NPR: The Best Albums of 2021
01. Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales
02. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
03. Lucy Dacus – Home Video
04. Allison Russell – Outside Child
05. C. Tangana – El Madrileño
06. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
07. Arooj Aftab – Vulture Prince
08. Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams
09. Vince Staples – Vince Staples
10. Wild Up – Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine
11. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
12. Helado Negro – Far In
13. Tyler, The Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost
14. Adele – 30
15. Tems – If Orange Was A Place
16. Baby Keem – The Melodic Blue
17. Willow – Lately I Feel Everything
18. Mach-Hommy – Pray For Haiti
19. illuminati hotties – Let Me Do One More
20. Injury Reserve – By The Time I Get To Phoenix
21. Low – Hey What
22. PinkPantheress – To Hell With It
23. Mickey Guyton – Remember Her Name
24. Turnstile – Glow On
25. Eris Drew – Quivering In Time
26. Cleo Sol – Mother
27. Toumani Diabaté And The London Symphony Orchestra – Kôrôlén
28. Summer Walker – Still Over It
29. Lukah – When The Black Hand Touches You
30. Lil Nas X – Montero
31. Doja Cat – Planet Her
32. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant
33. James Brandon Lewis – Jesup Wagon
34. Emily D’Angelo – Enargeia
35. Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia Of The Air
36. Spellling – The Turning Wheel
37. Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange
38. Mon Laferte – SEIS
39. Mike – Disco!
40. Yasmin Williams – Urban Driftwood
41. Susana Baca – Palabras Urgentes
42. Kenny Garrett – Sounds From The Ancestors
43. Yebba – Dawn
44. Adia Victoria – A Southern Gothic
45. Rodrigo Amarante – Drama
46. Gewandhausorchester Leipzig•Nelsons•Repin – Sofia Gubaidulina: Orchestral Works
47. Artifacts – …and then there’s this
48. Pink Siifu – GUMBO‘!
49. Circuit des Yeux -io
50. Silk Sonic – An Evening With Silk Sonic
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