Albums: 2021

[HelpImaRock]

This is all the new music I liked this year, in reverse chronological order. There's still 2 weeks left, and I found a buncha records I forgot in Apple Music, so watch this space for updates.

Curtis Harding - If Words were Flowers
Garage A Trois - Calm Down Cologne
Strangelight - The World Needs Laughter
Jeff Tweedy - Live is the King
Renaud Garcia-Fons - Le Souffle Des Cordes
Petite Amie - Petite Amie
Christian McBride & Inside Out - Live at the Village Vanguard
Charlie Hunter - Kick, Snare, Baritone Guitar
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raise the Roof
Gov't Mule - Heavy Load Blues
Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
Brandt Brauer Frick - 3535 Memory
Sungazer - Perihelion
Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher - Inner Symphonies
Kowloon Walled City - Piecework
Hiromi - Silver Lining Suite
The Body & Big Brave - Leaving None But Small Birds
Hayden Pedigo - Letting Go
Ghetto Kumbe - Ghetto Kumbe
Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, & Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Skyline
Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic
Billy Strings - Renewal
Adrien Moignard - Bright Up
Yo-Yo Ma - Notes for the Future
Low - Hey What
Bela Fleck - My Bluegrass Heart
Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra - Tinctures in Time
Ty Segall - Harmonizer
Khruangbin - Mordechai Remixes
Son Volt - Electro Melodier
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
Mercy Choir - Kitchen Knife Collection
Moon Hooch - Live in Nashville
Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes with Attachments
Doctor Lo - Claiborne Avenue
Julian Lage - Squint
Black Midi - Cavalcade
John Pizzarelli - Better Days Ahead
The Flashbulb - Seven Quarantine Poems
Counting Crows - Butter Miracle Suite One
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
Morcheeba - Blackest Blue
Rodrigo y Gabriela - The Jazz
Hooverphonic - Hidden Stories
Sun June - Somewhere
Toumani Diabete & the London Symphony Orchestra - Korolen
Norah Jones - 'Til We Meet Again
Paul McCartney - McCartney III (Imagined)
Cory Hanson - Pale Horse Rider
Page McConnell - Maybe We're the Visitors
David Wilson & the Summer Husbands - EP
Tomahawk - Tonic Immobility
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, & the London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
Pat Metheny - Road to the Sun
Tash Sultana - Terra Firma
Page McConnell & Trey Anastasio - December
Stephane Wrembel - The Django Experiment VI
Steve Earle - JT

 

[HelpImaRock]

New To Me, 2021:

Stereolab - Fab Four Suture
Bobby Vega & Chris Rossbach - S/T
Pat Metheny, Christian McBride, & Antonio Sanchez - Day Trip
John McLaughlin - Time Remembered (plays Bill Evans)
The Montgomery Brothers - Groove Yard
Pat Martino - Consciousness/Live!
Phish - Kasvot Vaxt
Herbie Hancock - VSOP
Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life, Watercolors, New Chautauqua
Ben Harper - Winter is for Lovers
Sebadoh - The Sebadoh
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Madder Rose - To Be Beautiful
The Flashbulb - Piety of Ashes, Our Simulacra
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Marina Krupkina - Decacorde Stories
Luca Bendetti, Tony Scherr, & Tony Mason - We'll Get There

 

[GregC]

Thanks for putting together this extensive list! It's good to talk about good recent music and make people aware of it. My list is tiny by comparison, but I'm going to check out some of the work above.

Jason Isbell: Georgia Blue
Elvis Costello: Spanish Model
Woody & Jeremy: Gravy In My Coffee
Cory Wong & Dirty Loops: Turbo
Dave Koz & Cory Wong: The Golden Hour
Cory & The Wongnotes
The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four
The Hold Steady: Open Door Policy
Songs From Quarantine: Music Health Alliance Compilation

2021 releases I've been interested in, but haven't checked out yet: The Tweedy, Son Volt, and Sebadoh albums above. Also: Adele: 30, Silk Sonic.