Year-End Lists

Craig Jenkins: The Best Albums of 2021, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

1. Jazmine Sullivan
   Heaux Tales
2. Low
   Hey What
3. Esperanza Spalding
   Songwrights Apothecary Lab
4. Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
   Promises
5. Madlib
   Sound Ancestors
6. Mach-Hommy
   Pray For Haiti
7. Tyler, The Creator
   Call Me If You Get Lost
8. Hiatus Kaiyote
   Mood Valiant
9. Kacey Musgraves
   Star-Crossed
10. Halsey
    If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

Honorable Mentions

• Ka
  A Martyr’s Reward
• Lil Nas X
  Montero
• Turnstile
  Glow On
• Wanda Jackson
  Encore
• Little Simz
  Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
• Billie Eilish
  Happier Than Ever
• Isaiah Rashad
  The House Is Burning
• Vince Staples
  Vince Staples
• Backxwash
  I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses
• Bo Burnham
  Inside (The Songs)
• Sleepy Hallow
  Still Sleep?
• Lou Barlow
  Reason to Live
• Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall
  The Marfa Tapes
• Ashley Monroe
  Rosegold
• The Armed
  Ultrapop
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  G_d's Pee at State's End!
• Lana Del Rey
  Chemtrails over the Country Club
• Julien Baker
  Little Oblivions
• Foo Fighters
  Medicine at Midnight