2021 Listening.

Here is every album I listened to in 2021, with rankings.

• Adele – 30 (7/10)
• The Aerial Maps – Intimate Hinterland (8/10)
• Alice Skye – I Feel Better But I Don’t Feel Good (8/10)
• Allday – Drinking with My Smoking Friends (7.5/10)
• Amenra – De Doorn (7.5/10)
• Amy Shark – Cry Forever (7.5/10)
• Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort to Me (8/10)
• Andrew Swift – The Art of Letting Go (5.5/10)
• Angel Du$t – YAK: A Collection of Truck Songs (7.5/10)
• Architects – For Those That Wish to Exist (7.5/10)
• The Armed – ULTRAPOP (7.5/10)
• Atreyu – Baptize (7/10)
• BACKxWASH – I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES (8/10)
• Baker Boy – Gela (8/10)
• Banoffee – Tear Tracks (8/10)
• Be All End All – Pact Music (7.5/10)
• Ben Howard – Collections from the Whiteout (6.5/10)
• Black Country, New Road – For the first time (8/10)
• black midi – Cavalcade (7.5/10)
• Bleachers – Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night (7.5/10)
• Big Red Machine – How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? (7.5/10)
• Big Scary – Daisy (8/10)
• Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever (8/10)
• Bliss N Eso – The Sun (3/10)
• Bobbie Gillespie and Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes (6.5/10)
• Bored Shorts – Way Off! (7.5/10)
• BROCKHAMPTON – ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE (8/10)
• The Bronx – Bronx VI (6.5/10)
• Burn in Hell – Disavowal of the Creator God (7.5/10)
• Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined (7/10)
• Catherine Britt – Home Truths (6.5/10)
• CHAI – WINK (6/10)
• Charlie Marie – Ramble On (7.5/10)
• Charlie Parr – Last of the Better Days Ahead (8/10)
• Cheekface – Emphatically No (8/10)
• Children Collide – Time Itself (7.5/10)
• Chimers – s/t (8/10)
• chloe moriondo – Blood Bunny (8/10)
• CHVRCHES – Screen Violence (8/10)
• Citizen – Life in Your Glass World (8/10)
• Clairo – Sling (6/10)
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – New Fragility (6/10)
• Cloud Nothings – The Shadow I Remember (7.5/10)
• Coldplay – Music of the Spheres (7.5/10)
• Cole Chaney – Mercy (7/10)
• Colleen Green – Cool (8/10)
• Couplet – LP1 (7.5/10)
• Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (7.5/10)
• Crowded House – Dreamers Are Waiting (7.5/10)
• Cynic – Ascension Codes (7.5/10)
• Danny L Harle – Harlecore (6.5/10)
• The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light – The Streets (6.5/10)
• Darlinghurst – Darlinghurst (6.5/10)
• The Datsuns – Eye to Eye (5.5/10)
• Dave – We’re All Alone in This Together (8/10)
• Death From Above 1979 – Is 4 Lovers (8/10)
• Deafheaven – Infinite Granite (8.5/10)
• Deerhoof – Actually, You Can (8/10)
• Descendents – 9th & Walnut (7.5/10)
• Dianas – Little Glimmer (8/10)
• DickLord – Pre Menstrual Attitude (7.5/10)
• Dinosaur Jr. – Sweep It Into Space (7/10)
• Diploid – I Am Yours. And I Am Here Again. (8/10)
• The Dirty Nill – Fuck Art (7/10)
• Divide and Dissolve – Gas Lit (7.5/10)
• DMX – Exodus (6.5/10)
• Dropkick Murphys – Turn Up That Dial (7/10)
• Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (8/10)
• Duran Duran – FUTURE PAST (7.5/10)
• Dying Wish – Fragments of a Bitter Memory (8/10)
• DZ Deathrays – Positive Rising: Part 2 (7.5/10)
• easy life – life’s a beach (7/10)
• Evanescence – The Bitter Truth (7.5/10)
• Fiddlehead – Between the Richness (8/10)
• FITZ – Head Up High (3/10)
• Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (7.5/10)
• Flyying Colours – Fantasy Country (7.5/10)
• Foo Fighters – Medicine at Midnight (6/10)
• For Those I Love – For Those I Love (8/10)
• Fred again.. – Actual Life (April 14 – December 17 2020) (8.5/10)
• Fred again.. – Actual Life 2 (February 2 – October 15, 2021) (7.5/10)
• FRITZ – Pastel (8/10)
• Full of Hell – Garden of Burning Apparitions (7.5/10)
• Geese – Projector (8/10)
• Genesis Owusu – Smiling with No Teeth (8/10)
• GFOTY – FEMMEDORM (7.5/10)
• girl in red – if i could make it go quiet (7.5/10)
• The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part One (7.5/10)
• Goldfynch – Goldfynch (4/10)
• The Goon Sax – Mirror II (7.5/10)
• Gretta Ray – Begin to Look Around (8/10)
• Grinding Eyes – Taste the Monochrome (5/10)
• GRMLN – Dark Music in the Sun (7.5/10)
• GROUPLOVE – This is This (8/10)
• Halsey – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (8.5/10)
• Harakiri for the Sky – Mӕre (7.5/10)
• Hard-Ons – I’m Sorry Sir, That Riff’s Been Taken (8/10)
• Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (8/10)
• Hilary Geddes Quartet – Parkside (8/10)
• Holy Holy – Hello My Beautiful World (7.5/10)
• Huck Hastings – Cheers to Progress (8/10)
• IDLES – CRAWLER (8/10)
• illuminati hotties – Let Me Do One More (7.5/10)
• Inhaler – It Won’t Always Be Like This (7/10)
• Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall – The Marfa Tapes (8/10)
• Jackson Browne – Downhill from Everywhere (7.5/10)
• Jake Bugg – Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (8/10)
• Jerry Cantrell – Brighten (6/10)
• JPEGMAFIA – LP! (8/10)
• John Mayer – Sob Rock (7.5/10)
• José González – Local Valley (7.5/10)
• Julien Baker – Little Oblivions (6/10)
• The Jungle Giants – Love Signs (6.5/10)
• June Jones – Leafcutter (8/10)
• Kacey Musgraves – star-crossed (8/10)
• Kanye West – Donda (5.5/10)
• Kate Davis – Strange Boy (7.5/10)
• Kele – The Waves Pt. 1 (7.5/10)
• The Killers – Pressure Machine (8/10)
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – L.W. (7.5/10)
• King Woman – Celestial Blues (7.5/10)
• Kings of Convenience – Peace or Love (7.5/10)
• Kings of Leon – When You See Yourself (6.5/10)
• Kississippi – Mood Ring (7.5/10)
• Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – Candy Racer (7/10)
• Lambchop – Showtunes (8/10)
• Liars – The Apple Drop (8/10)
• LICE – WASTELAND: What Ails Our People is Clear (7.5/10)
• Lil Nas X – MONTERO (8/10)
• Limp Bizkit – STILL SUCKS (8/10)
• Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (8/10)
• Liz Stringer – First Time Really Feeling (8/10)
• Lorde – Solar Power (6.5/10)
• LOSER – All the Rage (7.5/10)
• Lou Barlow – Reason to Live (7.5/10)
• Low – HEY WHAT (8.5/10)
• Luca Brasi – Everything is Tenuous (8/10)
• LURK – Around the Sun (8/10)
• Madlib – Sound Ancestors (7/10)
• Manchester Orchestra – The Million Masks of God (7.5/10)
• Marcus Whale – The Hunger (8/10)
• MARINA – Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land (5.5/10)
• Maroon 5 – JORDI (6/10)
• Martha Wainwright – Love Will Be Reborn (7.5/10)
• Mastodon – Hushed and Grim (5.5/10)
• Maxïmo Park – Nature Always Wins (7.5/10)
• Mental Cavity – Mass Rebel Infest (7.5/10)
• Mere Women – Romantic Notions (7.5/10)
• Michael Waugh – The Cast (6.5/10)
• Middle Kids – Today We’re the Greatest (8/10)
• The Mighty Mighty BossTones – When God Was Great (7/10)
• Mike Noga – Open Fire (8/10)
• Moaning Lisa – Something Like This But Not This (8/10)
• Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (7.5/10)
• Mogwai – As the Love Continues (7.5/10)
• Morgan Wade – Reckless (8/10)
• The Mountain Goats – Dark in Here (6/10)
• The Muslims – Fuck These Fuckin’ Fascists (8/10)
• Nation of Language – A Way Forward (8/10)
• Ngaiire – 3 (7.5/10)
• Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – CARNAGE (7.5/10)
• Odette – Herald (7.5/10)
• The Offspring – Let the Bad Times Roll (3.5/10)
• Olivia Rodrigo – SOUR (8/10)
• The Omnific – Escapades (6/10)
• One Step Closer – This Place You Know (8/10)
• Palberta – Palberta5000 (7.5/10)
• Pale Waves – Who Am I? (3.5/10)
• The Paper Kites – Roses (5.5/10)
• Parquet Courts – Sympathy for Life (8/10)
• Petey – Lean Into Life (8/10)
• Pist Idiots – Idiocracy (8/10)
• Polish Club – Now We’re Cookin’ (7.5/10)
• Portal – AVOW (6.5/10)
• Portal – Hagbulbia (6/10)
• Porter Robinson – Nurture (7.5/10)
• Portrayal of Guilt – We Are Always Alone (7.5/10)
• The Predators – Everybody Loves (6/10)
• Quicksand – Distant Populations (7/10)
• Quivers – Golden Doubt (8/10)
• REMI – Fried (7.5/10)
• Rinuwat – Dua Naga (8/10)
• Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Raise the Roof (7.5/10)
• Royal Blood – Typhoons (8/10)
• Ruby Fields – Been Doin’ It for a Bit (7.5/10)
• RÜFÜS DU SOL – Surrender (8/10)
• Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under (7.5/10)
• Sarah Jarosz – Blue Heroin Suite (8/10)
• Seth Sentry – Super Cool Tree House (8/10)
• shame – Drunk Tank Pink (8/10)
• Shihad – Old Gods (6.5/10)
• Sierra Ferrell – Long Time Coming (7.5/10)
• Silk Sonic – An Evening with Silk Sonic (8/10)
• Skegss – Rehearsal (8/10)
• Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs (7/10)
• Sleigh Bells – Texis (7.5/10)
• slowthai – TYRON (7.5/10)
• Sly Withers – Gardens (8/10)
• Snowy Band – Alternate Endings (8/10)
• The Sonder Bombs – Clothbound (8/10)
• Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (7.5/10)
• The Specials – Protest Songs 1924 – 2012 (7/10)
• Spiritbox – Eternal Blue (8/10)
• Springtime – Springtime (8/10)
• Squid – Bright Green Field (8/10)
• St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home (8/10)
• Tigers Jaw – I Won’t Care How You Remember Me (8/10)
• Toby Martin – I Felt the Valley Lifting (8/10)
• Tom Jones – Surrounded by Time (8/10)
• Tomahawk – Tonic Immobility (7/10)
• Tropical Fuck Storm – Deep States (7.5/10)
• Turnstile – GLOW ON (9/10)
• Tyler, the Creator – CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (8/10)
• Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz (7.5/10)
• Wanda Jackson – Encore (7/10)
• The War on Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore (7.5/10)
• Wave Racer – To Stop From Falling Off the Earth (7.5/10)
• Wavves – Hideaway (8/10)
• We Are Scientists – Huffy (7.5/10)
• Weezer – OK Human (8/10)
• Weezer – Van Weezer (7.5/10)
• WILLOW – lately I feel EVERYTHING (7.5/10)
• Willy Mason – Already Dead (7.5/10)
• Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend (7.5/10)
• The Wolfe Brothers – Kids on Cassette (2/10)
• You Am I – The Lives of Others (6.5/10)
• Zack Fox – shut the fuck up talking to me (7.5/10)