Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2021 • Page 15

2021 for me musically was largely made up of ambient, electronic and, more broadly, instrumental music. Found myself, for whatever reasons, less excited about conventional songs and vocals. There were a lot of good albums that didn't stick with me, and almost nothing within the realms of heavy guitar music, which would usually be my default (I kept abreast of new releases but didn't go back to many and returned to old favourites instead). Rather, a lot of the records I listened to were more about providing an atmospheric soundtrack to my day.

I doubt it will be of much interest but it's cool putting these together. There is a lot of great stuff in here.

In no particular order:

• io audio recordings - A Guide To Drowning
• Gi Gi - Lumino Pleco
• Midwife - Luminol
• alva noto - HYbr:ID I
• DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors
• Chihei Hatakeyama - Void XXIII
• Subsonic Eye - Nature Of Things
• Grouper - Shade
• Koreless - Agor
• Medio Mutante - Drum Machines & Synthesizers
• Alex Albrecht - Campfire Stories
• Ohama - Arts Commons Soundscape, Pt IV Supplemental
• Owl - Infinite Horizon
• Wladimir Schall - 42'37''
• Adeline Hotel - The Cherries Are Speaking
• A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Invisible Cities
• Jeff Parker - Forfolks
• Martin Gore - The Third Chimpanzee (EP)

 

I only listened to like 20 albums this year apparently.

1. Million Masks of God - Manchester Orchestra
2. A Pillar of Salt - Noah Gundersen
3. Draw Down the Moon - Foxing
4. I Don’t Live Here Anymore - The War on Drugs
5. Little Oblivions - Julien Baker
6. Ignorance - The Weather Station
7. Home Video - Lucy Dacus
8. A Billion Little Lights - Wild Pink
9. Gardens - Brother Bird
10. Dream Journal - Souveneer

 

I very much enjoyed most of what I’ve listened to from your list…saving it for reference for additional new albums to,listen to

 

My list:

1. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
2. girl in red - if i could make it go quiet
3. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
4. Claud - Super Monster
5. Lorde - Solar Power
6. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
7. twenty one pilots - Scaled And Icy
8. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
9. The Maine - XOXO: From Love & Anxiety In Real Time
10. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
11. The Killers - Pressure Machine
12. Hayley Williams - FLOWERS for VASES / descansos
13. Foxing - Draw Down The Moon
14. Bleachers - Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night
15. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
16. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks Of God
17. Snail Mail - Valentine
18. Rise Against - Nowhere Generation
19. Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days
20. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
21. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed
22. Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket
23. Weezer - OK Human
24. Coldplay - Music of the Spheres
25. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters

 

Forgot how good the Citizen album is. And I forgot to put the Creeper EP on my list, I really enjoyed that in 2021 as well.

 

1. Luna Shadows - Digital Pacific
2. Bigger Better Sun - Adjust to Wellness
3. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
4. Saint Raymond - We Forgot We Were Dreaming
5. Hayley Williams - Flowers for Vases / Descansos
6. Foxing - Draw Down the Moon
7. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
8. The Maine - XOXO: From Love and Anxiety in Real Time
9. Weezer - OK Human
10. Ben Kweller - Circuit Boredom
11. Amy Shark - Cry Forever
12. Kississippi - Mood Ring
13. The Killers - Pressure Machine
14. Jim Ward - Daggers
15. Webbed Wing - What's So Fucking Funny?
16. Maisie Peters - You Signed Up for This
17. LP - Churches
18. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
19. Noah Gundersen - A Pillar of Salt
20. The Band Camino - The Band Camino
21. Saint Motel - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
22. Kacey Musgraves - Star-Crossed
23. Ours - Ours
24. You Me at Six - Suckapunch
25. Zac Clark - Holy Shit
26. Biffy Clyro - The Myth of the Happily Ever After
27. Meadowlark - Nightstorm
28. Third Eye Blind - Our Bande Apart
29. Sydney Sprague - Maybe I Will See You at the End of the World
30. Weezer - Van Weezer

 

1. trace mountains - house of confusion
2. holy other - lieve
3. grouper - shade
4. snail mail - valentine
5. seeyouspacecowboy - the romance of affliction
6. adult mom - driver
7. the war on drugs - I don't live here anymore
8. spirit of the beehive - entertainment death
9. cloud nothings - the shadow I remember
10. if I die first - they drew blood
11. hovvdy - true love
12. spirit was - heaven's just a cloud
13. japanese breakfast - jubilee
14. indigo de souza - any shape you take
15. wristmeetrazor - replica of a strange love

 

all really cool albums that I haven’t seen called out much elsewhere

and I’m now gonna check out Bigger Better Sun and Ben Kweller because I’m not familiar

 

A good-amount-but-not-enough love for the adult mom record itt, thank you

 

I probably got some of them from your posts in the weekly release threads! I always look out for them because you tend to call out some really cool pop-leaning stuff that isn't discussed much here. Thank you for that!

Hope you enjoy BBS and BK. Both very hooky.

 

it's so good!! i think "breathing" is a top 3 song of the year for me

 

I dug this record a lot for some reason. I don't really know why but I did. It feels like I've been listening to it forever so I kind of forgot it was this year, too.

I haven't gone through and looked really closely in this thread but I haven't seen many people mention it. That just means there was a lot of cool stuff that came out this year!

 

I'm planning to browse back through this thread over the weekend to catch up on everyone's lists, but will just pop my own one here for the time being!

Best of 2021

1. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
2. Turnstile - GLOW ON
3. Citizen - Life in Your Glass World
4. Noah Gundersen - A Pillar of Salt
5. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
6. MONO - Pilgrimage of the Soul
7. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God
8. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
9. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
10. Maybeshewill - No Feeling is Final

Popping a playlist below that features my favourite song from each release.

Honourable Mentions

• Baulta - Another Second Chance
• Beach Bunny - Blame Game EP
• God is an Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10
• Kali Masi - [laughs]
• KAUAN - Ice Fleet
• Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
• Ranges - Cardinal Winds
• Spiritbox - Eternal Blue
• Thrice - Horizons/East

The Ones I Missed (and fully intend to check out ASAP)

• BRUIT ≤ - The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again
• Every Time I Die - Radical
• The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

New Favourite "Old" Albums

• Katie Malco - Failures
• Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy

Most Anticipated of 2022

A lot of these are unconfirmed as far as I know, but I feel they are well overdue a new album so would like to think some of these are coming this year!

• Basement?
• Copeland?
• The Hotelier?
• Jimmy Eat World?
• Maggie Rogers?
• Pianos Become the Teeth?
• Russian Circles?
• Thrice - Horizons/West?
• Tides of Man?
• Underoath - Voyeurist
• yndi halda?

Let me know if you have any recommendations for me based on my lists!

Happy new year everyone!

 

Hey all! Took me awhile to compile my list as usual, but here we are!

Top 50 Albums

1. Foxing – Draw Down the Moon
2. Turnstile – Glow On
3. Parannoul – To See the Next Part of the Dream
4. Origami Angel – GAMI GANG
5. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
6. Citizen – Life in Your Glass World
7. Lucy Dacus – Home Video
8. Fiddlehead – Between the Richness
9. Porter Robinson – Nurture
10. Home is Where – I became birds
11. JPEGMAFIA – LP!
12. Hovvdy – True Love
13. Really From – Really From
14. Every Time I Die - Radical
15. Vince Staples – Vince Staples
16. Downhaul - Proof
17. Magdalena Bay – Mercurial World
18. Backxwash – I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and Dresses
19. Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine – A Beginner’s Mind
20. Squid – Bright Green Field
21. Spirit of the Beehive – Entertainment, Death
22. Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth
23. slowthai - tyron
24. Hayley Williams – Flowers for Vases
25. Black Country, New Road – For the First Time
26. Wednesday – Twin Plagues
27. Manchester Orchestra – The Million Masks of God
28. Snail Mail – Valentine
29. Weezer – OK Human
30. Ovlov – Buds
31. Brockhampton – Roadrunner: New Light New Machine
32. Save Face – Another Kill for the Highlight Reel
33. dltzk - Frailty
34. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions
35. R.A.P. Ferreira – The Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Scriptures
36. Poppy - Flux
37. Asian Glow – Cull Ficle
38. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny Haha
39. Tricot - Jodeki
40. The World is a Beautiful Place – Illusory Walls
41. Raccoon City – For Nobody, Nowhere
42. Ceschi – This Guitar Was Stolen Along With Years of Our Lives
43. For Your Health – In Spite Of
44. Taking Meds – Terrible News From Wonderful People
45. Fog Lake – Tragedy Reel
46. Worst Party Ever - Dartland
47. Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost
48. Harmony Woods – Graceful Rage
49. Crumb – Ice Melt
50. One Step Closer – This Place You Know

Top 5 EPs

1. Knocked Loose – A Tear In the Fabric of Life
2. Parting – Unmake Me
3. Circa Survive – A Dream About Love
4. Sadistik – L’appel Du Vide
5. Drug Church – Tawny

And here is a Spotify playlist with one of my favorite songs from each release


Hope you find something new to enjoy! Thanks to everyone else for all the great recommendations.

 

I wan't to change mine:

1. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
2. Springtime - Springtime
3. Solen - Totalmusik
4. shame - Drunk Tank Pink
5. IDLES - Crawler
6. Margaritas Podridas - Margaritas Podridas
7. Iceage - Shelter Song
8. Spread Joy - Spread Joy
9. CLAMM - Beseech Me
10. Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz
11. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
12. Requin Chagrin - Bye Bye Baby
13. Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort To Me
14. Pascal - Fuck Like a Beast
15. Gustaf - Audio Drag for Ego Slobs

 

After a last round of catching up to late/forgotten releases, here's my Top 30 Albums of 2021:

 

Your list/taste seems very close to mine, so I'm going to suggest some albums I liked that you may enjoy (or maybe have heard already)

Origami Angel - GAMI GANG
Palette Knife - Ponderosa Snakehouse and the Chamber of Bullshit
Super American - SUP
Jail Socks - Coming Down
Beartooth - Below
Spiritbox - Eternal Blue
One Step Closer - This Place You Know
Webbed Wing - What's so Fucking Funny?
Glitterer - Life is Not a Lesson

 

I should have included my honorable mentions, it has the majority of these actually!

The only ones I haven't listened to are Webbed Wing (which is a name I've seen around the internet a lot) and Glitterer (who were great opening up for Citizen), so I'll check these!

 

Webbed Wing is formed by Superheaven members (if somebody maybe missed that info), it's a really fun record, I liked it a lot!

 

1. Lunar Vacation - Inside Every Fig is a Dead Wasp
2. Yola - Stand for Myself
3. Leon Bridges- Gold-Diggers Sound
4. Noah Gunderson - Pillar of Salt
5. Andrea von Kampen - That Spell
6. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
7. Delta Sleep - Spring Island
8. A Great Big Pile of Leaves - Pono
9. The Staves - Good Woman
10. Kacey Musgraves - Star-Crossed

 

Already enjoying Lunar Vacation! Recognised everyone on your list except your #1 so figured it must be a good one!

 

Checking out some of these simply due to you have having Pillar of Salt on your list.

I’m liking Lunar Vacation as well.

 

I've given the Turnstile album a few listens now and it's just not clicking for me.

 

I also couldn’t get into that album and fail to understand the hype. But it sure is high on a lot of lists.

 

There’s a few tracks which work for me and I appreciate the sound they’re going for, but I dunno. Nothing is really memorable about it.