Year-End Lists

Esquire: The Best Albums of 2021

• Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
  The Future
• Snail Mail
  Valentine
• Dry Cleaning
  New Long Leg
• Turnstile
  Glow On
• Adele
  30
• Nala Sinephro
  Space 1.8
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
  Raise The Roof
• Jazmine Sullivan
  Heaux Tales
• Polo G
  Hall of Fame
• Wanda Jackson
  Encore
• Wiki
  Half God
• Halsey
  If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
• Mdou Moctar
  Afrique Victime
• Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
  Promises
• The Black Keys
  Delta Kream
• Little Simz
  Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
• Low
  Hey What
• John Mayer
  Sob Rock
• Tyler, The Creator
  Call Me If You Get Lost
• Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall
  The Marfa Tapes
• Olivia Rodrigo
  Sour
• Mach-Hommy
  Pray For Haiti
• Japanese Breakfast
  Jubilee
• Arlo Parks
  Collapsed in Sunbeams
• The Weather Station
  Ignorance
• Kings of Leon
  When You See Yourself
• Cassandra Jenkins
  An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
• Leon Bridges
  Gold-Diggers Sound
• Iceage
  Seek Shelter
• Yola
  Stand For Myself