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| | Gryndstone's Top 21 of 2021 | | 21 |  | Sleigh Bells
Texis
More off-kilter, abrasive noise pop from the duo that does it best. Here it sounds like the past three albums have melded into one being, and they don't bother trying to rein in its erratic and unpredictable actions.
I'm Not Down, Locust Laced, Tennessee Tips, Hummingbird Bomb | | 20 |  | Night Gestalt
Thousand Year Waves
"You watch the ocean from the beach. After a while you start thinking you understand the pattern of the waves and that you can tell which one is bigger than the other. Until a huge wave comes along and you don’t understand anything at all."
Primal Reasons, Crystalline Delight
https://nightgestalt.bandcamp.com/album/thousand-year-waves?from=hpnn | | 19 |  | Kasper Bjorke
The Beast. The Tree. The Man.
A sonic diary of isolation, surrounded only by nature in the age of Covid.
https://kasperbjorke.bandcamp.com/track/the-beast-the-tree-the-man | | 18 |  | Genesis Owusu
Smiling with No Teeth
A debut album that should have this man set for life, SWNT merges hip-hop, funk, pop, and a voice with a bit of soul for a lengthy, but easily listenable trip. Pushing this into the top are the valuable lyrics about fame and race that bind the whole thing together thematically.
Don't Need You, Gold Chains, Whip Cracker, A Song About Fishing | | 17 |  | Tyler, the Creator
Call Me If You Get Lost
Tyler delivers straight bars across an assortment of gritty hip-hop beats with lyrics about material flexes and personal revelations that meld together quite well.
CORSO, WUSYANAME, MASSA, WILSHIRE. SAFARI | | 16 |  | Soccer Committee
Tell From The Grass
Tell From The Grass invites you to let its warm tone and stripped style seep into your eardrums like honey. It is a quick but undeniably hypnotic affair. Vocals, when they appear, lead you into their charms as a siren would. They are complimented only by a guitar, of which every note is used to create this small world, perhaps a quiet field on the edge of some great woods. Come sit in the grass for a spell. Relax.
Hazy
https://morctapes.bandcamp.com/album/tell-from-the-grass | | 15 |  | u-ziq
Scurlage
More melodic than I ever remember the u-ziq moniker being, Scurlage is scattered with a whole lot of vibrant synths among IDM and braindance type beats, with vibes that flitter between sparse warehouse raves and joyrides while the sun rises. Fans of breakbeat, IDM, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and the like should give it a listen.
Blauwasser, Preston Melodics, Oxwich & Penrice, Strawberry Aero
https://analogicalforce.bandcamp.com/album/af038lp-scurlage | | 14 |  | R.a.p. Ferreira
bob's son: R.A.P. Ferreira in the garden level
Per usual, Rory lets loose a stream of verbose and ear-catching poetry. The whole thing is great, but tracks 9 to 11 are the best trio. The theme of Bob Kaufman and his abommunism runs strong from front to back, the album littered with references to his life and culminating in the reading of the Abommunist manifesto. | | 13 |  | Viagra Boys
Welfare Jazz
Cocaine groove in a dimly lit dive bar
I Feel Alive, Ain't Nice, 6 Shooter, To The Country | | 12 |  | The Go! Team
Get Up Sequences Part One
The Go! Team - Get Up Sequences Part One
Another bubbly piece of indie-pop-hip-rock courtesy of Ian Parton and the gang has graced us! It’s reminiscent of the bands recent work, albeit a bit shorter, in a very tight package. Fortunately almost the entire thing flows well, with sunny, bright melodies packed in front to back. Looking for a pick me up? Here’s your soundtrack!
Let The Seasons Work, A Bee Without A Sting, Pow, Tame The Great Plains | | 11 |  | Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall
The Marfa Tapes
There’s something so serene and cozy about the Marfa tapes. The one-take process immediately endears you to these three musicians, and they all play off each other so well! Lambert is the main draw here, and her twang is complemented well by the mens vocals and acoustic strums. Gets a bit hokey at times, but ain’t that the point?
Geraldene, I Don’t Like It, Ghost, Anchor | | 10 |  | Brockhampton
Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
Roadrunner, like the BH albums before it, runs on its crisp production and one or two lyrical heavyweights - this time it's Kevin Abstract and Joba, both dealing with heavy topics this time around.
Count On Me, Bankroll, Don’t Shoot Up The Party, The Light Part II | | 9 |  | Kauan
Ice Fleet
An album that really emulates its inspirations, Ice fleet feels cold and wintery, but not quite desolate - it feels like weathering a never ending storm, trying not to succumb to a harsh, frozen ocean
Taistelu, Hauta | | 8 |  | Injury Reserve
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Rap over apocalyptic soundsacpes, industrial textures, glitch, IDM. Hoe scaring music. R.I.P. Groggs.
Superman That, Footwork In A Forest Fire, Knees, Bye Storm | | 7 |  | The Dirty Nil
Fuck Art
This pup-punk record has been in rotation all year for the killer hooks that show up throughout. Whole album is covered in gang-vocals and has a ‘windows down, shout along to the lyrics even if some of them are weird’ quality to it. Plus there’s a doggy on the cover
Doom Boy, Blunt Force Concussion, Ride Or Die, One More and the Bill | | 6 |  | CHVRCHES
Screen Violence
Chvrches go back to the drawing board and transform their sound just enough through the power of guitars and vaguely thematic lyrics. And also Robert Smith. Amazing synthpop record!
He Said She Said, Violent Delights, How Not To Drown, Lullabies | | 5 |  | Otay:onii
Ming Ming
Chinese folk mixed with cold and harsh industrial textures. A busy, exciting listening experience.
Through Death A Cup Of Coffee, Subhuman Sings, Blackheart Breakables, Intentions and Emotions | | 4 |  | The Killers
Pressure Machine
2 great Killers albums in a row!? Say it ain't so. Flowers channels the *genuine* Springsteen this time around, the stadium sized chorus' mostly taking a backseat to lyrics that examine a dying American town.
Quiet Town, Cody, Desperate Things, Pressure Machine | | 3 |  | Cloud Nothings
The Shadow I Remember
Am I older now, or am i just another age? For a rough and tumble year, this indie-punk record feels biographical to me.
Oslo, Nara, Am I Something, The Room It Was | | 2 |  | Pupil Slicer
Mirrors
Buzzing, overflowing with an anger and ferocity. Radical.
L'appel du vide, Husk, Woudns Upon My Skin | | 1 |  | The Armed
Ultrapop
I don’t know how to talk about heavy music very well. But what I can tell you about ULTRAPOP is that, to me, its mission statement, its demeanor, its wall-of-sound presentation, make me feel all alive and screaming. Very little music has hit me so directly.
ALL FUTURES, MASUNAGA VAPORS, AVERAGE DEATH, WHERE MAN KNOWS WANT | |
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