Ears to Feed staffers listened to a lot of music this year. For our sake, as well as yours, the all-encompassing year-end list format will not be used. Instead, all staffers logged their 10 favorite albums of 2021. The albums appear in no particular order. We compiled songs from every album mentioned into a playlist that can be found here.
Editorial Board
Maxwell Cann, Editor-in-chief
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage
Low – Hey What
Water From Your Eyes – Structure
Iceage – Seek Shelter
Grouper – Shade
Tyler, The Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost
Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
Spirit of the Beehive – Entertainment, Death
Armand Hammer – Haram
IDLES – Crawler
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Christopher Cann, Managing Editor
Black Midi – Cavalcade
Spellling – The Turning Wheel
Grouper – Shade
Tyler, The Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost
Armand Hammer – Haram
Wiki – Half God
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
L’Rain – Fatigue
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage
Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
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Staff Writers
Andy Andrade
Poison Ruïn – S/T
Liquids – Life is Pain Idiot
Farragol – Anxiety
Spirit of the Beehive – Entertainment, Death
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
Neil Young – Carnegie Hall 1970
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!
Grouper – Shade
MIKE – Disco!
Taqbir – Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause
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Brooke Jensen
Yasmin Williams – Urban Driftwood
Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take
Tasha – Tell Me What You Miss The Most
Wednesday – Twin Plagues
Katy Kirby – Cool Dry Place
Myriam Gendron – Ma délire – Songs of love, lost & found
Lala Lala – I Want the Door to Open
Pom Pom Squad – Death of a Cheerleader
Squirrel Flower – Planet (i)
Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
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Jane Lai
Sun June – Somewhere
Wednesday – Twin Plagues
Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take
Sloppy Jane – Madison
***Floating Room – Shima
Katy Kirby – Cool Dry Place
In My Lungs – Poking Holes
Mia Joy – Spirit Tamer
Skirts – Great Big Wild Oak
Squirrel Flower – Planet (i)
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Jesse Locke
Willie Dunn – Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies
The Stick Figures – Archaeology
Myriam Gendron – Ma délire – Songs of love, lost & found
Irreversible Entanglements – Open The Gates
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt – Made Out Of Sound
Dean Blunt – Black Metal 2
Ryley Walker – Course In Fable
Dummy – Mandatory Enjoyment
Mas Aya – MÁSCARAS
Fiver – Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition
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Jules Dorney
Beach Fossils – The Other Side of Life: Piano Ballads
Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha
Good Morning – Barnyard
Angel Olsen – Aisles
Bedouine – Waysides
Helado Negro – Far In
Radiohead – KID A MNESIA
Pond – 9
King Krule – You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down
Crumb – Ice Melt
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Kelsey Wagner
Black Country, New Road – For the first time
PACKS – Take the Cake
Fake Fruit – S/T
Pardoner – Came Down Different
Angel Du$t – Bigger House
Gustaf – Audio Drag for Ego Slobs
Mesh – Mesh EP
Bnny – Everything
Ian Sweet – Show Me How You Disappear
Moontype – Bodies of Water
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Mandy Brownholtz
Spellling – The Turning Wheel
King Woman – Celestial Blues
Macy Rodman – Unbelievable Animals
Marissa Nadler – The Path of the Clouds
Kinlaw – The Tipping Scale
Anna Fox Rochinski – Cherry
Often – Dirty Saint
Nite Jewel – No Sun
SUUNS – The Witness
Angel Olsen – Aisles
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Marcos Hassan
Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
Arooj Aftab – Vulture Princess
Big|Brave and the Body – Leaving None But Small Birds
Circuit Des Yeaux – –io
Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt – Lucy & Aaron
Mabe Fratti – Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos
Blanck Mass – In Ferneaux
HTRK – Rhinestones
Otay:onii – MingMing
The Bug – Fire
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Patrick King
Low – Hey What
Writhing Squares – Chart For The Solution
Aeon Station – Observatory
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy – Superwolves
FACS – Present Tense
Deerhoof – Actually, You Can
Dummy – Mandatory Enjoyment
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
Emma Ruth Rundle – Engine of Hell
Thirdface – Do it With a Smile
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Phillipe Roberts
Spirit of the Beehive – Entertainment, Death
Tirzah – Colourgrade
Space Afrika – Honest Labour
Water From Your Eyes – Structure
Tinashe – 333
Spellling- The Turning Wheel
L’Rain – Fatigue
Loraine James – Reflection
MIKE – Disco!
Rochelle Jordan – Play With The Changes
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Trish Connelly
Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take
Fake Fruit – S/T
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
Low – Hey What
Yvette – How The Garden Grows
Penelope Trappes – Penelope Three
Anna Fox Rochinski – Cherry
Spellling – The Turning Wheel
Lou Barlow – Reason to Live
Smoke Bellow – Open for Business