Favorite Albums of 2021 – Staff Picks!
TAYLOR
Turnstile – Glow On
Tyler, The Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost
Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
Olivia Rodrigo – SOUR
Idles – Crawler
V/A – Driftless Dreamers: In Cuca Country
Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure
BLEACHERS – Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night
Bria – Cuntry Covers Vol. 1
Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time
BOB (The 45 Guy)
Fox Face – End of Man
Rocket Bureau – Middle Angst
Couch Flambeau – Bunny Hideout
Todd Snider – The First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder
Guided By Voices – It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them!
Aaron Scholz – Third Place
Reigning Sound – A Little More Time…
Hayes Carll – You Get It All
V/A – Driftless Dreamers: In Cuca Country
NICK
Turnstile – Glow On
CAN – Live In Stuttgart 75
Lil Ugly Mane – Volcanic Bird Enemy
Grouper – Shade
Andy Stott – Never The Right Time
Old Tower – The Old King of Witches
Portal – Avow / Hagbulbia
Mortiferum – Preserved In Torment
Suffering Hour – The Cyclic Reckoning
Dana Dentata – Pantychrist
Jason Crumer – Services Rendered
Black Marble – Fast Idol
La Luz – La Luz
Floating Points & Pharaoh Sanders – Promises
Neil Young – Way Down In The Rust Bucket
Beach Boys – Feel Flows – The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971
BOBBY
Low – Hey What
The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy
Circuit Des Yeux – -io
Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade
Can – Live in Stuttgart 1975
Death From Above 1979 – Is 4 Lovers
Alicja Pop – Howlin’
Ty Segall – Harmonizer
Best Reissues:
PJ Harvey – Studio Albums and Demo Collections
The Replacements – Sorry Ma… (deluxe edition)
Suburban Lawns – S/T
Lost Sounds – Rat’s Brains and Microchips
DAVE
Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort To Me
Robert Finley – Sharecropper’s Son
Danny Kroha – Detroit Blues
Endless Boogie – Admonitions
Cedric Burnside – I Be Trying
Reigning Sound – A Little More Time…
Buffalo Nichols – self titled
Screamers – 1977 Demo Hollywood
Spread Joy – self titled
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – I Told You…