Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2021

Here's a place for everyone to share their EOTY lists for 2021.

The Chorus.fm website contributors are hard at work at our own lists and we plan, like we did on AP.net, to post and share these on the website in early January.

Hope everyone had a great musical year and I can't wait to read all everyone's lists.

Here's the 2021 Albums thread if you need some memory refreshing on what you listened to this year.

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Having more trouble making my list than usual this year. It might take me longer than usual.

 

Can't wait to see everything that I still need to listen to haha

 

Here we go, managed to pull together a top 40. I used bias sorter which made this way easier once I got into it. Including top 3 songs for the top 10. Every ranking past that is meaningless tbh. Also did a Top 30 list of EPs which is unranked but there were so many great ones this year its criminal to not include them:

Top 40 Albums:

1. Turnstile - GLOW ON (Underwater Boi, New Heart Design, Blackout)
   
   
2. Militarie Gun - All Roads Lead to the Gun I & II (Stuck In A Spin, Big Disappointment, Fell On My Head)
   
   
3. Sungaze - This Dream (Body In The Mirror, Storm Chaser, Change Will Come)
   
   
4. Fiddlehead - Between The Richness (The Years, Down University, Eternal You)
   
   
5. Mini Trees - Always In Motion (Underwater, Carrying On, Numb)
   
   
6. Suzanne Kraft - About You (On Our Hands, Blush, Waiting)
   
   
7. Orchid Mantis - visitations (carry the weight, light rays, change your mind)
   
   
8. Quicksand - Distant Populations (Rodan, Katakana, Lightning Field)
   
   
9. Wednesday - Twin Plagues (Twin Plagues, Handsome Man, Cody's Only)
   
   
10. Webbed Wing - What's So Fucking Funny? (Saturdays, For Real, Jesus's Age)
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11. Ovlov -buds
12. The War On Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
13. Isaiah Rashad - The House is Burning
14. A Great Big Pile Of Leaves - Pono
    
15. Failure - Wild Type Droid
16. Sweet Soul - So Far No Further
17. Mick Jenkins -Elephant In The Room
18. Circa Survive - A Dream About Love
19. Downhaul - PROOF
20. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
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21. Stray Fossa - With You Forever
22. Taking Meds - Terrible News From Wonderful Men
23. Angel Du$t - YAK: A Collection of Truck Songs
24. Kraus - No View Country
25. One Step Closer - This Place You Know
26. Vince Staples - Vince Staples
27. Paerish - Fixed It All
28. Trace Mountains - HOUSE OF CONFUSION
29. Bigger Better Sun - Adjust To Wellness
30. Mint Julep - In A Deep and Dreamless Sleep
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31. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
32. Ty Segall - Harmonizer
33. Floatie - Voyage Out
34. Delta Sleep - Spring Island
35. Snail Mail - Valentine
36. Foxing - Draw Down The Moon
37. Teenage Wrist - Earth is a Black Hole
38. Wiki - Half God
39. Slow Crush - Hush
40. Slow Coda - Slow Coda

Top 30 EPs:

• Timelost – Gushing Interest
• Teenage Priest – Rhymes & Rhythms
• trauma ray – trauma ray
• Creeks – The Pain You Took On
• Koyo – Drive Out East
• Knocked Loose – A Tear in the Fabric of Life
• MILLY – Wish Goes On
• SOM – Awake
• Day Aches – Promo ‘21
• Blue Canopy – Sleep While You Still Can
• Pet Fox – More Than Anything
• Drug Church – Tawny
• Shine – Stare Into The Sun
• All under heaven – Collider
• Downward – 2 Songs
• Julie – pushing daisies
• Soul Blind - Third Chain
• Modern Color - Now, Life is Living You
• Bleed – Somebody’s Closer
• Pretty/normal – pretty/normal
• Raw Plastic – Waiting Till Summer
• Millionyoung – Moments
• Warper
• Hussy – Hussy
• Utmost & Bore – New York Split
• Luster - Blue Oblivion
• Slowly – Reverse
• Binki – MOTOR FUNCTION
• Spaced - Two New joints / DEMO 2021
• Gully Boys – Favorite Son

 

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1. Turnstile – GLOW ON

2. Teenage Wrist – Earth Is A Black Hole

3. Twenty One Pilots – Scaled And Icy

4. The Dirty Nil – Fuck Art

5. Every Time I Die - Radical

6. Foo Fighters – Medicine At Midnight

7. Thrice – Horizons/East

8. The Killers – Pressure Machine

9. Weezer – OK Human / Van Weezer

10. Beartooth - Below

11. Architects – For Those That Wish To Exist

12. The War On Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore

13. Normandie – Dark & Beautiful Secrets

14. You Me At Six - SUCKAPUNCH

15. John Mayer – Sob Rock

16. Deafheaven – Infinite Granite

17. Lord Huron – Long Lost

18. Switchfoot - interrobang

19. Limp Bizkit – STILL SUCKS

20. Foxing – Draw Down The Moon

21. Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres

22. Mastodon – Hushed and Grim

23. Origami Angel – GAMI GANG

24. Manchester Orchestra – The Million Masks Of God

25. A Day To Remember – You’re Welcome

26. Don Broco – Amazing Things

27. Royal Blood - Typhoons

28. Kings Of Leon – When You See Yourself

29. Asking Alexandria – See What’s On The Inside

30. Chevelle - NIRATIAS

31. Eric Church – Heart & Soul

32. Gojira - Fortitude

33. The Blue Stones – Hidden Gems

34. Tigers Jaw – I Won’t Care How You Remember Me

35. Lonely The Brave – The Hope List

36. My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket

37. Rebelution – In The Moment

38. Mammoth WVH – Mammoth WVH

39. Leon Bridges – Gold-Diggers Sound

40. Quicksand – Distant Populations

41. CHVRCHES – Screen Violence

42. Paerish - Fixed It All

43. Snail Mail – Valentine

44. Wild Pink – A Billion Little Lights

45. Steve Gunn – Other You

46. Ovlov – Buds

47. The Offspring – Let The Bad Times Roll

48. The Bronx - The Bronx VI

49. Rise Against – Nowhere Generation

50. The Armed – ULTRAPOP

 

Feels like not as many albums have really stuck with me this year as in the past. My Apple Music Replay playlist doesn't even have much from this year near the top.

 

Guess it’s that time of year

 

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I hearted a lot of albums on Spotify with the intention of listening to them, but then never did. It's been that kind of year.

 

i guess i'll start working on one

 

I have a pretty good idea of how mine is looking especially for the top 10. Still have some things I need to sit on though

 

Don't have much interest in ranking my top twenty anymore but it's still a fun task cutting it down to that number.

 

These are in a general order where I like the albums at the beginning more than the later ones. After making this list, I noticed that I don’t really have any favorites from this year that are heavier which is kinda weird.

Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights
Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God
The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Ratboys - Happy Birthday, Ratboy
Origami Angel - GAMI GANG
Foxing - Draw Down the Moon

Half Waif - Mythopoetics
Adjy - The Idyll Opus (I-VI)
Low - HEY WHAT
The World Is A Beautiful Place - Illusory Walls
Bent Knee - Frosting

Thrice - Horizons / East
Cloud Nothings - The Shadow I Remember
Harmony Woods - GRACEFUL RAGE
Snail Mail - Valentine
The Joy Formidable - Into The Blue

EPs

Pronoun - OMG I MADE IT
mofie - Black Hole
Gates - Here and Now
Mannequin Pussy - Perfect
Beach House - Once Twice Melody
GLASWING EPs
Thunder Gloss & Secret Crush Hero Worship - Halos Rearrangements
Gang of Youths - total serene

 

Honorable mentions

Lightning Bug - A Color of the Sky
Lowland Hum - At Home
Lucy Dacus - Home Video
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo de Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind
Lakes - Start Again
Joe Vann - Found in the Smoke
Jeff Rosenstock - SKA DREAM
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
Johnny Football Hero - Complacency
Hovvdy - True Love
Angel Du$t - YAK: A Collection of Truck Songs
Another Michael - New Music and Big Pop
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Parannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream
Laura Stevenson - S/T
Kississippi - Mood Ring
Jodi - Blue Heron
Jónsi - Obsidian
Trace Mountains - House of Confusion
Illuminati Hotties - Let Me Do One More
The Armed - ULTRAPOP

Luminism - East Coast Emo
Radical Face - Hidden Hollow Volume 1
Valleyheart - Scenery EP
Home is Where - I Became Birds
Arm’s Length - Everything’s Nice

 

I'd say my top six are pretty set, top contenders but the rest is shit that I have listened to more than a handful of times and enjoyed a bunch. Definitely gonna be checking out a lot of stuff on lists.

Half Waif - Mythopoetics
Converge - Bloodmoon: I
Foxing - Draw Down the Moon
Spirit Box - Eternal Blue
Marina - Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land
Hana Vu - Public Storage

Sleigh Bells - Texis
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Candy Racer
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Indigo de Souza - Any Shape You Take
Between the Buried and Me - Colors 2
Chai - Wink
The Armed - Ultra Pop
Rebecca Black - Rebecca Black was Here
Thrice - Horizons // East
Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
St Vincent - Daddy's Home
Dessa - I Already Like You
Pink Panthress - To Hell With It

 

Going to take a little more time with mine. I have it in a rough order but don’t know my 10-1 at all. Any of the records in my top 10 could be number 1. Weird year.

 

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1. Odette – Herald
2. Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams
3. Maika Loubté – Lucid Dreaming
4. Half Waif – Mythopoetics
5. Rosie Tucker – Sucker Supreme
6. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
7. Birdy – Young Heart
8. Snail Mail – Valentine
9. Madi Diaz – History Of A Feeling
10. Laura Stevenson – Laura Stevenson
11. Bess Atwell – Already, Always
12. Fears – Oíche

 

another great year!

1. Snail Mail - Valentine
2. slowthai - TYRON
3. Hovvdy - True Love
4. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
5. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
6. Low - HEY WHAT
7. Strange Ranger - No Light in Heaven
8. Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti
9. The Weather Station - Ignorance
10. DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors

11. Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take
12. Ross From Friends - Tread
13. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
14. Tyler, the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
15. Squid - Bright Green Field
16. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram
17. Turnstile - GLOW ON
18. Vince Staples - Vince Staples
19. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
20. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

21. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
22. PinkPantheress - to hell with it
23. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH
24. Isaiah Rashad - The House Is Burning
25. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
26. Norf Face - Norf Face
27. Home Is Where - I Became Birds
28. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
29. Foxing - Draw Down the Moon
30. Wiki - Half God

31. Charlie Martin - Imaginary People
32. Dave - We're All Alone in This Together
33. 박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Before I Die
34. illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More
35. JPEGMAFIA - LP!
36. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!
37. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home
38. Bicep - Isles
39. Angel Du$t - YAK: A Collection Of Truck Songs
40. MAN ON MAN - MAN ON MAN

41. Ghetts - Conflict of Interest
42. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
43. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
44. Loraine James - Reflection
45. Maxo Kream - WEIGHT OF THE WORLD
46. Parannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream
47. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
48. Every Time I Die - Radical
49. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
50. Darkside - Spiral

 

Yeah, I'm realizing I forgot Mastodon, ETID, and Snail Mail. Oopsie.

 

My favorite album of the year wasn't from this year, I just discovered Hailaker's self titled album from 2019 this spring, and its too beautiful to listen to much else

 

Using bias sorter, just went for it.

1. Turnstile - GLOW ON
2. Between the Buried & Me - Colors II
3. Young Thug - Punk
4. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
5. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
6. Every Time I Die - Radical
7. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get To Phoenix
8. JPEGMAFIA - LP! (Offline Version)
9. Origami Angel - GAMI GANG
10. The Killers - Pressure Machine
11. Lil Ugly Mane - volcanic bird enemy and the voiced concern
12. The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art
13. Foxing - Draw Down the Moon
14. Kanye West - Donda
15. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
16. Nas - Magic
17. Idles - CRAWLER
18. Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)
19. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
20. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
21. Telethon - Swim Out Past the Breakers
22. Jeff Rosenstock - SKA DREAM
23. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
24. BROCKHAMPTON - ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE
25. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
26. Snail Mail - Valentine
27. Porter Robinson - Nurture
28. Nas - King's Disease II
29. Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue
30. Brand of Sacrifice - Lifeblood