TOP NON-COMM RECORDS OF 2021
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ARLO PARKS | Collapsed In Sunbeams | Transgressive/PIAS |
| 2 | YOLA | Stand For Myself | Easy Eye Sound/Concord |
| 3 | JON BATISTE | WE ARE | Verve |
| 4 | JAPANESE BREAKFAST | Jubilee | Dead Oceans/Secretly Group |
| 5 | ST VINCENT | Daddy's Home | Loma Vista/Concord |
| 6 | VALERIE JUNE | The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers | Fantasy/Concord |
| 7 | JULIEN BAKER | Little Oblivions | Matador/Beggars Group |
| 8 | LUCY DACUS | Home Video | Matador/Beggars Group |
| 9 | BLACK KEYS, THE | Delta Kream | Nonesuch |
| 10 | KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD | Butterfly 3000 | KGLW |
| 11 | LAKE STREET DIVE | Obviously | Nonesuch |
| 12 | DURAND JONES AND THE INDICATIONS | Private Space | Dead Oceans/Secretly Group |
| 13 | AVALANCHES, THE | We Will Always Love You | Astralwerks |
| 14 | LEON BRIDGES | Gold-Diggers Sound | Columbia |
| 15 | WAR ON DRUGS, THE | I Don't Live Here Anymore | Atlantic |
| 16 | TUNE-YARDS | sketchy. | 4AD/Beggars Group |
| 17 | MODEST MOUSE | The Golden Casket | Epic |
| 18 | PAUL MCCARTNEY | McCartney III | Capitol |
| 19 | FLOCK OF DIMES | Head Of Roses | Sub Pop |
| 20 | WEATHER STATION, THE | Ignorance | Fat Possum |
| 21 | KIWI JR | Cooler Returns | Sub Pop |
| 22 | JOSE GONZALEZ | Local Valley | Mute |
| 23 | HOLD STEADY, THE | Open Door Policy | Positive Jams |
| 24 | DINOSAUR JR | Sweep It Into Space | Jagjaguwar |
| 25 | SHANNON AND THE CLAMS | Year Of The Spider | Easy Eye Sound/Concord |
| 26 | LOS LOBOS | Native Sons | New West |
| 27 | LITTLE SIMZ | Sometimes I Might Be Introvert | AGE 101 |
| 28 | MY MORNING JACKET | My Morning Jacket | ATO |
| 29 | FLEET FOXES | Shore | Anti- |
| 30 | COURTNEY BARNETT | Things Take Time, Take Time | Mom+Pop/Marathon Artists |
| 31 | NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS | The Future | Stax/Fantasy/Concord |
| 32 | LA LUZ | La Luz | Hardly Art |
| 33 | DJANGO DJANGO | Glowing In The Dark | Because |
| 34 | ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS | "Can't Let Go" [Single] | Rounder/Concord |
| 35 | ALTIN GUN | Yol | ATO |
| 36 | STAVES, THE | Good Woman | Nonesuch |
| 37 | I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR: A TRIBUTE TO VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Verve |
| 38 | FRUIT BATS | The Pet Parade | Merge |
| 39 | LOW | HEY WHAT | Sub Pop |
| 40 | ALLISON RUSSELL | Outside Child | Fantasy/Concord |
| 41 | MENAHAN STREET BAND | The Exciting Sounds Of Menahan Street Band | Daptone |
| 42 | TORRES | Thirstier | Merge |
| 43 | CURTIS HARDING | If Words Were Flowers | Anti- |
| 44 | DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO | I Told You So | Colemine |
| 45 | JUNGLE | Loving In Stereo | Caiola/AWAL |
| 46 | CLAIRO | Sling | FADER/Republic |
| 47 | MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA | The Million Masks Of God | Loma Vista/Concord |
| 48 | LORDE | Solar Power | Lava/Republic |
| 49 | HELADO NEGRO | Far In | Private Energy/4AD |
| 50 | AARON FRAZER | Introducing... | Dead Oceans/Easy Eye Sound |
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