you always have the most unique lists of any of the music youtubers i watch. half the albums are incredible albums that i don't see on anyone else's lists.
1:31 - 20 : The War On Drugs, I don't Live Here Anymore 2:20 - 19 : serpentwithfeet, DEACON 3:20 - 18 : Floating Points (with Pharoah Sanders and the LSO), Promises 4:30 - 17 : Injury Reserve, By The Time I Get To Phoenix 5:50 - 16 : Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee 6:56 - 15 : The Armed, Ultrapop 7:55 - 14 : Sweet Trip, A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals 9:03 - 13 : Hannah Peel, Fir Wave 10:00 - 12 : The Bug, Fire 11:22 - 11: Black Country, New Road, For the First Time 12:30 - 10 : Skee Mask, Pool 13:55 - 9 : Richard Dawson & Circle, Henki 14:52 - 8 : Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Carnage 16:22 - 7: Really From. Really From 17:35 - 6 : Armand Hammer and The Alchemist, Haram 18:25 - 5 : Rival Consoles, Pulses of Information 19:38 - 4: Black Midi, Cavalcade 20:48 - 3: Pupil Slicer, Mirrors 22:22 - 2 : Self Esteem, Prioritise Pleasure 24:05 - 1 : For those I love, For those I love
I've been listening to the deep cuts essentials albums and your videos on them throughout the year. I have just a few left to go, and have found some that I really like. I'm really glad I gave them a listen/watch. It's an awesome series and has really broadened my musical understanding. Just a minor writing tip, but I think you could rely less on the words "life affirming." They crop up often, sometimes more than once in the same video. I say this mainly because I HATE LIFE AND WANT EVERYONE TO DIE. Happy New Year!
I'd like to throw it out there that using completely unique descriptive language while you're making music review videos isn't easy at ALL. English is a hugely expansive language but there's still only so many phrases that fit so many things.
I wish I could get into it. I gave it a 7 but I wasn’t in love with it. I guess I like my prog to have more “songwriting” rather than just instrumental mania but that’s just me, maybe it’ll grow on me. My favourite tracks were the first two.
@@zactishgarten7703 it's also pretty songwriting-y too. I'd say it has one of the most memorable hooks from the album - ohhh thiswasthesceneon main street when john fifty comestotownnnn
wait isn't the Rival Consoles project called "Overflow" and not "Pulses of Information"? think the latter was just one of the singles anyways great list, absolutely here for the Hannah Peel and Skee Mask placements
I'm relistening to my top 30 right now to solidify my order of them, and my top 5 right now are: 1. To See the Next Part of the Dream - Parannoul 2. The Path of the Clouds - Marissa Nadler 3. Mercurial World - Magdalena Bay 4. Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern - Lil Ugly Mane 5. Pushing Daisies - Julie
I hope you are happy and well Oliver. If youtube isn't what's best for you right now, so be it, but we'd all love to see you again. The videos on your channel are a precious resource for the discovery and exploration of music. Cheers!
Pool is my aoty 1. Skee Mask - Pool 2. Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders and the LSO - Promises 3. Little Simz - SIMBI 4. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 5. PinkPantheress - to hell with it 6. The Bug - Fire 7. Loraine James - Reflection 8. Terrence Dixon - Reporting from Detroit 9. Erika De Casier - Sensational 10. JPEGMAFIA - LP! 11. Kasper Marott - Full Circle 12. Joy Orbison - still slipping vol. 1 13. Porter Robinson - Nurture 14. Marco Shuttle - Cobalt Desert Oasis 15. Spellling - The Turning Wheel 16. Calibre - Feeling Normal 17. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee 18. Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future 19. Priori - Your Own Power 20. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
Album best year 2021. 1. inside (the songs) bo burnham 2. An Evening with Silk Sonic 3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert 4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant 5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales 6. Celeste not your muse
Just a suggestion, can you add titles of artist and album somewhere AS you’re talking about the album? Sometimes I’m passively listen but tune back in when I hear something interesting and have to rewind until I find out what you’re talking about.
My top 10 (best to worst) 1. Black Country, New Road - For the first time 2. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home 3. Spellling - The Turning Wheel 4. Lil Ugly Mane - VOLCANIC BIRD ENEMY AND THE VOICED CONCERN 5. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix 6. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert 7. JPEGMAFIA - LP! (Offline Version) 8. black midi - Cavalcade 9. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind 10. Idles - CRAWLER
@@jccs98 the same, i usually rate albums on my aot quite before he drops his reviews, and its not like hes the only one who enjoyed a chunk of these albums, most are widely acclaimed to be the best of the year, My last years top 10 was wildly different to his tho, i think the only album we each had in the top 10 was "whats your pleasure", and the dude left out the 2 of best albums of the year "fetch the bolt cutters" and "græ" , like seriosly these two are gonna be one of the best albums of the decade, so far they are in their own league.
Album best year 2021. 1. inside (the songs) bo burnham 2. An Evening with Silk Sonic 3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert 4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant 5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales 6. Celeste not your muse
1. Arthur Russell - Calling out of context 2. Viagra boys - street worms 3. New Order - Technique 4. Burial's second album i forget what its called no other albums have been or will ever be relevant, ever. list over, get out of my face and comment section and do not come back
The only album I've heard from your top five is Cavalcade, excited to check the rest out. My top 10 are: 10. Knoll - Interstice (awesome grindcore album) 9. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out of Sound (dreamy airy free improvisation on drums + guitar) 8. Anatol - Ana (polish lofi post-punk outfit with dino jr influence) 7. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises 6. black midi - Cavalcade 5. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 (spacey nu jazz) 4. Monobody - Comma (jazz + math rock, incredible musicianship) 3. Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship (minimalist autobiographical concept album) 2. claire rousay - a softer focus (ambient record that seamlessly blends the recorded and the synthesized) 1. Jaubi - Nafs at Peace (pakistani quartet that unites musical styles into a cohesive whole, one of the most beautiful records I've ever listened to)
My Top 20 in it’s constantly changing order: 1: Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz 2: Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast 3: An Evening With Silk Sonic - Silk Sonic 4: Call Me If You Get Lost - Tyler, The Creator 5: Smiling With No Teeth - Genesis Owusu 6: We’re All Alone In This Together - Dave 7: Friends That Break Your Heart - James Blake 8: Blue Weekend - Wolf Alice 9: Collapsed in Sunbeams - Arlo Parks 10: Tyron - Slowthai 11: For the First Time - Black Country, New Road 12: I Don’t Live Here Anymore - The War on Drugs 13: Sling - Clairo 14: Mercurial World - Magdalena Bay 15: The Turning Wheel - Spellling 16: Talk Memory - BADBADNOTGOOD 17: LP! - JPEGMAFIA 18: By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Injury Reserve 19: Donda - Kanye West 20: GLOW ON - Turnstile So much good music around thanks to the streaming-era saturation. There’s plenty for everyone to love right now, you just need to know where to find it and this channel is one of the best sources going
I'm always pleased to have my indie cred blown out of the water each year by your list. Definitely have a few albums that I have to listen to now! Just a specific recommendation for you - I think you'd like absent origin by mira calix, it's a really creative IDM/sound collage album (also her and Sean Booth are married. figured that'd be a selling point for you) Anyway, my top 5 albums of the year are: 1. Lingua Ignota - SINNER GET READY 2. The Weather Station - Ignorance 3. Black Country, New Road - For the first time 4. Flock of Dimes - Head of Roses 5. Dean Blunt - BLACK METAL 2
One of my personal choices for AOTY is definitely the soundtrack album for the film ‘Annette’ by Sparks (A film that seemed to completely slip under the radar, Tbf it is mental, but I really loved the original music!)
great year for music! my favourite is probably by the time i get to pheonix or lux by approaching mountains (a very cool undeground ambient album reminiscent of early tim hecker).
1. For the first time - Black country, new road 2. Bright green field - Squid 3. A beginner's mind - Sufjan Stevens 4. G_d's pee at state's end! - GY!BE 5. A martyr's reward - KA 6. Smiling with no teeth - Genesis Owusu 7. Promises - Floating Points 8. Pray for Haiti - Mach-Hommy 9. Bo Jackson - Boldy James & The Alchemist 10. Vince Staples - Vince Staples 11. Isles - Bicep 12. Navy's Reprise - Navy Blue 13. Sometimes I might be introvert - Little Simz 14. Call me if you get lost - Tyler the creator 15. We had good times together - Sewerslvt 16. Hitler wear Hermes 8 : Side B - Westside Gunn 17. Lei Line Eon - Iglooghost 18. The light emitting diamond cutter scriptures - R.A.P. Ferreira 19. Black to the future - Sons of Kemet 20. TYRON - slowthai 21. Talk Memory - BadBadNotGood 22. HARAM - Armand Hammer & The Alchemist 23. Friends that break your heart - James Blake 24. Super What? - Czarface & MF DOOM 25. By the time I get to Phoenx - Injury Reserve 26. Yasuke - Flying Lotus 27. ROADRUNNER - Brockhampton 28. A tiny house… - Sweet Trip 29. Arca - kiCK iiiii 30. Donda. - Kanye West 31. Elephant in the room - Mick Jenkins 32. Cavalcade - black midi 33. Half God - Wiki 34. The plugs I met 2 - Benny the butcher 35. Garbology - Aesop Rock 36. Death and the magician - Dj Muggs & Rome Steez 37. Volcanic bird enemy - Lil Ugly Mane 38. Surrender - Rufus du sol 39. Parannoul - To see the next part of the dream 40. CARNAGE - Nick Cave 41. The life of Pi'erre 5 - Pi'erre Bourne 42. The House Is Burning - Isaiah Rashad 43. DEACON - serpentwithfeet 44. How long do you think.. - Big Red Machine 45. If it bleeds it can be killed - Conway 46. KICK ii - Arca 47. Chris Crack - Migh Delete Later 48. Last year was weird vol. 3 - Tkay Maidza 49. The last exit - Still Corners 50. Hey What - Low
Album best year 2021. 1. inside (the songs) bo burnham 2. An Evening with Silk Sonic 3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert 4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant 5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales
I hope you get more time and funds to be able to make more videos on music. I love your series on 5 albums to get you into (blank). That is truly a stunning series. Part of me also wishes for a follow up on where those genres are now, what have they evolved into, and/or who is still carrying the torch for such movements. Anyways, you're stunning, you're beautiful, you look like you're Linda Evangelista, you're a model. You could wear a diaper on that stage and the judges would say, "Valentina! Your smile!".
the civilization mini-album by kero kero bonito may be a combination of previously released material i still think its the best album of the year and its become my favorite album of all time
Album best year 2021. 1. inside (the songs) bo burnham 2. An Evening with Silk Sonic 3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert 4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant 5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales 6. Celeste not your muse
Also, the record Hey What by the long-running experimental pop/slowcore group Low dropped this year and it's noisy, harsh and blissful at the same time. Quite an extraordinary feat to achieve and it proves that the duo are on the cutting edge of noisy experimental pop music.
Not having been a Richard Dawson fan, I was so surprised by Henki. Circle really fills out Dawsons lyrics and singing. Glad you included it on your list
Sure, The war of drugs album cover was bad, but nothing will ever top CLB for me personally, one of the biggest popstars releasing that is just... Too much personally. The emojis? Really Drake?
You should really check out Imperative Imperceptible Impulse by the Italian avant-garde death metal band Ad Nauseam. It is a truly mind-bending record full of dissonance and atonality. It sounds like Ulcerate or Gorguts by way of post-modernist classical music. Just... insane stuff! Go listen to it; mere words cannot do it justice!
What I love about your channel is that it inevitably drags me kicking and screaming from my musical comfort zone...from your 20 albums I've taken away 7 new artists [for me] to explore further... I can say one thing with certainty though, my wife is going to hate Pupil Slicer... and my 9 year old is going to love it :)
My top 5 albums of the year: 1. Injury Reserve - By The Time I Get To Phoenix 2.Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready 3. Floating Points - Promises 4. Black Country, New Road - For the first time 5. Porter Robinson - Nurture Honorable Mentions: Black Midi - Cavalcade, Tyler the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost, Armand Hammer and The Alchemist - Haram
Totally agree with the #1 pick. I'm kind of shocked that so many music critics haven't talked about this album. Pitchfork and The Needle Drop didn't even review it.
Sorry about the last comment, thought you meant the Self Esteem album. For Those I Love also had a *really* tough release date to get attention - it was released the same day as Armand Hammer and The Alchemist's "Haram", Death From Above 1979's "Is 4 Loverz", Evanescence's new album, an Elvis Costello album, an album from The Antlers, AJR's god-awful "OK Orchestra" that everyone had to take a minute to trash talk, "Promises" by Floating Points et. al., Hannah Peel's album, a Neil Young live album, a Real Estate EP, serpentwithfeet's "Deacon", a Tune-Yards album, a Vic Mensa EP, and Xiu Xiu's twelfth album. Even ignoring the massive artists that dropped that day, literally a fourth of this top 20 [serpentwithfeet, For Those I Love, Armand Hammer/The Alchemist, Floating Points, and Hannah Peel] dropped on the same day in March.
I haven't followed music that closely this year but putting For Those I Love at your number 1 made me grin from ear to ear. This album is about a personal a eulogy as you can get, but dressed as it is in the Skinner-esque tales of the messy nights and the celebration of the scarcely voiced love between mates, becomes a deeply relatable celebration of life.
My Top 20: 1. Every Time I Die - Radical 2. Between the Buried and Me - Colours II 3. Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon 4. Gojira - Fortitude 5. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite 6. Black Midi - Cavalcade 7. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World 8. Converge - Bloodmoon: I 9. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu 10. Vola - Witness 11. Stortregn - Impermanence 12. White Moth Black Butterfly - The Cost of Dreaming 13. Cynic - Ascension Codes 14. Lantlôs - Wildhund 15. Turnstile - Glow On 16. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend 17. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole 18. Twelve Foot Ninja - Vengeance 19. The Absence - Coffinized 20. Be'Lakor - Coherence
Here’s mine: 1. Lingua Ignota | Sinner Get Ready 2. BRUIT ≤ | The Machine Is Burning and Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again 3. Pom Poko | Cheater 4. Portrayal of Guilt | We Are Always Alone 5. black midi | Cavalcade 6. Billy Strings | Renewal 7. Suffering Hour | The Cyclic Reckoning 8. Mare Cognitum | Solar Paroxysm 9. Sons of Kemet | Black to the Future 10. Delta Sleep | Spring Island 11. Silk Sonic | An Evening With Silk Sonic 12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor | G_d’s Pee at State’s End! 13. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra | Promises 14. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Shyga! The Sunlight Mound 15. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine | A Beginner’s Mind 16.The Armed | Ultrapop 17. Ka | A Martyr’s Reward 18. Cory Wong & Dirty Loops | Turbo 19. Really From | Really From 20. Serpent Column | Katartisis
Yay Rival Consoles and Self Esteem!! Some others in my top albums of 2021 I haven’t seen too much mention of: Sarah Mary Chadwick - Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby Amon Tobin - How Do You Live Theo Croker - BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days Hildegarde - Hildegarde Sarah Klang - VIRGO Bruiser Wolf - Dope Game Stupid Natalie Imbruglia - Firebird Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility
Great list as usual Oliver, always full of absolute gems. The For Those I Love listening party was one of the best I've been to, what an experience! Can't wait for more vids in the new year :)
Patrician picks as always, particularly pleased to see Really From here! I'll leave my 20 picks when I'm done with my lists, if anyone cares but I'll say this. Really happy each time I see you drop a new video, always a treat and new recommendations and since I'm not as deep into ambient as you, I missed some of these! As one obsessive music maniac to another, I sincerely thank you! Pupil Slicer pick caught me off guard and if you like Humanity's Last Breath, you gotta go with the T H A L L legends Vildhjarta. They returned in 2021 after ten long years of anticipation and it's insane. Will go through your picks when I am done with mine, cheers!
I heard about For Those I Love from your midyear list and finally got around to listening to it near the end of this year. Now its my favorite album of 2021 and probably one of my all time favorites too. It's really given me a lot of space to lament and hope along with David's story and I'm so thankful I get to hear it over and over. Thanks as always, Oliver.
How do people find these albums as they come out? I adore this list because I’m finding such great music but I’d love to be closer to the curve next year.
our top albums lists couldn't be more different, and yet we STILL ended up with the same #1 album hahahaha.... excellent vid, will definitely give these other records a listen!
Great list ! Here my personal top 10 1. Made Out of Sound - Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt 2. Impermanence/Disintegration - Bryce Dessner & Australian String Quartet 3. A Softer Focus - Claire Rousay 4. Será que ahora podremos entendernos - Mabe Fratti 5. 28 - S280F 6. Josquin the Undead: Laments, Deplorations and Dances of Death - Graindelavoix & Björn Schmelzer 7. Class Tourist - Morgan Wright 8. Pool - Skee Mask 9. Slitherman Activated - RXK Nephew 10. Nafs at Peace - Jaubi
Lovely job as always! Your channel has introduced me to such great music, and I couldn't be more grateful for your content. Have you heard the new album by the noise group the White Suns- the Lower Way. It's perhaps their most cohesive and intense releases of theirs, and I haven't seen enough people giving it the attention it deserves.
my favorite was backwash - I lie buried with my rings and my dresses. vicious industrial / metallic hip hop with incredible lyrics about the struggle of being black and queer
Yes to Self Esteem. “Prioritize Pleasure” is my track of the year. Is there a more empowering song of the year? The lyrics truly hit a chord, and the chorus is so infectious simultaneously. It’s a provocative track that makes you want to start it over as soon as it’s over. Truly phenomenal stuff. Not to mention the music video is simple yet so sexy.
Btw this is my Top 20 list for 2021! 20. For the first time - BCNR 19. Stand for Myself - Yola 18. FMTY - Quadeca 17. WOTI - Orla Gartland 16. FTBYH - James Blake 15. Promises - FP, PS & TLSO 14. Amine - TWOPOINTFIVE 13. Kick iiiii - Arca 12. Montero - Lil Nas X 11. BTTIGTP - Injury Reserve 10. Cavalcade - Black Midi 9. Harmony House - Dayglow 8. Donda - Kanye West 7. Life of a Don - Don Toliver 6. Civilisation - Kero Kero Bonito 5. Silk Sonic - Bruno and .Paak 4. Sling - Clairo 3. LP! JPEGMAFIA 2. Turning Wheel - Spellling 1. SIMBI - Little Simz
My top 10 of 2021: 10. Really From - Really From / Mercurial World - Magdalena Bay (TIE) 9. Let Me Do One More - illuminati hotties 8. Happier Than Ever - Billie Eilish 7. SIMBI - Little Simz 6. CMIFYGL - Tyler, the Creator 5. King's Disease II - Nas 4. Typical of Me - Laufey 3. Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast 2. Nature - Porter Robinson 1. An Evening With Silk Sonic - Silk Sonic
Album best year 2021. 1. inside (the songs) bo burnham 2. An Evening with Silk Sonic 3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert 4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant 5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales
Some of my favs this year Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant (Neo-Soul) Spirit of the Beehive - Entertainment, Death (Noise Pop) DJ Sabrina - Makin' Magick II (House) Lucid Express - Lucid Express (Shoegaze) Chvrches - Screen Violence (Synthpop) Pom Poko - Cheater (Indie Rock)
Album best year 2021. 1. inside (the songs) bo burnham 2. An Evening with Silk Sonic 3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert 4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant 5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales 6. Celeste not your muse
1) cassandra jenkins - an overview of phenomenal nature 2) spellling - the turning wheel 3) sufjan & angelo de augustine - A beginers mind 4) sloppy jane - madison 5) japanese breakfast - jubilee
really fantastic list and there are lots of records i agree with! Why didn't you include Low's Hey what? Not even in the "un certain regard" section at the beginning? EDIT: Also what are your thoughts on giant claw's mirror guide? Its my personal album of the year!
YES! As an Irish music head seeing For Those I Love on here just gave me the biggest smile. Such a fantastic album and an even more fantastic person from what my friends in Dublin have told me.
Very interesting top, thanks. And special thanks for mentioning For Those I Love before - this album very quickly became my favourite of this year and I also have it as my number one. Great record, very honest, sad, but at the same time - strangely bright and life-celebrating. Not a usual mix of emotions, at least for me.
Brilliant. I for one am intrigued to watch you age and weather, and to see your craft develop. You’ve broadened my mind and collection …… THANK YOU and please - don’t ever stop.
I will check that Pupil Slicer. Thnx Fav albums 2021 Roy Montgomery - Best Forgotten Work Low - Hey What Horsey - Debonair Mega Bog - Life, and Another Daniel Bachmann - Axacan Silk Sonic - An Evening With Colleen - The Tunnel and the Clearning Michael Hurley - Time of the Foxgloves Grouper - Shades Steve Gunn - Other You Ed Dowie - Obvious I Richard Dawson - Henki Wiki - Half God Tomaga - Intimate Immensity KA - A Martyr’s Reward Ghetts - Conflict Of Interest The Body - I’ve Seen All I Need To See Marcos Resende & Index -s/t Nite Jewel - No Sun Palmistry - Wyrdo Coffin Lurker - Foul and Defiled Vasconcelos Sentimento - Furto Bar Italia - bedhead EPs Refreshers - Way U Smile Tara Clerkin Trio - In Spring Laura Cannell - Janurary Sounds (& each of the following months) - 10 amazing EPs Timber Timbre - I Am Coming To Paris
Album best year 2021. 1. inside (the songs) bo burnham 2. An Evening with Silk Sonic 3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert 4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant 5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales
In no particular order, some of my favorites from this year that I think (still) need more love: To See The Next Part of the Dream - Parannoul New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning An Overview on Phenomenal Nature - Cassandra Jenkins True Love - Hovvdy Glow On - Turnstile
Awesome list! One album that also stood out to me was the Killers’ latest one, Pressure Machine. Pretty different to their usual shtick, and really thoughtfully crafted with a great concept and lyricism, and beautiful (often ethereal) songs to boot. Probably their best yet. Definitely worth checking out, even if you’re not a Killers fan.
amazing video, always great to see what you’re enjoying. really looking forward to hearing the albums on your list i haven’t!! my list is not totally complete atm, but here goes: 1. BTIGTP - Injury Reserve Injury Reserve was the soundtrack to my freshman year of high school, and the loss of Groggs hit me incredibly hard. A perfect album in every respect, they fired on all cylinders with this one. 2. SINNER GET READY - Lingua Ignota If you’ve listened you know. Not as good as 2019’s scathing masterpiece CALIGULA, but god damn. In light of recent news, I wish Kristen all the best and peace for the future. 3. G_d’s Pee AT STATES END - Godspeed You! Black Emperor It was so incredibly refreshing to hear a new Godspeed album, and one that is light years more interesting than Luciferian Towers (although I adore that record too). Proof the band is still innovating, even if the heights of their original run are impossible to top. 4. For the first time - Black Country, New Road Biggest grower of the year for me. First time hearing this, I loved it, but it didn’t click with me until a few months ago. It’s an album that wears its influences on its sleeve, but manages to sound like nothing else ever. Deserves all the hype. 5. Promises - Pharaoh Sanders, Floating Points, & the LSO To speak on what Pharaoh Sanders means to me would require an entire essay, so hearing he was putting out an album at this age was a welcome surprise. Upon actually listening to the album, I was dumbfounded that he could put out something so great 50+ years after his original string of masterpieces. 6. ITHSSPE - Sweet Trip It’s just a joy to hear new Sweet Trip music, something I and everyone else thought was a lost cause. A kaleidoscope of synesthetic beauty that I never want to end. 7. Black Metal 2 - Dean Blunt Short, but so so so sweet. The sequel lives up to the original. It’s not quite the genre-bending masterpiece that Black Metal was, but it’s Dean’s best work in a while, and endlessly enjoyable. 8. Faith In Persona - death’s dynamic shroud.wmv The most recent listen on this list, but goddamn. I’ve loved this group’s take on vaporwave, but this is a welcome new direction for them. Becomes a little bit more bouncy than the drugged-out digital landscapes of their earlier work, and it most certainly works. 9. Forever In Your Heart - Black Dresses Another newer listen, but this one is sticking with me. Black Dresses are two of the most innovative and badass people in the industry right now. This album only cements that. They disregard the blown-out hyperpop of Peaceful As Hell for what is essentially a straight noise rock/noise pop record here, complete with absurdly good songwriting and monstrous guitar work. 10. The Crashing Sound of How It Goes - Cities Aviv Cities Aviv narrowly beats out LP! for this spot, but ultimately TVSOHIG hits way better for me. It combines the new wave of abstract rap with a sonic diversity that makes a record this long consistently enjoyable.
where is Neptunian Maximalism - Solar Drone Ceremony SUNN 0))) - Metta, Benevolence CZLT - Junkyard ZAÄAR - Magicka Dzungla Dans Dans - Zink Polymelia - A Study on Drone and Synthesis Esoctrilihum - Dyth Requiem for the Serpent Telepath
I always look forward to these videos! My top 3 is: So Hideous - None But a Pure Heart Can Sing Squid - Bright Green Field Portrayal of Guilt - We are Always Alone
Well done Oliver, and thanks. I really appreciate the depth of thought and quality of insights you give on your reviews. AOTY are so difficult. I love your number 1 choice and Black Country New Road is brilliant and fresh as a daisy. I certainly don't know many of the others on your list, but will give them a try. Personally I'd have stuck in Cassandra Jenkins somewhere, Squid's amazing debut and (OK hate me) Billie Eilish too.
A record I don't see being brought up enough is Actually, You Can by Deerhoof. Though I'm a huge fan of em, I feel that this record is so fresh and unique, and it doesn't sound similar to anything, it's like it's whole own sound. It's disjointed, yet cohesive. I love it and recommend it to anyone who enjoys stuff like noisy experimental rock
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Great to see Oliver once again dressed as the CEO of music
I wish he was the CEO of music, the actual CEO of music unfortunately is that Spotify guy Daniel ECK.
gotta thank him for inventing music
Oliver is Chairman of The Board.
Hope you come back Oliver, we miss you! Anthony Fantano can’t hold music RUclips up on his own.
you always have the most unique lists of any of the music youtubers i watch. half the albums are incredible albums that i don't see on anyone else's lists.
Hes a real one.
I love your videos!
Europeans, that's why
Your videos are also some of the best content that can be found on this platform! Really appreciate your efforts, cheers. :)
@Lachlan Thompson Fantano's is a great way to keep a pulse on the industry. Deep Cuts is, well, deep cuts
1:31 - 20 : The War On Drugs, I don't Live Here Anymore
2:20 - 19 : serpentwithfeet, DEACON
3:20 - 18 : Floating Points (with Pharoah Sanders and the LSO), Promises
4:30 - 17 : Injury Reserve, By The Time I Get To Phoenix
5:50 - 16 : Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee
6:56 - 15 : The Armed, Ultrapop
7:55 - 14 : Sweet Trip, A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
9:03 - 13 : Hannah Peel, Fir Wave
10:00 - 12 : The Bug, Fire
11:22 - 11: Black Country, New Road, For the First Time
12:30 - 10 : Skee Mask, Pool
13:55 - 9 : Richard Dawson & Circle, Henki
14:52 - 8 : Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Carnage
16:22 - 7: Really From. Really From
17:35 - 6 : Armand Hammer and The Alchemist, Haram
18:25 - 5 : Rival Consoles, Pulses of Information
19:38 - 4: Black Midi, Cavalcade
20:48 - 3: Pupil Slicer, Mirrors
22:22 - 2 : Self Esteem, Prioritise Pleasure
24:05 - 1 : For those I love, For those I love
thanks bro
You’re the best
miss you oliver! thought of you today and hope you put out a video soon. with love from seattle ❤️
Missing you Oliver! Hope you're bringing out a new aoty (so far) soon
ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN
LOCKDOWN
The most wonderful time of the year
I've been listening to the deep cuts essentials albums and your videos on them throughout the year. I have just a few left to go, and have found some that I really like. I'm really glad I gave them a listen/watch. It's an awesome series and has really broadened my musical understanding.
Just a minor writing tip, but I think you could rely less on the words "life affirming." They crop up often, sometimes more than once in the same video. I say this mainly because I HATE LIFE AND WANT EVERYONE TO DIE. Happy New Year!
Nice tip, I would tend to agree! I often get a phrase stuck in my head when I’m doing a video, and that one crops up as much as ‘ethereal’ used to!
@@deepcuts omg an internet content creator who’s open to criticism
@@deepcuts Extra melodic hardcore with a greater emphasis on melody
@@deepcuts you also used "in a way that only X could do" twice in the video!
I'd like to throw it out there that using completely unique descriptive language while you're making music review videos isn't easy at ALL.
English is a hugely expansive language but there's still only so many phrases that fit so many things.
That shot of Boris seemed something akin to 70s Doctor Who
Just as eerie too
You?
my favorite of the year has to be Cavalcade by Black Midi. such a beautiful and wild album :)
Same
I wish I could get into it. I gave it a 7 but I wasn’t in love with it. I guess I like my prog to have more “songwriting” rather than just instrumental mania but that’s just me, maybe it’ll grow on me. My favourite tracks were the first two.
@@fruitrings2238 interesting, i feel like John L is their most instrumental mania-y song
@@zactishgarten7703 it's also pretty songwriting-y too. I'd say it has one of the most memorable hooks from the album -
ohhh thiswasthesceneon main street when john fifty comestotownnnn
@@fruitrings2238 What about Ascending Forth? As far as prog, I found that to be among the "songiest"
wait isn't the Rival Consoles project called "Overflow" and not "Pulses of Information"? think the latter was just one of the singles
anyways great list, absolutely here for the Hannah Peel and Skee Mask placements
Hahaha fuck I just checked and you’re right, no idea how I mixed that one up 😮
I'm relistening to my top 30 right now to solidify my order of them, and my top 5 right now are:
1. To See the Next Part of the Dream - Parannoul
2. The Path of the Clouds - Marissa Nadler
3. Mercurial World - Magdalena Bay
4. Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern - Lil Ugly Mane
5. Pushing Daisies - Julie
Your top 1 is so based that it could be the whole list
thank you for leaving this comment and introducing me to Parannoul
That new Lil Ugly Mane record is simply GOAT
Are you me
LUM and julie are 2 highlights of this year of many
It's the end of the year he's gonna appear again and dip for another 11 months
I hope you are happy and well Oliver. If youtube isn't what's best for you right now, so be it, but we'd all love to see you again.
The videos on your channel are a precious resource for the discovery and exploration of music. Cheers!
Dude, that intro with Boris was fucking hilarious, lmao. Keep up the good work, we love to have you back at your own pace.
Pool is my aoty
1. Skee Mask - Pool
2. Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders and the LSO - Promises
3. Little Simz - SIMBI
4. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
5. PinkPantheress - to hell with it
6. The Bug - Fire
7. Loraine James - Reflection
8. Terrence Dixon - Reporting from Detroit
9. Erika De Casier - Sensational
10. JPEGMAFIA - LP!
11. Kasper Marott - Full Circle
12. Joy Orbison - still slipping vol. 1
13. Porter Robinson - Nurture
14. Marco Shuttle - Cobalt Desert Oasis
15. Spellling - The Turning Wheel
16. Calibre - Feeling Normal
17. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
18. Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
19. Priori - Your Own Power
20. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
Nice list
Album best year 2021.
1. inside (the songs) bo burnham
2. An Evening with Silk Sonic
3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert
4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant
5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales
6. Celeste not your muse
Just a suggestion, can you add titles of artist and album somewhere AS you’re talking about the album? Sometimes I’m passively listen but tune back in when I hear something interesting and have to rewind until I find out what you’re talking about.
I’ll consider that for future videos!
A great list of albums! I would also say Arca’s KICK projects are by far some of the best this year especially iii and iiiii
i know! i was expecting him to include at least kick iii on the list and now my day is ruined 😀
My top 10 (best to worst)
1. Black Country, New Road
- For the first time
2. St. Vincent
- Daddy's Home
3. Spellling
- The Turning Wheel
4. Lil Ugly Mane
- VOLCANIC BIRD ENEMY AND THE VOICED CONCERN
5. Injury Reserve
- By the Time I Get to Phoenix
6. Little Simz
- Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
7. JPEGMAFIA
- LP! (Offline Version)
8. black midi
- Cavalcade
9. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine
- A Beginner’s Mind
10. Idles
- CRAWLER
I wonder what it would be if melon didn't exist
@@jccs98 the same, i usually rate albums on my aot quite before he drops his reviews, and its not like hes the only one who enjoyed a chunk of these albums, most are widely acclaimed to be the best of the year,
My last years top 10 was wildly different to his tho, i think the only album we each had in the top 10 was "whats your pleasure", and the dude left out the 2 of best albums of the year "fetch the bolt cutters" and "græ" , like seriosly these two are gonna be one of the best albums of the decade, so far they are in their own league.
Album best year 2021.
1. inside (the songs) bo burnham
2. An Evening with Silk Sonic
3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert
4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant
5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales
6. Celeste not your muse
1. Arthur Russell - Calling out of context
2. Viagra boys - street worms
3. New Order - Technique
4. Burial's second album i forget what its called
no other albums have been or will ever be relevant, ever. list over, get out of my face and comment section and do not come back
@@jccs98 lmao ok
The only album I've heard from your top five is Cavalcade, excited to check the rest out. My top 10 are:
10. Knoll - Interstice (awesome grindcore album)
9. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out of Sound (dreamy airy free improvisation on drums + guitar)
8. Anatol - Ana (polish lofi post-punk outfit with dino jr influence)
7. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
6. black midi - Cavalcade
5. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 (spacey nu jazz)
4. Monobody - Comma (jazz + math rock, incredible musicianship)
3. Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship (minimalist autobiographical concept album)
2. claire rousay - a softer focus (ambient record that seamlessly blends the recorded and the synthesized)
1. Jaubi - Nafs at Peace (pakistani quartet that unites musical styles into a cohesive whole, one of the most beautiful records I've ever listened to)
Hell yes to that Knoll album!
Thanks for Jaubi
Jaubi is fire!
You're right, Jaubi is soooo good. Thanks...
My Top 20 in it’s constantly changing order:
1: Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz
2: Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast
3: An Evening With Silk Sonic - Silk Sonic
4: Call Me If You Get Lost - Tyler, The Creator
5: Smiling With No Teeth - Genesis Owusu
6: We’re All Alone In This Together - Dave
7: Friends That Break Your Heart - James Blake
8: Blue Weekend - Wolf Alice
9: Collapsed in Sunbeams - Arlo Parks
10: Tyron - Slowthai
11: For the First Time - Black Country, New Road
12: I Don’t Live Here Anymore - The War on Drugs
13: Sling - Clairo
14: Mercurial World - Magdalena Bay
15: The Turning Wheel - Spellling
16: Talk Memory - BADBADNOTGOOD
17: LP! - JPEGMAFIA
18: By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Injury Reserve
19: Donda - Kanye West
20: GLOW ON - Turnstile
So much good music around thanks to the streaming-era saturation. There’s plenty for everyone to love right now, you just need to know where to find it and this channel is one of the best sources going
amazing list!
W
Good thorough list , personally would replace tyron with wlr
pitchfork-core, look for more music
@@kouka7221 are any semi-well reviewed albums pitchfork core now, or are these just mentioned too often for you
Really hope we get a best albums so far list come July, nothing compares to this channel
I feel like this channel takes over from pre-hiphop Needle drop
I'm always pleased to have my indie cred blown out of the water each year by your list. Definitely have a few albums that I have to listen to now! Just a specific recommendation for you - I think you'd like absent origin by mira calix, it's a really creative IDM/sound collage album (also her and Sean Booth are married. figured that'd be a selling point for you)
Anyway, my top 5 albums of the year are:
1. Lingua Ignota - SINNER GET READY
2. The Weather Station - Ignorance
3. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
4. Flock of Dimes - Head of Roses
5. Dean Blunt - BLACK METAL 2
nice. not enough dean blunt in these comments honestly
One of my personal choices for AOTY is definitely the soundtrack album for the film ‘Annette’ by Sparks
(A film that seemed to completely slip under the radar, Tbf it is mental, but I really loved the original music!)
Where are you Oliver? we miss you.
great year for music!
my favourite is probably by the time i get to pheonix or lux by approaching mountains (a very cool undeground ambient album reminiscent of early tim hecker).
Gonna check out Lux based on that description, thank you.
Nice recc, gonna check that out too!
@@i.hold.vertigo2329 same
By the time I get to phoenix is my album of the year! I’ll definitely check out lux.
1. For the first time - Black country, new road
2. Bright green field - Squid
3. A beginner's mind - Sufjan Stevens
4. G_d's pee at state's end! - GY!BE
5. A martyr's reward - KA
6. Smiling with no teeth - Genesis Owusu
7. Promises - Floating Points
8. Pray for Haiti - Mach-Hommy
9. Bo Jackson - Boldy James & The Alchemist
10. Vince Staples - Vince Staples
11. Isles - Bicep
12. Navy's Reprise - Navy Blue
13. Sometimes I might be introvert - Little Simz
14. Call me if you get lost - Tyler the creator
15. We had good times together - Sewerslvt
16. Hitler wear Hermes 8 : Side B - Westside Gunn
17. Lei Line Eon - Iglooghost
18. The light emitting diamond cutter scriptures - R.A.P. Ferreira
19. Black to the future - Sons of Kemet
20. TYRON - slowthai
21. Talk Memory - BadBadNotGood
22. HARAM - Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
23. Friends that break your heart - James Blake
24. Super What? - Czarface & MF DOOM
25. By the time I get to Phoenx - Injury Reserve
26. Yasuke - Flying Lotus
27. ROADRUNNER - Brockhampton
28. A tiny house… - Sweet Trip
29. Arca - kiCK iiiii
30. Donda. - Kanye West
31. Elephant in the room - Mick Jenkins
32. Cavalcade - black midi
33. Half God - Wiki
34. The plugs I met 2 - Benny the butcher
35. Garbology - Aesop Rock
36. Death and the magician - Dj Muggs & Rome Steez
37. Volcanic bird enemy - Lil Ugly Mane
38. Surrender - Rufus du sol
39. Parannoul - To see the next part of the dream
40. CARNAGE - Nick Cave
41. The life of Pi'erre 5 - Pi'erre Bourne
42. The House Is Burning - Isaiah Rashad
43. DEACON - serpentwithfeet
44. How long do you think.. - Big Red Machine
45. If it bleeds it can be killed - Conway
46. KICK ii - Arca
47. Chris Crack - Migh Delete Later
48. Last year was weird vol. 3 - Tkay Maidza
49. The last exit - Still Corners
50. Hey What - Low
oh god
Incredible stuff mate
Album best year 2021.
1. inside (the songs) bo burnham
2. An Evening with Silk Sonic
3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert
4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant
5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales
based
Squid!
I hope you get more time and funds to be able to make more videos on music. I love your series on 5 albums to get you into (blank). That is truly a stunning series. Part of me also wishes for a follow up on where those genres are now, what have they evolved into, and/or who is still carrying the torch for such movements. Anyways, you're stunning, you're beautiful, you look like you're Linda Evangelista, you're a model. You could wear a diaper on that stage and the judges would say, "Valentina! Your smile!".
baby come back
I'm surprised Spellling and Lingua Ignota didn't even get a mention.
Dito on Lingua Ignota.
the civilization mini-album by kero kero bonito may be a combination of previously released material i still think its the best album of the year and its become my favorite album of all time
civ was soooo good + well rested is the pop song of the year
Loved that album! Landed in my 6th fav of the year.
Wtf why did oliver meet boris johnson? Ahahah
The editing made me die laughing
Always excited to hear Oliver's year-end lists!! 🥳🥳🥳
AMAZING list as always, Oliver
Album best year 2021.
1. inside (the songs) bo burnham
2. An Evening with Silk Sonic
3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert
4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant
5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales
6. Celeste not your muse
Also, the record Hey What by the long-running experimental pop/slowcore group Low dropped this year and it's noisy, harsh and blissful at the same time. Quite an extraordinary feat to achieve and it proves that the duo are on the cutting edge of noisy experimental pop music.
Album of the year for me
Interesting list as always will definitely check some out. P. S where the hell is the Nine inch nails deep dive? 👍
I need to know the story behind that Boris photo
I had to interview him when he visited a vaccine centre. All very odd
Not having been a Richard Dawson fan, I was so surprised by Henki. Circle really fills out Dawsons lyrics and singing. Glad you included it on your list
Defo something for everybody in 2021...and you probably caught it standing next to Boris Johnson!
I was thinking that as I stood there
Miss u Papi 😔 it’s a painful summer
My favourite album of the year is Parannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream
Sure, The war of drugs album cover was bad, but nothing will ever top CLB for me personally, one of the biggest popstars releasing that is just... Too much personally. The emojis? Really Drake?
Easily Promises by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the LSO.
You should really check out Imperative Imperceptible Impulse by the Italian avant-garde death metal band Ad Nauseam. It is a truly mind-bending record full of dissonance and atonality. It sounds like Ulcerate or Gorguts by way of post-modernist classical music. Just... insane stuff! Go listen to it; mere words cannot do it justice!
Came looking for this year's Albums of the Year as last year's was so great - I hope you're doing well, and come back to RUclips some day ❤️
What I love about your channel is that it inevitably drags me kicking and screaming from my musical comfort zone...from your 20 albums I've taken away 7 new artists [for me] to explore further... I can say one thing with certainty though, my wife is going to hate Pupil Slicer... and my 9 year old is going to love it :)
Awaiting your 2022 review so far. So much great stuff this year too!
My top 5 albums of the year:
1. Injury Reserve - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
2.Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
3. Floating Points - Promises
4. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
5. Porter Robinson - Nurture
Honorable Mentions: Black Midi - Cavalcade, Tyler the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost, Armand Hammer and The Alchemist - Haram
Donde esta Donda Sènor Oliver???
Hey! Man! Hope you are doing well! Can you talk a little bit about The Caretaker? Thanks!
I would like to know your tought about that project.
Simbi relegated to honorable mentions, disagreed
Totally agree with the #1 pick. I'm kind of shocked that so many music critics haven't talked about this album. Pitchfork and The Needle Drop didn't even review it.
Sorry about the last comment, thought you meant the Self Esteem album. For Those I Love also had a *really* tough release date to get attention - it was released the same day as Armand Hammer and The Alchemist's "Haram", Death From Above 1979's "Is 4 Loverz", Evanescence's new album, an Elvis Costello album, an album from The Antlers, AJR's god-awful "OK Orchestra" that everyone had to take a minute to trash talk, "Promises" by Floating Points et. al., Hannah Peel's album, a Neil Young live album, a Real Estate EP, serpentwithfeet's "Deacon", a Tune-Yards album, a Vic Mensa EP, and Xiu Xiu's twelfth album. Even ignoring the massive artists that dropped that day, literally a fourth of this top 20 [serpentwithfeet, For Those I Love, Armand Hammer/The Alchemist, Floating Points, and Hannah Peel] dropped on the same day in March.
Deep cuts x Boris Johnson collab when?
The new Godspeed You! Is pretty amazing! Took me a little bit to get into it but I kinda love it right now
What did you think about JPEGMAFIA’s “LP!”?
is he gonna be back for this year's list...?
I haven't followed music that closely this year but putting For Those I Love at your number 1 made me grin from ear to ear. This album is about a personal a eulogy as you can get, but dressed as it is in the Skinner-esque tales of the messy nights and the celebration of the scarcely voiced love between mates, becomes a deeply relatable celebration of life.
My Top 20:
1. Every Time I Die - Radical
2. Between the Buried and Me - Colours II
3. Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
4. Gojira - Fortitude
5. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
6. Black Midi - Cavalcade
7. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World
8. Converge - Bloodmoon: I
9. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
10. Vola - Witness
11. Stortregn - Impermanence
12. White Moth Black Butterfly - The Cost of Dreaming
13. Cynic - Ascension Codes
14. Lantlôs - Wildhund
15. Turnstile - Glow On
16. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
17. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole
18. Twelve Foot Ninja - Vengeance
19. The Absence - Coffinized
20. Be'Lakor - Coherence
Nice. I liked Vola a lot this year
Here’s mine:
1. Lingua Ignota | Sinner Get Ready
2. BRUIT ≤ | The Machine Is Burning and Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again
3. Pom Poko | Cheater
4. Portrayal of Guilt | We Are Always Alone
5. black midi | Cavalcade
6. Billy Strings | Renewal
7. Suffering Hour | The Cyclic Reckoning
8. Mare Cognitum | Solar Paroxysm
9. Sons of Kemet | Black to the Future
10. Delta Sleep | Spring Island
11. Silk Sonic | An Evening With Silk Sonic
12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor | G_d’s Pee at State’s End!
13. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra | Promises
14. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Shyga! The Sunlight Mound
15. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine | A Beginner’s Mind
16.The Armed | Ultrapop
17. Ka | A Martyr’s Reward
18. Cory Wong & Dirty Loops | Turbo
19. Really From | Really From
20. Serpent Column | Katartisis
Yay Rival Consoles and Self Esteem!!
Some others in my top albums of 2021 I haven’t seen too much mention of:
Sarah Mary Chadwick - Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby
Amon Tobin - How Do You Live
Theo Croker - BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST
Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days
Hildegarde - Hildegarde
Sarah Klang - VIRGO
Bruiser Wolf - Dope Game Stupid
Natalie Imbruglia - Firebird
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility
ULTRAPOP was this year? Fuck me, it was a long one
2021 felt a decade long didn’t it
Great list as usual Oliver, always full of absolute gems. The For Those I Love listening party was one of the best I've been to, what an experience! Can't wait for more vids in the new year :)
Patrician picks as always, particularly pleased to see Really From here! I'll leave my 20 picks when I'm done with my lists, if anyone cares but I'll say this. Really happy each time I see you drop a new video, always a treat and new recommendations and since I'm not as deep into ambient as you, I missed some of these! As one obsessive music maniac to another, I sincerely thank you!
Pupil Slicer pick caught me off guard and if you like Humanity's Last Breath, you gotta go with the T H A L L legends Vildhjarta. They returned in 2021 after ten long years of anticipation and it's insane. Will go through your picks when I am done with mine, cheers!
I heard about For Those I Love from your midyear list and finally got around to listening to it near the end of this year. Now its my favorite album of 2021 and probably one of my all time favorites too. It's really given me a lot of space to lament and hope along with David's story and I'm so thankful I get to hear it over and over. Thanks as always, Oliver.
How do people find these albums as they come out? I adore this list because I’m finding such great music but I’d love to be closer to the curve next year.
our top albums lists couldn't be more different, and yet we STILL ended up with the same #1 album hahahaha.... excellent vid, will definitely give these other records a listen!
Tis a pity that your wonderful channel has been in hibernation for such a long long time 😢
Great list ! Here my personal top 10
1. Made Out of Sound - Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
2. Impermanence/Disintegration - Bryce Dessner & Australian String Quartet
3. A Softer Focus - Claire Rousay
4. Será que ahora podremos entendernos - Mabe Fratti
5. 28 - S280F
6. Josquin the Undead: Laments, Deplorations and Dances of Death - Graindelavoix & Björn Schmelzer
7. Class Tourist - Morgan Wright
8. Pool - Skee Mask
9. Slitherman Activated - RXK Nephew
10. Nafs at Peace - Jaubi
That’s a challenging list po… I like your style…
@@ramirendall8665 thank you :D
Lovely job as always! Your channel has introduced me to such great music, and I couldn't be more grateful for your content. Have you heard the new album by the noise group the White Suns- the Lower Way. It's perhaps their most cohesive and intense releases of theirs, and I haven't seen enough people giving it the attention it deserves.
my favorite was backwash - I lie buried with my rings and my dresses. vicious industrial / metallic hip hop with incredible lyrics about the struggle of being black and queer
Yes to Self Esteem. “Prioritize Pleasure” is my track of the year. Is there a more empowering song of the year? The lyrics truly hit a chord, and the chorus is so infectious simultaneously. It’s a provocative track that makes you want to start it over as soon as it’s over. Truly phenomenal stuff. Not to mention the music video is simple yet so sexy.
Btw this is my Top 20 list for 2021!
20. For the first time - BCNR
19. Stand for Myself - Yola
18. FMTY - Quadeca
17. WOTI - Orla Gartland
16. FTBYH - James Blake
15. Promises - FP, PS & TLSO
14. Amine - TWOPOINTFIVE
13. Kick iiiii - Arca
12. Montero - Lil Nas X
11. BTTIGTP - Injury Reserve
10. Cavalcade - Black Midi
9. Harmony House - Dayglow
8. Donda - Kanye West
7. Life of a Don - Don Toliver
6. Civilisation - Kero Kero Bonito
5. Silk Sonic - Bruno and .Paak
4. Sling - Clairo
3. LP! JPEGMAFIA
2. Turning Wheel - Spellling
1. SIMBI - Little Simz
I know I’m late on this but you should do a guide to current 93
My top 10 of 2021:
10. Really From - Really From / Mercurial World - Magdalena Bay (TIE)
9. Let Me Do One More - illuminati hotties
8. Happier Than Ever - Billie Eilish
7. SIMBI - Little Simz
6. CMIFYGL - Tyler, the Creator
5. King's Disease II - Nas
4. Typical of Me - Laufey
3. Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast
2. Nature - Porter Robinson
1. An Evening With Silk Sonic - Silk Sonic
Album best year 2021.
1. inside (the songs) bo burnham
2. An Evening with Silk Sonic
3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert
4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant
5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales
Some of my favs this year
Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant (Neo-Soul)
Spirit of the Beehive - Entertainment, Death (Noise Pop)
DJ Sabrina - Makin' Magick II (House)
Lucid Express - Lucid Express (Shoegaze)
Chvrches - Screen Violence (Synthpop)
Pom Poko - Cheater (Indie Rock)
Album best year 2021.
1. inside (the songs) bo burnham
2. An Evening with Silk Sonic
3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert
4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant
5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales
6. Celeste not your muse
@@maryannappiagyei4277 solid list ;)
Yoooo Deep Cuts X Bojo collab?
Where you at??
Thanks for the video Taron Egerton, you have great picks!
1) cassandra jenkins - an overview of phenomenal nature
2) spellling - the turning wheel
3) sufjan & angelo de augustine - A beginers mind
4) sloppy jane - madison
5) japanese breakfast - jubilee
He's alive !
Edit, wait what, you're standing next to Boris...what 😄
really fantastic list and there are lots of records i agree with! Why didn't you include Low's Hey what? Not even in the "un certain regard" section at the beginning?
EDIT: Also what are your thoughts on giant claw's mirror guide? Its my personal album of the year!
Been a fan of this channel since late 2018, so sad to see that the channel is dying. Always loved your videos
YES! As an Irish music head seeing For Those I Love on here just gave me the biggest smile. Such a fantastic album and an even more fantastic person from what my friends in Dublin have told me.
Mmm Floating Points at 18?!? IM FUMING 😡
Jokes aside, it’s always a pleasure hearing your thoughts.
Very interesting top, thanks. And special thanks for mentioning For Those I Love before - this album very quickly became my favourite of this year and I also have it as my number one. Great record, very honest, sad, but at the same time - strangely bright and life-celebrating. Not a usual mix of emotions, at least for me.
love to see the Sweet Trip inclusion!
Brilliant. I for one am intrigued to watch you age and weather, and to see your craft develop. You’ve broadened my mind and collection …… THANK YOU and please - don’t ever stop.
Cannot thank you enough Oliver for that Self Esteem recommendation, I am speechless. Wow!
Very excited for your eventual return. Love all these vids, can’t wait to get more!
I will check that Pupil Slicer. Thnx
Fav albums 2021
Roy Montgomery - Best Forgotten Work
Low - Hey What
Horsey - Debonair
Mega Bog - Life, and Another
Daniel Bachmann - Axacan
Silk Sonic - An Evening With
Colleen - The Tunnel and the Clearning
Michael Hurley - Time of the Foxgloves
Grouper - Shades
Steve Gunn - Other You
Ed Dowie - Obvious I
Richard Dawson - Henki
Wiki - Half God
Tomaga - Intimate Immensity
KA - A Martyr’s Reward
Ghetts - Conflict Of Interest
The Body - I’ve Seen All I Need To See
Marcos Resende & Index -s/t
Nite Jewel - No Sun
Palmistry - Wyrdo
Coffin Lurker - Foul and Defiled
Vasconcelos Sentimento - Furto
Bar Italia - bedhead
EPs
Refreshers - Way U Smile
Tara Clerkin Trio - In Spring
Laura Cannell - Janurary Sounds (& each of the following months) - 10 amazing EPs
Timber Timbre - I Am Coming To Paris
Album best year 2021.
1. inside (the songs) bo burnham
2. An Evening with Silk Sonic
3. little simz sometimes i might be introvert
4. Hiatus Kaiyote. Mood valiant
5. jazmine sullivan heaux tales
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In no particular order, some of my favorites from this year that I think (still) need more love:
To See The Next Part of the Dream - Parannoul
New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning
An Overview on Phenomenal Nature - Cassandra Jenkins
True Love - Hovvdy
Glow On - Turnstile
WAS THAT FUCKING BORIS???
we share so many in our lists, such great taste
Awesome list! One album that also stood out to me was the Killers’ latest one, Pressure Machine. Pretty different to their usual shtick, and really thoughtfully crafted with a great concept and lyricism, and beautiful (often ethereal) songs to boot. Probably their best yet. Definitely worth checking out, even if you’re not a Killers fan.
amazing video, always great to see what you’re enjoying. really looking forward to hearing the albums on your list i haven’t!!
my list is not totally complete atm, but here goes:
1. BTIGTP - Injury Reserve
Injury Reserve was the soundtrack to my freshman year of high school, and the loss of Groggs hit me incredibly hard. A perfect album in every respect, they fired on all cylinders with this one.
2. SINNER GET READY - Lingua Ignota
If you’ve listened you know. Not as good as 2019’s scathing masterpiece CALIGULA, but god damn. In light of recent news, I wish Kristen all the best and peace for the future.
3. G_d’s Pee AT STATES END - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
It was so incredibly refreshing to hear a new Godspeed album, and one that is light years more interesting than Luciferian Towers (although I adore that record too). Proof the band is still innovating, even if the heights of their original run are impossible to top.
4. For the first time - Black Country, New Road
Biggest grower of the year for me. First time hearing this, I loved it, but it didn’t click with me until a few months ago. It’s an album that wears its influences on its sleeve, but manages to sound like nothing else ever. Deserves all the hype.
5. Promises - Pharaoh Sanders, Floating Points, & the LSO
To speak on what Pharaoh Sanders means to me would require an entire essay, so hearing he was putting out an album at this age was a welcome surprise. Upon actually listening to the album, I was dumbfounded that he could put out something so great 50+ years after his original string of masterpieces.
6. ITHSSPE - Sweet Trip
It’s just a joy to hear new Sweet Trip music, something I and everyone else thought was a lost cause. A kaleidoscope of synesthetic beauty that I never want to end.
7. Black Metal 2 - Dean Blunt
Short, but so so so sweet. The sequel lives up to the original. It’s not quite the genre-bending masterpiece that Black Metal was, but it’s Dean’s best work in a while, and endlessly enjoyable.
8. Faith In Persona - death’s dynamic shroud.wmv
The most recent listen on this list, but goddamn. I’ve loved this group’s take on vaporwave, but this is a welcome new direction for them. Becomes a little bit more bouncy than the drugged-out digital landscapes of their earlier work, and it most certainly works.
9. Forever In Your Heart - Black Dresses
Another newer listen, but this one is sticking with me. Black Dresses are two of the most innovative and badass people in the industry right now. This album only cements that. They disregard the blown-out hyperpop of Peaceful As Hell for what is essentially a straight noise rock/noise pop record here, complete with absurdly good songwriting and monstrous guitar work.
10. The Crashing Sound of How It Goes - Cities Aviv
Cities Aviv narrowly beats out LP! for this spot, but ultimately TVSOHIG hits way better for me. It combines the new wave of abstract rap with a sonic diversity that makes a record this long consistently enjoyable.
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Neptunian Maximalism - Solar Drone Ceremony
SUNN 0))) - Metta, Benevolence
CZLT - Junkyard
ZAÄAR - Magicka Dzungla
Dans Dans - Zink
Polymelia - A Study on Drone and Synthesis
Esoctrilihum - Dyth Requiem for the Serpent Telepath
I always look forward to these videos!
My top 3 is:
So Hideous - None But a Pure Heart Can Sing
Squid - Bright Green Field
Portrayal of Guilt - We are Always Alone
god that So Hideous is so good
@@johnisaac5703 Dude, I just discovered them, and this album blew my mind
Well done Oliver, and thanks. I really appreciate the depth of thought and quality of insights you give on your reviews. AOTY are so difficult. I love your number 1 choice and Black Country New Road is brilliant and fresh as a daisy. I certainly don't know many of the others on your list, but will give them a try. Personally I'd have stuck in Cassandra Jenkins somewhere, Squid's amazing debut and (OK hate me) Billie Eilish too.
A record I don't see being brought up enough is Actually, You Can by Deerhoof. Though I'm a huge fan of em, I feel that this record is so fresh and unique, and it doesn't sound similar to anything, it's like it's whole own sound. It's disjointed, yet cohesive. I love it and recommend it to anyone who enjoys stuff like noisy experimental rock