AllMusic Best of 2021 [100 Entries, Alphabetical/Unranked]
Adele - 30
Aimee Mann - Queens of the Summer Hotel
Alison Krauss / Robert Plant - Raise the Roof
Allison Russell - Outside Child
Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort to Me
BadBadNotGood - Talk Memory
Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
Billy Gibbons - Hardware
Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)
Bomba Estéreo - Deja
Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days
C. Tangana - El Madrileño
Cadence Weapon - Parallel World
Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
Chelsea Carmichael - The River Doesn't Like Strangers
Chvrches - Screen Violence
Clark - Playground in a Lake
Cleo Sol - Mother
Cola Boyy - Prosthetic Boombox
Colleen - The Tunnel and the Clearing
Converge / Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I
Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers
Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Edward Dowie - The Obvious I
Eivind Aarset / Eivind Aarset 4-Tet - Phantasmagoria or a Different Kind of Journey
Eric Bibb - Dear America
Field Music - Flat White Moon
Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight
Geoffrey O'Connor - For as Long as I Can Remember
Grouper - Shade
Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
Helado Negro - Far In
Helsinki Chamber Choir / Nils Schweckendiek - Pärt: Passio
Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
Jack Ingram / Miranda Lambert / Jon Randall - The Marfa Tapes
James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Jazzmeia Horn - Dear Love
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9
Jerry Cantrell - Brighten
John Carroll Kirby - Septet
Jon Batiste - We Are
Jorge Elbrecht - Presentable Corpse 002
Julie Campbell / LoneLady - Former Things
Karol G - KG0516
Kenneth Whalum - Broken Land 2
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
Klenke-Quartett / Nicola Jürgensen / Stephan Katte - Mozart: Clarinet Quintet; Horn Quintet
L'Rain - Fatigue
Laura Mvula - Pink Noise
Lil Nas X - Montero
Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Liz Phair - Soberish
Los Lobos - Native Sons
Makthaverskan - For Allting
Manfred Honeck / Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Marisa Monte - Portas
Marissa Nadler - The Path of the Clouds
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
Matthias Goerne / Seong-Jin Cho - Im Abendrot: Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
Mocky - Overtones for the Omniverse
Mogwai - As the Love Continues
Mouse on Mars - AAI
Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
Olivier Latry - Liszt: Inspirations
PinkPantheress - To Hell with It
Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red
Polo & Pan - Cyclorama
René Jacobs / Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir / Freiburger Barockorchester / Polina Pastirchak - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Robert Finley - Sharecropper's Son
Rochelle Jordan - Play With The Changes
Roxana Amed - Ontology
Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying to Tell You
Smile Machine - Bye for Now
Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
Squid - Bright Green Field
Steve Gunn - Other You
Teke::Teke - Shirushi
Terrace Martin - Drones
The Armed - Ultrapop
The Coral - Coral Island
The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy
The Mountain Goats - Dark in Here
The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Uncommon Weather
The Weather Station - Ignorance
The William Loveday Intention - The Dept. of Discontinued Lines
Theo Croker - Blk2Life/A Future Past
Torres - Thirstier
Turnstile - Glow On
Tyler, The Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
Valerie June - The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers
Viktoria Mullova / Alasdair Beatson - Beethoven: Sonatas 4, 5 & 7
Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood
Yola - Stand for Myself
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