Best Albums of 2021

mikeyrob73

Seeing as its Nov and the year is nearly done 
whats your fav albums of this year 
For me and no particular order 
Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend 
The Black Keys- Delta Kreme 
St Vincent - Daddies Home 
Richard Ashcroft - Acoustic Hymns 

stimpsonslostson

Gojira- Fortitude

Philly_Q

As usual I haven't actually bought or heard many new albums this year...

Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
Green Lung - Black Harvest
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

thecolourbox

Puma Blue - In Praise of Shadows

St Vincent - Daddy's Home

Billie Eilish - Happier than Ever

That said, I think they are the only three new albums I have listened to this year, and I pretty much already knew I'd like them

lustycourtier

Daddys Home St Vincent
17 going Under- Sam Fender
ChemTrails- Lana Del Ray
Coral Island- The Coral

dindude

It’s been a pretty good year I think, I’m listening to more new music than old for once.

Blue weekend - Wolf Alice
Solar Power - Lorde
Seventeen going under - Sam Fender
I don’t live hear anymore - The War on Drug
Trip the Witch - Trip the Witch
Typhoons - Royal Blood
Pure - Robben Ford

A few big disappointments though from John Mayer and Ben Howard (LOVED his previous two albums but the latest is unlistenable).

EricTheWeary

I think the only new album I've purchased in 2021 is Protest Songs by The Specials and that's a bit mixed.
I have, however, streamed the St Vincent one so happy to give a +1 to that. 

markblack

Middle Kids 
https://open.spotify.com/album/61GHQQ0Z46wBOxKnzdbBNl?si=iaERty2BSGiyGLJReIjITA&utm_source=copy-link

RobDavies

Four Stroke Baron - Classics
Turnstile - Glow On

BloodEagle

Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort to Me

Jarhead Fertiliser - Product of my Environment

Surfbort - Keep On Truckin'

Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality

Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions

God's Hate - S/T

MagicPigDetective

A lot of good albums in 21, including:

Dinosaur Jr  -Sweep it into Space
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
Manics - Ultra Vivid Lament
Melvins - Five Legged Dog
Amaro Freitas (Brazilian Jazz) - Sankofa
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
µ-Ziq - Scurlage
Plant43 - Sublunar Tides
Qrion - I Hope it Lasts Forever
Daniel Avery - Together in Static

My best by far is Hushed and Grim by Mastodon, a masterpiece. 

MattW

Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket

Winny_Pooh

The Weather Station - Ignorance



Lake Street Dive - Obviously 

axisus

I'm a progger at heart, and my album of the year is also now one of my fave ever albums, Lifesigns - Altitude Beautiful music, sonically sounds amazing, and the song 'Last one home' has one of my favourite emotive guitar solos for many a year.



If anyone wants a taste, here's the album trailer. Wonderful Bass sounds!

joetele

Another should for Deafheaven's 'Infinite Granite', and Emma Ruth Rundle's 'Engine of Hell'. And of course, my own album 'Happy Places'  

https://paleblurs.bandcamp.com/album/happy-places

CHRISB50

I think the only new music (released this year) I bought was Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space. 

So probably that. 

earwighoney

Do EP's count?

A lot of great metal albums released in 2021, but a few EP's off an English label have come out with a few EP's I keep on revisiting more than anything else this .

So my albums of the year is a recommendation for Dry Cough records who have put out some gloriously nasty, filthy OSDM.

hollywoodrox

Off the top of my head  

Gilby Clarke  “The Gospel Truth “ 
  Bodom  after Midnight  “Paint the sky with blood “
  hookers n blow  “hookers n blow”

There’s a new LA guns that I haven heard yet too.
  

There’s some good Scandinavian hair metal albums released in 22
 

fob

Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams

Kittyfrisk

Hesitant to suggest this as it might make a certain someone insufferable   but it is genuinely the only new album I have bought this year.
So, I nominate 'The World Inside' by our own Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster.
(The vinyl is a really good listen).

Caffeine_Vampire

Really enjoyed Detroit Stories by the Coop.