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Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2021. Our next list is from Substitute DJ Kelsey Stimple.
In 2021, like 2020, I still spent a lot of time listening to music in my apartment or wandering around my neighborhood. But shows came back! Though it all feels uncertain now in December 2021, I am glad they felt safe for a while, and hopefully they will again soon.
I decided to do an unranked list this year and really limit myself to 10 albums (only cheating by mentioning three additional EPs below). Here are my favorites:
True Love by Hovvdy (Grand Jury)
Show Me How You Disappear by IAN SWEET (Polyvinyl)
Let Me Do One More by Illuminati Hotties (Hopeless)
Any Shape You Take by Indigo De Souza (Saddle Creek)
Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast (Dead Oceans)
Little Oblivions by Julien Baker (Matador)
Like a Stone by Remember Sports (Father/Daughter)
Deacon by Serpentwithfeet (Secretly Canadian)
Bless My Psyche by Sincere Engineer (Hopeless)
Twin Plagues by Wednesday (Ordinal)
Honorable Mentions
Three EPs were also in this mix of favorites:
Beach Bunny - Blame Game - Mom + Pop
Home Is Where - I Became Birds - Father / Daughter
Los Campesinos! - Whole Damn Body - self released
Here's to 2022.
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