Professor Rex's Favorite Albums of 2021

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Okay, finally got around to checking out the last few albums on my list and here is my comprehensive, eclectic, diverse set of Best Albums of 2021. The basic criteria is quality and quantity. These are the albums I listened to in 2021 that had the most good music on them.

  • Angels & Airwaves, "Lifeforms"

  • Billie Eilish, "Happier Than Ever"

  • Bleachers, "Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night"

  • Brockhampton, "Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine"

  • CHVRCHES, "Screen Violence"

  • Courtney Barnett, "Things Take Time, Take Time"

  • Danny Elfman, "Big Mess"

  • Dee Gees, "Hail Satin"

  • DMX, "Exodus"

  • Duran Duran, "FUTURE PAST"

  • Eddie Vedder, "Matter of Time"

  • Eels, "Extreme Witchcraft"

  • Foo Fighters, "Medicine At Midnight"

  • Garbage, "No Gods Mo Masters"

  • Gojira, "Fortitude"

  • J. Cole, "The Off-Season"

  • Kings of Leon, "When You See Yourself"

  • Laura Jane Grace, "At War With the Silverfish"

  • Lil Nas X, "MONTERO"

  • Liz Phair, "Soberish"

  • Lorde, "Solar Power"

  • Lucy Dacus, "Home Video"

  • Mach-Hommy, "Pray for Haiti"

  • Megan Thee Stallion, "Something for thee Hotties"

  • Olivia Rodrigo, "SOUR"

  • Pink Navel, "EPIC"

  • Public Enemy, "What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?"

  • Riz Ahmed, "The Long Goodbye"

  • Serj Tankian, "Elasticity"

  • Surf Gang, "SGV1"

  • Tierra Whack, "Pop?/Rap?/R&B?"

  • Twenty One Pilots, "Scaled and Icy"

  • Various Artists, "The Harder They Fall (The Motion Picture Soundtrack)"

Second, here are a few artists that, if all their 2021 work was all on the same album, they would've made the list, too:

  • Angel Olsen

  • Finneas

  • Jenny Lewis & Serengeti

  • The Linda Lindas

  • Rico Nasty

  • Saweetie

  • Tom Morello

Finally, here are a few albums from the few years before 2021 that I first listened to in 2021, but they would've made the list in the year they came out (I think these are all from 2017-2020).

  • Foxy Shazam, "Burn"

  • IDLES, "Joy as an Act of Resistance"

  • Jack Stauber, "Pop Food"

  • Kid Cudi, "Man on the Moon III: The Chosen"

  • Laura Jane Grace, "Stay Alive"

  • Nas, "King's Disease"

  • The Network, "Money Money 2020 Part II: We Told You So"

  • Run the Jewels, "RTJ4"

  • The Struts, "Strange Days"

  • Taylor Swift, "folklore"