Year-End Lists

Lists

1. 50 Best Albums of 2021: NPR: NPR Music
1. The Best Albums of 2021: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
1. The 8 Best Albums of 2021: Jason Parham: Wired
1. The 10 Best Albums of 2021: Entertainment Weekly
1. The 10 Best Albums of 2021: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Pitchfork
2. The Best Albums of 2021: The Ringer
2. The Best Albums of 2021 Ranked: The Line of Best Fit
2. Top 50 Albums of 2021: Brooklyn Vegan
2. The 20 Best Albums of 2021: A.V. Club
3. The Best Albums of 2021: Flood
4. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: The Fader
4. Best Albums of 2021: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
5. The Best Albums of 2021: Complex
5. Best Albums of 2021: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
6. The 45 Best Albums of 2021: The Forty-Five
7. 50 Best Albums of 2021: Rolling Stone
8. The Best Albums of 2021: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
8. Top 10 Albums of 2021: Brittany Spanos: Rolling Stone
9. The 10 Best Albums of 2021: Spencer Kornhaber: Atlantic
9. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Billboard
9. The Best Albums of 2021: Dazed
10. The 10 Best Albums of 2021: Time
12. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Guardian
12. Albums of the Year 2021: Clash
18. 51 Best Albums of 2021: Gigwise
24. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Paste
31. 83 Favorite Albums Of 2021: Hanif Abdurraqib
34. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Treble
45. Top 50 Albums of 2021: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
49. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Slant

• The Best Albums of 2021: Chris Willman: Variety
• The Best Albums Of 2021: Uproxx
• The Best Albums of 2021: Vinyl Me, Please
• Best Albums of 2021: Jon Pareles: New York Times
• Best Albums of 2021: Passerby
• The Best Albums of 2021: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
• The Best Albums of 2021: Esquire