The best albums of 2021 (update September 30)
The numbers presented next to each album title are the weighted average rating, and, in brackets, average and number of ratings (out of 33 included sources). The weighted average is based on a formula that includes a) the average of ratings and b) the number of sources that have rated the album.
The magazines I used for the ratings were:
EUR + Australia: Dansende Beren (New this year thanks to Chilton's proposal); Gaffa-dk; Gaffa-sw; Humo; Indiestyle; Jenesaispop; Laut; Mondosonoro; Musikexpress; Nojesguiden; Ondarock; Plattentests; Sentire Ascoltare; The Music
UK: Clash; DIY; God Is In The Tv; Load And Quiet; Music OMH; NME; The Guardian; The Line Of Best Fit; The Skinny
USA + Canada: Allmusic; Beats Per Minute; Consequence Of Sound; Exclaim!; Nothern Transmissions; Paste; Pitchfork; Popmatters; Rolling Stone; Spectrum Culture; Under The Radar
Highlights: Rob makes the top three songs from the album according to Allmusic, Consequence of Sound, Jenesaispop, Plattentests, The Skinny, etc…
Albums that have obtained new reviews but worsened the score
New entry or Re-entry
Albums that have obtained new reviews and improved the score
Out:
The Staves: Good Woman
90 - Spellling: The Turning Wheel - 74,3 (75,3 / 18)
Highlights: Boys at School - Little Deer - Turning Wheel
Art Pop
89 - Moor Mother: Black Encyclopedia Of The Air - 74,5 (78,2 / 10)
Highlights: Shekere – Made a Circle - Mangrove
Concious Hip Hop
88 - The Hold Steady: Open Door Policy - 74,8 (74,8 / 21)
Highlights: Family Farm - Spices - Lanyards
Indie Rock
87 - Villagers: Fever Dreams - 74,8 (77,1 / 14)
Highlights: So Simpatico - Song in Seven - Circles in the Firing Lines
Indie Pop
86 - Liars: The Apple Drop - 74,8 (75,2 / 20)
Highlights: Sekwar - Big Appetite - My Pulse to Ponder
Art Rock
85 - Tomahawk: Tonic Immobility - 74,9 (78,6 / 10)
Highlights: Tattoo Zero - Howlie - Business Casual
Alternative Rock
84 - Emma-Jean Thackray: Yellow - 74,9 (78,6 / 10)
Highlights: Say Something - Sun - Our People
Jazz Fusion
83 - Katy Kirby: Cool Dry Place - 75,0 (79,0 / 9)
Highlights: Cool Dry Place - Juniper - Traffic!
Singer-Songwriter
82 - Girl In Red: If I Can Make It Go Quiet - 75,0 (74,3 / 23)
Highlights: Rue - Serotonin - Midnight Love
Indie Pop
81 - Deafheaven: Infinite Granite - 75,2 (72,8 / 28)
Highlights: Great Mass of Color - Mombasa - In Blur
Shoegaze
80 - Celeste: Not Your Muse - 75,2 (77,2 / 15)
Highlights: Stop This Flame - Strange - Ideal Woman
Neo-Soul
79 - Madlib: Sound Ancestors - 75,2 (76,9 / 16)
Highlights: Road of the Lonely Ones - Dirtknock - Chino
Instrumental Hip Hop
78 - Foxing: Draw Down The Moon - 75,2 (79,2 / 9)
Highlights: Speak with the Dead - Draw Down the Moon - If I Believed in God
Indie Rock
77- Chai: Wink - 75,3 (76,6 / 17)
Highlights: Maybe Chocolate Chips - Nobody Knows We Are Fun - In Pink
Indie Pop
76 - Sault: Nine - 75,4 (77,7 / 14)
Highlights: London Gangs - Bitter Streets - 9
Neo-Soul
75 - Poppy: Flux - 75,4 (79,1 / 10)
Highlights: Flux – Lessen the Damage – As Strange As It Seems
Alternative Rock
74 - Virginia Wing: Private Life - 75,7 (80,0 / 8)
Highlights: I’m Holding Out for Something - St. Francis Fountain - Moon Turn Tides
Art Pop
73 - Carcass: Torn Arteries - 75,7 (80,0 / 8)
Highlights: Under the Scalpel Blade – Kelly’s Meet Emporium – Dance of Ixtab (Psychopomp & Circumstance March No. 1)
Melodic Death Metal
72 - The Coral: Coral Island - 75,8 (79,5 / 10)
Highlights: Faceless Angel - Autumn Has Come - Lover Undiscovered
Indie Rock
71 - Ghetts: Conflict Of Interest - 75,9 (80,6 / 7)
Highlights: IC3 - Little Bo Peep - Mozambique
UK Hip Hop
70 - Cassandra Jenkins: An Overview On Phenomenal Nature - 75,9 (80,3 / 8)
Highlights: Hard Drive - Crosshairs - New Bikini
Singer-Songwriter
69 - Greentea Peng: Man Made - 75,9 (79,3 / 11)
Highlights: Nah It Ain’t the Same - Meditation - Kali V2
Neo-Soul
68 - Leon Vynehall: Rare, Forever - 76,0 (79,4 / 11)
Highlights: Mothra - Dumbo - Snakeskin ∞ Has-Been
Ambient Techno
67 - Loraine James: Reflection - 76,1 (80,7 / 7)
Highlights: Simple Stuff - Running Like That - Self Doubt (Leaving the Club Early)
IDM
66 - Dinosaur Jr: Sweep It Into Space - 76,1 (74,8 / 25)
Highlights: Garden - I Ran Away - I Ain’t
Alternative Rock
65 - Kiwi Jr.: Cooler Returns - 76,1 (78,1 / 15)
Highlights: Undecided Voters - Waiting in Line - Only Here for a Haircut
Indie Rock
64 - Bicep: Isles - 76,2 (75,5 / 23)
Highlights: Atlas - Sundial - Saku
Future Garage
63 - Clairo: Sling - 76,3 (76,0 / 22)
Highlights: Amoeba - Blouse - Bambi /b]
Singer-Songwriter
62 - Lil Nas X: Montero - 76,4 (77,7 / 17)
Highlights: Industry Baby – Montero (Call Me By Your Name) – That’s What I Want
Pop Rap
61 - Gruff Rhys: Seeking New Gods - 76,4 (78,7 / 14)
Highlights: Mausoleum of My Former Self - Seeking New Gods - Hiking in Lightning
Psychedelic Pop
60 - Pauline Anna Strom: Angel Tears in Sunlight - 76,5 (80,4 / 9)
Highlights: Tropical Convergence - Temple Gardens at Midnight - The Pulsation
Ambient
59 - Vince Staples: Vince Staples - 76,5 (75,8 / 23)
Highlights: Are You With That? - Take Me Home - Lil Fade
Trap Rap
58 - Darkside: Spiral - 76,7 (76,3 / 22)
Highlights: Liberty Bell - The Limit - Lawmaker
Art Rock
57 - Jazmine Sullivan: Heaux Tales - 76,7 (79,7 / 12)
Highlights: Lost One - Pick Up Your Feelings - Girl Like Me
Neo-Soul
56 - Viagra Boys: Welfare Jazz - 76,7 (75,7 / 24)
Highlights: Creatures - Girls & Boys - Ain’t Nice
Post-Punk
55 - Squirrel Flower: Planet (i) - 76,8 (79,1 / 14)
Highlights: Hurt a Fly - I’ll Go Running - Roadkill
Indie Rock
54 - Chvrches: Screen Violence - 76,8 (75,5 / 25)
Highlights: How Not to Drown – Good Girls – Violent Delights
Synthpop
53 - Indigo De Souza: Any Shape You Take - 77,0 (78,6 / 16)
Highlights: Hold U - Kill Me - Pretty Pictures
Indie Rock
52 - Slowthai: Tyron - 77,1 (74,1 / 30)
Highlights: Feel Away - Cancelled - Mazza
UK Hip Hop
51 - Genesis Owusu: Smiling With No Teeth - 77,1 (80,5 / 11)
Highlights: A Song About Fishing - The Other Black Dog - Drown
Neo-Soul
50- LUMP: Animal - 77,1 (79,1 / 14)
Highlights: Animal - Climb Every Wall - Bloom At Night
Indie Pop
49 - Bachelor: Doomin' Sun - 77,2 (78,8 / 16)
Highlights: Stay in the Car - Back of My Hand - Doomin’ Sun
Indie Rock
48 - Torres: Thirstier - 77,2 (77,2 / 21)
Highlights: Don’t Go Putting Wishes in My Head - Hug from a Dinosaur - Thirstier
Indie Rock
47 - Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine: A Beginner's Mind - 77,3 (79,6 / 14)
Highlights: Back to Oz – Olympus – Reach Out
Indie Folk
46 - Injury Reserve: By the Time I Get to Phoenix - 77,3 (81,3 / 9)
Highlights: Knees – Superman That - Outside
Experimental Hip Hop
45 - Amyl And The Sniffers: Comfort To Me – 77,4 (78,4 / 18)
Highlights: Guided by Angels - Security - Maggot
Punk Rock
44 - Tribulation: Where The Gloom Becomes Sound - 77,6 (82,3 / 7)
Highlights: Hour of the Wolf - Daughter of the Djinn - Dirge of a Dying Soul
Gothic Metal
43 - Sleaford Mods: Spare Ribs - 77,7 (76,3 / 25)
Highlights: Mork n Mindy - Shortcummings - Nudge It
UK Hip Hop
42 - Django Django: Glowing in the Dark - 77,9 (76,9 / 24)
Highlights: Spirals - Waking Up - Glowing in the Dark
Indie Pop
41 - Goat Girl: On All Fours - 78,2 (78,1 / 21)
Highlights: Sad Cowboy - Badibaba - The Crack
Post-Punk
40- The Armed: Ultrapop - 78,3 (81,3 / 12)
Highlights: All Futures - An Iteration - Masunaga Vaporsa
Noise Rock
39 - Hiatus Kaiyote: Mood Valiant - 78,3 (80,9 / 13)
Highlights: Red Room - Get Sun - Chivalry Is Not Dead
Neo-Soul
38 - Iron Maiden: Senjutsu - 78,4 (78,4 / 21)
Highlights: The Writing on the Wall – Hell on Earth – Senjutsu
Heavy Metal
37 - The Anchoress: The Art Of Losing - 78,5 (82,9 / 8)
Highlights: Unravel - The Art of Losing - Show Your Face
Art Rock
36 - Anna B Savage: A Common Turn - 78,6 (81,6 / 12)
Highlights: Corncrakes - BedStuy - Two
Psychedelic Folk
35 - Isaiah Rashad: The House Is Burning - 78,6 (83,3 / 7)
Highlights: RIP Young - Claymore - Score
Southern Hip Hop
34 - Steve Earle & The Dukes: J.T. - 78,7 (82,0 / 11)
Highlights: Champagne Corolla - Last Words - I Don’t Care
Americana
33 - Jane Weaver: Flock - 78,7 (80,7 / 15)
Highlights: Heartlow - Modern Reputation - Solarised
Psychedelic Pop
32 - Iceage: Seek Shelter - 78,7 (77,0 / 26)
Highlights: Vendetta - The Holding Hand - Shelter Song
Art Rock
31- Mogwai: As The Love Continues - 78,8 (76,2 / 29)
Highlights: Midnight Flit - Ritchie Sacramento - Dry Fantasy
Post Rock
30 - Alfie Templeman: Forever Isn't Long Enough - 78,9 (83,6 / 7)
Highlights: Forever Isn’t Long Enough - Shady - Everybody’s Gonna Love Somebody
Dance Pop
29 - Lana Del Rey: Chemtrails Over the Country Club - 78,9 (76,9 / 27)
Highlights: Chemtrails over the Country Club - White Dress - Wild at Heart
Singer-Songwriter
28 - Serpentwithfeet: Deacon - 79,1 (78,1 / 24)
Highlights: Hyacinth - Sailor’s Superstition - Fellowship
Alternative R&B
27 - Billie Eilish: Happier Than Ever – 80,1 (77,7 / 28)
Highlights: Oxytocin - Therefore I Am - My future
R&B
26 - Wolf Alice: Blue Weekend - 80,6 (80,2 / 22)
Highlights: The Last Man On Earth - How Can I Make It OK - Lipstick On the Glass
Alternative Rock
25 - Mdou Moctar: Afrique Victime - 80,7 (80,7 / 21)
Highlights: Tala Tannam - Afrique Victime - Ya Habibti
Tishoumaren
24 - The Bug: Fire - 81,0 (84,4 / 11)
Highlights: Pressure - Clash - Vexed
Grime
23 - Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg - 81,1 (78,4 / 29)
Highlights: Scratchyard Lanyard - New Long Leg - Her Hippo
Post-Punk
22 - Shame: Drunk Tank Pink - 81,2 (78,5 / 29)
Highlights: Alphabet - Water in the Well - Snow Day
Post-Punk
21 - Arab Strap: As Days Get Dark - 81,2 (79,9 / 25)
Highlights: The Turning of Our Bones - Here Comes Comus! - Kebabylon
Slowcore
20 - Lucy Dacus: Home Video - 81,2 (79,2 / 27)
Highlights: Hot & Heavy - Thumbs - First Time
Singer-Songwriter
19 - Turnstile: Glow On - 81,9 (82,9 / 18)
Highlights: Holiday - Blackout - Mystery
Post-Hardcore
18 - For Those I Love: For Those I Love - 81,9 (86,3 / 8)
Highlights: I Have a Love - Birthday/ The Pain - Top Scheme
Progressive House
17 - Lingua Ignota: Sinner Get Ready - 82,0 (83,6 / 16)
Highlights: Pennsylvania Surface - The Order Of The Spiritual Virgins - I Who Bend The Tall Grasses
Neoclassical Darkwave
16 - St. Vincent: Daddy's Home - 82,1 (78,8 / 31)
Highlights: The Melting of the Sun - Down - Pay Your Way in Pain
Psychedelic Soul
15 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! - 82,4 (80,4 / 27)
Highlights: "Government Came" (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz)/Cliffs Gaze/Cliffs' Gaze at Empty Waters' Rise/Ashes to Sea or Near to Thee - A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) (4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz) / Job’s Lament / First of the Last Glaciers / where we break how we shine (ROCKETS FOR MARY) - Fire at Static Valley
Post-Rock
14 - Tyler, The Creator: Call Me If You Get Lost - 82,7 (82,0 / 23)
Highlights: Lumberjack - Wilshire - Juggernaut
Hip Hop
13 - Black Midi: Cavalcade - 82,8 (79,8 / 30)
Highlights: Chondromalacia Patella - Slow - John L
Avant- Prog
12 - Black Country, New Road: For The First Time - 83,0 (81,0 / 27)
Highlights: Sunglasses - Track X - Instrumental
Experimental Rock
11 - Sons of Kemet: Black To The Future - 83,3 (84,6 / 17)
Highlights: Hustle - Pick Up Your Burning Cross - Field Negus
Jazz
10 - The Weather Station: Ignorance - 83,5 (82,8 / 23)
Highlights: Robber - Parking Lot - Tried to Tell You
Art Pop
09 - Arlo Parks: Collapsed In Sunbeams - 83,9 (80,9 / 30)
Highlights: Hurt - Eugene - Black Dog
Bedroom Pop
08 - Julien Baker: Little Oblivions - 84,2 (81,2 / 30)
Highlights: Hardline - Ringside - Favor
Singer-Songwriter
07 - Dave: We’re All Alone In This Together - 84,7 (86,7 / 15)
Highlights: In the Fire - We’re All Alone - Heart Attack
UK Hip Hop
06 - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Carnage - 84,9 (83,6 / 25)
Highlights: White Elephant - Hand of God - Old Time
Art Rock
[color=#FF000FF]05 - Low: Hey What – 85,1 (82,4 / 29)[/color]
Highlights: Days Like These - More - White Horses
Post-Industrial
04 - Japanese Breakfast: Jubilee - 85,6 (83,3 / 28)
Highlights: Be Sweet - Posing in Bondage - Kokomo, In
Indie Pop
03 - Squid: Bright Green Field - 86,9 (85,2 / 26)
Highlights: Narrator - Pamphlets - Paddling
Art Punk
02 - Little Simz: Sometimes I Might Be Introvert – 86,9 (85,9 / 24)
Highlights: Introvert - I Love You, I Hate You - Woman
UK Hip Hop
01 - Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra: Promises - 88,4 (87,7 / 23)
Highlights: Movement 1 - Movement 6 - Movement 8
Modern Classical
MCCh 2021 (17) September 30
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MCCh 2021 (17) September 30
Last edited by Otisredding on Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:00 am, edited 3 times in total.
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Re: MCCh 2021 (17) September 30
91 - The Staves: Good Woman - 74,3 (76,3 / 15)
92 - Te Killers: Pressure Machine - 74,3 (72,9 / 25)
93 - Iglooghost: Lei Line Eon - 74,1 (78,7 / 7)
94 - Marianne Faithfull: She Walks in Beauty - 74,0 (76,7 / 13)
95 - Diivde And Dissolve: Gas Lit - 74,0 (78,0 / 9)
96 - Tune-Yards: Sketchy. - 74,0 (74,0 / 21)
97 - Manchester Orchestra: The Million Masks Of God - 73,9 (76,9 / 12)
98 - Taylor Swift: Fearless (Taylor’s Version) - 73,8 (76,8 / 12)
99 - Nas: King's Disease II - 73,7 (76,7 / 12)
100 - Tom Jones: Surrounded By Time - 73,6 (77,3 / 10)
101 - Valerie June: The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers - 73,6 (76,9 / 11)
102 - Yola: Stand For Myself - 73,6 (76,9 / 11)
103 - Brockhampton: Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine - 73,6 (74,2 / 19)
104 - John Grant: Boy From Michigan - 73,5 (74,2 / 19)
105 - Du Blonde: Homecoming - 73,5 (77,4 / 9)
106 - Claud: Super Monster - 73,3 (75,0 / 16)
107 - Porter Robinson: Nurture - 73,3 (77,0 / 10)
108 - Noga Erez: Kids - 73,3 (78,0 / 7)
109 - Leon Bridges: Gold-Diggers Sound - 73,0 (73,9 / 18)
110 - Chad VanGaalen: World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - 72,9 (76,6 / 10)
111 - Sarah Mary Chadwick: Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby - 72,9 (77,6 / 7)
112 - Kacey Musgraves: Star-Crossed - 72,9 (73,2 / 20)
113 - Laura Mvula: Pink Noise - 72,7 (74,7 / 15)
114 - Steve Gunn: Other You - 72,7 (76,4 / 10)
115 - The Antlers: Green To Gold - 72,7 (74,7 / 15)
116 - Flock of Dimes: Head of Roses - 72,7 (75,4 / 13)
117 - Alan Vega: Mutator - 72,7 (76,7 / 9)
118 - William Doyle: Great Spans of Muddy Time - 72,6 (75,3 / 13)
119 - H.E.R.: Back of My Mind - 72,5 (76,4 / 9)
120 - The Mountain Goats: Dark In Here - 72,4 (74,4 / 15)
121 - The Body: I've Seen All I Need To See - 72,2 (75,9 / 10)
122 - Cloud Nothings: The Shadow I Remember - 72,1 (73,8 / 16)
123 - Lord Huron: Long Lost - 72,1 (76,7 / 7)
124 - Saint Etienne: I’ve Been Trying To Tell You - 72,0 (75,4 / 11)
125 - Halsey: If I Cant Have Love, I Want Power - 72,0 (73,0 / 18)
126 - Billie Marten: Flora Fauna - 71,9 (76,3 / 8)
127 - A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities - 71,9 (74,9 / 12)
128 - The Besnard Lakes: The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstom Warnings... - 71,9 (74,9 / 12)
129 - Alessia Cara: In The Meantime - 71,9 (76,6 / 7)
130 - Puma Blue: In Praise of Shadows - 71,8 (74,8 / 12)
131 - Half Waif: Mythopoetics - 71,8 (74,5 / 13)
132 - Pom Pom Squad: Death Of A Cheerleader - 71,8 (76,1 / 8)
133 - Lael Neale: Acquainted with Night - 71,7 (76,0 / 8)
134 - Lambchop: Showtunes - 71,6 (73,3 / 16)
135 - Weezer: OK Human - 71,5 (70,8 / 23)
136 - Durand Jones & The Indications: Private Space - 71,5 (76,1 / 7)
137 - Dodie: Build A Problem - 71,5 (75,4 / 9)
138 - Jungle: Loving In Stereo - 71,5 (72,4 / 18)
139 - Foo Fighters: Medicine at Midnight - 71,4 (69,7 / 26)
140 - Crowded House: Dreamers Are Waiting - 71,3 (75,0 / 10)
141 - Olivia Rodrigo: Sour - 71,2 (71,6 / 20)
142 - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Butterfly 3000 - 71,2 (74,5 / 11)
143 - Marta Wainwright: Love Will Be Reborn - 71,2 (75,9 / 7)
144 - David Crosby: For Free - 71,1 (74,5 / 11)
145 - Spirit Of The Beehive: Entertainment, Death - 71,1 (75,1 / 9)
146 - Ryley Walker: Course In Fable - 71,0 (74,4 / 11)
147 - Tindersticks: Distractions - 71,0 (73,4 / 14)
148 - Psychedelic Porn Crumpets: SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound - 71,0 (75,0 / 9)
149 - Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: Superwolves - 71,0 (73,3 / 14)
150 - Sleigh Bells: Texis - 70,9 (73,9 / 12)
151 - Still Corners: The Last Exit - 70,8 (74,5 / 10)
152 - Hiss Golden Messenger: Quietly Blowing It - 70,8 (74,8 / 9)
153 - Public Service Broadcasting: Bright Magic - 70,8 (75,4 / 7)
154 - James Yorkston And The Second Hand Orchestra: The Wide, Wide River - 70,7 (74,4 / 10)
155 - Pearl Charles: Magic Mirror - 70,5 (74,9 / 8)
156 - La Femme: Paradigmes - 70,3 (74,6 / 8)
157 - Liz Phair: Soberish - 70,1 (72,1 / 15)
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Re: MCCh 2021 (17) September 30
Sorry for the day's delay. It was my sister's wedding yesterday, so I didn't have time to do this. The wedding contained no music from Injury Reserve and Carcass, but this playlist does:
Also, just so you know, from tomorrow on all songs from Sault's Nine will be removed from Spotify and all other streaming services, because for reasons that probably matter only to Sault the album is only available for 99 days. So, the album will no longer be on this playlist either. Then again, a ranking for an unavailable album is almost moot on itself.
Also, just so you know, from tomorrow on all songs from Sault's Nine will be removed from Spotify and all other streaming services, because for reasons that probably matter only to Sault the album is only available for 99 days. So, the album will no longer be on this playlist either. Then again, a ranking for an unavailable album is almost moot on itself.
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