Year-End Lists

AllMusic: Best of 2021

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• 30
  Adele
• Queens of the Summer Hotel
  Aimee Mann
• Raise The Roof
  Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
• Outside Child
  Allison Russell
• Comfort To Me
  Amyl and The Sniffers
• Talk Memory
  BADBADNOTGOOD
• Open Arms to Open Us
  Ben LaMar Gay
• Happier Than Ever
  Billie Eilish
• Hardware
  Billy F Gibbons
• Inside (The Songs)
  Bo Burnham
• Deja
  Bomba Estéreo
• In These Silent Days
  Brandi Carlile
• El Madrileño
  C. Tangana
• Parallel World
  Cadence Weapon
• An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
  Cassandra Jenkins
• The River Doesn’t Like Strangers
  Chelsea Carmichael
• Screen Violence
  Chvrches
• Playground In A Lake
  Clark
• Mother
  Cleo Sol
• Prosthetic Boombox
  Cola Boyy
• The Tunnel and the Clearing
  Colleen
• Bloodmoon: I
  Converge & Chelsea Wolfe
• If Words Were Flowers
  Curtis Harding
• The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
  Damon Albarn
• New Long Leg
  Dry Cleaning
• The Obvious I
  Ed Dowie
• Phantasmagoria, or A Different Kind of Journey
  The Eivind Aarset 4-tet
• Dear America
  Eric Bibb
• Flat White Moon
  Field Music
• Medicine at Midnight
  Foo Fighters
• For As Long As I Can Remember
  Geoffrey O'Connor
• Shade
  Grouper
• If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
  Halsey
• Far In
  Helado Negro
• Pärt: Passio
  Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek
• Mood Valiant
  Hiatus Kaiyote
• The Marfa Tapes
  Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall
• The Horses and the Hounds
  James McMurtry
• Jubilee
  Japanese Breakfast
• Dear Love
  Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force
• Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9
  Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
• Brighten
  Jerry Cantrell
• Septet
  John Carroll Kirby
• We Are
  Jon Batiste
• Presentable Corpse 002
  Jorge Elbrecht
• KG0516
  Karol G
• Broken Land 2
  Kenneth Whalum
• Butterfly 3000
  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
• Mozart: Clarinet Quintet & Horn Quintet
  Klenke Quartett & Nicola Jürgensen & Stephan Katte
• Fatigue
  L'Rain
• Pink Noise
  Laura Mvula
• Montero
  Lil Nas X
• Lindsey Buckingham
  Lindsey Buckingham
• Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
  Little Simz
• Soberish
  Liz Phair
• Former Things
  LoneLady
• Native Sons
  Los Lobos
• För Allting
  Makthaverskan
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
  Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
• Portas
  Marisa Monte
• The Path of the Clouds
  Marissa Nadler
• Hushed and Grim
  Mastodon
• Im Abendrot At Sunset Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss
  Matthias Goerne and Seong-Jin Cho
• Afrique Victime
  Mdou Moctar
• Overtones for the Omniverse
  Mocky
• As The Love Continues
  Mogwai
• AAI
  Mouse On Mars
• Space 1.8
  Nala Sinephro
• Sour
  Olivia Rodrigo
• Liszt: Inspirations
  Olivier Latry
• to hell with it
  PinkPantheress
• Whole Lotta Red
  Playboi Carti
• Cyclorama
  Polo & Pan
• Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
  Rene Jacobs
• Sharecropper's Son
  Robert Finley
• Play With the Changes
  Rochelle Jordan
• Ontology
  Roxana Amed
• I've Been Trying To Tell You
  Saint Etienne
• Bye For Now
  Smile Machine
• Black To The Future
  Sons of Kemet
• Bright Green Field
  Squid
• Other You
  Steve Gunn
• Shirushi
  TEKE::TEKE
• Drones
  Terrace Martin
• Ultrapop
  The Armed
• Coral Island
  The Coral
• Open Door Policy
  The Hold Steady
• Dark in Here
  The Mountain Goats
• Uncommon Weather
  The Reds, Pinks & Purples
• Ignorance
  The Weather Station
• The Dept. Of Discontinued Lines
  William Loveday Intention
• BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST
  Theo Croker
• Thirstier
  Torres
• Glow On
  Turnstile
• Call Me If You Get Lost
  Tyler, The Creator
• The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
  Valerie June
• Beethoven: Sonatas 4, 5 & 7
  Viktoria Mullova and Alasdair Beatson
• Blue Weekend
  Wolf Alice
• Urban Driftwood
  Yasmin Williams
• Stand For Myself
  Yola