ZOOMERCORE
Top 25 Albums of 2021
#25: Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird, Vol 3
fav songs: Eden, Cashmere
if you like: SZA, Solange, Alternative R&B made by women
#24: Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
fav songs: Superman That, SS San Fransisco
if you like: sad rap albums, MIKE, what it would sound like if Brian Eno made a hip hop album
#23: Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
fav songs: Hard Drive, Hard Drive, Hard Drive
if you like: the best song of the year, David Berman refrences, stripped-down singer songwriter
#22: The Spirit of the Beehive - Entertainment, Death
fav songs: Give Up Your Life, I Suck The Devil’s Cock
if you like: Sweet Trip for people who's Animal Collective is their Flaming Lips' Ariel Pink with elements of Tame Impala for Boredoms fans who have Weatherday in their wrapped topster scrobble
#21: Chief Keef - 4NEM
fav songs: Bitch Where, Tuxedo
if you like: the greatest rapper of our generation, misogyny, sosa rapping over drumless beats (the pinnacle of music)
#20: Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
fav songs: it’s basically one long song lol
if you like: Modern Jazz, Minimalist ambient, Harold Budd
#19: Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
fav songs: Track X, Sunglasses
if you like: black midi, post-rock, prententiousness
#18: Grouper - Shade
fav songs: Unclean mind, Promise
if you like: going thru it, sad slow tunes, ambient girlboss,
#17: Spellling - The Turning Wheel
fav songs: On the Floor, Without You
if you like: show tunes, Kate Bush, wine nights with the girls, Anthony Fantano
#16: Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises
fav songs: Movement 5, Movement 7
if you like: minimalism, your insufferable friend’s AOTY, every music review website
#15: Turnstile - Glow On
fav songs: BLACKOUT, UNDERWATER BOI
if you like: moshpits, FUN music, punk rock
#14: Ovlov - Buds
fav songs: Eat More, Land of Steve-O
if you like: carhartt, beanies, Starbucks, living laughing & loving
#13: Hayden Pedigo - Letting Go
fav songs: Letting Go, Tints of Morning
if you like: quality family time, ironic cowboy tropes, outsider artists slash former political candidates
#12: Black Midi - Calvalcade
Read our review here.
fav songs: Ascending Forth, Diamond Stuff
if you like: the post-rock/avant-prog resurgence, Radiohead, obnoxiously complicated chord progressions
#11: RXK Nephew - Make Drunk Driving Cool Again
fav songs: Slitherman Solo Set, Cuban Plug
if you like: schizophrenia, drugs, getting blocked, music that doesn’t take itself too seriously
#10: Paranoul - To See The Next Part Of The Dream
fav songs: All Beautiful World, White Ceilings
if you like: Fishmans, Shoegaze, introspection
#9: Low - HEY WHAT
Read our review here
fav songs: Hey, White Horses, Days Like These
if you like: moving to the country, selling all your guitars and buying turntables, industrial
#8:Poppy - EAT (NXT Soundtrack)
fav songs: EAT, Breeders
if you like: WWE Soundtracks, “what Grimes wants to be”, nine inch nails
#7: Rx Papi & Gud - Foreign Exchange
read our review here
fav songs: 12 Stout Street, Still in Da Hood, Liar
if you like: brutal honesty, perc 30s, cloud rap beats x gangster rap flows
#4: Death’s Dynamic Shroud - Faith In Persona
fav songs: Tear in Abyss, Just to be Needed, Faith In Persona
if you like: disassociatives, Neon Genisis Evangelion, Oneohtrix Point Never
#3: Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Energy and the Voiced Concern
fav songs: Headboard, Benadryl Submarine, Swell
if you like: Dream Pop, successful late-career crossovers, white boys with swag
#2: Arca - Kick iii
fav songs: Bruja, Señorita, My 2
if you like: being the loudest person in the room, doing poppers, SOPHIE
#1: Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
Read our review here
fav songs: The Rot, ZaZa, Sketamine
If you like: King Krule, internet lore, being better than everyone