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2021 Music

Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2021

30 November 2021

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2021

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2011]

  1. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
    Little Simz
  2. Ignorance
    The Weather Station
  3. I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses
    Backxwash
  4. Call Me If You Get Lost
    Tyler, The Creator
  5. Parallel World
    Cadence Weapon
  6. When Smoke Rises
    Mustafa
  7. Promises
    Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
  8. Valentine
    Snail Mail
  9. Sour
    Olivia Rodrigo
  10. Eternal Blue
    Spiritbox
  11. Theory Of Ice
    Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
  12. An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
    Cassandra Jenkins
  13. Little Oblivions
    Julien Baker
  14. I Don’t Live Here Anymore
    The War on Drugs
  15. Afrique Victime
    Mdou Moctar
  16. Head Above the Waters
    DijahSB
  17. Glow On
    Turnstile
  18. Hey What
    Low
  19. Talk Memory
    BADBADNOTGOOD
  20. Jubilee
    Japanese Breakfast
  21. Entertainment, Death
    The Spirit Of The Beehive
  22. Bright Green Field
    Squid
  23. Alpha
    Charlotte Day Wilson
  24. Anything Can't Happen
    Dorothea Paas
  25. Pray For Haiti
    Mach-Hommy
  26. Cavalcade
    black midi
  27. Home Video
    Lucy Dacus
  28. Vince Staples
    Vince Staples
  29. Solar Power
    Lorde
  30. Lifeblood
    Brand of Sacrifice
  31. Blue Banisters
    Lana Del Rey
  32. Sinner Get Ready
    Lingua Ignota
  33. Leftovers
    Le Ren
  34. Alt Therapy
    Emanuel
  35. Untourable Album
    Men I Trust
  36. Vulture Prince
    Arooj Aftab
  37. Life After
    Snotty Nose Rez Kids
  38. I Know I'm Funny haha
    Faye Webster
  39. King's Disease II
    Nas
  40. Vital
    Big Brave
  41. Come Back to Life
    The Zolas
  42. Ultrapop
    The Armed
  43. Cantalou
    Thierry Larose
  44. TAO
    Shad
  45. Yellow River Blue
    Yu Su
  46. Let Me Do One More
    illuminati hotties
  47. Modern Fiction
    Ducks Ltd.
  48. to hell with it
    PinkPantheress
  49. New Long Leg
    Dry Cleaning
  50. Play With the Changes
    Rochelle Jordan

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