Our Favorite Albums of 2021

Caesura: The Music Explorer's Podcast

Well, this is it! Our last episode of the year, and probably the one most people were looking forward to the most: our albums of the year! We split this episode into three general sections: (1) our methodology for our choices, (2), honorable mentions, and (3) our top 10. Below you can view our respective lists if you're curious. Thanks to everybody who listens, and we'll be back in 2022!

Scott's AOTY:

1. Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders—Promises
2. Black Country, New Road—For the first time
3. Magdalena Bay—Mercurial World
4. Japanese Breakfast—Jubilee
5. LLNN—Unmaker
6. كدرة كدرة [Guedra Guedra]—Vexillology
7. Plebeian Grandstand—Rien ne suffit
8. black midi—Cavalcade
9. The Mountain Goats—Dark In Here
10. Victory Over the Sun—Nowherer

Scott's Honorable Mentions:

• Archspire—Bleed the Future
• Bent Knee—Frosting
• Horsey—Debonair
• Kurushimi—Chaos Remains
• Sleep Token—This Place Will Become Your Tomb

JimJam's AOTY:

1. Horsey—Debonair
2. Squid—Bright Green Field
3. Otay:onii—Ming Ming
4. Jason Sharp—The Turning Centre of a Still World
5. Jon Hopkins—Music for Psychedelic Therapy
6. Ryan Van Haesendonck—Vauville
7. Floating Points/Pharaoh Sanders—Promises
8. Bent Arcana—Moon Drenched
9. Xiu Xiu—Oh No
10. Iglooghost—Lei Line Eon

JimJam's Honorable Mentions:

• Black Country New Road—For the First Time
• Alessandro Cortini—Scuro Chiaro
• Alexis Marshall—House of Lull. House of When.
• Monobody—Comma
• ZAÄAR - Magická Džungl’a