

From its cover looking more like a polished fashion shoot and the corpse-painted music videos, to the fact that nobody is actually sure who’s in the band and who is just trolling, this group of eight (possibly more, or less) musicians found a delicious disharmony in ULTRAPOP. In a world where the concepts of ‘genre’ and ‘heaviness’ are becoming more and more disparate and divided, Michigan experimentalists The Armed released perhaps the most subversive record of the year. You may disagree, but just looking at these fantastic records, it’s impossible to deny what a broad spread of music and creativity we’ve had over the past 12 months. Here, then, are the albums that made 2021. Not just because of the sheer number, but because of how many of them were so fundamentally good.
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On the plus side, this has been a great leveller – when all you have is music, the truly great bits stick out that bit more, no matter who you are.Īs such, it’s been harder than usual to gather together the 50 best albums of 2021.

We even got to see some of it played on a stage, but this didn't change the fact that COVID has placed listening to records under more of a microscope than usual. But whether it was the glory of scooping a Number One album, or of simply having created something brilliant, it’s been a thrill watching so many amazing artists sending their new music out into the world. As such, there was a lot of sound to digest, and a lot of new chapters forged. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.After the delayed releases and forced opportunity to write during lockdown in 2020, this year saw a veritable flood of new music coming out every week.

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