My Favorite Albums of 2021

Top ten, ranked:

1. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
2. Five Iron Frenzy - Until This Shakes Apart
3. Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood
4. Weezer - OK Human / Van Weezer
5. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
6. Black Fly - Black Fly 01
7. Lucero - When You Found Me
8. The Antlers - Green to Gold
9. Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
10. Grandbrothers - All the Unknown

Rest of the list, unranked:

Afterlight - Afterlight
Altın Gün - Yin
Balmorhea - The Wind
Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)
The Burning Sun - Marrow
Clever Girls - Constellations
Dean McPhee - Witch's Ladder
Delta Rae - The Dark
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - I Told You So
Dornenreich - Du wilde Liebe sei
Erik Cohen - Northern Soul
girl in red - if i could make it go quiet
Goat Girl - On All Fours
Herzel - Le Dernier Rempart
The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy
Korpiklaani - Jylhä
Lily Seabird - Beside Myself
Lorde - Solar Power
Lowland Hum - So Low
Marisa Anderson & William Tyler - Lost Futures
Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 2: The Golden Orb
My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
Palberta - Palberta5000
Pale Waves - Who Am I?
Rose City Band - Earth Trip
Ryley Walker - Course in Fable
Saint Sister - Shere I Should End
Steve Earle & The Dukes - J.T.
Strand of Oaks - In Heaven
Talons - new nightmare
Vapour Theories - Celestial Scuzz
Whitehorse - Modern Love
Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights
ZSK - Ende der Welt