Top 88 Music Albums of 2021 by babyBlueSedan

My new year's resolution, besides stopping all the pollution, is to create a happy, positive 2021 year chart. Nice critiques only! Well, at least as far as I can without saying nice things about bad albums, because positivity without realism is worthless. But in a positive way!

Also putting more effort into nonsensical genres because what's more fun than that?!

May update: well so much for positivity - I feel like my rating has gotten even harsher. My optimistic side thinks it's because I've heard so much good music that it's harder for new things I hear to stand out, but my pessimistic side thinks it's because I'm too old and can no longer enjoy new music. I guess in both cases it just means I'm even pickier now.

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Journey to the center of the lost Icelandic elf civilization

There are some really pretty sounds here. RYM is drooling over the "sound design" of this album, whatever that is. I guess they just mean the sounds are better than the sounds on other albums? Like they're sounds that they haven't heard used before? Wild that it's 2021 and we're still discovering new sounds, I thought we'd have them all nailed down by now.

Those sounds are used well but not in a way that grabs me at all. Admiring sounds or production is not at all how I enjoy music, and these formless classical inspired albums give me nothing to latch onto. In other words, your sounds are nice but do you have tunes? In all seriousness when I saw this tagged as progressive electronic on RYM I knew I wouldn't like it.

Near the end there's some vocals from what I think are fairies that are really cool and it helps to add another layer to the music, something that feels like was missing in the beginning. Apparently there's lore behind this album and the fairies probably fit into that so it's too bad the fairies didn't reveal themselves earlier or whatever.

TL;DR I prefer the wiggly worms to the fairies.
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Top 88 Music Albums of 2021 composition

Country Albums %


United States 55 63%
United Kingdom 14 16%
Australia 3 3%
Canada 3 3%
Sweden 2 2%
Pakistan 2 2%
Denmark 2 2%
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Live? Albums %
No 87 99%
Yes 1 1%

Top 88 Music Albums of 2021 chart changes

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Climber Up 3 from 6th to 3rd
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Biggest fallers
Faller Down 1 from 3rd to 4th
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Faller Down 1 from 4th to 5th
Seek Shelter
by Iceage
Faller Down 1 from 5th to 6th
Nafs At Peace
by Jaubi

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From 06/13/2021 16:13
Thanks for the rec! I've definitely been out of the hip hop loop the past few years, I hadn't even heard of Mach-Hommy until he showed up on one of billy woods's albums in 2019. I think I knew about the album he released a single copy of before hearing about the new one but then I saw he's got a huge discography and wasn't sure where to go next. It's hard for me to find the time lately to spend digesting new hip hop albums to the extent they deserve but I'll try to give it a chance when I can.
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From 06/06/2021 13:29
Glad you liked Mach-Hommy! He's one of the most underrated rappers currently, and its primarily his fault for making his music so inaccessible. His best album in my opinion is "Haitian Body Odor" (HBO) and thankfully it's on SoundCloud. Similar to "Pray For Haiti" it released under Griselda Records. It was his Griselda debut back in 2016 before him and Westside Gunn had a falling out due to creative differences. I think it's a top 10 hip-hop album of the last decade, maybe it would interest you.

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