Best Albums of 2021
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 6:19 pm
December is upon us, so it's about time we started sharing best of lists for the year. As usual, I have a shortlist of all the albums I've liked this year below, which I'll whittle down (and no doubt add to) in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for a poll so we can do an official Fourtheye Readers list.
Anyway, here's a list of albums from 2021 I thought were alright. (some of these are compilations and such and wouldn't be eligible for my poll) Please sling your arrows of disappointment/approval at me:
For those who want it in playlist form: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3B1tU ... 4ca8154904
Tetrach - Addicted (nu-metal-ish)
Sanctioned - Annexation (grind)
Red Fang - Arrows (stoner rock)
Fiddlehead - Between the Richness (punk)
Converge - Bloodmoon (gothy hardcore)
Kig Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000 (pysch prog)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis- CARNAGE (gothy ballads)
Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort To Me (pub rock)
IDLES - CRAWLER (post-punk)
Quicksand - Distant Populations (basically Deftones)
Thirdface - Do It With A Smile (noisy punk)
Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon (electro metal)
Dvne - Etemen Aenka (prog metal)
CHASSM - Falling Forever (prog rock)
Melvins - Five Legged Dog (acoustic Melvins songs)
Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist (metalcore)
Gojira - Fortitude (French metal)
Big Vic - Girl, Buried (noise rock)
Turnstile - GLOW ON (punk)
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim (prog rock/metal)
Hard-Ons - I'm Sorry Sir, That Riff's Been Taken (rock/punk)
The Body - I've Seen All I Need To See (trippy doom)
For Your Health - In Spite Of (post-hardcore)
Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This (not-U2)
Enforced - Kill Grid (death metal)
Mastiff - Leave Me The Ashes of the Earth (blackened death metal)
NoFX - Single Album (pop punk)
Helmet - Live & Rare (alt rock)
Filth Is Eternal - Love is a Lie, Filth is Eternal (hardcore)
Yautja - The Lurch (sludgy hardcore)
Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments (dark electro)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizzard - L.W. (prog rock)
Pupil Slicer - Mirrors (post-hardcore)
Ministry - Moral Hygiene (industrial metal)
Feed Them Death - Negative (death metal)
Garbage - No Gods No Masters (pop alt rock)
Every Time I Die - Radical (hardcore)
Dale Crover - Rat-A-Tat-Tat! (alt rock)
Coyote Man - Relics (instrumental prog rock/metal)
Swampbeast - Seven Evils Spawned of Seven Heads (sludgey doom)
Throat - Smile Less (noise rock)
Limp Bizkit - Still Sucks (rapcore)
Slope - Street Heat (punk)
Burial Pit - SUBHUMAN SCUM (sludgey metal)
Knocked Loose - A Tear in the Fabric of Life (post-hardcore)
Tomahawk - Tonic Immunity (alt rock)
The Armed - ULTRAPOP (poppy hardcore)
Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined (death metal)
I Am Duckeye - Welt (noise rock)
Melvins - Working With God (more Melvins)
Anyway, here's a list of albums from 2021 I thought were alright. (some of these are compilations and such and wouldn't be eligible for my poll) Please sling your arrows of disappointment/approval at me:
For those who want it in playlist form: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3B1tU ... 4ca8154904
Tetrach - Addicted (nu-metal-ish)
Sanctioned - Annexation (grind)
Red Fang - Arrows (stoner rock)
Fiddlehead - Between the Richness (punk)
Converge - Bloodmoon (gothy hardcore)
Kig Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000 (pysch prog)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis- CARNAGE (gothy ballads)
Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort To Me (pub rock)
IDLES - CRAWLER (post-punk)
Quicksand - Distant Populations (basically Deftones)
Thirdface - Do It With A Smile (noisy punk)
Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon (electro metal)
Dvne - Etemen Aenka (prog metal)
CHASSM - Falling Forever (prog rock)
Melvins - Five Legged Dog (acoustic Melvins songs)
Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist (metalcore)
Gojira - Fortitude (French metal)
Big Vic - Girl, Buried (noise rock)
Turnstile - GLOW ON (punk)
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim (prog rock/metal)
Hard-Ons - I'm Sorry Sir, That Riff's Been Taken (rock/punk)
The Body - I've Seen All I Need To See (trippy doom)
For Your Health - In Spite Of (post-hardcore)
Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This (not-U2)
Enforced - Kill Grid (death metal)
Mastiff - Leave Me The Ashes of the Earth (blackened death metal)
NoFX - Single Album (pop punk)
Helmet - Live & Rare (alt rock)
Filth Is Eternal - Love is a Lie, Filth is Eternal (hardcore)
Yautja - The Lurch (sludgy hardcore)
Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments (dark electro)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizzard - L.W. (prog rock)
Pupil Slicer - Mirrors (post-hardcore)
Ministry - Moral Hygiene (industrial metal)
Feed Them Death - Negative (death metal)
Garbage - No Gods No Masters (pop alt rock)
Every Time I Die - Radical (hardcore)
Dale Crover - Rat-A-Tat-Tat! (alt rock)
Coyote Man - Relics (instrumental prog rock/metal)
Swampbeast - Seven Evils Spawned of Seven Heads (sludgey doom)
Throat - Smile Less (noise rock)
Limp Bizkit - Still Sucks (rapcore)
Slope - Street Heat (punk)
Burial Pit - SUBHUMAN SCUM (sludgey metal)
Knocked Loose - A Tear in the Fabric of Life (post-hardcore)
Tomahawk - Tonic Immunity (alt rock)
The Armed - ULTRAPOP (poppy hardcore)
Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined (death metal)
I Am Duckeye - Welt (noise rock)
Melvins - Working With God (more Melvins)