Best of 2021
The first month of 2022 is just about over, and I realized that I needed to do something that I haven’t done in a while, a Best of List for the preceding year. I would have done it earlier, but I fell into a deep funk right before we rang in the New Year. And then I had a major computer fail – the screen on my four-year-old MacBook Pro died. (It was probably the stupidest thing that ever happened, too. So, better late than never, right?
- Absolutely Free – Aftertouch
- The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
- Low – HEY WHAT
- Altin Gün – Yol
- Genesis Owusu –Smiling With No Teeth/Genesis Owusu – Smiling with No Teeth
- MUNYA – Voyage to Mars
- L’Imperatice – Tako Tsubo
- L’éclair – Confusions
- Yola – Stand For Myself
- Lucid Express – S/T
- Lost Horizons – In Quiet Moments
- Rowjay –Carnaval de Finesse 2: Les Chronicles d’un Jeune Entrepreneur
- The Murlocs – Bittersweet Demons
- Orions Belte – Villa Amorini
- Balthazar — Sand
- Aurus — Chimera
- La Femme – Paradigmes
- Teke: Teke – Shirushi
- People Museum – I Can Only See The Night
- Spelljammer – Abyssal Trips
- Amyl and the Sniffers – Comfort to Me
- METZ – Live at the Opera House
- Laure Briard – En Voo
- New Bleach – Impressions EP
- Whispering Sons – Several Others
- Sungaze – This Dream
- Inov Gnawa — Lila
- Psymon Spine – Charismatic Megafauna
- Lore City – Participation Mystique
- Piroshka – Love Drips & Gathers
- Suntiger – Beyond the Frame
- Pond — 9
Honorable Mentions
- New Candys – Vyvyd
- Robert Finley – Sharecropper’s Son
- Boogarins – Manchacha Vol. 2 (A Compilation of Boogarins Memories, Dreams, Demos and Outtakes)
- Ganser – Just Look At That Sky Remixes
- Blessed – iii (Remixes)
