As I’ve done for the past two years, I’m gonna use this page to chronicle every new release I listen to in 2021 – complete with a handy rating from 1 to 10. I’ll update this page every other week or so. If you think there’s a release missing from the list that I should check out, give me a yell and I’ll smack it on the backburner!
Last update: Friday February 26th, 2021.
Albums
- 7-11 Jesus – Tree Dream (3.5/10)
- A Day To Remember – You’re Welcome (8/10)
- Aliceissleeping – Completely Fine (7/10)
- The Antlers – Gold To Green (7/10)
- Architects – For Those That Wish To Exist (8/10)
- Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams (6/10)
- Baio – Dead Hand Control (6.5/10)
- Basic Bitches – Go To The Movies (4.5/10)
- Black Pistol Fire – Look Alive (7.5/10)
- The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness – Songs From Another Life (6.5/10)
- Carla Geneve – Learn To Like It (9/10)
- Cave Of Swimmers – Aurora (6/10)
- Celeste – Not Your Muse (6/10)
- Cheap Meat – People Are The Worst (8.5/10)
- Citizen – Life In Your Glass World (8.5/10)
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – New Fragility (7/10)
- The Dead Daisies – Holy Ground (5.5/10)
- Death From Above 1979 – Is 4 Lovers (8.5/10)
- The Dirty Nil – Fuck Art (8.5/10)
- Divide And Dissolve – Gas Lit (1.5/10)
- Django Django – Glowing In The Dark (7.5/10)
- Drones – Our Hell Is Right Here (8/10)
- Erra – S/T (7/10)
- Flux Pavilion – .wav (5/10)
- Foo Fighters – Medicine At Midnight (6.5/10)
- Girl In Red – If I Could Make It Go Quiet (10/10)
- Goat Girl – On All Fours (6/10)
- Hayley Williams – Flowers For Vases (8/10)
- The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy (8/10)
- Hospital Bracelet – South Loop Summer (9/10)
- Icon For Hire – Amorphous (4.5/10)
- Illy – The Space Between (7/10)
- Indigo Sparke – Echo (6/10)
- Jarryd James – P.M. (5/10)
- Jess Locke – Don’t Ask Yourself Why (8.5/10)
- Julien Baker – Little Oblivions (8/10)
- June Joans – Leafcutter (8.5/10)
- Katy Kirby – Cool Dry Place (8/10)
- King Khan Unlimited – Opiate Them Asses (4/10)
- Lande Hekt – Going To Hell (7.5/10)
- Loathe – The Things They Believe (5/10)
- Lokoy – Badminton (6.5/10)
- Lonely The Brave – The Hope List (7.5/10)
- LNZNDRF – II (6/10)
- Luca Brasi – Everything Is Tenuous (8.5/10)
- Luna Shadows – Digital Pacific (6/10)
- Melvins – Working With God (2.5/10)
- Middle Kids – Today We’re The Greatest (8.5/10)
- Mogwai – As The Love Continues (8/10)
- Moon Taxi – Silver Dream (6/10)
- NOFX – Single Album (9/10)
- nothing,nowhere. – Trauma Factory (8/10)
- Odette – Herald (7/10)
- Pale Waves – Who Am I? (9.5/10)
- Passenger – Songs For The Drunk And Broken Hearted (6/10)
- The Pretty Reckless – Death By Rock And Roll (7.5/10)
- Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound (8/10)
- The Rubens – 0202 (5.5/10)
- Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs (7.5/10)
- Slowthai – Tyron (4/10)
- Smith & Burrows – Only Smith & Burrows Is Good Enough (7/10)
- The Sonder Bombs – Clothbound (8/10)
- The Staves – Good Woman (7.5/10)
- Sun June – Somewhere (6.5/10)
- Steven Wilson – The Future Bites (7/10)
- Tash Sultana – Terra Firma (5/10)
- Teenage Wrist – Earth Is A Black Hole (8.5/10)
- Th1rt3en – A Magnificent Day For An Exorcism (7.5/10)
- Tigers Jaw – I Won’t Care How You Remember Me (8.5/10)
- Trippie Redd – Neon Shark (8.5/10)
- TV Priest – Uppers (4/10)
- The Weather Station – Ignorance (6.5/10)
- Weezer – OK Human (9/10)
- Wild Pink – A Billion Little Lights (7.5/10)
- You Me At Six – Suckapunch (5.5/10)
EPs
- Babehoven – Yellow Has A Pretty Good Reputation (5/10)
- Beach Bunny – Blame Game (9.5/10)
- Car Park Social – S/T (6/10)
- Coma Girls – Skyboxer (6.5/10)
- Conduit – Only Human (6/10)
- Fickle Friends – Weird Years (Season 1) [8/10]
- Frank Iero And The Future Violence – Heaven Is A Place, This Is A Place (10/10)
- Hand Habits – Dirt (6.5/10)
- Harmony Byrne – The Songs I Sing When No One Is Around (8/10)
- Little Hurt – Every Second (6.5/10)
- Maggie Lindemann – Paranoia (8/10)
- Miss Grit – Imposter (5.5/10)
- Ribbons – Total Loss (6.5/10)
- Rough Dreams – From the Graves of Better Days (8/10)
- Stick To Your Guns – The Meaning Remains (7/10)
- The Vaughns – Rom Coms + Take Out (8/10)
- Widowspeak – Honeychurch (5/10)
RATING KEY
1 – it’s genuinely unbearable.
2 – it’s awful.
3 – it’s bad.
4 – it’s a pretty tough listen.
5 – it’s mediocre.
6 – it’s okay.
7 – it’s good.
8 – it’s great.
9 – it’s goddamn fantastic.
10 – it’s a fucking masterpiece.