20 favourite albums of 2021

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

2. Bicep - Isles

3. Lightning Bug - A Color of the Sky

4. Dictaphone - Goats & Distortions 5

5. Low - HEY WHAT

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

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

8. Lionmilk - I Hope You Are Well

9. Lyra Pramuk - Delta

10. Old Saw - Country Tropics

11. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

12. Gabriel Cabezas & Gabriella Smith - Lost Coast

13. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8

14. Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt - Lucy & Aaron

15. Lil Nas X - MONTERO

16. Squid - Bright Green Field

17. osquinn - drive​-​by lullabies

18. The Mountain Goats - Dark in Here

19. Sarah Neufeld - Detritus

20. CFCF - Memoryland

runner ups:

21. Attacca Quartet - Real Life

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

23. Zoltan Fecso - Butterfly Hands

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

25. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

26. Black Country, New Road - For the first time

27. Scorn - The Only Place

28. madam data - The Gospel of the Devourer

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

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