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Hello to everyone!
Almost half the year is already over, so it's time to look back at these six months and the albums that were released in it. In true AM fashion we will do this by a poll (because it's the only way we can ever make sense of anything).

You can post the lists of your favorite albums released in the first six months of 2021 here. Albums released in 2020 or in July 2021 are NOT eligible!

Minimum to enter: 5 albums
Maximum that will be counted: 20 albums

Of course you can make longer lists, but only the Top 20 will be counted.

Deadline will be July 8th, exactly four weeks from today, unless someone wants an extension.

I will use the point system from the '60s poll because that one is already engraved in my head:

Position | Points
1 - 50
2 - 45
3 - 40
4 - 36
5 - 32
6 - 28
7 - 25
8 - 22
9 - 19
10 - 16
11 - 14
12 - 13
13 - 12
14 - 11
15 - 10
16 - 9
17 - 8
18 - 7
19 - 6
20 - 5

Happy list-making everyone! :music-listening:
(I really hope I didn't forget anything...)
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Thanks SB! Everything I've heard multiple times with a 2021 release date below:

1. Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth
2. Senyawa - Alkisah
3. Le tigre (des platanes) - Terminus Radios
4. Piano Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes with Attachments
5. Bell Orchestre - House Music
6. BRUIT ≤ - The machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again
7. Penya - Penya
8. Neptunian Maximalism - Solar Drone Ceremony
9. Alexander Hawkins feat. Evan Parker + Riot Ensemble - Togetherness Music (For Sixteen Musicians)*
10. Chrizpy Chriz - Warp Crawler
11. Ciśnienie - Radio Edit
12. Black Dresses - Forever in Your Heart
13. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
14. vsteeze & Funky DL - The Lilac Pack*
15. Binker Golding, Steve Noble & John Edwards - Moon Day
16. Pom Poko - Cheater*
17. Arklio Galia - Mėšlungis
18. Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen - Live Recordings 2019-2020
19. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark*
20. Mampi Swift - 25 Years of Charge EP
21. MNDSCP - Slicer EP
22. Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
23. Muqata'a - Kamil Manqus
24. Sleepnet - First Light
25. Otay:onii - Ming Ming
26. KOAN Sound - Chronos EP
27. GHLOW - Slash and Burn
28. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
29. The Horrors - Lout EP
30. Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams
31. Sarah Haras - Mirage
32. Lingua Ignota - AGNUS DEI EP
33. Jaubi - Nafs at Peace
34. Silkie - Panorama
35. Skee Mask - Pool
36. Nilotika - Ejokawulida EP
37. Basic Bitches - Go to the Movies
38. Angelus Apatrida - Angelus Apatrida
39. Shungudzo - i'm not a mother but i have children EP
40. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
41. SHY FX & Breakage - Darker than Blue EP
42. Biig Piig - The Sky Is Bleeding EP
43. Throttle Elevator Music - Final Floor
44. Azmari - Samā’ī
45. latesleeper & gyrofield - Title Card EP
46. Niklas Wandt - Balearische Bibliothek EP
47. d:enigma - Virtual Self EP
48. Bicep - Isles
49. Cabaret Voltaire - Shadow of Funk EP
50. The Bread Scientists - Amidst Radiances
51. Current Value - The All Attracting
52. Show Me the Body - Survive EP*
53. Kölsch - Isopolis
54. Obscure Fate - Raven's Call EP
55. Nezelhorns - Sentiment
56. Th1rt3en - A Magnificent Day for an Exorcism
57. Altin Gün - Yol*
58. Virginia Wing - private LIFE
59. Ren Marabou - Valhalla Waits
60. Swallowtail - The Bloom/The Blossom
61. Beephor - Fibers
62. Katia Krow - I've Called off the Search, I Know Exactly Where You Are
63. Waldruna - Kvitravn
64. boys cruise - boys cruise
65. Xiu Xiu - OH NO
66. India Jordan - Watch out! EP
67. Clarice Jensen - Ainu Mosir EP
68. Gojira - Fortitude*
69. Dean Hamilton - Encoded in Dead Air
70. Chimpo & Binga - Maison Binga-Chimpoix Présente EP
71. Femi Kuti - Stop the Hate
72. Here Lies Man - Ritual Divination
73. Monobody - Comma
74. Marcus Joseph - Beyond the Dome
75. Wobbly - Popular Monitress
76. Sevish - Bubble
77. Jupiter & Okwess - Na Kozonga
78. Lenzman - A Little While Longer
[Femi & Made Kuti - Legacy+]
79. Home Is Where - I Became Birds
80. Kreisky - Atlantis
81. Made Kuti - For(e)ward
82. Snowpoet - Wait for Me*
83. Steve Roach - INTO THE MAJESTIC
84. Edre - P2*
85. Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - The Helm of Sorrow EP
86. 65daysofstatic - Under the Simms
87. Astral Social Club - space draft extended play
88. Jeff Rosenstock - SKA DREAM
89. The Staves - Good Woman
90. Kevin Richard Martin - Red Light
91. Erin Fox - Fuzzy Logic
92. Divide and Dissolve - Gas Lit
93. Animales de poder - Augura
94. Kele - The Waves Pt. 1
95. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
96. JAY1 - One Wave 2 EP
97. Sturle Dagsland - Sturle Dagsland
98. Vinnie Paz - Burn Everything That Bears Your Name
99. Daði Freyr - Welcome EP
100. Penfriend - Exotic Monsters
101. Hooverphonic - Hidden Stories*
102. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
103. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
104. Mason Lindahl - Kissing Rosy in the Rain
105. Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
106. Kandle & Kendel Carson - Birds EP
107. Nubiyan Twist - Freedom Fables
108. John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band - Leftover Feelings*
109. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It into Space
110. Son Lux - Tomorrows III
111. Portico Quartet - Terrain
112. Beach Bunny - Blame Game EP
113. Goat Girl - On All Fours
114. Terminal Bliss - BRUTE ERR/ATA
115. Henrik Appel - Humanity
116. iglooghost - Lei Lion Ion
117. BROCKHAMPTON - ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE
118. Plastic Age - YEACK !
119. Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Pt. 1)
120. Druida - Musgo
121. Bun B & Le$ - Distant EP
122. Latanya Alberto - The Royal Escape EP
123. Les chants du hasard - Livre troisième
124. Seth Thomas - The Songs of Seth Thomas
125. Attwenger - Drum
126. The Coral - Coral Island
127. Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble - NOW
128. Submorphics - Newport Magnetic EP
129. dodie - Build a Problem
130. The Weather Station - Ignorance*
131. Wax Tailor - The Shadow of Their Suns*
132. Dimension - Organ
133. J. Cole - The Off-Season
134. Greentea Peng - MAN MADE
135. Hey, ily - P.S.S.U.S.S.P. EP
136. Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
137. Mdou Moctar - Afrique victime
138. Pupil Slicer - Mirrors
139. Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno - Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno
140. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
141. Raf Rundell - O.M. Days
142. NF - CLOUDS (THE MIXTAPE)
143. Central Cee - Wild West
144. Bodhisattya Pal - Middle of the Ocean EP
145. Aoiii - Kuningan
146. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
147. Jean-Michel Jarre - Amazônia
148. Steve Earle & the Dukes - J.T.
149. acloudyskye - Blood Rushing like Current through a Powerline
150. Vic Mensa - I TAPE
151. Lô Borges - Muito alem do fin
152. MonoNeon - Banana Peel on Capitol Hill
153. Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis - She Walks in Beauty
154. Andy Stott - Never the Right Time
155. DRS - Light Language
156. Anz - OTMI001 EP
157. The Mammuthus - Last Trumpet of a Giant
158. Khazali - Going Home, Vol. 1 EP
159. AJ Tracey - Flu Game
160. Shadow Grew a Body - The Portrait Peels (Off)
161. Q - Hysteria EP
162. slowthai - TYRON
163. RODEOGLO - Infrared Swag EP
164. Nansarunai - Ultimul Rege
165. Paris Texas - BOY ANONYMOUS
166. Various Artists - I'm Working on Myself, Vol. 1
167. Jorja Smith - Be Right Back EP
168. Killing Addiction - Mind of a New God
169. Andor - Dance, Girl, Dance EP
170. Ghetts - Conflict of Interest
171. AERO GROS M - Chocolate Hearts and Stag Beetles
172. The Black Keys - Delta Kream
173. DMX - Exodus
174. Cities Aviv - The Crashing Sound of How It Goes
175. Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti
176. Modern Modern Life - The Hard Copy EP
177. James Yorkston - The Wide, Wide River
178. Cacola - A Gift to Us All
179. Dizzy Fae - Antenna EP
180. Sweet Trip - A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
181. Feu! Chatterton - Palais d'argile
182. CΞLΞƧTIᐱL V I Ƨ I ∅ N - Mind over Matter
183. Tindersticks - Distractions
184. Charlie Houston - I Hate Spring EP
185. Squid - Bright Green Field
186. Kishi Bashi - Emigrant EP
187. Doss - 4 New Hit Songs EP
188. La Femme - Paradigmes
189. Deno - Boy Meets World
190. Nasty Cherry - The Movie EP
191. Sam Gellaitry - IV EP
192. Gazo - DRILL FR
193. Sandra Bullet - Somewhere in the Crowd
194. Tan Weiwei & Zhou Shen - Xiu Chun Dao: Shura Battlefield OST
195. Kultika - Capricorn Wolves
196. Mark Rubin, the Oklahoma Jew - The Triumph of Assimilation
197. JPEGMAFIA - EP2!
198. Alexandra Zerner - Silhouette
199. Aly & AJ - a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet gets you out and then into the sun
200. blackwinterwells & 8485 - tracing paths EP
201. Merry Clayton - Beautiful Scars
202. Barley Passable - Hindsight EP
203. A Travestis - Respeita as Travestis

Albums that need more listens: Burial & Blackdown - Shock Power of Love EP
Liz Phair - Soberish
NEUPINK - SEAWEED JESUS

Albums I'm choosing not to include due to earlier release (not to say no one else can include them): For Those I Love - For Those I Love [this would've been in my top 20 but it was released in Ireland in 2019]
Death Grips - Gmail and the Restraining Orders [had been released unofficially, also in 2019]

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Without much thought:

01 - Arab Strap - As days get dark
02 - The Notwist - Vertigo Days
03 - Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet
04 - Ja, Panik - Die Gruppe
05 - Squid - Bright green field
06 - Madlib - Sound Ancestors
07 - Black Country, New Road - For the first time
08 - The Zenmenn - Enter the Zenmenn
09 - Sons of Komet - Black to the future
10 - Kreisky - Atlantis
11 - Yu Su - Yellow River blue
12 - Arlo Parks - Collapsed in sunbeams
13 - Greentea Peng - Man Made
14 - Nick Cave - Carnage
16 - The Orieles - La Vita Olistica
17 - Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
18 - Clever Girls - Constellations
19 - Bicep - Isles
20 - 00110100 01010100 - 871
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1. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
2. Wardruna - Kvitravn
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
4. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
5. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
6. Otay:onii - Ming Ming
7. Lana del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
8. Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams
9. Kauan - Ice Fleet
10. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
11. Ballaké Sissoko - Djourou
12. The Antlers - Green to Gold
13. Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haïti
14. Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
15. Sangre de Muérdago - Xuntas
16. N. Hardem - Verdor
17. Yu Su - Yellow River Blue
18. Julian Baker - Little Oblivions
19. Bastarda & Joao de Sousa - Fado
20. The Weather Station - Ignorance
21. Toumani Diabaté & London Symphony Orchestra - Kôrôlén
22. Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
23. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
24. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
25. R.A.P. Ferreira - Bob's Son: R.A.P. Ferreira in the Garden Level Cafe of the Scallops Hotel
26. Feu! Chatterton - Palais d'argile
27. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage
28. The Bread Scientists - Amidst Radiances
29. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram
30. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
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rumpdoll wrote: Fri Jun 11, 2021 8:44 am Without much thought:

20 - 00110100 01010100 - 871
You are missing a #15, and your #20 is from 2020. I'll move things up. If you want to change anything, let me know; if not, it's no problem.
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So there are _ albums that are higher than a 75/100 for me so far so I am I am going to include some of my bubbling under/honorable mentions for the sake of this list.

1. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
2. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
3. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
4. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
5. The Armed - Ultrapop
6. Martin Gore - The Third Chimpanzee
7. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
8. Quadeca - From Me To You
9. Brockhampton - Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
10. Kero Kero Bonito - Civilization II
11. JPEGMAFIA - EP2
12. Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers
13. Shame - Drunk Tank Pin
14. Thermionic - Nerural Node
15. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
16. Do Nothing - Glueland

(Bubbling Under/Honorable Mentions)

17. Rhye - Home
18. Benny The Butcher - The Plugs I Met 2
19. Black Country, New Road - For The First Time
20. Claud - Super Monster
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I have only heard a quarter of what I heard last year, so very meager list:


1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, LSO - Promises
2. Black Country, New Road - for the first time
3. Black Dresses - Forever in Your Heart
4. Brockhampton - Roadrunner
5. Iglooghost - Lei Line Eon
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1 Black Midi - Cavalcade
2 Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
3 Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
4 Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
5 Parannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream
6 Squid - Bright Green Field
7 The Weather Station - Ignorance
8 Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
9 Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
10 Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
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1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor- G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
2. Black Country, New Road- For the First Time
3. Iceage- Seek Shelter
4. Japanese Breakfast- Jubilee
5. The Weather Station- Ignorance
6. Weezer- OK Human
7. Kero Kero Bonito- Civilisation II (EP)
8. Gaspard Augé- Escapades
9. Porter Robinson- Nurture
10. Parannoul- To See the Next Part of the Dream
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Finally listened to the entire MegaCritic list! Here's my Top 20!

01 | Dinosaur Jr. | Sweep It Into Space
02 | Arlo Parks | Collapsed in Sunbeams
03 | Nick Cave and Warren Ellis | Carnage
04 | Liz Phair | Soberish
05 | black midi | Cavalcade
06 | Sons of Kemet | Black to the Future
07 | Gruff Rhys | Seeking New Gods
08 | Genesis Owusu | Smiling With No Teeth
09 | Lana Del Rey | Chemtrails Over the Country Club
10 | Mdou Moctar | Afrique Victime
11 | Black Country, New Road | For the First Time
12 | Greentea Peng | Man Made
13 | Lord Huron | Long Lost
14 | Japanese Breakfast | Jubilee
15 | Foo Fighters | Medicine at Midnight
16 | St. Vincent | Daddy's Home
17 | Squid | Bright Green Field
18 | Pearl Charles | Magic Mirror
19 | Celeste | Not Your Muse
20 | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra | Promises
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UPDATE. With the release of some new albums before the end of June, I have updated my list. This is my current list now with new entries in bold.

1. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
2. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
3. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
4. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
5. The Armed - Ultrapop
6. Tyler The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
7. Martin Gore - The Third Chimpanzee
8. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
9. Quadeca - From Me To You
10. Doja Cat - Planet Her
11. Brockhampton - Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
12. Kero Kero Bonito - Civilization II
13. Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers
14. JPEGMAFIA - EP2
15. Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
16. Thermionic - Nerural Node
17. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
18. Do Nothing - Glueland
19. Twenty One Pilots - Location Sessions EP
20. Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket
21. Poppy - Eat


(Bubbling Under/Honorable Mentions)

22. Rhye - Home
23. Benny The Butcher - The Plugs I Met 2
24. Black Country, New Road - For The First Time
25. The Weather Station - Ignorance
26. Claud - Super Monster
27. Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy
28. Sufjan Stevens - Meditations
29. Nothing Nowhere - Trauma Factory

Even though as a fan of Twenty One Pilots, I find that Scaled and Icy is their weakest album, I honestly found their record store day release, Location Sessions EP, to be a really solid ep with great stripped-down renditions of some of their songs from Trench and a really good live rendition of Level of Concern. Not sure if I will include it in my end-of-year list but who knows.
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Just 12 days left!
I hope the participation will increase.
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(I'm not going to rank live albums)

1. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
2. black midi - Cavalcade
3. Kero Kero Bonito - Civilisation II
4. Squid - Bright Green Field
5. Bruno Pernadas - Private Reasons
6. Origami Angel - Gami Gang
7. Weezer - OK Human
8. Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
9. Naked Flames - 247 365
10. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
11. Doss - 4 New Hit Songs
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I'm planning to submit - I just want to listen to as many albums as I can before doing so.
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1. St Vincent - Daddy's Home
2. Anna B Savage - A Common Turn
3. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
4. Iceage - Seek Shelter
5. Sharon Van Etten - Epic Ten
6. Tune Yards - Sketchy
7. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility
8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee At State's End
9. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
10. Femi Kuti & Made Kuti - Legacy+
11. Wardruna - Kvitravn
12. Anchoress - The Art Of Losing
13. serpentwithfeet - Deacon
14. For Those I Love - For Those I Love
15. Lake Street Drive - Obviously
16. C. Tangana - El Madrileno
17. Kizis - Turn
18. Masaa Bernd Ruf Jenaer Philharmonie - East West Symphony: Hiwar
19. The Weather Station - Ignorance
20. Django Django - Glowing In The Dark
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1.
Smiling With No Teeth
Genesis Owusu

2.
Cavalcade
black midi

3.
Isqun
Renata Flores

4.
El madrileño
C. Tangana

5.
Jubilee
Japanese Breakfast

6.
Malandro 5 estrelas
Índio da Cuíca

7.
Vulture Prince
Arooj Aftab

8.
SEIS
Mon Laferte

9.
Mito
La Lá

10.
La grande folie
San Salvador

11.
A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
Sweet Trip

12.
Afrique Victime
Mdou Moctar

13.
Collapsed in Sunbeams
Arlo Parks

14.
Ultrapop
The Armed

15.
Chemtrails Over the Country Club
Lana Del Rey

16.
Clamor
Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés

17.
Verdor
N. Hardem

18.
Ignorance
The Weather Station

19.
G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor

20.
Private Reasons
Bruno Pernadas
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Here's a preliminary list...still doing some re-listening so things could shift, though if I don't update here please use this as final for compiling...

1 | black midi | Cavalcade
2 | Clara Iannotta | Moult [WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln / Münchener Kammerorchester / Klangforum Wien / L' instant donné / Michael Wendeberg / Clemens Schuldt / Enno Poppe / Aurélien Azan Zielinski / Wilhem Latchoumia]
3 | Fucked Up | Year of the Horse
4 | Toumani Diabete & The London Symphony Orchestra | Kôrôlén
5 | Georg Friedrich Haas | Ein Schattenspiel; String Quartets No. 4 & No. 7 [SWR Experimentalstudio / Arditti Quartet / Sophie-Mayuko Vetter]
6 | Dean Blunt | Black Metal 2
7 | Tyler, the Creator | Call Me If You Get Lost
8 | Black Country, New Road | For the First Time
9 | Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra | Promises
10 | Sons of Kemet | Black to the Future
11 | Cameron Graves | Seven
12 | Mdou Moctar | Afrique Victime
13 | Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble | Now
14 | Squid | Bright Green Field
15 | Senyawa | Alkisah
16 | Lost Girls | Menneskekollektivet
17 | Keygen Church | ░█░█░░█░█░█░
18 | Caroline Shaw | Narrow Sea (feat. Dawn Upshaw & Gilbert Kalish)
19 | Vijay Iyer / Linda May Han Oh / Tyshawn Sorey | Uneasy
20 | St. Vincent | Daddy's Home
21 | Arlo Parks | Collapsed in Sunbeams
22 | Panopticon | …and Again into the Light
23 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
24 | Cassandra Jenkins | An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
25 | Wolf Alice | Blue Weekend
26 | The Weather Station | Ignorance
27 | Jane Weaver | Flock


WISH I COULD RANK IT | William Parker | Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Volumes 1-10)

- What I've heard from the massive William Parker set has been pretty amazing, but alas I've not been willing to plunk down the chunk of change for the whole set, which I would probably not uniformly love. Maybe he'll release some of these as individual albums some day.
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With so many people listing Genesis Owusu #1 I’m pushing it to the top of my listening queue.
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I haven't listened to everything I want to listen to (not even close), and I will have to check out some of the stuff from all of your lists, but since I want to listen more than once before ranking and I doubt I'll be able to do that in the next five days, I will post my list now:

1 | San Salvador | La grande folie
2 | Alex Paxton | Music for Bosch People
3 | Binker Golding / John Edwards / Steve Noble | Moon Day
4 | Lorem Ipsum | Vivre encore
5 | Cecil Taylor Quintet | Lifting the Bandstand

6 | Magdalena Ganter | Neo Noir
7 | Masaa / Bernd Ruf / Jenaer Philharmonie | East West Symphony: Hiwar
8 | Anthony Braxton | 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017
9 | Francesca Remigi & Archipélagos | Il Labirinto dei Topi
10 | Fire! | Defeat

11 | Punkt.Vrt.Plastik | Somit
12 | Alexander Hawkins | Togetherness Music
13 | Archie Shepp & Jason Moran | Let My People Go
14 | Ja, Panik | Die Gruppe
15 | Piers Faccini | Shapes of the Fall

16 | Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra | Promises
17 | The Underflow | Instant Opaque Evening
18 | Kìzis | Tidibàbide / Turn
19 | Clara Iannotta | Moult
20 | Cameron Graves | Seven

21 | Black Country, New Road | For the First Time
22 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
23 | Sigmun | Hopeful Tears
24 | Niels Munk | Fantasilaboratoriet
25 | Cara Neir | Phase Out

This will all change before the year is over, I'm sure.
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Whoops fat finger meant to edit
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I’m really behind this year so I haven’t gotten to anything in the last couple months, but here’s what I liked so far. Also I’m happy to see that Genesis Owusu is getting so much praise here!

1. Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
2. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage
3. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
4. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
5. Jane Weaver - Flock
6. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
7. Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams
8. Portrayal of Guilt - We Are Always Alone
9. Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
10. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
11. The Weather Station - Ignorance
12. Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place
13. Ghetts - Conflict of Interest
14. Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever
15. Steve Earle - J.T.
16. Still Corners - The Last Exit
17. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
18. Anna B Savage - A Common Turn
19. Skyway Man - The World Only Ends When You Die
20. Sunburned Hand of the Man - Pick a Day to Die
21. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - L.W.
22. Goat Girl - On All Fours
23. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
24. Dawn Richards - Second Line
25. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Invisible Cities
26. Pauline Anna Strom - Angel Tears in Sunlight
27. Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis - She Walks in Beauty
28. Chuck Johnson - The Cinder Grove
29. Virginia Wing - Private Life
30. Maximo Park - Nature Always Wins
31. The Staves - Good Woman
32. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
33. Altin Gün - Yol
34. Celeste - Not Your Muse
35. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
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FrankLotion wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:43 pm
19. Skyway Man - The World Only Ends When You Die
This one was released in October 2020. I'll move the rest up, if that's okay.
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Schüttelbirne wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 4:42 pm
FrankLotion wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:43 pm
19. Skyway Man - The World Only Ends When You Die
This one was released in October 2020. I'll move the rest up, if that's okay.
Huh, I guess I’m even farther behind than I thought, yeah please move everything up!
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Just four days left!
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01 | Squid | Bright Green Field
02 | Black Country, New Road | For the First Time
03 | Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra | Promises
04 | Dry Cleaning | New Long Leg
05 | Nick Cave and Warren Ellis | CARNAGE

I listened to one more album "Drunk Tank Pink" by shame which I didn't enjoy that much.
Sorry for the very short list though, I only listened to 6 2021 albums so far.
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1. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
2. girl in red - if i could make it go quiet
3. The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy
4. Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor's Version)
5. chloe moriondo - Blood Bunny
6. Moon Taxi - Silver Dream
7. Pale Waves - Who Am I?
8. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
9. Roosevelt - Polydans
10. Weezer - Van Weezer
11. POSTDATA - Twin Flames
12. Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams
13. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
14. Alfie Templeman - Forever Isn't Long Enough
15. The Weather Station - Ignorance
16. Pearl Charles - Magic Mirror
17. Emile Mosseri - Minari
18. Middle Kids - Today We're The Greatest
19. HAERTS - Dream Nation
20. Claud - Super Monster
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01. serpentwithfeet – DEACON
02. Manchester Orchestra – The Million Masks of God
03. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
04. Mogwai – As The Love Continues
05. St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home
06. Tyler, The Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost
07. Jorja Smith – Be Right Back
08. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions
09. Beach Bunny – Blame Game
10. Benny Sings – Music
11. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
12. tUnE-yArDs - sketchy.
13. Anna B Savage - A Common Turn
14. Lost Horizons - In Quiet Moments
15. Porter Robinson - Nurture
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1 | black midi | Cavalcade
2 | Tyler, the Creator | Call Me if You Get Lost
3 | Jazmine Sullivan | Heaux Tales
4 | Japanese Breakfast | Jubilee
5 | Cassandra Jenkins | An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
6 | Genesis Owusu | Smiling with No Teeth
7 | Black Country, New Road | For the First Time
8 | Armand Hammer & The Alchemist | Haram
9 | Sweet Trip | A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
10 | Porter Robinson | Nurture
11 | Squid | Bright Green Field
12 | Arlo Parks | Collapsed in Sunbeams
13 | Julien Baker | Little Oblivions
14 | Lucy Dacus | Home Video
15 | The Weather Station | Ignorance
16 | Erika de Casier | Sensational
17 | Mdou Moctar | Afrique Victime
18 | Hiatus Kaiyote | Mood Valiant
19 | Madlib | Sound Ancestors
20 | Sons of Kemet | Black to the Future
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My List:
1. St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home
2. Lucy Dacus – Home Video
3. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
4. Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
5. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions
6. Foo Fighters – Medicine at Midnight
7. Steve Earle – J.T.
8. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams
9. Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend
10. Weezer – Ok Human
11. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
12. Doja Cat – Planet Her
13. Girl in Red – If I Could Make it Go Quiet
14. Odette – Herald
15. Middle Kids – Today We’re the Greatest
16. Slowthai - Tyron
17. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Shyga! The Sunlight Mound
18. Celeste – Not Your Muse
19. Sly Withers – Gardens
20. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage
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1. Squid - Bright Green Field
2. Tyler, the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
3. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
4. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
5. Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
6. Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
7. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
8. Black Midi - Cavalcade
9. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
10. Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams
11. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
12. Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
13. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
14. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
15. Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
16. serpentwithfeet - Deacon
17. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
18. Djanga Django - Glowing in the Dark
19. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
20. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
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  1. Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams
  2. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
  3. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
  4. Rhiannon Giddens - They're Calling Me Home
  5. Demi Lovato - Dancing with the Devil
  6. Zara Larsson - Poster Girl
  7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
  8. The Weather Station - Ignorance
  9. Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
  10. Gary Numan - Intruder
  11. Ánnámáret - Nieguid Duovdagat
  12. Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés - Clamor
  13. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
  14. The Anchoress - The Art of Losing
  15. Kings of Leon - When You See Yourself
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I want to note that I edited my list - I somehow forgot to add Blue Weekend to my spreadsheet.
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I haven’t been on here much lately, but fuck it. I figured I’d post a list.

1. Renata Flores - Isqun
2. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
3. Mon Lafarte - SEIS
4. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram
5. N. Harden - Verdor
6. DAWN - Second Line
7. Floating Points, Young Points & The London Symphony - Promises
8. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
9. Your Old Droog & Tha God Fahim - Tha YOD Fahim
10. serpentwithfeet - DEACON
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Today is the last chance to get your list in!
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All the 2021 albums I've heard, minus Medicine at Midnight, which doesn't deserve my points.

1 | Tyler, the Creator | CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
2 | Arlo Parks | Collapsed in Sunbeams
3 | Wolf Alice | Blue Weekend
4 | Lana Del Rey | Chemtrails Over the Country Club
5 | St. Vincent | Daddy's Home
6 | Lucy Dacus | Home Video
7 | Olivia Rodrigo | SOUR
8 | Black Country, New Road | For the First Time
9 | Julien Baker | Little Oblivions
10 | Mogwai | As the Love Continues
11 | Weezer | OK Human
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I promise that this is the last update. My opinions have just grown on the Doja album.

1. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
2. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
3. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
4. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
5. The Armed - Ultrapop
6. Tyler The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
7. Martin Gore - The Third Chimpanzee
8. Doja Cat - Planet Her
9. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
10. Quadeca - From Me To You
11. Brockhampton - Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
12. Kero Kero Bonito - Civilization II
13. Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers
14. JPEGMAFIA - EP2
15. Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
16. Thermionic - Nerural Node
17. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
18. Do Nothing - Glueland
19. Twenty One Pilots - Location Sessions EP
20. Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket
21. Poppy - Eat

(Bubbling Under/Honorable Mentions)

22. Rhye - Home
23. Benny The Butcher - The Plugs I Met 2
24. Black Country, New Road - For The First Time
25. The Weather Station - Ignorance
26. Claud - Super Monster
27. Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy
28. Sufjan Stevens - Meditations
29. Nothing Nowhere - Trauma Factory
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1. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha
2. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
3. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
4. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time...
5. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
6. Squid - Bright Green Field
7. Black Midi - Cavalcade
8. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
9. Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
10. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
11. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
12. Weezer - OK Human
13. Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket
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GY!BE is doing way better than I would’ve thought…

I really have no idea what’s going to win, though if I had to guess probably BC,NR.
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Here are my favourites, from the 498 albums I have listened to so far this year:

1 Nick Cave & Warren Ellis CARNAGE
2 Grandbrothers All the Unknown
3 Mogwai As the Love Continues
4 Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
5 Daniel Knox Won't You Take Me With You
6 Teenage Fanclub Endless Arcade
7 Casper Clausen Better Way
8 The Coral Coral Island
9 Jakob Hellman Äntligen borta
10 Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over the Country Club
11 Edre Capsule (twentyeighteen2twentyone)
12 The Boys with the Perpetual Nervousness Songs from Another Life
13 Whispering Sons Several Others
14 Edre P.2.
15 The Anchoress The Art of Losing
16 For Those I Love For Those I Love
17 Arab Strap As Days Get Dark
18 Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God
19 Fly Pan Am Frontera
20 Still Corners The Last Exit
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If unranked lists are allowed, here's ten from me. If they have to be ranked, then I'll just enjoy the results!

Andy Stott - Never the Right Time
black midi - Cavalcade
Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises
Fucked Up - Year of the Horse
Jane Weaver - Flock
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Loraine James - Reflection
Madlib - Sound Ancestors
Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
Tyler, the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
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The poll is now closed. The rollout will start soon!
Jackson wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:19 pm If unranked lists are allowed, here's ten from me. If they have to be ranked, then I'll just enjoy the results!
I will include your choices with each one of them getting a score of 30.
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TheLastEnemy wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:26 pm Here are my favourites, from the 498 albums I have listened to so far this year
That's an unreal amount! The Fly Pan Am album would also make my top 20 after your nomination of Grid/Wall to Weekly Chart for what it's worth (hadn't heard of them)
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Schüttelbirne wrote: Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:51 am The poll is now closed. The rollout will start soon!
Jackson wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:19 pm If unranked lists are allowed, here's ten from me. If they have to be ranked, then I'll just enjoy the results!
I will include your choices with each one of them getting a score of 30.
Thank you! Sorry for being the difficult one...
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