Year-End Lists

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Screen Violence - Chvrches

5 Best Albums of 2021 USA Today: Patrick Ryan

In These Silent Days - Brandi Carlile

5 Best Albums of 2021 USA Today: Melissa Ruggieri

Glow On - Turnstile

Top 50 Albums of 2021 Brooklyn Vegan

Outside Child - Allison Russell

Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2021 No Depression

Ignorance - The Weather Station

Top 10 Albums of 2021 Observer: Kitty Empire

The Turning Wheel - Spellling

Top 50 Albums of 2021 The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

The 20 Best Albums of 2021 A.V. Club

Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan

The 8 Best Albums of 2021 Wired: Jason Parham

If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power - Halsey

Top 10 Albums of 2021 Rolling Stone: Brittany Spanos

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

Best Albums of 2021 Passerby

Raise The Roof - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Top 40 Rock Albums of 2021 Ultimate Classic Rock

Collapsed in Sunbeams - Arlo Parks

The Best Albums of 2021 New Statesman

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

Ten of the Best Albums Released by Queer and Trans Artists in 2021 Autostraddle: Abeni Jones

When Smoke Rises - Mustafa

Top 10 Albums of 2021 Slate: Carl Wilson

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

The 100 Best Albums of 2021 Albumism

Sour - Olivia Rodrigo

The 45 Best Albums of 2021 The Forty-Five

Sour - Olivia Rodrigo

The Best Albums of 2021 Business Insider: Callie Ahlgrim

Sling - Clairo

The Best Albums Of 2021 Coup De Main

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

Best Albums of 2021 Uproxx Music Critics Poll

Montero - Lil Nas X

The Best Albums of 2021 Dazed

Illusory Walls - The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die

Favorite Emo Albums Of 2021 Uproxx: Ian Cohen

Blue Weekend - Wolf Alice

Best Albums of 2021 DIY

Prioritise Pleasure - Self Esteem

The 50 Best Albums of 2021 Guardian

New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning

The 10 Best Albums of 2021 Atlantic: Spencer Kornhaber

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