Year-End Lists

Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2021

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1. Ignorance
   The Weather Station
2. Promises
   Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
3. Carnage
   Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
4. Hey What
   Low
5. Nine
   Sault
6. Vulture Prince
   Arooj Aftab
7. An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
   Cassandra Jenkins
8. I Don’t Live Here Anymore
   The War on Drugs
9. For the First Time
   Black Country, New Road
10. Henki
    Richard Dawson & Circle
11. Chemtrails over the Country Club
    Lana Del Rey
12. Black To The Future
    Sons of Kemet
13. Afrique Victime
    Mdou Moctar
14. I've Been Trying To Tell You
    Saint Etienne
15. As The Love Continues
    Mogwai
16. Spare Ribs
    Sleaford Mods
17. New Long Leg
    Dry Cleaning
18. Quietly Blowing It
    Hiss Golden Messenger
19. Boy from Michigan
    John Grant
20. Island Of Noise
    Modern Nature
21. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
    Little Simz
22. Coral Island
    The Coral
23. Daddy's Home
    St. Vincent
24. The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
    Valerie June
25. Flock
    Jane Weaver
26. Fat Pop (Volumn 1)
    Paul Weller
27. Collapsed in Sunbeams
    Arlo Parks
28. Course In Fable
    Ryley Walker
29. Other You
    Steve Gunn
30. Endless Arcade
    Teenage Fanclub
31. Raise The Roof
    Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
32. Open Door Policy
    The Hold Steady
33. The Cinder Grove
    Chuck Johnson
34. Things Take Time, Take Time
    Courtney Barnett
35. The Stars Are God's Bullet Holes
    John Murry
36. As Days Get Dark
    Arab Strap
37. I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A.
    Dean Wareham
38. Sound Ancestors
    Madlib
39. Bright Green Field
    Squid
40. The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
    Sturgill Simpson
41. The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
    Damon Albarn
42. I Know I'm Funny haha
    Faye Webster
43. My Morning Jacket
    My Morning Jacket
44. They're Calling Me Home
    Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
45. Utopian Ashes
    Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth
46. Topaz
    Israel Nash
47. Arrival Of The New Elders
    Elephant9
48. For Free
    David Crosby
49. Pick A Day To Die
    Sunburned Hand of the Man
50. Lindsey Buckingham
    Lindsey Buckingham
51. Urban Driftwood
    Yasmin Williams
52. NOW
    Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble
53. Delta Kream
    The Black Keys
54. Axacan
    Daniel Bachman
55. Former Things
    LoneLady
56. A Sky Record
    Damon & Naomi
57. The Hill, The Light, The Ghost
    Haiku Salut
58. How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
    Big Red Machine
59. In Heaven
    Strand of Oaks
60. Shade
    Grouper
61. The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
    The Besnard Lakes
62. A Beginner's Mind
    Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine
63. Time No Changes
    Chris Schlarb & Chad Taylor
64. Notes With Attachments
    Blake Mills and Pino Palladino
65. Black Encyclopedia of the Air
    Moor Mother
66. Antiphonals
    Sarah Davachi
67. Home Video
    Lucy Dacus
68. Song of Co-Aklan
    Cathal Coughlan
69. We're All Alone in This Together
    Dave
70. Cavalcade
    black midi
71. Buffalo Nichols
    Buffalo Nichols
72. She Walks in Beauty
    Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis
73. Path of Wellness
    Sleater-Kinney
74. No Medium
    Rosali
75. Earth Trip
    Rose City Band