Best Albums of 2021

Hard to believe we've made it through another bizarre year. Concerts slowly started to come back and bands have been able to perform some of their music that they created during the pandemic, finally, in front of people. There certainly was not a lack of amazing music released this year, as musicians still seem to be riding quite a large wave of creativity thanks to the pandemic. Taylor Swift re-recorded and released 2 of her previously released albums (first, she gave us Fearless Taylor's Version; then, she just gave us Red Taylor's Version, which is absolutely amazing). I took those two albums out of the running for my Best of... list.
70- Indigo de Souza- Any Shape You Take 69- wristmeetrazor- Replica of a Strange Love 68- Pile of Love- self 67- Kanye West- Donda 66- Foo Fighters- Medicine at Midnight 65- The Weather Station- Ignorance 64- One Step Closer- This Place You Know 63- Colleen Green- Cool 62- Full of Hell- Garden of Burning Apparition 61- Foxing- Drawn Down the Moon 60- London Grammar- Californian Soul 59- Blood from the Soul- DSM5 58- Dry Cleaning- New Long Leg 57- Andy Shauf- Wilds 56- Morgan Wade- Reckless 55- Brandi Carlile- In These Silent Days 54- Sincere Engineer- Bless My Psyche 53- Jail Socks- Coming Down 52- Allie- Maybe Next Time 51- For Your Health- In Spite Of 50- Gojira- Fortitude 49- Dying Wish- Fragments of a Bitter Memory 48- Ratboys- Happy Birthday, Ratboys 47- Origami Angel- Gami Gang 46- Cassandra Jenkins- An Overview on Phenomenal Nature 45- Gatecreeper- An Unexpected Reality 44- Ashley Munroe- Rosegold 43- Drug Store Romeos- The World Within Our Bedroom 42- Lorde- Solar Power 41- Citizen- Life in Your Glass House 40- Harmony Woods- Graceful Sins 39- Girl in Red- If I Could Make It Go Quiet 38- Employed to Serve- Conquering 37- Squirrel Flower- planet (i) 36- Slothrust- Parallel Lines 35- Jade Bird- Different Kinds of Light 34- Madi Diaz- History of a Feeling 33- The Pretty Reckless- Death By Rock n Roll 32- Laura Stevenson- self 31- Militarie Gun- All Roads Lead to the Gun I&II EP 30- Between the Buried and Me- Colors II 29- Clairo- Sling 28- Adult Mom- Driver 27- Wolf Alice- Blue Weekend 26- Courtney Barnett- Things Take Time, Take Time 25- Teenage Wrist- Earth is a Black Hole 24- Cassadee Pope- Thrive 23- Hayley Williams- Flowers for Vases/descansos 22- Illuminati hotties- Let Me Do One More 21- Mastodon- Hushed and Grim 20- Every Time I Die- Radical 19- Halsey- If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power 18- Fiddlehead- Between the Riches 17- Lucy Dacus- Home Video 16- Faye Webster- I Know I’m Funny Haha 15- Billie Eilish- Happier Than Ever 14- Carly Pearce- 29: Written in Stone 13- The World is a Beautiful Place…- Illusory World 12- The War on Drugs- I Don’t Live Here Anymore 11- Snail Mail- Valentine 10- Weakened Friends- Quitter 9- Converge- Bloodmoon: I 8- Chvrches- Screen Violence 7 *tie*- Lana Del Ray- Chemtrails Over the Country Club/ Blue Banister 6- Julien Baker- Little Oblivions 5- Kacey Musgraves- star-crossed 4- Turnstile- Glow On 3- Deafheaven- Infinite Granite 2- Manchester Orchestra- The Million Masks of God 1- Olivia Rodrigo- Sour

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