2021_well: Rejects・OKs (B-list)
Hello, here is my list! Wasn't sure what format to copy this year, so I copied not! Took everything I'd rated this year, ranked it, chopped it in half, and here we are! Some of these albums are awful! Some of them are pretty okay! Look on as the former turns into the other, and I'll write something longer and soppier when the big list comes around. よいお年を！ |
| 86 |  | A Day To Remember
You're Welcome
#186
lolcore
not music
1% |
| 85 |  | Weezer
Van Weezer
#185
hard rock
"one of the greatest pop songwriters of all time" - ronwa5215
3% |
| 84 |  | Lana Del Rey
Chemtrails Over The Country Club
#184
comatose americana
barely music
3.1% |
| 83 |  | Burzum
Uruk Hai (Unreleased Material 1988-1994)
#183
bedroom black metal
not human (JUST KIDDING i luv washed up fascist murderers who love their families what a guy)
4% |
| 82 |  | Atreyu
Baptize
#182
metal
midlife crisis failed-pop metal
4.5% |
| 81 |  | Steven Wilson
The Future Bites
#181
progressive pop
just please fucking not
4.7% |
| 80 |  | Loathe (UK)
The Things They Believe
#180
ambient
rejected carpet simulator
4.9% |
| 79 |  | Krallice
Demonic Wealth
#179
black metal / dungeon synth
shitstain of the year
5% |
| 78 |  | Dry Cleaning
New Long Leg
#178
post punk
the first (and worst!) of many post-punk disappointments to come
5.4% |
| 77 |  | Ashnikko
Demidevil
#177
tiktok trappop
best 1.0 of the year
5.5% |
| 76 |  | Kanye West
Donda
#176
hiphop / gospel / godcomplex
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
6% |
| 75 |  | Lorde
Solar Power
#175
pop
Making weed a little more uncool, one useless song at a time
6.7% |
| 74 |  | Yukiga Futte Uresii
Chuusuu no Romero
#174
noise
stupid fuckin noise
6.9% |
| 73 |  | Rebecca Black
Rebecca Black Was Here
#173
irony pc muzak pop
i am sorry rebecca black you deserve better
7% |
| 72 |  | Porter Robinson
Nurture
#172
EDM
""""life affirming""""
7.5% |
| 71 |  | Hurry Up, Brothers
All is Beautiful. I'm Okay to be Alive..
#171
post rock
boring as shit post rock [1]
8% |
| 70 |  | God Is an Astronaut
Ghost Tapes #10
#170
post rock
boring as shit post rock [2] ft. boring as shit riffs
8.1% |
| 69 |  | Lorem Ipsum
Vivre encore
#169
chamber / skramz
no i will not take ur classical screamo seriously
8.5% |
| 68 |  | Kishi Bashi
Emigrant
#168
americana
no kishi, americana kishi, why'd'ya have ter fuckin DO IT kishi
8.7% |
| 67 |  | Girl In Red
if i could make it go quiet
#167
pop
"a sErIOus LaCk of seRoToNIn"
8.8% |
| 66 |  | Arca
KICK ii
#166
deconstructed pop
latinjank you shouldn't dance to
8.9% |
| 65 |  | Arca
KicK iii
#165
deconstructed pop
computerjank you mustn't dance to
9% |
| 64 |  | NECRY TALKIE
FREAK
#164
pop rock
not what i want from cutesy jpoprock dammit where are the HOOKS why does the twee never end i am crying
9.5% |
| 63 |  | Turnstile
Glow On
#163
post-as-all-fuck hardcore
""""doo YOUu evennn liykk haradxoxccore?""""
9.6% |
| 62 |  | Bo Burnham
Inside (The Songs)
#162
~comedy
not funny / not that smart / definitely overproduced / partially authentic / reliant on visual humour /
Oh, this is about the music? LOL
10% |
| 61 |  | clairo
Sling
#161
indie pop
not an album i remember in the slightest
10.5% |
| 60 |  | Poppy
Flux
#160
pop altrock
from annoying gimmick to skramz queen to boring af non-entity
10.6% |
| 59 |  | Portrayal of Guilt
Christfucker
#159
crust/black metal/emo
oh i know this game *shits on amplifier and jerks riffs into brain erasing anti-order*
11% |
| 58 |  | Viagra Boys
Welfare Jazz
#158
post punk
relatively listenable lame post-punk
12% |
| 57 |  | Between the Buried and Me
Colors II
#157
progressive metalcore
as far as dead on arrival memes go this is asdfghjkl;
12.1% |
| 56 |  | Cara Neir
Phase Out
#156
blackened chiptune
lol nerds
13% |
| 55 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
#155
GY!BE
boring as shit post-rock [3]
14% |
| 54 |  | Billie Eilish
Happier Than Ever
#154
pop
a huge leap forward for billie pirate eilish, you bet your salt she has a 3 in her somewhere
15% |
| 53 |  | Circa Survive
A Dream About Love
#153
alternative
The more things change the more they stay the same *except* the opener is a Circa song I vaguely like! Congratulations.
15.5% |
| 52 |  | Every Time I Die
Radical
#152
metalcore
I've listened to this surprisingly much for a boring album I do not like; have concluded it has some good tracks! A Colossal Wreck! but still, it is boring and overlong and not good.
16% |
| 51 |  | Converge
Bloodmoon: I
#151
gothic hardcore postmetal
scary group of industry veterans go gothic amdram. sunday afternoon horrorhouse whateverfest
16.5% |
| 50 |  | Hail the Sun
New Age Filth
#150
post hardcore
this band has survived a decade(?) without firing their vocalist and everything they do is consequently a little bit incredible
16.6% |
| 49 |  | King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
L. W.
#149
psychedelic noodle
lol i didn't even bother rating butterfly 3000, but this band is boring and should stop flexing their increasingly strained chemistry and maybe one day make a decent album again
16.7% |
| 48 |  | Fawning
Illusions of Control
#148
dream pop
Bad cocteau twins tribute, but how bad can such a thing really be?
16.8% |
| 47 |  | Black Midi
Cavalcade
#147
post progressive noisebore
real ones amongst us will remember with relish the day they told that scampy loud smart-kid at the back of the class with too many party tricks to fuck off back to winchester. it wasn't even their fuckin birthday in the first place.
16.8% |
| 46 |  | Manchester Orchestra
The Million Masks of God
#146
indie rock
bedwetter indie 101
16.9% |
| 45 |  | Olivia Rodrigo
SOUR
#145
pop
no better excuse than fresh hurtbreak to hit payday from other people's songs
17% |
| 44 |  | Deafheaven
Infinite Granite
#144
shoegaze
Opening pair is surprisingly solid; the rest is at least a brave attempt from this insecure directionless joke of a band
18% |
| 43 |  | Modest Mouse
The Golden Casket
#143
indie rock
This album is average-to-bad and Isaac Brock is a crank who long since lost his touch, *but* "Never Fuck A Spider On The Fly" is one of my favourite awful songs of the year and I've jammed it about 6x as much as anything else from this. Fantastic trashheap guilty pleasure with a good ol' feelgood chorus; this album gets a generous bump as such.
18.5% |
| 42 |  | Genghis Tron
Dream Weapon
#143
progressive post-cybergrind?
Tones and performances on this are actually pretty neat, but I don't rate the vocals or their approach to guitars or the songwriting, so alas.
19% |
| 41 |  | Neon Bunny
Kosmos
#141
K-R&B
Vaporous bedroom smoke mhwwwn
19.5% |
| 40 |  | Magdalena Bay
Mercurial World
#140
pop
There's so much tryhard overworked LA cringe here that I vaguely wish I hated it, but there are also enough good ideas that I even-more-vaguely wish I believed in the hype. Confusion not appreciated, but best sub-3 of the year!
20% |
| 39 |  | Portrayal of Guilt
We Are Always Alone
#139
emo/black metal
acceptable spook-rawr
21% |
| 38 |  | Piana
Raula
#138
ambient pop
Piana, no! After 2014's largely fantastic glitch/ambient pop sortof career opus Muse, her soporific ladyship took 7 years out of the full-length circuit to trotout this plinky-plonk meandering snooze. A shame. But not quite a bad album. Ok.
22% |
| 37 |  | King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
Butterfly 3000
#137
psych-synth
Whoops, looks like I lied in the L.W. blurb (#149) - I did hear this! And then I forgot all about it. What a rude awakening. Goodbye.
22.3% |
| 36 |  | 4s4ki
Castle in Madness
#136
j-pop
the ugliest, most tastetless album i've heard all year maybe. 4s4ki is probably going to blow up at some point, but she can hold down a mic so ig there is hope
22.5% |
| 35 |  | Maria Arnal i Marcel Bages
Clamor
#135
art pop / glitch pop
warm and wry putative glitch pop that does not bop
22.9% |
| 34 |  | Pan Daijing
Jade
#134
post industrial
is post industrial a genre hmmmmhmmmmmm this happened. new album next month maybe it will be better
23% |
| 33 |  | Squid
Bright Green Field
#132
post punk
More invested in mining the absolute limits out of every single individual idea and relatively unwanky compared to their Windmill brethren. What do they want for it? I have no honour and no medals for them.
23.5% |
| 32 |  | Thy Catafalque
Vadak
#131
avant-black-folk-metal
From Naiv's slick-as-an-eel genre fusion to this load of overgunned riff salad - really??? Chugga chugga cheesecake.
24% |
| 31 |  | Anneke van Giersbergen
The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest
#131
singer/songwriter
I love Anneke, you love Anneke, we all love Anneke (but these acoustic tracks are very far from her best alas). I don't think her lyrical style suits these kind of songs at all - still, lovely voice.
26% |
| 30 |  | Gang of Youths
Total Serene
#130
alt rock / chamber pop
One really great GOY guyrocker followed by two chamber nonentities. What to do, what to say?
26.1% |
| 29 |  | Doja Cat
Planet Her
#129
pop/R&B
2021 regret #104: trying to (kinda) plug Doja Cat on sputnikmusic.com. lol. cya losers, hope you get some next year
27% |
| 28 |  | Spangle call Lilli line
Remember
#128
indie
When great longstanding indie bands do REALLY UNREMARKABLE things dammit
27.5% |
| 27 |  | Shlimp Warc
Thgie Drsow
#127
experimental ??
i still do not know what to make of this lol ffs milo. v glad for its existence, but not enough to rank it above albums that i plan on returning to at some point in my lifespan
28% |
| 26 |  | Dai Dai Dai
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth
#126
noise pop / alt-idol
Not nearly as awesome as their rainbows-of-death standout LP last year, but there's some fun chaos to be had here
29% |
| 25 |  | Yukika
Timeabout,
#125
k-pop
Not nearly as awesome as her sensational debut last year, but Yukika always packs a bop or two or more. Shame she's ditched much of her vintage sound.
29.5% |
| 24 |  | Ben Howard
Collections from the Whiteout
#124
indie [post]folk
etcetc., yes a lot of these songs are not particularly good, and very few of them *sound* good (cue the Aaron Dessner Is An Untrustworthy Bellend jingle), but but but I can't help but give credit to Far Out, Sage... and Rookery for giving this thing some measure of leggage. Benny boi isn't lost yet!
29.6% |
| 23 |  | Musk Ox
Inheritance
#123
neofolk
Undeniably impressive in its way, but I trim my neck hair and haven't played Skyrim in years. Get skillcapped.
29.7% |
| 22 |  | Adjy
The Idyll Opus (I-VI)
#122
indie emo folk
corny corncore corn anthems for cornhole theatre kids (no, not the cool ones; the CORN ones!!!!)
29.8% |
| 21 |  | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The LSO
Promises
#121
minimalizzzzm
This year is an elevator and this album has been playing for so long that I no longer have any idea if we're going up or down.
29.9% |
| 20 |  | St. Vincent
Daddy's Home
#120
pop
St. Vincent returns to make sloppy work of a controversial concept; it pans out surprisingly inoffensively, but she does drop a handful of modest winners, cajole Jack Antonoff into doing something worthwhile for potentially the only time this year, and raise the game on the disappointing Masseduction. Fair shits.
34% |
| 19 |  | Slow Crush
Hush
#119
shoegaze
JesperL is ticklish as fuck, I can tell. This album is alright and sometimes good and sometimes boring
35% |
| 18 |  | Black Country, New Road
For the first time
#118
post punk
Process of elimination says that BCNR are the best of this year's postpost-punk UK boredom spawn. Their songwriting is a bit cumbersome but overall workable, and the is-it-apathy? vox is *just* tongue in cheek enough to warrant the kind of pretentious hand in pants delivery it recurrently chokes over. Their klezmer influence is whatever, but ig kudos for having an ear for drone and dissonance. Still not a great album, but Sunglasses gives me hope
35% |
| 17 |  | Tomahawk
Tonic Immobility
#117
post-noise rock
Once-hip noise rock sublimating into stale dad rock. Bless you, Mike Patton - you knew it'd happen some day
35% |
| 16 |  | Druida
Musgo
#116
folktronica
Bleep guitar bloop bloop folk ok
35% |
| 15 |  | Kauan
Ice Fleet
#115
post rock/metal
borderline redeemable post-rock [1]
36% |
| 14 |  | The World Is a Beautiful Place...
Illusory Walls
#114
emo / post rock
Hick hack hock HECK, this one is a pain to rank!
Reasoning:
Infinite Josh first half: 5/5
Infinite Josh second half: 2.5/5
rest of album: relatively turgid 3/5.
Anywhere below IU and above Tomahawk seems appropriate; one of the better records severely overrated this year I guess
37% |
| 13 |  | Foxing
Draw Down the Moon
#113
indie rock
Believe me, this is exactly the kind of trite woo-hoo singalong anthem indie I would *love* to hate on, but as it happens only half the tracklist is embarassing to listen to and the rest is actually pretty good! Beacons woo-hoooooo
37% |
| 12 |  | CHVRCHES
Screen Violence
#112
pop
2021's middle-of-the-road pop landmark; neat concept, decent sound, good lyrics, handful of decent songs, couple of colossal stinkers, no real stunners, alas. This was not a great year for pop!
38% |
| 11 |  | Mogwai
As the Love Continues
#111
post rock
borderline redeemable post rock [2] - Midnight Flit, Pat Stains and a bunch of other songs
39% |
| 10 |  | Cynic
Ascension Codes
#110
prog metal
Nerd solace with messy production. I guess one of the most reassuring albums of the year?
40% |
| 9 |  | Hayley Williams
FLOWERS for VASES / descansos
#109
indie folk
It takes time to appreciate Hayley Williams' DIY bedroom record. Almost one year on, I guess it's alright.
41% |
| 8 |  | Rachel Lime
A.U.
#108
art pop
Artsy synthy chillpop. Almost good! Decent spread of ideas, but hooked I am not :[
43% |
| 7 |  | IU
Lilac
#107
K-Pop
I cannot tell the difference between good songs and really bad songs on this album, but there are lots of them and almost all bang.
Especially "Ah puh". What an instantly adorable banger. K-Pop supremacy on a plate, and I ain't even a believer.
Let's call this the first probably-decent album of the list! A milestone! Cheers IU
45% |
| 6 |  | Yoasobi
The Book 2
#106
J-Pop
yeah, they played it by the book alright
46% |
| 5 |  | Fievel Is Glauque
God's Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess
#105
lofi jazz pop
This band have fantastic titles and a lot of charm! Wish I could say more nice things about them, but alas this felt piecemeal and I did not get it all that much
46.5% |
| 4 |  | The Notwist
Vertigo Days
#104
indietronica
Wish I liked this more + "Ship" is one of the year's most underacknowledged bangers, but a lot of it gets lost in a big shimmery krauty haze
47% |
| 3 |  | Tricot
Jodeki
#103
math rock / pop rock
After hitting my top 10 last year with the best album of their career, Tricot revert to overproduced pop-rock things that are sometimes catchy and sometimes annoying. Top 10 on the B-list ain't awful, but they've got better in them
48% |
| 2 |  | Thrice
Horizons/East
#102
post hardcore / alternative
Thrice have good ideas again, but do they have their mojo??? Bet.
49% |
| 1 |  | The Antlers
Green to Gold
#101
indie
I guess it figures for this list to be topped by the most inoffensive album of the year. Green to Gold is lovely and pure and utterly forgettable. I appreciate it.
50% |
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