Can only do a top 5 because I don’t want to put a lot of thought in this: 1) not worth mentioning anymore! 2) Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights 3) Every Time I Die - Radical 4) Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend 5) The Killers - Pressure Machine
The albums I listened to the most that came out in 2021: Keeton Coffman - Hard Times Julien Baker - Little Oblivions Teenage Wrist - Earth Is A Black Hole CHVRCHES - Screen Violence Angels and Airwaves - Lifeforms Hoping to listen to more new music in 2022.
Didn’t / doesn’t Teenage Wrist have some pretty serious issues against a member? Just an FYI for anyone who sees them on these lists and thinks of checking them out. Not judging anyone who has them listed, just want to bring visibility to a possible problematic artist when there are other albums from 2021 folks can and should check out by non-problematic artists. calling on @ItsAndrew as he’s pretty up to speed with most of this stuff.
thank you for bringing this to my attention, I had no idea. Just caught up on the thread for the album. Super shitty news.
ALBUMS: 1. nothing,nowhere. - 'Trauma Factory'. 2. Every Time I Die - 'Radical' 3. Hail The Sun - 'New Age Filth' 4. Rivals - 'Sad Looks Pretty On Me' 5. Devil Sold His Soul - 'Loss' 6. Eidola - 'The Architect' 7. Holding Absence - 'The Greatest Mistake Of My Life' 8. The Plot In You - 'Swan Song' 9. dim - 'From Dark To Light We'll See' 10. Spiritbox - 'Eternal Blue' EPS: 1. Moodring - 'Showmetherealyou' 2. The Devil Wears Prada - 'Zombie II (ZII)' 3. Like Moths To Flames - 'Pure Like Porcelain' 4. SeeYouSpaceCowboy... / If I Die First - 'A Sure Disaster' 5. Magnolia Park - 'Dream Eater' 6. Knocked Loose - 'A Tear In The Fabric Of Life' 7. Nightlife - 'New Low' 8. Against The Current - 'Fever' 9. ten56. - 'Downer, Pt.1' 10. Lorna Shore - '...And I Return To Nothingness'
My 2021 AOTY List i have a full write up for 1-20 on here and then blurbs in groups of 5 from 50-21, but just in case you're a lazy bum and don't want to click the link and read for five minutes: 1. Low - HEY WHAT 2. Turnstile - Glow On 3. Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights 4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra - Promises 5. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee 6. Aeon Station - Observatory 7. Fiddlehead - Between the Richness 8. Another Michael - New Music and Big Pop 9. Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future 10. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
1. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Illusory Walls 2. The Killers – Pressure Machine 3. You, Me, and Everyone We Know – Something Heavy 4. You Rest, You Joy Life – Uncomfortable 5. A Great Big Pile of Leaves – Pono 6. The Maine – XOXO: From Love & Anxiety In Real Time 7. Foxing – Draw Down the Moon 8. Tigers Jaw - I Won’t Care How You Remember Me 9. Citizen - Life In Your Glass World 10. Worst Party Ever - Dartland 11. Bleachers – Take The Sadness Out of Saturday Night 12. Bigger Better Sun - Adjust To Wellness 13. PONY - TV Baby 14. Palette Knife - Ponderosa Snake House & The Chamber of Bullshit 15. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God 16. seasonal – The Summers to Come 17. Jail Socks – Coming Down 18. The Copyrights – Alone In A Dome 19. Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost 20. Fiddlehead - Between The Richness 21. Suntitle – In A Dream 22. Brockhampton - Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine 23. Halogens – You’re Being Weird 24. Common Sage – It Lives and It Breathes 25. Illuminati Hotties – Let Me Do One More 26. Lil Nas X - MONTERO 27. Kississippi – Mood Ring 28. Kali Masi - [laughs] 29. Alien Boy – Don’t Know What I Am 30. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions Honorable Mentions Meet Me @ The Altar - Model Citizen EP Snow Ellet - Suburban Indie Rock Star EP Circa Survive - A Dream About Love EP Action/Adventure - Pulling Focus EP Mannequin Pussy - Perfect EP Sympathy Card – 2002 The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art Parting - Unmake Me Deafheaven – Infinite Granite Trash Boat – Don’t You Feel Amazing? Dave Hause – Blood Harmony Vince Staples – Vince Staples Paerish - Fixed It All Hayley Williams - Flowers For Vases/descansos We Are The Union - Ordinary Life Stars Hollow - I Want To Live My Life Chess Club - You’re Lucky I Like You Sweet Avenue - Young In Warm Weather Photographic Memory - Photographic Memory Weezer - OK Human Weezer - Van Weezer Year Twins - Perfect Forever, Forever Perfect Smol Data - Inconvenience Store Chaser – Dreamers
Probably should mess around with the order more but 1. Circa Survive - A Dream About Love 2. Citizen - Life In Your Glass World 3. Turnstile - Glow On 4. You Me & Everyone We Know - Something Heavy 5. Worst Party Ever - Dartland 6. Tigers Jaw - I Won't Care How You Remember Me 7. Sleigh Bells - Texis 8. The World is a Beautiful Place... - Illusory Walls 9. Origami Angel - GAMI GANG 10. Foxing - Draw Down The Moon Mentions: Raccoon City - For Nobody, Nowhere Hot Mulligan - I Won't Reach Out To You Palette Knife - Ponderosa Snake House Most Anticipated for 2022 The Wonder Years Trophy Eyes State Faults Stay Inside Gatherers Camp Trash The Dangerous Summer EDIT: Never heard of Suntitle but their album slaps. Probably gonna check out all of Anythony's list since it's similar to mine.
Made a list of my 50 favorite albums from the past year. 200 Stab Wounds – Slave to the Scalpel Amyl and the Sniffers – Comfort to Me Black Sheep Wall – Songs for the Enamel Queen C4 – Chaos Streaks Candy Apple – Sweet Dreams of Violence Chemical Fix - Our Shade Casts Far Chevelle - NIRATIAS Chubby and the Gang – The Mutt’s Nuts Citizen – Life In Your Glass World Converge & Chelsea Wolfe – Blood Moon: I Cruelty – There Is No God Where I Am Dare – Against All Odds Dead Heat – World at War Deafheaven - Infinite Granite Dying Wish – Fragments of a Bitter Memory Ekulu – Unscrew My Head Employed to Serve - Conquering Enforced – Kill Grid Fiddlehead – Between the Richness Frozen Soul – Crypt of Ice Full of Hell – Garden of Burning Apparitions Gatecreeper – An Unexpected Reality Gods Hate – Gods Hate Ingrown – Gun Knoll - Interstice Last Gasp -The Storied Weight of it All Manchester Orchestra - Million Masks of God Method of Doubt – Staring At Patterns MH Chaos – MH Chaos Momentum – Momentum One Step Closer – This Place You Know Portrayal of Guilt – Christfucker Portrayal of Guilt – We Are Always Alone Pupil Slicer – Mirrors Quicksand - Distant Populations Regional Justice Center – Crime and Punishment Rise Against – Nowhere Generation Scowl – How Flowers Grow Section H8 – Welcome to the Nightmare Slant – Slant Slope - Street Heat The Chisel – Retaliation Thirdface – Do It With a Smile Time and Pressure – Halfway Down Tooth and Claw – Dream of Ascension Turnstile – Glow On Yautja -The Lurch Wanderer – Liberation From a Brutalist Existence #normalizebestoflists
TOP 5 ALBUMS Turnstile - GLOW ON Porter Robinson - Nurture Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place Bo Burnham - Inside TOP 5 SONGS The Killers - Pressure Machine Bo Burnham - That Funny Feeling Big Red Machine - Reese Turnstile - Mystery Modest Mouse - Wooden Soldiers
Reese was my most listened to song this year, wish that BRM album was a little more consistent. Will check out your others as well.
I haven't done my list of favorite albums yet this year, but I did compile 75 songs that I really enjoyed. They're in no order.
1. Hovvdy - True Love 2. Arrange - The World is Racing 3. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour 4. Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights 5. Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti 6. Hot Mulligan - I Won't Reach Out to You 7. Buck Meek - Two Saviors 8. Photographic Memory - Photographic Memory 9. Doof - Cull Ficle 10. Parannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream 11. Remember Sports - Like a Stone 12. Charlie Martin - Imaginary People 13. Dijon - Absolutely 14. Turnstile - Glow On 15. Explosions in the Sky - Big Bend 16. Camp Trash - Downtiming 17. seasonal - The Summers to Come 18. Boldy James - Bo Jackson/Super Techmo Bo 19. Runnner - Always Repeating 20. Home is Where - I Became Birds 21. Cicala - Cicala 22. Webbed Wing - What's So Fucking Funny 23. The Armed - ULTRAPOP 24. Seismograph - Vast 25. Armlock -Trust No preference about the order outside of the top 5.
Favorite discoveries this year: The Book of Love - The Book of Love Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock Miles Davis - In a Silent Way The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge New Order - everything Bruce Hornsby - Scenes from the Southside The Cars - Shake it Up
EPs: 1. Mannequin Pussy - Perfect 2. Snarls - What About Flowers? 3. Foxes - Friends in the Corner 4. No Longer at Ease - No Longer at Ease 5. Future Teens - Deliberately Alive