Year-End Lists

Carl Wilson: Top 10 Albums of 2021, as published by Slate, alphabetical by artist

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

• Little Oblivions
  Julien Baker
• Cavalcade
  black midi
• Searching For The Disappeared Hour
  Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson
• New Long Leg
  Dry Cleaning
• Ma délire - Songs of love, lost & found
  Myriam Gendron
• Jesup Wagon
  James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
• Hey What
  Low
• When Smoke Rises
  Mustafa
• Soberish
  Liz Phair
• Call Me If You Get Lost
  Tyler, The Creator

25 more of note (alphabetical by artist)

• Voyage
  ABBA
• The Million Things That Never Happened
  Billy Bragg
• Spanish Model
  Elvis Costello
• Intra-I
  Theon Cross
• Home Video
  Lucy Dacus
• We're All Alone in This Together
  Dave
• Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology
  Willie Dunn
• Remember Her Name
  Mickey Guyton
• By the Time I Get to Phoenix
  Injury Reserve
• Uneasy
  Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
• Play With the Changes
  Rochelle Jordan
• This Spring: Songs by Veda Hille
  Nicholas Krgovich
• Queens of the Summer Hotel
  Aimee Mann
• Mayan Space Station
  William Parker
• Second Line
  Dawn Richard
• Outside Child
  Allison Russell
• The Other Shore
  Amir ElSaffar and Rivers of Sound
• Crocodile Teeth
  Skillibeng
• Black To The Future
  Sons of Kemet
• Anastenaria: Thracian Firewalking Ritual Music
  various artists
• Meu Coco
  Caetano Veloso
• Rap?
  Tierra Whack
• Pop?
  Tierra Whack
• R&B?
  Tierra Whack
• Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine
  Wild Up
• When I Hit You — You'll Feel It
  Leslie Winer
• Sayin' What I'm Thinkin'
  Lainey Wilson