Year-End Lists

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2021, as posted on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. The Turning Wheel
   Spellling
2. Sinner Get Ready
   Lingua Ignota
3. KicK iii
   Arca
4. Promises
   Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
5. Daddy's Home
   St. Vincent
6. LP!
   JPEGMAFIA
7. Henki
   Richard Dawson & Circle
8. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
   Little Simz
9. Nurture
   Porter Robinson
10. Ska Dream
    Jeff Rosenstock
11. By the Time I Get to Phoenix
    Injury Reserve
12. A Beginner's Mind
    Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine
13. Madison
    Sloppy Jane
14. Call Me If You Get Lost
    Tyler, The Creator
15. Cavalcade
    black midi
16. Smiling with No Teeth
    Genesis Owusu
17. Hey What
    Low
18. The Color Blu(e)
    Blu
19. Glow On
    Turnstile
20. I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses
    Backxwash
21. Half God
    Wiki
22. Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
    Ad Nauseam
23. Forever In Your Heart
    Black Dresses
24. Rainbow Bridge 3
    Sematary
25. For the First Time
    Black Country, New Road
26. Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
    BROCKHAMPTON
27. Palais d’argile
    Feu! Chatterton
28. Stand For Myself
    Yola
29. OK Human
    Weezer
30. Friends That Break Your Heart
    James Blake
31. Faith in Persona
    death’s dynamic shroud
32. Mercurial World
    Magdalena Bay
33. Let Me Do One More
    illuminati hotties
34. Tyron
    slowthai
35. Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Side B
    Westside Gunn
36. GUMBO'!
    Pink Siifu
37. King's Disease II
    Nas
38. Carnage
    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
39. Haram
    Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
40. Fatigue
    L'Rain
41. Welfare Jazz
    Viagra Boys
42. Actually, You Can
    Deerhoof
43. Twin Shadow
    Twin Shadow
44. ...And Again Into The Light
    Panopticon
45. Heaux Tales
    Jazmine Sullivan
46. Pressure Machine
    The Killers
47. Eternal Home
    Fire-Toolz
48. An Evening with Silk Sonic
    Silk Sonic
49. Black Metal 2
    Dean Blunt
50. Frailty
    dltzk