End Of Year Lists 2021
2021 has been a tough year on the music industry with the global pandemic making things incredibly tough. Fortunately there has been some great albums released to numb the blow slightly. We can only hope that it is onwards and upwards in 2022.
Some of our team has taken stock and looked back on the best album releases this year and most anticipated tour next year… what are yours?
Rob Lyon
Top Ten Albums
- You Am I – The Lives Of Others
- Cheap Trick – In Another World
- Inhaler – It Won’t Always Be Like This
- The Hard-Ons – I’m Sorry Sir, This Riff Has Been Taken
- The Snuts – W.L.
- Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade
- Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort Me
- Damon Albarn – The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows
- Foo Fighters – Medicine At Midnight
- Idles – Crawler
Most Anticipated Tour – Under The Southern Stars… fingers crossed we can get this Covid shit show sorted.
Samuel Phillips
Top Ten Albums
- Everything Time I Die – Radical
- Sleep Token – This Place Will Be Your Tomb
- Shihad – Old Gods
- Silent Planet – Iridescent
- Black Coast – Outworld
- Chevelle – Niratias
- Spiritbox – Eternal Blue
- Erra – Erra
- Tremonti – Marching in Time
- Wage war – Manic
Most Anticipated Tour: Northlane / Sleep Token / Plini
Anita Kertes
Top Ten Albums
- For Those I Love – For Those I Love
- The War on Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
- IDLES – Crawler
- Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
- Holy Holy – Hello My Beautiful World
- Bicep – Isles
- Fred again – Actual Life
- Parquet Courts – Sympathy for Life
- Mogwai – As the Love Continues
- Black Country New Road – For the first time
Most Anticipated Show: Any and all of them! Especially The Wombats and IDLES.
Lindsay Bulach
Top Ten Albums
- Dangerous Curves – Summertime Highs
- Black Diamonds – No Tell Hotel
- The Wildhearts – 21st Century Love Songs
- Eclipse – Wired
- Temple Balls – Pyromide
- Crowne – Kings in the North
- Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort To Me
- Sister – Vengeance Ignited
- Toxic Rose – In For The Kill
- Crazy Lixx – Street Lethal
Most Anticipated Show: Crashdiet
Richard De Pizzol
Top Ten Albums
- Jake Bugg – Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
- Halsey – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
- Bob Evans – Tomorrowland
- Odette – Herald
- Middle Kids – Today We’re the Greatest.
- King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – L.W.
- Lorde – Solar Power
- London Grammar – Californian Soil
- Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange
- Maple Glider – To Enjoy is the Only Thing
Most Anticipated Show: WOMADelaide
Carly Whittaker
Top Ten Albums
- Holly Humberstone- The Walls Are Way Too Thin
- Beabadoobee – Our Extended Play
- Taylor Swift – Red (Taylor’s Version)
- Taylor Swift – Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
- Teenage Joans- Taste Of Me
- Gretta Ray – Begin To Look Around
- Ruby Fields – Been Doin It For A Bit
- The Public Holiday – Verse Chorus Verse
- Alexander Biggs – Hit Or Miss
- Olivia Rodrigo – Sour
Most Anticipated Show: I’m Excited For Whenever Taylor Comes!
Bronwen Caple
Top Ten Albums
- Twenty One Pilots – Scaled & Icy
- Slowly Slowly – Race Car Blues Chapter II
- The Maine – XOXO: From Love & Anxiety in Real Time
- Grayscale – Umbra
- Malachy – Drifter
- Holy Holy – Hello My Beautiful World
- Angels & Airwaves – Lifeforms
- Halsey – If I can’t have Love, I want Power
- With Confidence – With Confidence
- LANY – GG BB XX
Most Anticipated Show: The Maine
Darren Leach
Top Ten Albums
- Children Collide – Time Itself
- Jim Ward – Daggers
- The Darkness – Motorheart
- Maximo Park – Nature Always Wins
- Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
- Flyying Colours – Fantasy Country
- Spectres – Hindsight