfly 3000
• Lightning Bug
  A Color of the Sky
• Lil Nas X
  Montero
• Little Simz
  Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
• L'Rain
  Fatigue
• Magdalena Bay
  Mercurial World
• MIKE
  Disco!
• Mndsgn
  Rare Pleasure
• Kacey Musgraves
  Star-Crossed
• Mustafa
  When Smoke Rises
• Pino Palladino and Blake Mills
  Notes With Attachments
• Pink Siifu
  GUMBO'!
• Porches
  All Day Gentle Hold !
• Olivia Rodrigo
  Sour
• Rüfüs Du Sol
  Surrender
• serpentwithfeet
  Deacon
• Sturgill Simpson
  The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
• Nala Sinephro
  Space 1.8
• Cleo Sol
  Mother
• The Spirit Of The Beehive
  Entertainment, Death
• Jazmine Sullivan
  Heaux Tales
• Tyler, The Creator
  Call Me If You Get Lost
• Vanishing Twin
  Ookii Gekkou
• Vindata
  With Opened Eyes
• Hana Vu
  Public Storage
• Joshua Ray Walker
  See You Next Time
• Wednesday
  Twin Plagues
• Yasmin Williams
  Urban Driftwood