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Highest Rated Albums of 2021

Decade
Source
Genre
2020s
2020
2021

1.

Yumbo - 間違いの実 / The Fruit Of Errata
June 4, 2021
Score
100
Source →
Amazon

2.

Hilary Hahn - Paris
March 5, 2021
Score
100
Source →
Amazon

3.

St. Lenox - Ten Songs of Worship and Praise for our Tumultuous Times
June 11, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon

4.

James Brandon Lewis - Jesup Wagon
May 7, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon

5.

Ours - Ours
May 15, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon

6.

Cola Boyy - Prosthetic Boombox
June 18, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

7.

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Dance Songs For Hard Times
April 9, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon

8.

Allison Russell - Outside Child
May 21, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

9.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
June 11, 2021
Neo-Psychedelia
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

10.

Gucci Mane - Ice Daddy
June 18, 2021
Trap Rap
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

11.

Rochelle Jordan - Play with the Changes
April 30, 2021
Alternative R&B
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

12.

Tetrarch - Unstable
April 30, 2021
Nu Metal
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

13.

Matt Berry - The Blue Elephant
May 14, 2021
Psychedelic Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

14.

Dorothea Paas - Anything Can't Happen
May 7, 2021
Indie Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

15.

Garage A Trois - Calm Down Cologne
April 16, 2021
Jazz Fusion
Score
90
Source →
Amazon

16.

Julia Michaels - Not in Chronological Order
April 30, 2021
Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

17.

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Uncommon Weather
April 9, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

18.

Natural Information Society With Evan Parker - descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
April 16, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon

19.

Twenty One Pilots - Scaled And Icy
May 21, 2021
Indie Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

20.

Garbage - No Gods No Masters
June 11, 2021
Alternative Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

21.

Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future
May 14, 2021
Jazz
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

22.

Moby - Reprise
May 28, 2021
Art Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

23.

Lightning Bug - A Color of the Sky
June 25, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon

24.

Karol G - KG0516
March 25, 2021
Reggaeton
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

25.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - When God Was Great
May 7, 2021
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
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NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings AllMusic awarded albums throughout 2021.
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