Best CDs of 2021


1. MAN ON MAN "MAN ON MAN"
2. Low "HEY WHAT"
3. Dry Cleaning "New Long Leg"
4. Sault "Nine"
5. Alien Boy "Don't Know What I Am"
6. IDLES "CRAWLER"
7. Parquet Courts "Sympathy For Life"
8. Nation of Language "A Way Forward"
9. Garbage "No Gods No Masters"
10. ABBA "Voyage"
Field Music "Flat White Moon"
Christian Lee Hutson "Beginners"
Vanishing Twin "Ookii Gekkou"
Har Mar Superstar "Roseville"
Bad Bad Hats "Walkman"
The War On Drugs "I Don't Want To Live Here Anymore"
Cloud Nothings "The Shadow I Remember"
Cassandra Jenkins "An Overview on Phenomenal Nature"
Billie Eilish "Happier Than Ever"
John Grant "Boy From Michigan"
Lindsey Buckingham "Lindsey Buckingham"
Jónsi "Obsidian"
Chvrches "Screen Violence"
Soundtrack "Dear Evan Hansen"
St. Vincent "Daddy's Home"
Lil Nas X "MONTERO"
Bleachers "Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night"
Sturgill Simpson "The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita"
Claud "Super Monster"
Jane Weaver "Flock"
Elbow "Flying Dream 1"
They Might Be Giants "Book"
Godspeed You! Black Emperor "G-d's Pee AT STATE'S END"
Django Django "Glowing In The Dark"
Information Society "ODDfellows"
Yves Tumor "The Asymptotical World EP"
Olivia Rodrigo "SOUR"
Sleaford Mods "Spare Ribs"
John Linnell "Roman Songs"
Duran Duran "Future Past"
Jarvis Cocker "CHANSONS d'ENNUI Tip-Top"
James Blake "Friends That Break Your Heart"
Explosions In The Sky "Big Bend (Soundtrack)"
Illuminati Hotties "Let Me Do One More"
tUnE-yArDs "sketchy."
The Mountain Goats "Dark In Here"
Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis "She Walks In Beauty"
Adrienne Iapalucci "Baby Skeletons"
Los Lobos "Native Sons"
tUnE-yArDs "sketchy."
The Hold Steady "Open Door Policy"
Liars "The Apple Drop"
Coldplay "Music Of The Spheres"

Best Techno CDs of 2021


1. black midi "Cavalcade"
2. Arca "ii", "iii", and "iiii"
3. Seefeel "Rupt + Flex 94-96"
Madlib "Sound Ancestors"
Sunroof "Electronic Music Improvisations Vol. 1"
Burial & Blackdown "Shock Power of Love" and Burial "Chemz/ Dolphins"
Darkside "Spiral"
Martin Gore "The Third Chimpanzee"/ "The Third Chimpanzee Remixed"
Max Richter "Voices 2"
Bicep "Isles"
DJ Seinfeld "Mirrors"
Public Service Broadcasting "Bright Magic"

Best CD Reissues of 2021


1. Aztec Camera "Backwards And Forwards: The WEA Recordings 1984-1995"
2. The Vapors "Waiting For The Weekend"
3. The dB's "I Thought You Wanted to Know: 1978-1981"
k.d. lang "Makeover"
The Replacements "Sorry Ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash"
The Avalanches "Since I Left You"
Robyn Hitchcock "The Man Downstairs: Demos & Rarities"
Cloud Nothings "Live @ The Grog Shop"
Donald Fagen "The Nightfly: Live"
Steely Dan "Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!"
Patrick Cowley "White Trash Boom-Boom"
The The "The Comeback Special"
They Might Be Giants "Secret Music Vol. 2

Worst CDs of 2021


1. Lorde "Solar Power"
2. Andrew W.K. "God Is Partying"
3. Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders "Promises"
4. EOB "Earth"
5. Prince "Welcome 2 America"
Crowded House "Dreamers Are Waiting"
DEVO's Gerald V. Casale "AKA Jihad Jerry & The Evildoers"
Radiohead "Kid A Mnesia"
Adele "30"
Sting "The Bridge"
Colin Hay "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself"

Best CD Cover of 2021


1. Man On Man "Man On Man"
2. IDLES "Crawler"
3. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die "Illusory Walls"
Squid “Bright Green Field”
Storefront Church "After The Alphabets"
Darkside “Spiral”
Sad Night Dynamite “Sad Night Dynamite”
Bicep “Isles”
Small Black “Cheap Dreams”
Loraine James “Reflection”
Claire George “The Land Beyond The Light”
Arca “Kick ii”, “Kick iii”, “Kick iiii”, and “Kick iiiii”

Worst CD Cover of 2021


1. Julien Baker "Little Oblivions"
2. The War on Drugs "LIVE DRUGS"
3. David Bowie “Toy”
Drake “Certified Lover Boy"
Liz Phair “Soberish”
The Offspring “Let The Bad Times Roll”
Crowded House "Dreamers Are Waiting"
Blitzen Trapper "Holy Smokes Future Jokes"
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga "Love For Sale"
Greeting Committee “Dandelion”
Ed Sheeran "="
Foo Fighters “Medicine At Midnight”
Justin Bieber “Justice”
Indigo De Souza “Any Shape You Take”

Ten Best Movies of 2021


1. Swan Song
2. The Amusement Park
3. How It Ends
4. Pray Away
5. The French Dispatch Of The Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
6. Flee
7. Pig
8. Supernova
9. Encanto
10. Together Together
The Green Knight
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Love and Monsters
Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Nobody
I Care A Lot
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Good Movies From Last Year I Finally Saw This Year
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1. Extra Ordinary
2. The Twentieth Century
3. Uncle Peckerhead
4. Uncle Frank
5. The Wolf House
Hour Shift
Freaky
Ammonite
The Father
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Worst Movies of 2021


1. The Woman in the Window
2. Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions
3. Possessor: Uncut
4. Da 5 Bloods
5. Pieces of a Woman
She Dies Tomorrow
VHYes
Oates Studios
Cosmic Sin
The Hunt
The Beach House
Cosmic Sin
Old
Licorice Pizza
The Addams Family 2
West Side Story
Shirley
You Should Have Left
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Antlers
Cube (2021)
A Glitch In The Matrix

Best Videogames of 2021


Superliminal
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
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Best Phone Games of 2021
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Crash Delivery
Mouse Hunt

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