Poll of the Day > 2021 is coming to a close. What were your favorite albums of the year?

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Its time for my bi-annual topic about what your favorite albums of the year were!

What did you like listening to this year? Any fav new artists? What about the hottest tracks or singles of the year?

Ill post my list in my next post.

@madadude idk if you still post on gfaqs but I always like your contributions to these threads

here are my top 50 albums this year in alpha order by artist. Bold are my top 5.

1. Adele - 30
2. Adult Mom - Driver
3. The Armed - ULTRAPOP
4. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
5. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
6. black midi - Cavalcade
7. Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)
8. BROCKHAMPTON - Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
9. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
10. CHAI - WINK
11. Clairo- Sling
12. Dave - Were All Alone in This Together
13. Devendra Banhart - Refuge
14. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep it Into Space
15. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
16. Faye Webster - I Know Im Funny haha
17. Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
18. Fleet Foxes - A Very Lonely Solstice
19. Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight
20. Hayley Williams - Flowers for VASES / descansos
21. Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
22. Home is Where - I Became Birds
23. Illuminati Hotties - Let Me Do One More
24. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
25. Jeff Rosenstock - SKA DREAM*
26. Julien Baker - Little Oblivious
27. Kanye West - Donda (Deluxe Edition)
28. The Killers - Pressure Machine
29. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
30. Lil Nas X - Montero
31. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might be Introvert
32. Lorde - Solar Power
33. Low - Hey What
34. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - When God Was Great
35. Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket
36. The Mountain Goats - Dark in Here
37. Navy Blue - Song of Sage: Post Panic!
38. of Montreal - I Feel Safe with You, Trash
39. Radiohead - Kid A Mnesia*
40. Snail Mail - Valentine
41. Spirit of the Beehive - Entertainment, Death
42. Squid - Bright Green Field
43. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginners Mind
44. Teenage Halloween - Teenage Halloween on Audiotree Live*
45. Tyler, the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
46. Walter Etc. - There There
47. The War on Drugs - I Dont Live Here Anymore
48. The Weather Station - Ignorance
49. Weezer - OK Human
50. Weezer - Van Weezer

*okay so these are essentially just albums from 2020/2000, but live albums, reissues, and re-recordings count, right?

But if those three dont count, then these are my honorable mentions

LRain - Fatigue
Grouper - Shade
Olivia Rodrigo - Sour

Summer Blooms Without You

top albums of the year in no order (cept the first one)

scythelord - earth boiling dystopia
deathfucker - firespawn
the temple - s/t
dying wish - fragments of a bitter memory
conjureth - majestic dissolve
carcass - torn arteries
core of a dying earth - hello world
hellbutcher - s/t
kayo dot - moss grew on the swords and plowshares alike
ruin - spread plague death
mortiferum - preserved In torment

DevilSummoner1 posted...

top albums of the year in no order (cept the first one)

scythelord - earth boiling dystopia
deathfucker - firespawn
the temple - s/t
dying wish - fragments of a bitter memory
conjureth - majestic dissolve
carcass - torn arteries
core of a dying earth - hello world
hellbutcher - s/t
kayo dot - moss grew on the swords and plowshares alike
ruin - spread plague death
mortiferum - preserved In torment

Ive heard of one of these lmao. I love seeing other peoples lists, especially when theyre so different from my own.

if you had to recommend one for me to listen to, which would it be?

MrMelodramatic posted...

if you had to recommend one for me to listen to, which would it be?

hm, i think you might enjoy kayo dot actually

scythelord is my favorite of the list however

Top 5:
Pe$o Pete - Shiny World
Baby Keem - Melodic Blues
Brockhamption - ROADRUNNER
Steve Lacy - The lo-fis
Jpegmafia - LP!

nurture

I'm pretty sure I don't actually know any albums released in 2021.

Music?

We Butter the Bread with Butter - Das Album
Architects - For Those That Wish to Exist
Icon For Hire - Amorphous

The only album released in 2021 I've listened to was Big Krit "A Style Not Quite Free"

rjsilverthorn posted...

I'm pretty sure I don't actually know any albums released in 2021.

This.

Because of how the Internet distributes music, I don't really listen to albums at all anymore - I'm much more likely to listen to individual songs in isolation. And even then, I'm not really listening to "new" music all that much, because I'm over 40 and no longer care what "the kids" find "with it" or "hip".

I think I've only actually listened to a single song this year that was actually released in 2021, and that's because I only just discovered The Weeknd for the first time this year and went trawling through his singles.