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| 2021 album reviews |
| Scroll down and you will find the list of all 2021 album reviews published so far. Albums rated 4/10 and lower are usually not included, as their review is often just one line - check the alphabetical list |
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| 38KEA | Into Your Eye, I've Found, My Everything | (self) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| 38KEA | Seeds Thy Divine Thresher | (self) | hip-hop | 6.5/10 |
| 38KEA | More Seeds? Take the Seeds! | (self) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Adult Mom | Driver | (Epitaph) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Tori Amos | Ocean To Ocean | (Decca) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Antediluvian | The Divine Punishment | (self) | death | 5.5/10 |
| Arooj Aftab | Vulture Prince (2021) | (New Amsterdam) | world-music | 6/10 |
| Arca | Kick II | (XL) | glitch | 6/10 |
| Arca | Kick III | (XL) | glitch | 5/10 |
| Arca | Kick IIII | (XL) | glitch | 5/10 |
| Arca | Kick IIIII | (XL) | glitch | 4.5/10 |
| Luigi Archetti | Lava | (self) | avantgarde | 6.5/10 |
| Argo Nuff | Argo Nuff | (self) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Argo Nuff | Annebolyn | (self) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| The Armed | Ultrapop | (Sargent House) | hardcore | 6/10 |
| Assertion | Intermission | (Spartan) | grunge | 5/10 |
| Astrid Sonne | Outside of Your Lifetime | (self) | electronica | 5/10 |
| Bachelor | Doomin' Sun | (Polyvinyl) | folk-rock | 6/10 |
| Julien Baker | Little Oblivions | (Matador) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Black Country New Road | For the First Time | (Ninja Tune) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Black Dresses | Forever in Your Heart | (Blacksquares) | industrial | 6/10 |
| Blackie | Face The Darkness II | (self) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Blanck Mass | In Ferneaux | (Sacred Bones) | industrial | 5/10 |
| Black Monument Ensemble | Now | (International Anthem) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Camellia | UUFO (2021) | (Kamel Camellia) | dance | 5/10 |
| Camera | Prosthuman | (Bureau B) | post-rock | 4/10 |
| Nick Cave | Carnage | (Goliath) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Celeste | Not Your Muse | (Polydor) | neosoul | 5/10 |
| Sarah Mary Chadwick | Me and Ennui Are Friends Baby | (Ba Da Bing) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Eric Church | Heart & Soul | (EMI) | country | 6.5/10 |
| Cloud Nothings | The Shadow I Remember | (Carpark) | noise-rock | 4/10 |
| J Cole | The Off-Season | (Dreamville) | hip-hop | 4/10 |
| Colleen | The Tunnel and the Clearing | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Alice Cooper | Detroit Stories | (Earmusic) | hard-rock | 5/10 |
| Lucy Dacus | Home Video | (Matador) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Pan Daijing | Jade | (Pan) | electronic | 7/10 |
| Dave | We're All Alone in This Together | (Neighbourhood) | hip-hop | 6.5/10 |
| Lana Del Rey | Chemtrails Over the Country Club | (Interscope) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Lana Del Rey | Blue Banisters | (Interscope) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Dijon Duenas | Absolutely | (R&R) | neosoul | 5/10 |
| DJ Rozwell | What Happens After the Death Is Recorded | (self) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Dream Unending | Tide Turns Eternal | (20 Buck Spin) | doom | 6/10 |
| Effluence | Psychocephalic Spawning | (P2) | death-metal | 7/10 |
| Billie Eilish | Happier Than Ever | (Interscope) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Wendy Eisenberg | Bent Ring | (Dear Life) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Esoctrilihum | Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath | (I Voidhanger) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Evanescence | The Bitter Truth | (Columbia) | pop-metal | 5/10 |
| EvilDewer | Anomia | (self) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| FACS | Present Tense | (Trouble in Mind) | post-rock | /10 |
| Sam Fender | Seventeen Going Under | (Polydor) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Fire-toolz | Eternal Home | (Hausu Mountain) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Fluisteraars | Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking | (Eisenwald Tonschmiede) | black metal | 5/10 |
| Foo Fighters | Medicine at Midnight | (Roswell) | power-pop | 5/10 |
| Mabe Fratti | Sera' Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos | (Unheard Of Hope) | prog-rock | 6.5/10 |
| Frontierer | Oxidized | (self) | metalcore | 7/10 |
| Fucked Up | Year of the Horse | (self) | post-hardcore | 8/10 |
| Ghost Rhythms | Spectral Music | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Girl in Red | If I Could Make It Go Quiet | (AWAL) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Glint | Glint | (self) | concrete | 6.5/10 |
| Go Team | Get Up Sequences Part One | (Memphis Industries) | pop | 4/10 |
| Godspeed You Black Emperor | G_d's Pee at State's End | (Constellation) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Yann Gourdon | Yann Gourdon | (La Novia) | post-folk | 6/10 |
| Greentea Peng | Man Made | (AMF) | neosoul | 7/10 |
| Sean Hayes | Be Like Water | (self) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Halsey | If I Can't Have Love I Want Power | (Capitol) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Juliana Hatfield | Blood | (American Laundromat) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Hiatus Kayote | Mood Valiant | (Glow in the Dark) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Home is Where | I Became Birds (2021) | (Father Daughter) | emo | 6/10 |
| Iceage | Seek Shelter | (Mexican Summer) | garage-rock | 6.5/10 |
| Iglooghost | Lei Line Eon | (Gloo) | post-hop | 6/10 |
| Cassandra Jenkins | An Overview on Phenomenal Nature | (Ba Da Ding) | songwriter | 6.5/10 |
| Injury Reserve | By the Time I Get to Phoenix | (Loma Vista) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
| Topaz Jones | Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma | (self) | hip-hop | 6.5/10 |
| Jpegmafia | LP | (Republic) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
| Valerie June | The Moon and Stars - Prescriptions For Dreamers | (Fantasy) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Jute Gyte | Mitrealitat | (self) | avant-metal | 5/10 |
| Ka | A Martyr's Reward | (Iron Works) | rap | 6/10 |
| Kaatayra | Inpariquipe | (self) | metal | 7/10 |
| L'Rain | Fatigue | (Mexican Summer) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Janis Lago | Daughter of Sappho/ Recovery | (Next Year's Snow) | noise | 7/10 |
| Lake Street Drive | Obviously | (Nonesuch) | soul | 4/10 |
| Lil Nas X | Montero | (Columbia) | pop-hop | 6/10 |
| Lil Ugly Mane | Volcanic Bird Enemy and The Voiced Concern | (Fashionable Death) | songwriter | 7.5/10 |
| Lingua Ignota | Sinner Get Ready | (Sargent House) | pagan folk | 6/10 |
| Lorde | Solar Power | (Universal) | songwriter | 6.5/10 |
| Lost Girls | Menneskekollektivet | (Smalltown Supersound) | techno | 4/10 |
| Low | Hey What | (SubPop) | dream-pop | 6/10 |
| Mach-Hommy | Pray for Haiti | (Griselda) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Mach-Hommy | Balens Cho | (self) | hip-hop | 4/10 |
| Madlib | Sound Ancestors | (Madlib) | hip-hop | 4/10 |
| Mare Cognitum | Solar Paroxysm | (I Voidhanger) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Alexis Marshall | House of Lull House of When | (Sargent House) | songwriting | 5/10 |
| Mastodon | Hushed and Grim | (Reprise) | prog-metal | 5/10 |
| Mike | Disco | (10K) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Moin | Moot | (AD93) | post-rock | 6.5/10 |
| Moor Mother | Black Encyclopedia of the Air | (Anti) | rap-jazz | 5.5/10 |
| Mountain Goats | Dark in Here | (Merge) | roots-rock | 5/10 |
| Laura Mvula | Pink Noise | (RCA) | pop | 4/10 |
| Rachika Nayar | Our Hands Against The Dusk | (NNA Tapes) | ambient | 6.5/10 |
| Old Nick | A New Generation of Vampiric Conspiracies | (self) | black metal | 6.5/10 |
| Old Nick | Iam Vampire Castle | (self) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Palberta | Palberta5000 | (Wharf Cat) | garage-rock | 5/10 |
| Parannoul | To See the Next Part of the Dream | (self) | shoegaze | 7/10 |
| Arlo Parks | Collapsed in Sunbeams (2021) | (Transgressive) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Carly Pearce | 29 Written in Stone | (Big Machine) | country | 6/10 |
| Liz Phair | Soberish | (Chrysalis) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| P.H.O.B.O.S. | Bleaker Beater | (Megaton Mass) | metal | 6/10 |
| PinkPantheress | To Hell With It | (self) | pop | 5/10 |
| Polo G | Hall of Fame | (Columbia) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Pom Poko | Cheater | (Bella Union) | power-pop | 6/10 |
| Poppy | Flux | (Sumerian) | pop-metal | 5/10 |
| Powerdove | Machination | (Murailles) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Maja Ratkje | Vannstand | (Motvind) | electronic | 5/10 |
| Really From | Really From | (Topshelf) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Robert Rich | Neurogenesis | (self) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Dawn Richard | Second Line | (Merge) | dance | 6/10 |
| Steve Roach | Into the Majestic | (Timeroom) | ambient | 4/10 |
| Olivia Rodrigo | Sour | (Geffen) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Claire Rousay | A Softer Focus | (self) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Xenia Rubinos | Una Rosa | (Anti) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Self Esteem | Prioritise Pleasure | (Universal) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Sematary | Rainbow Bridge 3 | (self) | drill | 7/10 |
| Serpentwithfeet | Deacon | (Secretly Canadian) | neosoul | 6.5/10 |
| Sewerslvt | Skitzofrenia Simulation | (self) | breakcore | 6/10 |
| Sewerslvt | We Had Good Times Together Don't Forget That | (self) | breakcore | 7.5/10 |
| Sewerslvt | Tortvred Lesbians Ripped Apart | (self) | breakcore | 7/10 |
| Sleater-Kinney | Path of Wellness | (Mom+Pop) | power-pop | 4/10 |
| Smerz | Believer | (XL) | dance-pop | 6/10 |
| Spectral Lore | Heterophotos | (I Voidhanger) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Spirit of the Beehive | Entertainment Death | (Saddle Creek) | psych-rock | 5/10 |
| Squid | Bright Green Field | (Warp) | dance-punk | 7.5/10 |
| St Vincent | Daddy's Home | (Loma Vista) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Stella Research Committee | A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness | (self) | noise-rock | 7/10 |
| Andy Stott | Never the Right Time | (Modern Love) | techno | 4/10 |
| Surfbort | Keep On Truckin' | (Inner Freak) | punk-rock | 5/10 |
| Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy | Superwolves | (Drag City) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Tantric Bile | Seminal Baptism (2021) | (Putrefactive) | jazz-metal | 7/10 |
| Aaron Lee Tasjan | Tasjan Tasjan Tasjan | (New West) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Yann Tiersen | Kerber | (Mute) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Tirzah | Colourgrade | (Domino) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Tricot | Jodeki | (8902) | post-rock | 6.5/10 |
| Turnstile | Glow On | (Roadrunner) | hard-rock | 5/10 |
| Tyler the Creator | Call me if you get Lost | (Columbia) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Underscores | Fishmonger | (self) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Undo K From Hot | G.A.S. Get A Star | (self) | industrial | 6/10 |
| Viagra Boys | Welfare Jazz | (Year0001) | dance-punk | 4/10 |
| Ryley Walker and Dave Grubbs | A Tap On The Shoulder | (Husky Pants) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Ryley Walker | Course In Fable | (Husky Pants) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| War On Drugs | I Don't Live Here Anymore | (Atlantic) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Weather Station | Ignorance | (Fat Possum) | singer-songwriter | 5/10 |
| Faye Webster | I Know I'm Funny Haha | (Secretely Canadian) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Weezer | OK Human | (Atlantic) | chamber pop | 6/10 |
| Kanye West | Donda | (IDJ) | hip-hop | 4/10 |
| Wiki | Half God | (Wikset) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Hayley Williams | Flowers for Vases / Descansos | (Atlantic) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Wolf Alice | Blue Weekend | (Dirty Hit) | dream-pop | 4.5/10 |
| Wolvennest | Temple | (Van) | gothic | 4.5/10 |
| Worm | Foreverglade | (20 Buck Spin) | doom-metal | 6.5/10 |
| Xen Model | Core | (self) | IDM | 6/10 |
| Xiu Xiu | Oh No | (Polyvynyl) | pop | 5/10 |
| Yikii | Crimson Poem | (self) | industrial | 6/10 |
| Yola | Stand For Myself | (Easy Eye Sound) | country-soul | 4.5/10 |
| Your Old Droog | Tha YOD Fahim | (Fat Beats) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Your Old Droog | Time | (Nature Sounds) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
| Your Old Droog | Space Bar | (Nature Sounds) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
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