Best of 2021: Non-Canadian Albums [Top 10]

Happy NYE!!
The time has come to reveal the Top 10 Non-Canadian albums.
This Top 10 is a vast diversity of bands and musician from different countries.
I picked Jubilee as my favorite album because it is a mix of pop and rock.
Please listen to Hong Kong’s Lucid Express, if you are a lover of shoegaze music a-la Cocteau Twins vibe.
CHAI is a mix of fun music blending Japanese alterna-punk rock and electro-pop .
Adele is Adele but an album about divorce that most people could relate to.
Mdou Moctar released a very bold album
Who doesn’t love drivers license by Olivia Rodrigo?
Shade is a beautiful album by Grouper.
The mysterious act Sault dropped a superb album that was only available on streaming services for 99 days but Youtube not so much.
Stunning debut fro Arlo Parks.
Check out the Top 10!

1. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee

2. Lucid Express – Lucid Express

3. CHAI – Wink

4. Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg

5. Adele – 30

6. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime

7. Olivia Rodrigo – Sour

8. Grouper – Shade

9. Sault – Nine

10. Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams

Here is the rest if you don’t feel like going to the other posts.
11. Helado Negro – Far In
12. Black Country, New Road – For the First Time
13. Squid – Bright Green Field
14. Lucy Dacus – Home Video
15. Tirzah – Colourgrade
16. L’Rain – Fatigue
17. Nana Yamato – Before Sunrise
18. Lightning Bug – A Colour of the Sky
19. Naytronix – Other Possibilities
20. Indigo Sparke – Echo
21. Illuminati hotties – Let Me Do One More
22. Park Hye Jin – Before I Die
23. Low – Hey What
24. Half Waif – Mythopetics
25. Arushi Jain – Under the Lilac Sky
26. Renée Reed – Renée Reed
27. IDLES – CRAWLER
28. Gilligan Moss – Gilligan Moss
29. Ya Tseen – Indian Yard
30. Pan Daijing – Jade
31. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might be Introvert
32. Hooveriii – Water for the Frogs
33. serpentwithfeet – DEACON
34. Tune-Yards – sketchy
35. Balthazar – Sand
36. Altin Gün – Yol
37. Hoorsees – Hoorsees
38. TV Priest – Uppers
39. Really From – Really From
40. Audrey Nuna – a liquid breakfast
41. Aaron Frazer – Introducing…
42. Karima Walker – Waking the Dreaming
43. Remi Wolf – Juno
44. Still Woozy – If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is
45. The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas
46. Darkside – Spiral
47. Olivia Kaplan – Tonight Turns to Nothing
48. ELWD – This Place
49. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions
50. Damon Albarn – The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows
51. Shame – Drunk Tank Pink
52. Bachelor – Doomin’ Sun
53. Wet – Letter Blue
54. Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz
55. Rival Consoles – Overflow
56. San Holo – bb u ok?
57. Snail Mail – Valentine
58. Sun June – Somewhere
59. Loraine James – Reflection
60. Magdalena Bay – Mercurial World
61. Pond – 9
62. Maple Glider – To Enjoy Is The Only Thing
63. Amyl and the Sniffers – Comfort to Me
64. Joyer – Perfect Gray
65. Sally Decker – In The Tender Dream
66. Rachika Nayar – Our Hands Against
67. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space
68. Proper Nouns – Feel Free
69. Lost Horizons – In Quiet Moments
70. Penelope Trappes – Penelope Three
71. Cautious Clay – Deadpan Love
72. Pop. 1280 – Museum on the Horizon
73. Hovvdy – True Love
74. Parannoul – To See The Next Part Of The Dream
75. Claire Rousay – a softer focus
76. The War on Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
77. Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
78. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha
79. Marissa Nadler – The Path of the Clouds
80. Lost Girls – Menneskekollektivet
81. Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8
82. Xenia Rubinos – Una Rosa
83. Nation Of Language – A Way Forward
84. Arooj Aftab – Vulture Prince
85. Flock Of Dimes – Head Of Roses
86. Turnstile – Glow On
87. Erika de Casier – Sensational
88. Leon Bridges – Gold-Diggers Sound
89. easy life – life’s a beach
90. Roosevelt – Polydans
91. Lingua Ignota – Sinner Get Ready
92. Clairo – Sling
93. Squirrel Flower – Planet (i)
94. Spirit of the Beehive – ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH
95. Wild Pink – A Billion Little Lights
96. W.H. Lung – Vanities
97. Godford – I YOU SHE
98. Dijon – Absolutely
99. Chvrches – Screen Violence
100. Lorde – Solar Power

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