EOY 2021 - Paste Magazine (US)

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EOY 2021 - Paste Magazine (US)

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50. Genesis Owusu: Smiling with No Teeth
49. Courtney Barnett: Things Take Time, Take Time
48. Pink Siifu: GUMBO’!
47. Dawn Richard: Second Line
46. Fire-Toolz: Eternal Home
45. Wiki: Half God
44. Pom Pom Squad: Death of a Cheerleader
43. The Mountain Goats: Dark In Here
42. Arooj Aftab: Vulture Prince
41. Porter Robinson: Nurture
40. Black Country, New Road: For the first time
39. Faye Webster: I Know I’m Funny haha
38. L’Rain: Fatigue
37. Dazy: MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs
36. Julien Baker: Little Oblivions
35. Gojira: Fortitude
34. Boldy James and The Alchemist: Bo Jackson
33. Katy Kirby: Cool Dry Place
32. SAULT: Nine
31. Wednesday: Twin Plagues
30. Remi Wolf: Juno
29. Geese: Projector
28. Lucy Dacus: Home Video
27. Deafheaven: Infinite Granite
26. Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future
25. Indigo De Souza: Any Shape You Take
24. Jazmine Sullivan: Heaux Tales
23. Lingua Ignota: Sinner Get Ready
22. Mach-Hommy: Pray for Haiti
21. Arlo Parks: Collapsed in Sunbeams
20. The War on Drugs: I Don’t Live Here Anymore
19. Madlib: Sound Ancestors
18. Squid: Bright Green Field
17. Cassandra Jenkins: An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
16. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist: Haram
15. Fiddlehead: Between the Richness
14. serpentwithfeet: DEACON
13. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Carnage
12. Low: HEY WHAT
11. Mdou Moctar: Afrique Victime
10. Snail Mail: Valentine
09. Spirit of the Beehive: ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH
08. The Armed: ULTRAPOP
07. Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg
06. Tyler, the Creator: Call Me If You Get Lost
05. Japanese Breakfast: Jubilee
04. Little Simz: Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
03. The Weather Station: Ignorance
02. TURNSTILE: GLOW ON
01. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra: Promises
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50. Paris Texas: “Heavy Metal”
49. Ducks Ltd.: “18 Cigarettes”
48. BROCKHAMPTON: “BUZZCUT” (feat. Danny Brown)
47. UV-TV: “Back to Nowhere”
46. Maxo Kream: “Big Persona” feat. Tyler the Creator
45. Remi Wolf: “Liquor Store”
44. Alien Boy: “Dear Nora”
43. Enumclaw: “Fast N All”
42. Olivia Rodrigo: “brutal”
41. illuminati hotties: “MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA”
40. TORRES: “Don’t Go Puttin Wishes In My Head”
39. SeeYouSpaceCowboy: “bloodstainedeyes”
38. Yasmin Williams: “Sunshowers“
37. Halsey: “I am not a woman, I’m a god”
36. LSDXOXO: “Sick Bitch”
35. Isaiah Rashad: “Lay Wit Ya” (feat. Duke Deuce)
34. serpentwithfeet: “Same Size Shoe”
33. Nation of Language: “Across That Fine Line”
32. McKinley Dixon: “Bless the Child”
31. Indigo De Souza: “Kill Me”
30. Mandy, Indiana: “Bottle Episode”
29. Hovvdy: “True Love”
28. Pom Pom Squad: “Head Cheerleader”
27. Geese: “Disco”
26. Katy Kirby: “Cool Dry Place”
25. Arooj Aftab: “Mohabbat”
24. Boldy James & The Alchemist: “Double Hockey Sticks”
23. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen: “Like I Used To”
22. The Weather Station: “Atlantic”
21. Mannequin Pussy: “Control”
20. Low: “Days Like These”
19. Little Simz: “I Love You, I Hate You”
18. black midi: “John L“
17. Bartees Strange: “Weights”
16. Mdou Moctar: “Afrique Victime”
15. Mitski: “Working for the Knife”
14. The Armed: “ALL FUTURES”
13. Circuit des Yeux: “Vanishing”
12. TURNSTILE: “HOLIDAY”
11. Dry Cleaning: “Unsmart Lady”
10. Wet Leg: “Chaise Longue“
9. Lucy Dacus: “Thumbs”
8. Big Thief: “Little Things”
7. Squid: “Narrator”
6. Yves Tumor: “Jackie”
5. Snail Mail: “Valentine”
4. Caroline Polachek: “Bunny Is a Rider”
3. The War on Drugs: “I Don’t Live Here Anymore”
2. Japanese Breakfast: “Be Sweet”
1. Cassandra Jenkins: “Hard Drive”
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The 20 Best Electronic Albums of 2021 https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/bes ... bums-2021/
(alphabetically ordered, not ranked) Credited to Austin Jones & Paste Staff, so should this be considered single author or multi-author? I'll add Paste's other genre lists for last year if this one's eligible:

Astrid Sonne - Outside of Your Lifetime
Black Dresses - Forever in Your Heart
Colleen - The Tunnel and the Clearing
Fatima Al Qadiri - Medieval Femme
Fire-Toolz - Eternal Home
Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
Hildegard - Hildegard
Kedr Livanskiy - Liminal Soul
Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever
Lorraine James - Reflection
Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet
Low - HEY WHAT
Porter Robinson - Nurture
Soshi Takeda - Floating Mountains
sv1 - health
Tirzah - Colourgrade
Ullah - Limitless Frame
Yoshinori Hayashi - Pulse of Defiance
You'll Never Get to Heaven - Wave Your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train
Yu Su - Yellow River Blue
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The 10 Best Country & Americana Albums of 2021:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/bes ... bums-2021/
(again, alphabetical and only one named author plus staff)

Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic
Allison Russell - Outside Child
Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days
The Felice Brothers - From Dreams to Dust
Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall - The Marfa Tapes
Mickey Guyton - Remember the Name
Riddy Arman - Riddy Arman
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raise the Roo
Sarah Jarosz - The Blue Heron Suite
Valerie June - The Moon and the Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers
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The 40 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2021:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/bes ... bums-2021/

Armand Hammer and The Alchemist - Haram
Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue
BACKXWASH - I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses
Benny the Butcher and Harry Fraud - The Plugs I Met 2
Boldy James and The Alchemist - Bo Jackson
BROCKHAMPTON - ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE
Bruiser Wolf - Dope Game Stupid
Conway the Machine - La Maquina
Duke Deuce - Duke Nukem
EST Gee - Bigger than Life or Death
Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth
IDK - USEE4YOURSELF
Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Isaiah Rashad - The House Is Burning
Ka - A Martyr's Reward
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti
Madlib and Four Tet - Sound Ancestors
Maxo Kream - Weight of the World
McKinley Dixon - For My Mama and Anyone Who Look like Her
Megan Thee Stallion - Something for Thee Hotties
Mick Jenkins - Elephant in the Room
MIKE - Disco!
Mother Nature and Boathouse - SZNZ
Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air
Nas - King's Disease II
Paris Texas - BOY ANONYMOUS
Pi'erre Bourne - The Life of Pi'erre 5
Pink Siifu - GUMBO'!
Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red [2020]
Pooh Shiesty - Shiesty Season
Quentin Ahmad DaGod - N.O.A.H.
R.A.P. Ferreira - Bob's Son
R.A.P. Ferreira - the Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Splinters
slowthai - TYRON
Topaz Jones - Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma
Tyler, The Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
Vince Staples - Vince Staples
Wiki - Half God
ZelooperZ - Van Gogh's Left Ear
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The 40 Best Rock Albums of 2021 (again, credited to Paste Staff and alphabetically ordered)

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/bes ... bums-2021/

Alien Boy - Don't Know What I Am
Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort to Me
The Armed - ULTRAPOP
Black Country, New Road - For the first time
black midi - Cavalcade
Cheekface - Emphatically No.
Dazy - MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Ducks Ltd. - Modern Fiction
Dummy - Mandatory Enjoyment
Fake Fruit - Fake Fruit
Fiddlehead - Between the Richness
Floatie - Voyage out
Geese - Projector
Gojira - Fortitude
Gustaf - Audio Drag for Ego Slobs
Home Is Where - I Became Birds
Iceage - Seek Shelter
IDLES - CRAWLER
illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More
Indigo de Souza - Any Shape You Take
Lucy Dacus - Home Movie
Mdou Moctar - Afrique victime
N0V3L - NON-FICTION
Origami Angel - GAMI GANG
Parannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream
Pardoner - Came down Different
Pom Pom Squad - Death of a Cheerleader
Provoker - Body Jumper
shame - Drunk Tank Pink
Snail Mail - Valentine
Spirit of the Beehive - ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH
Spirits Having Fun - Two
Squid - Bright Green Field
The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Illusory Walls
TORRES - Thirstier
TURNSTILE - GLOW ON
The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
Wednesday - Twin Plagues
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