Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 by Arthurknight

2021 has proven itself to be a bit more impressive than 2020 while also maybe demonstrating a broad trend of returning to the fundamentals of songwriting that pre-covid was sort of being smashed open (not to say experimental things aren't happening, they're just being renegotiated by the conditions of production).

• Chart updated: 12/19/2023 06:45
• (Created: 04/10/2021 06:11).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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Delta Estácio Blues 

 Juçara Marçal

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9/10

Delta Estácio Blues is the perfect merger of Nunes and Dinucci's experimental work in Meta Meta and subsequent solo Marçal records such as Encarnado, one of my favourite albums of the 2010s, and Nunes' recent string of collaborations with Cadu Tenório. Possibly the best album of the 2020s so far.

AOTY.

_ [First added to this chart: 11/19/2021]

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

25 charts

Rank Score:

84

Rank in 2021:

207

Rank in 2020s:

732

Overall Rank:

13,479

Average Rating:

 73 (20 votes)

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冥冥 Míng Míng 

 otay:onii

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9/10

_ [First added to this chart: 04/10/2021]

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

14 charts

Rank Score:

34

Rank in 2021:

453

Rank in 2020s:

1,659

Overall Rank:

25,942

Average Rating:

 73 (16 votes)

Comments:

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Henki 

 Richard Dawson & Circle

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8.5/10

For now I find Cooksonia a little grating, but every song following is just amazing. Circle are an interesting band in their own right, but it's especially interesting how they worked together somewhat less experimental instrumentals wherein the rhythmic deviations feel almost like reactions to Dawson's unconventional - but now very much an on-brand personal style - vocal jumps. Kind of like Dawson is causing ripples in a still pool of water, intervening the music with his voice.

_ [First added to this chart: 12/05/2021]

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

61 charts

Rank Score:

180

Rank in 2021:

88

Rank in 2020s:

305

Overall Rank:

7,080

Average Rating:

 77 (39 votes)

Comments:

3

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Hey What 

 Low

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8.5/10

Not quite the same impact as Double Negative but Hey What continues the rebirth of Low with some staggering moments.

_ [First added to this chart: 11/19/2021]

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

254 charts

Rank Score:

983

Rank in 2021:

9

Rank in 2020s:

33

Overall Rank:

1,728

Average Rating:

 78 (185 votes)

Comments:

8

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Black Metal 2 

 Dean Blunt

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8.5/10

_ [First added to this chart: 12/19/2023]

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

41 charts

Rank Score:

99

Rank in 2021:

153

Rank in 2020s:

585

Overall Rank:

11,618

Average Rating:

 67 (27 votes)

Comments:

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Sometimes I Might Be Introvert 

 Little Simz

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8.5/10

This one just completes all the things that Grey Area suggested Little Simz would go on to do. Been a wait but clearly a worthwhile one

_ [First added to this chart: 11/19/2021]

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

422 charts

Rank Score:

2,877

Rank in 2021:

1

Rank in 2020s:

5

Overall Rank:

617

Average Rating:

 83 (378 votes)

Comments:

27

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Cavalcade 

 Black Midi

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8.5/10

I remain unconvinced that this is the best followup that Schlagenheim could have had, and I think that's largely down to the absence of Matt because the stylistic decisions here are all really solid. Ascending Fourths is a godly tune and perhaps the best of the year.

_ [First added to this chart: 11/19/2021]

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

271 charts

Rank Score:

1,240

Rank in 2021:

8

Rank in 2020s:

24

Overall Rank:

1,400

Average Rating:

 79 (314 votes)

Comments:

19

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Signal Eustasy VI 

 Cadu Tenório

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8.5/10

This actually might be one of the more accessible Tenorio records. It's a bit stylistically chaotic and less thematic than his previous releases, but the focus on playing with confusing rhythms adds a lot of energy to Tenorio's otherwise very pensive music.

_ [First added to this chart: 11/19/2021]

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

2 charts

Rank Score:

13

Rank in 2021:

906

Rank in 2020s:

3,457

Overall Rank:

47,288

Average Rating:

 74 (1 vote)

Comments:

0

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Ursgal 

 Enji

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8/10

Enji has a fun instagram, and her music is beautiful in a way that is hard to imagine being captured in a recording.

_ [First added to this chart: 11/19/2021]

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

8 charts

Rank Score:

28

Rank in 2021:

522

Rank in 2020s:

1,929

Overall Rank:

29,312

Average Rating:

 72 (7 votes)

Comments:

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Great Spans Of Muddy Time 

 William Doyle

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8/10

_ [First added to this chart: 12/19/2023]

Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

13 charts

Rank Score:

37

Rank in 2021:

430

Rank in 2020s:

1,573

Overall Rank:

24,958

Average Rating:

 68 (15 votes)

Comments:

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Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 composition

Artist	Albums	%
Cadu Tenório	2	2%
Feu! Chatterton	1	1%
Liars	1	1%
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine	1	1%
BADBADNOTGOOD	1	1%
otay:onii	1	1%
Turnstile	1	1%
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Country	Albums	%
	38	38%
	22	22%
	6	6%
	5	5%
	4	4%
	4	4%
	3	3%
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 36 from 56th to 20th Mercurial World by Magdalena Bay
Up 25 from 46th to 21st Deep England by Gazelle Twin & NYX
Up 8 from 25th to 17th Sinner Get Ready by Lingua Ignota

Biggest fallers
Down 28 from 17th to 45th Sympathy For Life by Parquet Courts
Down 17 from 24th to 41st LP! by JPEGMAFIA
Down 16 from 6th to 22nd Observatory by Aeon Station

New entries
Ngủ Ngày Ngay Ngày Tận Thế by Rắn Cạp Đuôi
Gas Lit by Divide And Dissolve

Leavers
Superwolves by Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys

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90/100	03/10/2022 09:31	Purplepash	1,307	88/100
90/100	11/23/2021 19:55	CharlieBarley	478	94/100
90/100	04/15/2021 15:42	jackq	274	92/100

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