2021 was a good year!
I’ve been trying to find the top 20 (from my collection) of records released during the year. Not easy 🙂
Followed by the full list
Top 20
Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
The Limiñanas / Laurent Garnier – De Pelicula
El Michels Affair – Yeti Season
https://elmichelsaffair.bandcamp.com
Cannibale – Life is dead
https://cannibale.bandcamp.com/music
Shame – Drunk tank pink
Menahan Street Band – The exciting sounds of Menahan Street Band
https://menahanstreetband.bandcamp.com
Billy Nomates – Emergency Telephone
https://www.iambillynomates.com
Tropical Fuck Storm – Deep States
https://www.tropicalfuckstormrecords.com
As usual with TFS, a very good album – maybe less good than the other ones, but after some listening, it is difficult to avoid singing and dancing with them
Black Country, New Road – For the first time
https://blackcountrynewroad.com
Idles – Crawler
Geese – Projector
Black Midi – Cavalcade
Amyl and the sniffers – Comfort to me
Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs
Never disappointed with Sleaford Mods, very good featuring included!
Parquet Courts – Sympathy for life
TV Priest – Uppers
Beige Banquet – Beta
Squid – Bright green field
Long awaited first LP, following the excellents EP, in particular The Cleaner
Good energy, one of the best of 2021
Viagra boys – Welfare jazz
Yard act – Dark days
Very promising first EP, in addition to a few live (confined) sessions.
| Dry Cleaning | New Long Leg |
| Pixies | Trompe Le Monde |
| Fleet Foxes | Shore |
| Black Pumas | Capitol Cuts |
| Django Django | Glowing In The Dark |
| The Limiñanas | The World We Knew (La Bande Originale Du Film) |
| The Limiñanas / Laurent Garnier | De Película |
| El Michels Affair Meets Liam Bailey | Ekundayo Inversions |
| El Michels Affair | Yeti Season |
| La Jungle | Fall Off The Apex |
| Music On Hold | 30 Minutes of |
| Frustration | So Cold Streams |
| Bryan’s Magic Tears | Vacuum Sealed |
| Arthur Satàn | So Far So Good |
| Cannibale | Life Is Dead |
| La Femme | Runway / Me Suive |
| Jungle | Loving In Stereo |
| Feu ! Chatterton | Palais D’argile |
| Exek | Biased Advice |
| Violent Femmes | Add It Up (1981-1993) |
| Aquaserge | The Possibility Of A New Work For Aquaserge |
| Shame | Live In The Flesh |
| Shame | Drunk Tank Pink |
| Khruangbin | Mordechai Remixes |
| King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard | Live In Paris ’19 |
| La Femme | Paradigmes |
| Menahan Street Band | The Exciting Sounds Of Menahan Street Band |
| The Black Keys | Delta Kream |
| Spiritual Mafia | Al Fresco |
| Lonely Guest | Lonely Guest |
| Civic | Future Forecast |
| King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard | Teenage Gizzard |
| Various | The Problem Of Leisure: A Celebration Of Andy Gill & Gang Of Four |
| Nick Cave & Warren Ellis | Carnage |
| Nathan Roche | Drink Up, Rainforest Sinatra |
| Unschooling | Random Acts Of Total Control |
| Johnny Mafia | Sentimental |
| Meatbodies | 333 |
| Rone | Rone & Friends |
| Billy Nomates | Emergency Telephone |
| Anika | Change |
| Les Ogres De Barback | Rue Du Temps |
| PJ Harvey | Uh Huh Her |
| Tropical Fuck Storm | Deep States |
| King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard | Butterfly 3000 |
| Electric Party | Play |
| Snapped Ankles | Forest Of Your Problems |
| Exek | Good Thing They Ripped Up The Carpet |
| Courtney Barnett | Things Take Time, Take Time |
| Archive | Londinium |
| Black Country, New Road | For The First Time |
| The Black Keys | El Camino |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | New Fragility |
| King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard | K.G. (Explorations Into Microtonal Tuning Volume 2) |
| King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard | L.W. (Explorations Into Microtonal Tuning Vol. 3) |
| Fontaines D.C. | Live At Kilmainham Gaol |
| Chubby & The Gang | The Mutt’s Nuts |
| Idles | Crawler |
| Geese | Projector |
| Balthazar | Sand |
| Rodrigo Amarante | Drama |
| Various | Straight From The Decks 2 |
| Mogwai | As The Love Continues |
| Black Midi | Cavalcade |
| Amyl and The Sniffers | Comfort To Me |
| Sleaford Mods | Spare Ribs |
| Parquet Courts | Sympathy For Life |
| TV Priest | Uppers |
| Beige Banquet | Beta |
| Thee Oh Sees | Levitation Sessions II |
| Jack The Ripper | Ladies First |
| Anytime Cowboy | Bug Bite |
| The White Stripes | My Sister Thanks You And I Thank You The White Stripes Greatest Hits |
| Damon Albarn | The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows |
| Melenas | Melenas |
| Amy Winehouse | At The BBC |
| It It Anita | Sauvé |
| The Monsters | You’re Class, I’m Trash |
| General Elektriks | Party Like A Human |
| Squid | Near The Westway |
| Squid | Bright Green Field |
| King Krule | You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down |
| Viagra Boys | Welfare Jazz |
| Yard Act | Dark Days |