2021 for me musically was largely made up of ambient, electronic and, more broadly, instrumental music. Found myself, for whatever reasons, less excited about conventional songs and vocals. There were a lot of good albums that didn't stick with me, and almost nothing within the realms of heavy guitar music, which would usually be my default (I kept abreast of new releases but didn't go back to many and returned to old favourites instead). Rather, a lot of the records I listened to were more about providing an atmospheric soundtrack to my day. I doubt it will be of much interest but it's cool putting these together. There is a lot of great stuff in here. In no particular order: io audio recordings - A Guide To Drowning Gi Gi - Lumino Pleco Midwife - Luminol alva noto - HYbr:ID I DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors Chihei Hatakeyama - Void XXIII Subsonic Eye - Nature Of Things Grouper - Shade Koreless - Agor Medio Mutante - Drum Machines & Synthesizers Alex Albrecht - Campfire Stories Ohama - Arts Commons Soundscape, Pt IV Supplemental Owl - Infinite Horizon Wladimir Schall - 42'37'' Adeline Hotel - The Cherries Are Speaking A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Invisible Cities Jeff Parker - Forfolks Martin Gore - The Third Chimpanzee (EP)
I only listened to like 20 albums this year apparently. Million Masks of God - Manchester Orchestra A Pillar of Salt - Noah Gundersen Draw Down the Moon - Foxing I Don’t Live Here Anymore - The War on Drugs Little Oblivions - Julien Baker Ignorance - The Weather Station Home Video - Lucy Dacus A Billion Little Lights - Wild Pink Gardens - Brother Bird Dream Journal - Souveneer
I very much enjoyed most of what I’ve listened to from your list…saving it for reference for additional new albums to,listen to
My list: 1. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR 2. girl in red - if i could make it go quiet 3. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever 4. Claud - Super Monster 5. Lorde - Solar Power 6. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee 7. twenty one pilots - Scaled And Icy 8. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence 9. The Maine - XOXO: From Love & Anxiety In Real Time 10. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions 11. The Killers - Pressure Machine 12. Hayley Williams - FLOWERS for VASES / descansos 13. Foxing - Draw Down The Moon 14. Bleachers - Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night 15. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend 16. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks Of God 17. Snail Mail - Valentine 18. Rise Against - Nowhere Generation 19. Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days 20. Lucy Dacus - Home Video 21. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed 22. Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket 23. Weezer - OK Human 24. Coldplay - Music of the Spheres 25. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters
Forgot how good the Citizen album is. And I forgot to put the Creeper EP on my list, I really enjoyed that in 2021 as well.
1. Luna Shadows - Digital Pacific 2. Bigger Better Sun - Adjust to Wellness 3. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power 4. Saint Raymond - We Forgot We Were Dreaming 5. Hayley Williams - Flowers for Vases / Descansos 6. Foxing - Draw Down the Moon 7. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour 8. The Maine - XOXO: From Love and Anxiety in Real Time 9. Weezer - OK Human 10. Ben Kweller - Circuit Boredom 11. Amy Shark - Cry Forever 12. Kississippi - Mood Ring 13. The Killers - Pressure Machine 14. Jim Ward - Daggers 15. Webbed Wing - What's So Fucking Funny? 16. Maisie Peters - You Signed Up for This 17. LP - Churches 18. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore 19. Noah Gundersen - A Pillar of Salt 20. The Band Camino - The Band Camino 21. Saint Motel - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 22. Kacey Musgraves - Star-Crossed 23. Ours - Ours 24. You Me at Six - Suckapunch 25. Zac Clark - Holy Shit 26. Biffy Clyro - The Myth of the Happily Ever After 27. Meadowlark - Nightstorm 28. Third Eye Blind - Our Bande Apart 29. Sydney Sprague - Maybe I Will See You at the End of the World 30. Weezer - Van Weezer
1. trace mountains - house of confusion 2. holy other - lieve 3. grouper - shade 4. snail mail - valentine 5. seeyouspacecowboy - the romance of affliction 6. adult mom - driver 7. the war on drugs - I don't live here anymore 8. spirit of the beehive - entertainment death 9. cloud nothings - the shadow I remember 10. if I die first - they drew blood 11. hovvdy - true love 12. spirit was - heaven's just a cloud 13. japanese breakfast - jubilee 14. indigo de souza - any shape you take 15. wristmeetrazor - replica of a strange love
all really cool albums that I haven’t seen called out much elsewhere and I’m now gonna check out Bigger Better Sun and Ben Kweller because I’m not familiar
I probably got some of them from your posts in the weekly release threads! I always look out for them because you tend to call out some really cool pop-leaning stuff that isn't discussed much here. Thank you for that! Hope you enjoy BBS and BK. Both very hooky.
I dug this record a lot for some reason. I don't really know why but I did. It feels like I've been listening to it forever so I kind of forgot it was this year, too. I haven't gone through and looked really closely in this thread but I haven't seen many people mention it. That just means there was a lot of cool stuff that came out this year!
I'm planning to browse back through this thread over the weekend to catch up on everyone's lists, but will just pop my own one here for the time being! Best of 2021 Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend Turnstile - GLOW ON Citizen - Life in Your Glass World Noah Gundersen - A Pillar of Salt Mogwai - As the Love Continues MONO - Pilgrimage of the Soul Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God Deafheaven - Infinite Granite CHVRCHES - Screen Violence Maybeshewill - No Feeling is Final Popping a playlist below that features my favourite song from each release. Honourable Mentions Baulta - Another Second Chance Beach Bunny - Blame Game EP God is an Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10 Kali Masi - [laughs] KAUAN - Ice Fleet Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR Ranges - Cardinal Winds Spiritbox - Eternal Blue Thrice - Horizons/East The Ones I Missed (and fully intend to check out ASAP) BRUIT ≤ - The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again Every Time I Die - Radical The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore New Favourite "Old" Albums Katie Malco - Failures Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy Most Anticipated of 2022 A lot of these are unconfirmed as far as I know, but I feel they are well overdue a new album so would like to think some of these are coming this year! Basement? Copeland? The Hotelier? Jimmy Eat World? Maggie Rogers? Pianos Become the Teeth? Russian Circles? Thrice - Horizons/West? Tides of Man? Underoath - Voyeurist yndi halda? Let me know if you have any recommendations for me based on my lists! Happy new year everyone!
Hey all! Took me awhile to compile my list as usual, but here we are! Top 50 Albums 1. Foxing – Draw Down the Moon 2. Turnstile – Glow On 3. Parannoul – To See the Next Part of the Dream 4. Origami Angel – GAMI GANG 5. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee 6. Citizen – Life in Your Glass World 7. Lucy Dacus – Home Video 8. Fiddlehead – Between the Richness 9. Porter Robinson – Nurture 10. Home is Where – I became birds 11. JPEGMAFIA – LP! 12. Hovvdy – True Love 13. Really From – Really From 14. Every Time I Die - Radical 15. Vince Staples – Vince Staples 16. Downhaul - Proof 17. Magdalena Bay – Mercurial World 18. Backxwash – I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and Dresses 19. Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine – A Beginner’s Mind 20. Squid – Bright Green Field 21. Spirit of the Beehive – Entertainment, Death 22. Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth 23. slowthai - tyron 24. Hayley Williams – Flowers for Vases 25. Black Country, New Road – For the First Time 26. Wednesday – Twin Plagues 27. Manchester Orchestra – The Million Masks of God 28. Snail Mail – Valentine 29. Weezer – OK Human 30. Ovlov – Buds 31. Brockhampton – Roadrunner: New Light New Machine 32. Save Face – Another Kill for the Highlight Reel 33. dltzk - Frailty 34. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions 35. R.A.P. Ferreira – The Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Scriptures 36. Poppy - Flux 37. Asian Glow – Cull Ficle 38. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny Haha 39. Tricot - Jodeki 40. The World is a Beautiful Place – Illusory Walls 41. Raccoon City – For Nobody, Nowhere 42. Ceschi – This Guitar Was Stolen Along With Years of Our Lives 43. For Your Health – In Spite Of 44. Taking Meds – Terrible News From Wonderful People 45. Fog Lake – Tragedy Reel 46. Worst Party Ever - Dartland 47. Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost 48. Harmony Woods – Graceful Rage 49. Crumb – Ice Melt 50. One Step Closer – This Place You Know Top 5 EPs 1. Knocked Loose – A Tear In the Fabric of Life 2. Parting – Unmake Me 3. Circa Survive – A Dream About Love 4. Sadistik – L’appel Du Vide 5. Drug Church – Tawny And here is a Spotify playlist with one of my favorite songs from each release Hope you find something new to enjoy! Thanks to everyone else for all the great recommendations.
I wan't to change mine: Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg Springtime - Springtime Solen - Totalmusik shame - Drunk Tank Pink IDLES - Crawler Margaritas Podridas - Margaritas Podridas Iceage - Shelter Song Spread Joy - Spread Joy CLAMM - Beseech Me Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee Requin Chagrin - Bye Bye Baby Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort To Me Pascal - Fuck Like a Beast Gustaf - Audio Drag for Ego Slobs
Your list/taste seems very close to mine, so I'm going to suggest some albums I liked that you may enjoy (or maybe have heard already) Origami Angel - GAMI GANG Palette Knife - Ponderosa Snakehouse and the Chamber of Bullshit Super American - SUP Jail Socks - Coming Down Beartooth - Below Spiritbox - Eternal Blue One Step Closer - This Place You Know Webbed Wing - What's so Fucking Funny? Glitterer - Life is Not a Lesson
I should have included my honorable mentions, it has the majority of these actually! The only ones I haven't listened to are Webbed Wing (which is a name I've seen around the internet a lot) and Glitterer (who were great opening up for Citizen), so I'll check these!
Webbed Wing is formed by Superheaven members (if somebody maybe missed that info), it's a really fun record, I liked it a lot!
1. Lunar Vacation - Inside Every Fig is a Dead Wasp 2. Yola - Stand for Myself 3. Leon Bridges- Gold-Diggers Sound 4. Noah Gunderson - Pillar of Salt 5. Andrea von Kampen - That Spell 6. Lucy Dacus - Home Video 7. Delta Sleep - Spring Island 8. A Great Big Pile of Leaves - Pono 9. The Staves - Good Woman 10. Kacey Musgraves - Star-Crossed
Already enjoying Lunar Vacation! Recognised everyone on your list except your #1 so figured it must be a good one!
Checking out some of these simply due to you have having Pillar of Salt on your list. I’m liking Lunar Vacation as well.
I also couldn’t get into that album and fail to understand the hype. But it sure is high on a lot of lists.
There’s a few tracks which work for me and I appreciate the sound they’re going for, but I dunno. Nothing is really memorable about it.