We’re observing the end of 2021 with an obligatory & completely joyful top 100 list!
After a few months of comfort and things starting to feel “normal,” everything has come crashing down in an unwavering attempt to stabilize the almost vertical rise in COVID case rates. What way for 2021 to go.
S/O to all of the wonderful artists who released music this past year and here’s to all of the releases that are yet to come ???
Listen to 2021 Top 100 if that’s what you wanna do➽➽
Some of the artists on the list are too ~underground~ to be on Spotify, so make sure you check out the full list below:)
| 1. | Devours*+ | Escape From Planet Devours | STG |
| 2. | Prado*+ | PRADO MONROE EP | tmwrk |
| 3. | Fake Fruit | Fake Fruit | Rocks In Your Head |
| 4. | Jasper Sloan Yip*+ | Strange Calm / Blushing Autumn | Tiny Kingdom Music |
| 5. | Little Sprout*+ | Fake Cake | Self-Released |
| 6. | TJ Felix*+ | BIGPOETRYASS | Self-Released |
| 7. | Nimkish*+ | Damage Control | Red Music Rising |
| 8. | Backxwash* | I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES | Ugly Hag |
| 9. | Status/Non Status | 1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years | You’ve Changed |
| 10. | Doohickey Cubicle*+ | Don’t Fix Anything;) | Self-Released |
| 11. | ZDBT, Prado, SMP*+ | Elastic EP | Specials |
| 12. | future star*+ | When Will the DJ of Luv Grant Me My 1 Request | Kingfisher Bluez |
| 13. | Tough Age, Dumb*+ | Pizza Punks 7″ | Mint |
| 14. | Yu Su*+ | Yellow River Blue | bié |
| 15. | Cartel Madras* | The Serpent and the Tiger | Royal Mountain |
| 16. | redress*+ | meadowrunning | Self-Released |
| 17. | Dijah SB* | Head Above the Waters | Self-Released |
| 18. | Century Egg* | Little Piece of Hair | Forward Music Group |
| 19. | Men I Trust* | Untourable Album | Independent |
| 20. | Alex Cuba*+ | Mendó | Caracol |
| 21. | Grimm*+ | Electro Folklore | Kingfisher Bluez |
| 22. | Pardoner | Came Down Different | Bar None |
| 23. | Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz* | jooj two | Mint |
| 24. | Masahiro Takahashi* | Flowering Tree, Distant Moon | Not Not Fun |
| 25. | Motorists*+ | Surrounded | Debt Offensive |
| 26. | Snotty Nose Rez Kids* | Life After | Distorted Muse / Fontana North |
| 27. | OKAN* | Esprial | Lulaworld |
| 28. | Olivia’s World*+ | Tuff 2B Tender | Self-Released |
| 29. | prOphecy sun*+ | SkyCat | Self-Released |
| 30. | thehabeshaman*+ | The Lovers | Self-Released |
| 31. | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson* | Theory of Ice | You’ve Changed |
| 32. | Various artists*+ | Black Lab 2020 Mixtape Vol. I-III | The Black Lab |
| 33. | Dummy | EP2 | Born Yesterday |
| 34. | Luna Li* | jams EP | Self-Released |
| 35. | Nivram AKAsublime*+ | good days and bad days EP | Self-Released |
| 36. | illuminati hotties | Let Me Do One More | Hopeless |
| 37. | Great Aunt Ida*+ | Unsayable | Self-Released |
| 38. | Bachelor | Doomin’ Sun | Polyvinyl |
| 39. | Parlour Panther*+ | Retrograde | Coax |
| 40. | Eve Parker Finley* | Chrysalia | Coax |
| 41. | Primp*+ | DAYTONA | Self-Released |
| 42. | Clear Mortifee | Fairies | Self-Released |
| 43. | TJ Felix*+ | I Used to Pick Berries | Self-Released |
| 44. | Mas Aya* | MÁSCARAS | Telephone Explosion |
| 45. | Tirzah | Colourgrade | Domino |
| 46. | Dry Cleaning | New Long Leg | 4AD |
| 47. | Smirk | ST LP | Drunken Sailor |
| 48. | Needles//Pins*+ | S/T | Dirt Cult |
| 49. | Kìzis* | Tidibàbide / Turn | Tin Angel |
| 50. | Porches | All Day Gentle Hold ! | Domino |
| 51. | thehabeshaman*+ | ????? ?????? | Self-Released |
| 52. | Sons Of Kemet | Black To The Future | Impulse! |
| 53. | NEW CHANCE* | Real Time | We Are Time. |
| 54. | Bapari | Daybreak EP | Self-Released |
| 55. | Kylie V*+ | Big Blue | Self-Released |
| 56. | Haviah Mighty* | Stock Exchange | Mighty Gang Inc. |
| 57. | (Liv).e | Couldn’t Wait to Tell You… | In Real Life |
| 58. | TEKE::TEKE* | Shirushi | Kill Rock Stars |
| 59. | Euro Visa Visa*+ | We Love Robin Williams | bornallday |
| 60. | I M U R*+ | My Molecules | Fontana North |
| 61. | Gavin Turek | MADAME GOLD | Madame Gold |
| 62. | The Weather Station* | Ignorance | Next Door |
| 63. | viñu-vinu* | Exilio Transitorio | Self-Released |
| 64. | Petal Supply* | Hey – EP | SONG Music |
| 65. | shn shn* | e.strange.d | stadik |
| 66. | iskwē* | The Stars | Self-Released |
| 67. | Louke Man* | Sd-1 | Self-Released |
| 68. | CHAI | WINK | Sub Pop |
| 69. | Ducks Ltd.* | Modern Fiction | Royal Mountain |
| 70. | Grouper | Shade | kranky |
| 71. | The Garrys | Get Thee to a Nunnery | Grey |
| 72. | Bell Orchestre* | House Music | Envision |
| 73. | Janette King* | What We Lost | Hot Tramp |
| 74. | Annabelle Chvostek* | String of Pearls | MQGV |
| 75. | Lost Girls | Menneskekollektivet | Smalltown Supersound |
| 76. | Ada Lea* | one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden | Next Door |
| 77. | Various artists*+ | 100 Block Rock | Incidental Press |
| 78. | The Halluci Nation* | One More Saturday Night | Radicalized |
| 79. | Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band* | Banned | Flemish Eye |
| 80. | Isabella Lovestory* | Remix Mixtape | TWIN |
| 81. | GADFLY*+ | GADFLY | Self-Released |
| 82. | Central Heat Exchange | Central Heat Exchange | Birthday Cake |
| 83. | Fiver* | Fiver with the Atlantic School Of Spontaneous Composition | You’ve Changed |
| 84. | Sofia Fly* | Fly Beats II Virgo Rising | Fly AF |
| 85. | Meemo Comma | Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter² | Planet Mu |
| 86. | The Golden Age of Wrestling*+ | matriarch // rottweiler | STG |
| 87. | Aasiva* | Niriunniq | Pheromone Distribution / Fontana North |
| 88. | Rec Centre* | Pep Talk | Self-Released |
| 89. | YlangYlang* | Cycles & Decay | Everyday Ago |
| 90. | Afrika Mamas | Ilanga – The Sun | ARC Music |
| 91. | Kele Fleming*+ | The Song I’ll Write for My Whole Life | Self-Released |
| 92. | Mega Bog | Life, and Another | Paradise of Bachelors |
| 93. | Low | HEY WHAT | Sup Pop |
| 94. | thehabeshaman*+ | Sleeper Hit | Self-Released |
| 95. | Dobet Gnahoré | Couleur | Cumbancha |
| 96. | Chad VanGaalen* | World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener | Flemish Eye |
| 97. | colouring outside* | Vision of the World | Self-Released |
| 98. | Decomme* | Rental Shop Dark | Self-Released |
| 99. | Cecile Believe* | Plucking a Cherry From the Void | Self-Released |
| 100. | Dim Wit | Self-Titled | Self-Released |