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This is an ordered list of Uncut's highest rated albums of 2021. Check out
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1
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WEEED - Do You Fall?
September 3, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
2
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Olivia Block - Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea
November 19, 2021
Ambient
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
3
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Buffalo Nichols - Buffalo Nichols
October 15, 2021
Blues
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
4
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Linda Fredriksson - Juniper
October 29, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
5
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Dean Wareham - I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L A
October 15, 2021
Indie Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
6
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Aeon Station - Observatory
December 10, 2021
Indie Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
7
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Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki
November 26, 2021
Art Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
8
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Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
September 3, 2021
Nu Jazz
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
9
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Elbow - Flying Dream 1
November 19, 2021
Art Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
10
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Buffalo Daughter - We Are The Times
September 17, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
11
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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof
November 19, 2021
Americana
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
12
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Grouper - Shade
October 22, 2021
Folk
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
13
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Soccer Committee - tell from the grass
June 21, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
14
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Shannon Lay - Geist
October 8, 2021
Folk
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
15
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Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
November 12, 2021
Singer-Songwriter
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
16
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Hayden Thorpe - Moondust for My Diamond
October 15, 2021
Art Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
17
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Steve Gunn - Other You
August 27, 2021
Folk Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
18
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Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
August 27, 2021
Chamber Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
19
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Low - Hey What
September 10, 2021
Post-Industrial
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
20
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Helado Negro - Far In
October 22, 2021
Neo-Psychedelia
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
21
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John Murry - The Stars Are God's Bullet Holes
July 16, 2021
Folk Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
22
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James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds
August 20, 2021
Americana
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
23
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SAULT - Nine
June 25, 2021
Neo-Soul
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
24
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W. H. Lung - Vanities
October 8, 2021
Neo-Psychedelia
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
25
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Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow
July 23, 2021
Jazz Fusion
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
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This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Uncut awarded albums throughout 2021.
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