Top 88 Music Albums of 2021
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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.
- Chart updated: 02/12/2022 23:15
- (Created: 01/24/2021 03:31).
- Chart size: 88 albums.
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Post-twinkle math emo
"It turns out summer friends are only around for the summer" is a devastating lyric and if you try to tell me it's dumb / simplistic I'll make sure you wind up wearing a hospital bracelet.
Last year I wrote about an enjoyable Snarls record and said it didn't have That Thing that separated it from other late period 4th wave emo (we are still in the 4th wave, right? Personally I feel like we've entered a 5th wave but I don't want to be presumptuous). This album also doesn't have A Thing but I think it also kind of proves that you don't necessarily need A Thing to be successful. By A Thing I mean like the fact that Pinegrove are the country emo band or Touche Amore's Stage Four was so specific in its grieving. Actually scanning through most of the most of the recent emo albums I've liked most of them don't have A Thing so maybe I prefer good songwriting to gimmicks. Anyway, Hospital Bracelet sounds a lot like other recent emo acts, alternating between pop punk songs and mathy riffs. They flow together well though they alternated all the fast and slow songs so listening is a bit of a roller coaster. Despite this all of the songs are a treat, with the highlight probably being the closer which I already quoted above. The most common topics are betrayal and the way we treat others, with what I imagine is a lot of subtext about toxic relationships. I don't tend to like songs that are basically just "fuck yous" to some unnamed people, but the ones on this album feel justified given the hurt that was obviously caused. Perhaps that's always true and it's just more convincing here. In that way I enjoy the lyrics not because there are witty one liners or because they're specific in an affecting way but because you can hear the pain in them despite that lack of specificity.
The sixth song on this album has a bunch of D&D references and it's super cheesy but also pretty enjoyable because it's knowingly cheesy. Like how you can hear someone sing "when you told me that you didn’t love me like I loved you it was a critical hit" and not smile? [First added to this chart: 02/20/2021]
Post-twinkle math emo
"It turns out summer friends are only around for the summer" is a devastating lyric and if you try to tell me it's dumb / simplistic I'll make sure you wind up wearing a hospital bracelet.
Last year I wrote about an enjoyable Snarls record and said it didn't have That Thing that separated it from other late period 4th wave emo (we are still in the 4th wave, right? Personally I feel like we've entered a 5th wave but I don't want to be presumptuous). This album also doesn't have A Thing but I think it also kind of proves that you don't necessarily need A Thing to be successful. By A Thing I mean like the fact that Pinegrove are the country emo band or Touche Amore's Stage Four was so specific in its grieving. Actually scanning through most of the most of the recent emo albums I've liked most of them don't have A Thing so maybe I prefer good songwriting to gimmicks. Anyway, Hospital Bracelet sounds a lot like other recent emo acts, alternating between pop punk songs and mathy riffs. They flow together well though they alternated all the fast and slow songs so listening is a bit of a roller coaster. Despite this all of the songs are a treat, with the highlight probably being the closer which I already quoted above. The most common topics are betrayal and the way we treat others, with what I imagine is a lot of subtext about toxic relationships. I don't tend to like songs that are basically just "fuck yous" to some unnamed people, but the ones on this album feel justified given the hurt that was obviously caused. Perhaps that's always true and it's just more convincing here. In that way I enjoy the lyrics not because there are witty one liners or because they're specific in an affecting way but because you can hear the pain in them despite that lack of specificity.
The sixth song on this album has a bunch of D&D references and it's super cheesy but also pretty enjoyable because it's knowingly cheesy. Like how you can hear someone sing "when you told me that you didn’t love me like I loved you it was a critical hit" and not smile? [First added to this chart: 02/20/2021]
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Top 88 Music Albums of 2021 composition
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| R.A.P. Ferreira | 2 | 2% | |
| Lana Del Rey | 2 | 2% | |
| Panopticon | 1 | 1% | |
| Madlib | 1 | 1% | |
| Julien Baker | 1 | 1% | |
| Origami Angel | 1 | 1% | |
| Black Midi | 1 | 1% | |
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14 | 16% | |
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Top 88 Music Albums of 2021 chart changes
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| Up 3 from 6th to 3rd Inpariquipê by Kaatayra |
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| Down 1 from 3rd to 4th Glow On by Turnstile |
| Down 1 from 4th to 5th Seek Shelter by Iceage |
| Down 1 from 5th to 6th Nafs At Peace by Jaubi |
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| ! | 02/09/2022 19:45 | DJENNY | 4,365 | 100/100 |
| ! | 06/06/2021 13:24 |  travelful | 208 | 99/100 |
| ! | 05/18/2021 08:34 |  Purplepash | 1,684 | 88/100 |
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From babyBlueSedan 06/13/2021 16:13 | #270601
babyBlueSedan 06/13/2021 16:13 | #270601
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 travelful 06/06/2021 13:29 | #270425
travelful 06/06/2021 13:29 | #270425
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.
Always love following your charts.
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