Hot Press Top 50 Albums of 2021
1. Villagers - Fever Dreams (Domino)
2. For Those I Love - For Those I Love (September Recordings)
3. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend (Dirty Hit)
4. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage (AWAL)
5. Kojaque - Town's Dead (Soft Boy Records)
6. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever (Interscope)
7. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure (Universal)
8. Saint Sister - Where I Should End (Self-Released)
9. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home (Loma Vista Recordings)
10. James Vincent McMorrow - Grapefruit Season (Sony)
11. Joy Crookes - Skin (Sony)
12 Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club (Universal)
13. Christy Moore - Flying Into Mystery (Sony)
14. IDLES - Crawler (Partisan)
15 John Francis Flynn - I Would Not Live Always (River Lea)
16 David Keenan - What Then? (Rubyworks)
17 James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart (Polydor)
18. Soda Blonde - Small Talk (Velveteen Records)
19. Declan O'Rourke - Arrivals (Warner)
20 David Kitt - Laser Days (Self-Released)
21. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore (Atlantic)
22. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof (Warner)
23 Rejjie Snow - Baw Baw Black Sheep (300 Entertainment)
24 Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (AWAL)
25. Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic (Warner)
26. Lonely Guest - Lonely Guest (False Idols)
27. Mick Flannery & Susan O'Neill - In The Game (Rosaleen Records)
28. Orla Gartland - Women On The Internet (New Friends Music)
29. Various Artists - In The Echo (Ergodos)
30. Ario Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive Records)
31. Mdou Moctor - Afrique Victime (Matador)
32. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR (Geffen)
33. Lorde - Solar Power (Universal)
34. Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1) (Universal)
35 Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost (Sony)
36. New Pagans - The Seed, the Vessel, The Roots And All (Big Scary Monsters)
37. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
38 Weezer - OK Human (Atlantic)
39 Adele - 30 (Sony)
40 Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This (Universal)
41 The Coral - Coral Island (Run On Records)
42. Lucy Dacus - Home Video (Matador)
43. The Black Keys - Delta Kream (Nonesuch Records)
44. John Murry - The Stars Are God's Bullet Holes (Submarine Cat)
45. Bicep - Isles (Ninja Tune)
46. Brian Wilson - At My Piano (Universal)
47 Brendan Tallon - Love In These Times (Mercenary Records)
48 Low Hey - What (Sub Pop)
49. Drake - Certified Lover Boy (Universal)
50. Park Hye Jin - Before I Die (Ninja Tune)
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