Year-End Lists

Vinyl Factory: Our 50 Favourite Albums of 2021

[see also 2023]

1. Promises
   Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
2. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
   Little Simz
3. Sound Ancestors
   Madlib
4. Reflection
   Loraine James
5. Isles
   Bicep
6. Logue
   KMRU
7. We're All Alone in This Together
   Dave
8. Feeling Normal
   Calibre
9. Agor
   Koreless
10. Soniscope
    Midori Hirano
11. Tresor 30
    various artists
12. 30
    Adele
13. Waking the Dreaming Body
    Karima Walker
14. Pool
    Skee Mask
15. still slipping vol. 1
    Joy Orbison
16. But Only After You Have Suffered
    Jamire Williams
17. Crawler
    Idles
18. Shade
    Grouper
19. Love Letters, Nine Through Six
    96 Back
20. Call Me If You Get Lost
    Tyler, The Creator
21. Honest Labour
    Space Afrika
22. Asakusa Light
    Soichi Terada
23. Skin
    Joy Crookes
24. Quivering In Time
    Eris Drew
25. Collapsed in Sunbeams
    Arlo Parks
26. Space 1.8
    Nala Sinephro
27. Sounds of Pamoja
    various artists
28. A Recurring Nature
    Adam Pits
29. Colourgrade
    Tirzah
30. Hidemi
    Patrick Shiroishi
31. The American Negro
    Adrian Younge
32. Seventeen Going Under
    Sam Fender
33. Late Spring
    Chihei Hatakeyama
34. Tewari
    Scotch Rolex
35. Angel Tears in Sunlight
    Pauline Anna Strom
36. 1977
    The People In Fog
37. Deacon
    serpentwithfeet
38. Forfolks
    Jeff Parker
39. Mother
    Cleo Sol
40. Yellow
    Emma-Jean Thackray
41. Alkisah
    Senyawa
42. Repair Techniques
    Sofie Birch & Johan Carøe
43. Medieval Femme
    Fatima Al Qadiri
44. Boxed In
    Daniel Casimir
45. Jade
    Pan Daijing
46. Painful Enlightenment
    Jana Rush
47. Teenage Dreams
    Native Soul
48. Dancing Spirits
    Naoko Sakata
49. Equiknoxx meets Feel Free Hi Fi
    Equiknoxx, Feel Free Hi Fi
50. Happier Than Ever
    Billie Eilish