Here's a place for everyone to share their EOTY lists for 2021. The Chorus.fm website contributors are hard at work at our own lists and we plan, like we did on AP.net, to post and share these on the website in early January. Hope everyone had a great musical year and I can't wait to read all everyone's lists. Here's the 2021 Albums thread if you need some memory refreshing on what you listened to this year. Archive: 2020 (Contributor List) 2019 (Contributor List) 2018 (Contributor List) 2017 (Contributor List) 2016 (Contributor List)
Here we go, managed to pull together a top 40. I used bias sorter which made this way easier once I got into it. Including top 3 songs for the top 10. Every ranking past that is meaningless tbh. Also did a Top 30 list of EPs which is unranked but there were so many great ones this year its criminal to not include them: Top 40 Albums: Turnstile - GLOW ON (Underwater Boi, New Heart Design, Blackout) Militarie Gun - All Roads Lead to the Gun I & II (Stuck In A Spin, Big Disappointment, Fell On My Head) Sungaze - This Dream (Body In The Mirror, Storm Chaser, Change Will Come) Fiddlehead - Between The Richness (The Years, Down University, Eternal You) Mini Trees - Always In Motion (Underwater, Carrying On, Numb) Suzanne Kraft - About You (On Our Hands, Blush, Waiting) Orchid Mantis - visitations (carry the weight, light rays, change your mind) Quicksand - Distant Populations (Rodan, Katakana, Lightning Field) Wednesday - Twin Plagues (Twin Plagues, Handsome Man, Cody's Only) Webbed Wing - What's So Fucking Funny? (Saturdays, For Real, Jesus's Age) __________________________________________________________________ Ovlov -buds The War On Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore Isaiah Rashad - The House is Burning A Great Big Pile Of Leaves - Pono Failure - Wild Type Droid Sweet Soul - So Far No Further Mick Jenkins -Elephant In The Room Circa Survive - A Dream About Love Downhaul - PROOF Deafheaven - Infinite Granite __________________________________________________________________ Stray Fossa - With You Forever Taking Meds - Terrible News From Wonderful Men Angel Du$t - YAK: A Collection of Truck Songs Kraus - No View Country One Step Closer - This Place You Know Vince Staples - Vince Staples Paerish - Fixed It All Trace Mountains - HOUSE OF CONFUSION Bigger Better Sun - Adjust To Wellness Mint Julep - In A Deep and Dreamless Sleep __________________________________________________________________ Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time Ty Segall - Harmonizer Floatie - Voyage Out Delta Sleep - Spring Island Snail Mail - Valentine Foxing - Draw Down The Moon Teenage Wrist - Earth is a Black Hole Wiki - Half God Slow Crush - Hush Slow Coda - Slow Coda Top 30 EPs: Timelost – Gushing Interest Teenage Priest – Rhymes & Rhythms trauma ray – trauma ray Creeks – The Pain You Took On Koyo – Drive Out East Knocked Loose – A Tear in the Fabric of Life MILLY – Wish Goes On SOM – Awake Day Aches – Promo ‘21 Blue Canopy – Sleep While You Still Can Pet Fox – More Than Anything Drug Church – Tawny Shine – Stare Into The Sun All under heaven – Collider Downward – 2 Songs Julie – pushing daisies Soul Blind - Third Chain Modern Color - Now, Life is Living You Bleed – Somebody’s Closer Pretty/normal – pretty/normal Raw Plastic – Waiting Till Summer Millionyoung – Moments Warper Hussy – Hussy Utmost & Bore – New York Split Luster - Blue Oblivion Slowly – Reverse Binki – MOTOR FUNCTION Spaced - Two New joints / DEMO 2021 Gully Boys – Favorite Son
1. Turnstile – GLOW ON 2. Teenage Wrist – Earth Is A Black Hole 3. Twenty One Pilots – Scaled And Icy 4. The Dirty Nil – Fuck Art 5. Every Time I Die - Radical 6. Foo Fighters – Medicine At Midnight 7. Thrice – Horizons/East 8. The Killers – Pressure Machine 9. Weezer – OK Human / Van Weezer 10. Beartooth - Below 11. Architects – For Those That Wish To Exist 12. The War On Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore 13. Normandie – Dark & Beautiful Secrets 14. You Me At Six - SUCKAPUNCH 15. John Mayer – Sob Rock 16. Deafheaven – Infinite Granite 17. Lord Huron – Long Lost 18. Switchfoot - interrobang 19. Limp Bizkit – STILL SUCKS 20. Foxing – Draw Down The Moon 21. Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres 22. Mastodon – Hushed and Grim 23. Origami Angel – GAMI GANG 24. Manchester Orchestra – The Million Masks Of God 25. A Day To Remember – You’re Welcome 26. Don Broco – Amazing Things 27. Royal Blood - Typhoons 28. Kings Of Leon – When You See Yourself 29. Asking Alexandria – See What’s On The Inside 30. Chevelle - NIRATIAS 31. Eric Church – Heart & Soul 32. Gojira - Fortitude 33. The Blue Stones – Hidden Gems 34. Tigers Jaw – I Won’t Care How You Remember Me 35. Lonely The Brave – The Hope List 36. My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket 37. Rebelution – In The Moment 38. Mammoth WVH – Mammoth WVH 39. Leon Bridges – Gold-Diggers Sound 40. Quicksand – Distant Populations 41. CHVRCHES – Screen Violence 42. Paerish - Fixed It All 43. Snail Mail – Valentine 44. Wild Pink – A Billion Little Lights 45. Steve Gunn – Other You 46. Ovlov – Buds 47. The Offspring – Let The Bad Times Roll 48. The Bronx - The Bronx VI 49. Rise Against – Nowhere Generation 50. The Armed – ULTRAPOP
Feels like not as many albums have really stuck with me this year as in the past. My Apple Music Replay playlist doesn't even have much from this year near the top.
I hearted a lot of albums on Spotify with the intention of listening to them, but then never did. It's been that kind of year.
I have a pretty good idea of how mine is looking especially for the top 10. Still have some things I need to sit on though
Don't have much interest in ranking my top twenty anymore but it's still a fun task cutting it down to that number.
These are in a general order where I like the albums at the beginning more than the later ones. After making this list, I noticed that I don’t really have any favorites from this year that are heavier which is kinda weird. Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore Ratboys - Happy Birthday, Ratboy Origami Angel - GAMI GANG Foxing - Draw Down the Moon Half Waif - Mythopoetics Adjy - The Idyll Opus (I-VI) Low - HEY WHAT The World Is A Beautiful Place - Illusory Walls Bent Knee - Frosting Thrice - Horizons / East Cloud Nothings - The Shadow I Remember Harmony Woods - GRACEFUL RAGE Snail Mail - Valentine The Joy Formidable - Into The Blue EPs Pronoun - OMG I MADE IT mofie - Black Hole Gates - Here and Now Mannequin Pussy - Perfect Beach House - Once Twice Melody GLASWING EPs Thunder Gloss & Secret Crush Hero Worship - Halos Rearrangements Gang of Youths - total serene
Honorable mentions Lightning Bug - A Color of the Sky Lowland Hum - At Home Lucy Dacus - Home Video Sufjan Stevens & Angelo de Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind Lakes - Start Again Joe Vann - Found in the Smoke Jeff Rosenstock - SKA DREAM Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee Julien Baker - Little Oblivions Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR Johnny Football Hero - Complacency Hovvdy - True Love Angel Du$t - YAK: A Collection of Truck Songs Another Michael - New Music and Big Pop Deafheaven - Infinite Granite Parannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream Laura Stevenson - S/T Kississippi - Mood Ring Jodi - Blue Heron Jónsi - Obsidian Trace Mountains - House of Confusion Illuminati Hotties - Let Me Do One More The Armed - ULTRAPOP Luminism - East Coast Emo Radical Face - Hidden Hollow Volume 1 Valleyheart - Scenery EP Home is Where - I Became Birds Arm’s Length - Everything’s Nice
I'd say my top six are pretty set, top contenders but the rest is shit that I have listened to more than a handful of times and enjoyed a bunch. Definitely gonna be checking out a lot of stuff on lists. Half Waif - Mythopoetics Converge - Bloodmoon: I Foxing - Draw Down the Moon Spirit Box - Eternal Blue Marina - Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land Hana Vu - Public Storage Sleigh Bells - Texis Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Candy Racer Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee Indigo de Souza - Any Shape You Take Between the Buried and Me - Colors 2 Chai - Wink The Armed - Ultra Pop Rebecca Black - Rebecca Black was Here Thrice - Horizons // East Olivia Rodrigo - Sour St Vincent - Daddy's Home Dessa - I Already Like You Pink Panthress - To Hell With It
Going to take a little more time with mine. I have it in a rough order but don’t know my 10-1 at all. Any of the records in my top 10 could be number 1. Weird year.
1. Odette – Herald 2. Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams 3. Maika Loubté – Lucid Dreaming 4. Half Waif – Mythopoetics 5. Rosie Tucker – Sucker Supreme 6. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee 7. Birdy – Young Heart 8. Snail Mail – Valentine 9. Madi Diaz – History Of A Feeling 10. Laura Stevenson – Laura Stevenson 11. Bess Atwell – Already, Always 12. Fears – Oíche
another great year! 1. Snail Mail - Valentine 2. slowthai - TYRON 3. Hovvdy - True Love 4. Black Country, New Road - For the first time 5. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert 6. Low - HEY WHAT 7. Strange Ranger - No Light in Heaven 8. Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti 9. The Weather Station - Ignorance 10. DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors 11. Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take 12. Ross From Friends - Tread 13. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales 14. Tyler, the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost 15. Squid - Bright Green Field 16. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram 17. Turnstile - GLOW ON 18. Vince Staples - Vince Staples 19. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg 20. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE 21. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee 22. PinkPantheress - to hell with it 23. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH 24. Isaiah Rashad - The House Is Burning 25. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises 26. Norf Face - Norf Face 27. Home Is Where - I Became Birds 28. Lucy Dacus - Home Video 29. Foxing - Draw Down the Moon 30. Wiki - Half God 31. Charlie Martin - Imaginary People 32. Dave - We're All Alone in This Together 33. 박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Before I Die 34. illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More 35. JPEGMAFIA - LP! 36. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! 37. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home 38. Bicep - Isles 39. Angel Du$t - YAK: A Collection Of Truck Songs 40. MAN ON MAN - MAN ON MAN 41. Ghetts - Conflict of Interest 42. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR 43. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite 44. Loraine James - Reflection 45. Maxo Kream - WEIGHT OF THE WORLD 46. Parannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream 47. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence 48. Every Time I Die - Radical 49. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home 50. Darkside - Spiral
My favorite album of the year wasn't from this year, I just discovered Hailaker's self titled album from 2019 this spring, and its too beautiful to listen to much else
Using bias sorter, just went for it. Turnstile - GLOW ON Between the Buried & Me - Colors II Young Thug - Punk Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST Deafheaven - Infinite Granite Every Time I Die - Radical Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get To Phoenix JPEGMAFIA - LP! (Offline Version) Origami Angel - GAMI GANG The Killers - Pressure Machine Lil Ugly Mane - volcanic bird enemy and the voiced concern The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art Foxing - Draw Down the Moon Kanye West - Donda King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000 Nas - Magic Idles - CRAWLER Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs) The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore Lucy Dacus - Home Video Telethon - Swim Out Past the Breakers Jeff Rosenstock - SKA DREAM Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee BROCKHAMPTON - ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend Snail Mail - Valentine Porter Robinson - Nurture Nas - King's Disease II Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue Brand of Sacrifice - Lifeblood