My Favourite Albums Of 2021 - Top 40
1) Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind
2) Ed Dowie - The Obvious I
3) Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade (album review) (interview)
4) Low - Hey What
5) Oddfellow's Casino - The Cult Of Water (album review)
6) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! (album review)
7) Mabe Fratti - Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos
8) L'Rain - Fatigue
9) Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark (album review) (interview)
10) Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood
11) Hélène Vogelsinger - Reminiscence
12) Mogwai - As The Love Continues (album review)
13) Aimee Mann - Queens Of The Summer Hotel (album review) (interview)
14) Grandbrothers - All The Unknown (album review)
15) Mira Calix - Absent Origin
16) Spellling - The Turning Wheel (album review)
17) Loscil - Clara
18) Origamibiro - Miscellany
19) Tindersticks - Distractions (album review) (interview)
20) La Luz - La Luz (interview)
21) Arushi Jain - Under The Lilac Sky
22) The Notwist - Vertigo Days
23) CARM - CARM
24) Bell Orchestre - House Music
25) Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods
26) James Yorkston - The Wide, Wide River
27) Field Music - Flat White Moon
28) Lost Horizons - In Quiet Moments (interview)
29) Will Stratton - The Changing Wilderness
30) Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You
31) Ka - A Martyr's Reward
32) Field Works - Cedars
33) New Mexican Stargazers - Highway Dreamscape
34) Clark - Playground In A Lake (album review)
35) The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Uncommon Weather
36) Kasai Allstars - Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound
37) Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage
38) Resina - Speechless
39) Lambchop - Showtunes (album review) (interview)
40) Marisa Anderson & William Tyler - Lost Futures
Other albums I have enjoyed this year
Lonelady - Former Things
Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
Murcof - The Alias Sessions (album review) (interview)
Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
Houeida Hedfi - Fleuves de l'Âme (album review)
Alexis Taylor - Silence
Laura Mvula - Pink Noise
Flock Of Dimes - Head Of Roses (album review) (interview)
Haiku Salut - The Hill, The Light, The Ghost
Photay - On Hold
Baliyama Project - Wo Solo
Sharp Veins - Lips Of The Same Colour
Roddy Woomble - Lo! Soul (interview)
Teis Ortved - Parks At Night
Hilang Child - Every Mover (album review) (interview)
Marina Allen - Candlepower
Colleen - The Tunnel And The Clearing (album review)
Cobalt Chapel - Orange Synthetic
Fryars - God Melodies
The Goon Sax - Mirror II
William Doyle - Great Spans Of Muddy Time
Dekalb Works - Duologue
The Coral - Coral Island
Damien Jurado - The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
LUMP - Animal
BLK JKS - Abantu / Before Humans
Green House - Music For Living Spaces
FYI Chris - Earth Scum
Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
Wau Wau Collectif - Yaral Sa Doom
Loraine James - Reflection
Leo Chadburn - Slower/Talker
Villagers - Fever Dreams
Grouper - Shade
Quantic - Almas Conectadas
MONO - Pilgrimmage Of The Soul
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Invisible Cities (album review)
Les Filles De Illighadad - At Pioneer Works
Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future
Ishmael Ensemble - Visions Of Light
Yes/And - Yes/And
Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (live review)
Singing Dust - Singing Dust
Moor Mother - Black Encyclopaedia Of The Air
Caoilfhionn Rose - Truly
Mouse On Mars - AAI
Natural Information Society - Descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
Claire Rousay - A Softer Focus
Time Binding Ensemble - Nothing New Under The Sun
Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
Georgia Anne Muldrow - VWETO III
Sufjan Stevens - Convocations
Clinic - Fantasy Island
Nathan Salsburg - Psalms
Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates
The House In The Woods - The Spectral Corridor
Black Marble - Fast Idol
Jeff Parker - Forfolks
Pye Corner Audio - Entangled Routes
Jessica Moss - Phosphenes
The Weather Station - Ignorance
David Boulter - Lover's Walk
Seaworthy - Snowmelt
Alasdair Roberts - The Old Fabled River
Cleo Sol - Mother
Klein - Harmattan
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof
Elbow - Flying Dream 1
Divide & Dissolve - Gas Lit
Robin Richards - The Earth Asleep
Marissa Nadler - The Path Of The Clouds
Bess Atwell - Already, Always
Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou
Maximo Park - Nature Always Wins (live review)
Eluvium - Virga II
Jane Weaver - Flock
Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / LSO - Promises
Blank Gloss - Melt
Mt Went - Lit Way Down
Dean McPhee - Witch's Ladder
Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell - Burn
Tala Vala - Modern Hysteric
Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
Smerz - Believer (album review)
Midori Hirano - Soniscope
Ryley Walker - Course In Fable
Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy - Blind Date Party
Ballaké Sissoko - Djourou (album review)
John Carroll Kirby - Septet
Kings Of Convenience - Peace Or Love
The Sad Song Co. - Saudade
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy - Superwolves
Loney Dear - A Lantern And A Bell
Electric Jalaba - El Hal / The Feeling
Abul Mogard - In Immobile Air
Plankton Wat - Future Times
Sarah Neufeld - Detritus
Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
Neil Young - Barn
Greg Foat - Gone To The Cats
Gazelle Twin & NYX - Deep England
My Favourite EPs of 2021
Lucy Gooch - Rain's Break (interview)
Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble - NOW (interview)
Lunch Money Life - Tarmac The Lake
Shirley Collins - Crowlink
Minotaur Shock - Qi
Gabriels - Love And Hate In A Different Time
Sofia Kourtesis - Fresia Magdalena
Peter Alexander Jobson - The Piano Tuner
Phono Ghosts - Anti Comet Tails
Samantha Crain - I Guess We Live Here Now
RKB Vitesse - Pledge Psychodrama
Orange Crate Art - Curve Lines, Loops & Dashes
Posts
