Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2021

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2011]

1. Jubilee
   Japanese Breakfast
2. Blue Weekend
   Wolf Alice
3. Hey What
   Low
4. New Long Leg
   Dry Cleaning
5. An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
   Cassandra Jenkins
6. I Don’t Live Here Anymore
   The War on Drugs
7. Collapsed in Sunbeams
   Arlo Parks
8. Home Video
   Lucy Dacus
9. Ignorance
   The Weather Station
10. Animal
    Lump
11. A Way Forward
    Nation of Language
12. Mercurial World
    Magdalena Bay
13. Human Safari
    Ora The Molecule
14. Little Oblivions
    Julien Baker
15. Love Drips & Gathers
    Piroshka
16. The Golden Casket
    Modest Mouse
17. Carnage
    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
18. Valentine
    Snail Mail
19. Screen Violence
    Chvrches
20. Bright Green Field
    Squid
21. Things Take Time, Take Time
    Courtney Barnett
22. Which Way To Happy
    Penelope Isles
23. Boy from Michigan
    John Grant
24. As Days Get Dark
    Arab Strap
25. Disco
    Geese
26. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
    Little Simz
27. Let Me Do One More
    illuminati hotties
28. A Beginner's Mind
    Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine
29. The Last Exit
    Still Corners
30. Head of Roses
    Flock of Dimes
31. Prioritise Pleasure
    Self Esteem
32. The Turning Wheel
    Spellling
33. Afrique Victime
    Mdou Moctar
34. Mirror II
    The Goon Sax
35. For the First Time
    Black Country, New Road
36. True Love
    Hovvdy
37. I Know I'm Funny haha
    Faye Webster
38. Daddy's Home
    St. Vincent
39. Flock
    Jane Weaver
40. Seek Shelter
    Iceage
41. Flying Dream 1
    Elbow
42. Spare Ribs
    Sleaford Mods
43. Promises
    Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
44. WINK
    CHAI
45. Crawler
    Idles
46. Seeking New Gods
    Gruff Rhys
47. As The Love Continues
    Mogwai
48. Structure
    Water From Your Eyes
49. Thirstier
    Torres
50. Modern Fiction
    Ducks Ltd.
51. Life, and Another
    Mega Bog
52. Flat White Moon
    Field Music
53. The Art of Losing
    The Anchoress
54. Vanities
    W.H. Lung
55. Time To Melt
    Sam Evian
56. Death of a Cheerleader
    Pom Pom Squad
57. Infinite Granite
    Deafheaven
58. Sympathy for Life
    Parquet Courts
59. Twin Plagues
    Wednesday
60. Any Shape You Take
    Indigo De Souza
61. Deacon
    serpentwithfeet
62. Observatory
    Aeon Station
63. Drunk Tank Pink
    Shame
64. Fever Dreams
    Villagers
65. Glow On
    Turnstile
66. Doomin' Sun
    Bachelor
67. G_d's Pee at State's End!
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
68. Utopian Ashes
    Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth
69. Welcome Break
    Pip Blom
70. Welfare Jazz
    Viagra Boys
71. Acquainted with Night
    Lael Neale
72. Butterfly 3000
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
73. Menneskekollektivet
    Lost Girls
74. The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
    Damon Albarn
75. On All Fours
    Goat Girl
76. Beachy Head
    Beachy Head
77. Modern Tricks for Living
    Low Hummer
78. För Allting
    Makthaverskan
79. I've Been Trying To Tell You
    Saint Etienne
80. Painting the Roses
    Midnight Sister
81. Dead Hand Control
    Baio
82. The Ultra Vivid Lament
    Manic Street Preachers
83. Maximum Sorrow!
    Desperate Journalist
84. Into The Blue
    Joy Formidable
85. Always Something
    UV-TV
86. Cooler Returns
    Kiwi jr
87. Bright Magic
    Public Service Broadcasting
88. Fantasy Island
    Clinic
89. Cavalcade
    black midi
90. Moonlit and Devious
    Allie Crow Buckley
91. Moondust For My Diamond
    Hayden Thorpe
92. The Wide, Wide River
    James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra
93. Today We're the Greatest
    Middle Kids
94. Cool
    Colleen Green
95. In Quiet Moments
    Lost Horizons
96. Like a Stone
    Remember Sports
97. Course In Fable
    Ryley Walker
98. Other You
    Steve Gunn
99. History Of A Feeling
    Madi Diaz
100. K Bay
     Matthew E. White

Honorable Mentions

• one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
  Ada Lea
• Comfort To Me
  Amyl and The Sniffers
• Change
  Anika
• Eau De Bonjourno
  bernice
• The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
  The Besnard Lakes
• Underneath
  Calicoco
• Sling
  Clairo
• Coco
  Coco
• Spiral
  Darkside
• No Gods No Masters
  Garbage
• Gone to Color
  Gone to Color
• Hard Feelings
  Hard Feelings
• Far In
  Helado Negro
• Cool Dry Place
  Katy Kirby
• place is
  koleżanka
• La Luz
  La Luz
• Dark in Here
  The Mountain Goats
• My Morning Jacket
  My Morning Jacket
• The Path of the Clouds
  Marissa Nadler
• An Evening with Silk Sonic
  Silk Sonic
• In Heaven
  Strand of Oaks
• Petunia
  Tonstartssbandht
• Enjoy the View
  We Were Promised Jetpacks
• A Billion Little Lights
  Wild Pink
• Illusory Walls
  The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die