The Top 50 Albums Of 2021

Tyler, The Creator Writes His Romance Novela, Mr Twin Sister Transforms Completely, Spirit Of The Beehive Gives Voice To Our Dystopian Resignation, Faye Webster Is Indeed Funny, And So Much More. 2021 Was Wild.

Tristan Young @talltristan

You look at any year end list of any publication from 2021; what else is there to be said than it was very, very strange? Whereas 2020 brought about a palpable sense of dystopia rapidly metastasizing along multiple fronts, 2021 was the year where those paradigms simply just persisted. Stubbornly, relentlessly, what was once the providence of hypotheticals or outlandish film became normalized within in our everyday lives. In ways both superlative and subliminal, the proverbial end of times seemed perpetually eminent. How does that effect the way we make music, or listen to it? Do we give in to nihilism, or find other ways to process the unfathomable? 2021 was a year about processing, well, a lot. These were the 50 albums that did it best. Giving voice to our existential dread in achingly poetic- if fractured- terms in ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH; insolent defiance as a from of righteous protest in Let Me Do One More; finding the interstitial threads between the end of the world and the end of a relationship in Friends That Break Your Heart; repurposing the visceral fear of it all into something ethically galvanizing in Hey What; detaching from everything in the hopes of frivolous romance only to discover that can be even more nerve-racking in Call Me If You Get Lost- 2021 felt like a collective group therapy that we all needed in one form or another. These are the 50 best albums that in their own unique way, did just that.