20 favourite albums of 2021

 1. Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion - Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part

2. Gazelle Twin & Nyx - Deep England

3. osquinn - drive​-​by lullabies

4. Bicep - Isles

5. Lightning Bug - A Color of the Sky

6. Low - HEY WHAT

8. Alev Lenz performed by Roomful of Teeth - Fall Into Me (Live at the TANK)

8. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

9. Dictaphone - Goats & Distortions 5

10. Old Saw - Country Tropics

11. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

12. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions

13. Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective - Ngủ ngày ngay ngày tận thế

14. John Dwyer - Witch Egg

15. Lionmilk - I Hope You Are Well

16. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8

17. Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt - Lucy & Aaron

18. Squid - Bright Green Field

19. Aya - im hole

20.  8485 - plague town

Runner ups, also highly recommended:

Pan Daijing - Jade 玉观音

midwxst - SUMMER03

Lyra Pramuk - Delta

Lil Nas X - MONTERO

The Mountain Goats - Dark in Here

Sarah Neufeld - Detritus

Black Country, New Road - For the first time

Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

Attacca Quartet - Real Life

CFCF - Memoryland

Zoltan Fecso - Butterfly Hands

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!

Bryce Dessner, Australian String Quartet, & Sydney Dance Company - Impermanence∕Disintegration

Scorn - The Only Place

madam data - The Gospel of the Devourer

Éliane Radigue performed by Silvia Tarozzi, Deborah Walker, Julia Eckrardt - Occam Ocean 3