2021 Year End List

Picking one album out of everything I’ve heard all year is hard… I’m just gonna pick an album for each genre of music.

Most of those album can be purchased via Bandcamp, so if you like those do consider buying them.

Albums I Like

Ambient

• Tomasz Bednarczyk - Nothing Much Happens

• Perila - How Much Time it is Between You and Me?
• Tarotplane - Horizontology
• Abul Mogard - In Immobile Air
• Curd Duca - Waves 2
• Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals
• Tomu - Lonesome Valley

Electronic

• Christophe De Babalon - 044 (Hilf Dir Selbst!)

• Space Afrika - Honest Labour
• Colleen - The Tunnel and the Clearing
• PDP III - Piled Up on a Couple of Doves
• Skee Mask - Pool
• Arca - KicK iii
• Vladislav Delay - Rakka II
• Joy Orbison - Still Slipping Vol. 1
• Kareem - Zones of Significant Time

Pop

• Erika De Casier - Sensational

There isn’t really a pop record that I particularly like…

Jazz / Fusion

• Pavel Miklyakov & Bendik Giske - Pavel Miklyakov & Bendik Giske

• Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
• Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Dissent

Rock

• The Armed - ULTRAPOP

• Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki
• black midi - Cavalcade
• Midwife - Luminol
• A Country Western - Birdfeeder
• Low - HEY WHAT

Hip-hop

• Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram

• BROCKHAMPTON - ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE
• JPEGMAFIA - LP!
• Cities Aviv - The Crashing Sound of How it Goes
• Dos Monos - Larderello