Top 10 Albums of the First Half of 2021

Brian Downing
Jun 6, 2021
Not Your Muse, by Celeste

No obvious standout so far, but a lot of enjoyable releases. It often takes a year or more to figure out what is great vs merely very good. Here are 10 promising 2021 albums to try:

Celeste — Not Your Muse

Kiwi Jr.— Cooler Returns

Arlo Parks — Collapsed in Sunbeams

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets — SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound

Katy Kirby — Cool Dry Place

Fruit Bats — The Pet Parade

Tune-Yards — sketchy.

BROCKHAMPTON — ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE

Iceage — Seek Shelter

Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, Jack Ingram — The Marfa Tapes

Bonus: Great new releases from this week. May make the year-end list, but I need to listen to them more.

Japanese Breakfast — Jubilee

Loraine James — Reflection

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Brian Downing

I was in Google legal for a long time. Now I'm in Google engineering somehow.