Best albums list: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/10/ ... bums-year/
Major newspaper in the USA, the list involved six staff, they used to actively publish music reviews before but stop doing that since early this year.
“I Don’t Live Here Anymore” The War on Drugs
“Uneasy” Vijay Iyer
“They’re Calling Me Home” Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
“Second Line” Dawn Richard
“J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos” Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
“Heaux Tales” Jazmine Sullivan
“King’s Disease II” Nas
“… and then there’s this” Artifacts
“Maximum Sorrow!” Desperate Journalist
“The Offseason” J. Cole
“Pressure Machine” The Killers
“We Are” Jon Batiste
“Changing Faces” The Deep Dark Woods
“The Diving Sun (Side A and B)” Joe Pug
“Sour” Olivia Rodrigo
“New Long Leg” Dry Cleaning
“Weight of the World” Maxo Kream
“Raise the Roof” Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
“Squint” Julian Lage
“if i could make it go quit” girl in red
“Tell Me I’m Bad” Editrix
“Call Me If You Get Lost” Tyler, the Creator
“If Words Were Flowers” Curtis Harding
“Glow On” Turnstile
“Side-Eye NYC V1.IV” Pat Metheny
“Treasure of Love” The Flatlanders
“All the Brilliant Things” Skyzoo
“Real Life” Attacca Quartet
“LP!” JPEGMAFIA
“A Beautiful Life” Heartless Bastards
“Visions of Your Other” Adam O’Farrill
“Oooki Gekkou” Vanishing Twin
“Promises” Floating Points, London Symphony Orchestra, Pharoah Sanders
“Montero” Lil Nas X
“The House Is Burning” Isaiah Rashad
“Ramble On” Charlie Marie
“Stand for Myself” Yola
“Zephyr” Steph Richards
“Sober-ish” Liz Phair
“Jubilee” Japanese Breakfast
“Westside With Love III” Dom Kennedy
“I Want the Door Open” Lala Lala
“<3Bird” Kevin Sun
“The Darkness Dressed in Colored Lights” Sean Rowe
“Puppies Forever” BLACKSTARKIDS
“The Path of the Clouds” Marissa Nadler
“Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3″ Philadelphia Orchestra & Yannick Nézet-Séguin
“Homegrown” VanJess
“Reckless” Morgan Wade
“Collapsed in Sunbeams” Arlo Parks
“Flux” Poppy
“Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman” Miguel Zenón
“shut the **** up talking to me” Zack Fox
“Flock” Jane Weaver
“The Marfa Tapes” Jack Ingram, Jon Randall, and Miranda Lambert
“Ignorance” The Weather Station
“Shadow Plays” Craig Taborn
“Overstand” Apifera
“Gold Mouf” Lute
“The Light Saw Me” Jason Boland & the Stragglers