Monday, January 3, 2022

Best Of 2021

 



Top Albums:

1. Mogwai - As The Love Continues

2. Small Black - Cheap Dreams

3. New Candys - Vyvyd

4. The Coral - Coral Island

5. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

6. The Killers - Pressure Machine

7. Shannon and The Clams - Year of the Spider

8. Men I Trust - Untourable Album

9. Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods

10. Glasvegas - Godspeed

11. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

12. Iceage - Seek Shelter

13. Foo Fighters - Medicine At Midnight

14.  Maximo Park - Nature Always Wins

15.  The Fratellis - Half Drunk Under A Full Moon

16. Night Beats - Outlaw R&B

17. Black Pistol Fire - Look Alive

18. Lana Del Ray - Chemtrails Over The Country Club

19. The Snuts - W.L.

20. Geese - Projector


Honourable mentions:


Godspeed You Black Emperor - G d's Pee At States End!

Shame - Drunk Tank Pink

Blankenberge - Everything

The Horrors - Lout

Thrice - Horizons/East

Low - Hey What

Ryan Adams - Big Colors

Leon Brideges - Gold-Diggers Sound

Still Corners - The Last Exit

The Horrors - Against The Blade

The Tragically Hip - Saskadelphia

Black Honey - Written & Directed

Garbage - No Gods No Masters

Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams

Twin Shadow - S/T

The Besnard Lakes - ...Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings

The Notwist - Vertigo Days

St. Vincent - Daddy's Home

Billie Eillish - Happier Than Ever

A Place To Bury Strangers - Hologram

The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy

Lana Del Ray - Blue Bannisters

Pond - 9

Jonsi - Obsidian 

Weezer - OK Human

The Flying Colours - Fantasy Country

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - L.W.

Ron Gallo - Peacemeal

Clinic - Fantasy Island

Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers

The Blue Stones - Hidden Gems

La Femme - Paradigmes

Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space

Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade

Black Midi - Cavalcade

Django Django - Glowing In The Dark

The Underground Youth - The Falling

The KLF - Come Down Dawn

The Flaming Sideburns - Silver Flames

The War On Drugs - I Don't Want To Live Here Anymore

Hand Habits - Dirt

The Black Keys - Delta Kream

Fruit Bats - Siamese Dream

Vampire Weekend - 4042

John Carpenter - Lost Themes: Alive After Death

Tindersticks - Distractions

Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers

Kele - The Waves Pt. 1

Hand Habits - Fun House

Royal Blood - Typhoons

Film School - We Weren't Here

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage

Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be An Introvert

Deap Vally - Digital Dream

Johnny Marr - Fever Dream Pt. 1 & 2

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Enjoy The View

Elbow - Flying Dream 1

Real Estate - Half A Human

Sault - Nine

Flying Lotus - Yasuke

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising The Roof

Weezer - Van Weezer

Car Seat Headrest - MADLO: Influences

Kings Of Leon - When You See Yourself

Psychedlic Porn Crumpets - Shyga: The Sunlight Mound

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility

Middle Kids - Today We're The Greatest

Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This

Parcels - Day/Night

Biffy Clyro - The Myth Of The Happily Ever After

Squid - Bright Green Fields

DMA's - I Love You Unconditionally, Sure Am Going To Miss You

Julia Stone - Sixty Summers

Lucid Express - S/T

Unkle - Ronin I

Cathedral Bells - Ether

Kings Of Convenience - Peace Or Love

Teleman - Sweet Morning E.P.

Du Blonde - Homecoming

Greta Van Fleet - The Battle At Garden's Gate

Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life

Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes

Kaleo - Surface Sounds

Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space

Beachy Head - S/T

Motorama - Before The Road

Girl In Red - If I Could Make It Go Quiet

Rag N' Bone Man - Life By Misadventure

Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000

Darkside - Spiral

The KVB - Unity

Teenage Wrist - Earth Is A Black Hole

The Vaccines - Back In Love City

Angus & Julia Stone - Life Is Strange

Piroshka - Love Drips And Gathers

Wolfmother - Rock Out

Diangonal - S/T

Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket

Deap Vally - Marriage

Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost

Clairo - Sling

Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic

Kacey Musgraves - Star-Crossed

Kid Kapichi - This Time Next Year

Ty Segall - Harmonizer

Desperate Journalists - Maximum Sorrow!

Angel Olsen - Aisles

Tropical Fuck Storm - Deep States

Chvrches - Screen Violence

Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

Possum - Lunar Gardens

Tricky - Lonely Guest

Big Red Machines - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?

Suuns - The Witness

Neov - Picture Of A Good Life

Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows

Tashaki Miyaki - Castaway

Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament

White Flowers - Day By Day

Sneaker Pimps - Squaring The Circle

Mono - Pilgrimage Of The Soul

Sunstinger - Beyond The Frame

Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekko 

Jarvis Cocker - Chansons d'Ennui Tip-Top

Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure 

Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time

The Joy Formidable - Into The Blue

Adele - 30

Raised By Swans - Raised By Swans Is The Name Of A Man Volume 1

Newdad - Waves E.P.

Mt. Mountain - Centre

Cold Cave - Fate In Seven Lessons

James Walsh - Small Illusions