Best Albums/EPs of 2021: Top 50 (Alphabetical)

Adele — 30

Alessia Cara — In The Meantime

Aly & Aj — a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet gets you out and then into the sun

Arlo Parks — Collapsed In Sunbeams ☆

BROCKHAMPTON — ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE ☆

Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic — An Evening With Silk Sonic ☆

Charlotte Day Wilson — ALPHA

Clairo — Sling

CZARFACE & MF DOOM — Super What?

Doja Cat — Planet Her

ELIO — Can You See Me Now?*

Faye Webster — I Know I’m Funny haha

Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra — Promises

Genesis Owusu — Smiling with No Teeth

Injury Reserve — By The Time I Get To Phoenix

J. Cole — The Off-Season

James Blake — Friends That Break Your Heart

Japanese Breakfast — Jubilee

Jazmine Sullivan — Heaux Tales*

Jon Batiste — WE ARE

Joy Crookes — Skin

JPEGMAFIA — LP! / LP! (OFFLINE) ☆

Kanye West — Donda

Lana Del Rey — Chemtrails Over the Country Club

Leon Bridges — Gold-Diggers Sound

Lil Nas X — MONTERO

Little Simz — Sometimes I Might Be Introvert ☆

Lucy Dacus — Home Video

Mac Ayres — Magic 8Ball*

Magdalena Bay — Mercurial World

Maxo Kream — WEIGHT OF THE WORLD

Nas — King’s Disease II

Nas — Magic

Olivia Rodrigo — SOUR

PinkPantheress — to hell with it*

Porter Robinson — Nurture ☆

R.A.P. Ferreira — The Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Sculptures

Remi Wolf — Juno ☆

SG Lewis — times ☆

slowthai — TYRON

Snoh Aalegra — TEMPORARY HIGHS IN THE VIOLET SKIES ☆

Still Woozy — If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine — A Beginner’s Mind

Summer Walker — Still Over It

Taylor Swift — Red (Taylor’s Version)

The Alchemist — This Thing Of Ours*

The Marías — CINEMA

Tyler, The Creator — CALL ME WHEN YOU GET LOST ☆

Vince Staples — Vince Staples

Yola — Stand For Myself

*: EP

☆: Top 10 Album of the Year

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