Some of my favourite releases from 2021
The Gorstey Lea Street Choir “Up With The Larks” from …from Prince’s Park to Farsley – Volume I
The Nearlys “Captives” from Someone I Used To Know
Eamon The Destroyer “Someone I Used To Know” from A Small Blue Car
Cathal Coughlan “Owl In The Parlour” from Song of Co-Aklan
Léanie Kaleido “Sweet Science” from How To Weigh A Whale Without A Scale
Harry Stafford and Marco Butcher “Hide The Knives” from Bone Architecture
Agent Starling “The Parting Glass” from European Howl
Blokeacola “Bullets and Condoms” from Bullets and Condoms
Bunny and The Invalid Singers “A Sniper’s Heart” from Flight of the Uncertainty Kids
Charlie Nieland “Divisions” from Divisions
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys “Evening Train” from Transit Tapes
Ron S Peno and The Superstitions “When Worlds Collide” from Do The Understanding
Sarah Mc Quaid “The Silence Above Us” from The St Buryan Sessions
Ellie De Mon “Prove It On Me Blues” from Countin’ The Blues
Shannon & the Clams “Do I Want To Stay” from Year of the Spider
Inca Babies “Walk In The Park” from Walk In The Park
Lingua Ignota “Pennsylvania Furnace” from Sinner Get Ready
John Coltrane “A Love Supreme, Pt. IV – Psalm” from A Love Supreme – Live in Seattle
Ben Monder Tony Malaby Tom Rainey “Suite 3320 – Part III” from Live at 55 Bar
Scientists “Outsider” from Negativity
Springtime “Will To Power” from Springtime
Tropical Fuck Storm “The Greatest Story Ever Told” from Deep States
Dave Graney and Clare Moore “I Knew The Wild Angels” from Everything Was Funny
Dave Graney and the mistLy “Rock and Roll Is Where I Hide” from Live at Byrds
The full top 40 list of album releases for the year was:
| 1 = | Dave Graney and Clare Moore – Everything Was Funny |
| 1 = | Dave Graney and the Mistly – Live At Byrds |
| 3 | Springtime – Springtime |
| 4 | Tropical Fuck Storm – Deep States |
| 5 | John Coltrane – A Love Supreme Live in Seattle |
| 6 | Inca Babies – Swamp Street Soul |
| 7 | Ron S Peno and The Superstitions – Do The Understanding |
| 8 | Scientists – Negativity |
| 9 | Shannon and the Clams – Year of The Spider |
| 10 | Ben Monder, Tony Malaby, Tom Rainey – Live at 55 Bar |
| 11 | The Gorstey Lea Street Choir from Prince’s Park to Farsley – Volume I |
| 12 | Playfield – Volume 1 – 3 |
| 13 | Léanie Kaleido – How To Weigh A Whale Without A Scale |
| 14 | Cathal Coughlan – Song of Co-Aklan |
| 15 | Dead Sea Apes Black Tempest Adam Stone – Dataland |
| 16 | Divide and Dissolve – Gas Lit |
| 17 | Eamon The Destroyer – A Small Blue Car |
| 18 | Bunny and The Invalid Singers – The Flight of the Certainty Kids |
| 19 | Harry Stafford and Marco Butcher – Bone Architecture |
| 20 | Agent Starling – European Howl |
| 21 | Charlie Nieland – Divisions |
| 22 | The Nearlys – Someone I Used To Know |
| 23 | Various – The Magnolia Sessions – Series Two |
| 24 | The Antikaroshi – Extract.Transform.Debase |
| 25 | Struggles WIth Syntax – Perichor |
| 26 | Sarah McQuaid – The St Buryan Sessions |
| 27 | Melvins – Working With God |
| 28 | Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys – Transit Tapes |
| 29 | Lignua Ignota – Sinner Get Ready |
| 30 | Kammahav – Distans |
| 31 | Hareitis Harper – Draft |
| 32 | Fly Pan Am – Frontera |
| 33 | Melvins – Five Legged Dog |
| 34 | BIG | BRAVE – Vital |
| 35 | Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band – Ancient Chain |
| 36 | Damn Vandals – You Me The Devil And The Sunshine |
| 37 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! |
| 38 | Elli De Mon – Countin’ The Blues |
| 39 | Fatherfigures – Any Time Now… And High Time Too Lockdown Sessions |
| 40 | The Speed of Sound – Museum of Tomorrow |
Different Noises 