2021 Studio Album Releases

So another of these, this time for 2021.

The poll is comprised of three main sections, plus an "other" space for voting:

- Section One is the top eight albums from PA's 2021 chart.
- Section Two is taken from the top 10 Collab Album of the Year list. Top ten because two if its top eight are in the Pan top 8 albums chart for 2021.
- Section Three is highlighting eight of my nine top albums at the AwesomeProg chart. black midi is not listed in my poll choices because it is listed in the previous Collab AOTY chart.
- For "other", please use if you are not much enthused by and/or know albums in the poll. If using other, please specify a favourite album that you are voting for in a post. And to any participating, mentioning others you like is appreciated. I am interested to know what people like on AND off the list, and it can help spread the word and connected one with others who appreciate the same.

Please mention as many as you like. Feel free to vote with limited familiarity. Please consider voting for one in the poll even if it is not your absolute favourite and then mention that and your actual favourite or favourites in a post. No multiple choice again.

PA Top Albums of 2021 Chart in default for 2022 mode: See THIS, CLICK

1. Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2
2. Gruppo Autonomo Suonatori - Omnia Sunt Communia
3. Dave Bainbridge - To the Far Away
4. Papangu - Holoceno
5. Drifting Sun - Forsaken Innocence
6. Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants
7. Stefano Lupo Galifi - Dei Ricordi, un Museo
8. Urban Trapeze - Reactivated Tarkus

Collab Album of the Year 2021 top list: See here for list CLICK

Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2 (number one in PA Top ALnums list above so removed here for number one Collab Albums spot)
1. Black Midi - Cavalcade
2. Ske - Insulubilia
3. Needlepoint – Walking Up That Valley
4. Accordo dei Contrari - UR
5. Jordsjo – Pastoralia
Caligonaut — Magnified As Giants (removed here to avoid duplication with first list)
6. Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders
7. Alco Frisbass - Le Mystere du Gué Pucelle
8. Big Big Train - Common Ground

This is my list of some of my favourite albums of 2021. See my list at AP here CLICK and please consider adding your own list there and sharing it here. :)

1. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready (not in PA)
Black Midi - Cavalcade (removed from my poll list as it is in the Collab Alabum of the Year list)
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
3. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
4. Squid - Bright Green Field
5. BRUIT ≤ - The Machine Is Burning and Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again (post-rock but not in PA yet)
6. Bruno Pernadas - Private Reasons (not in PA)
7. Dear Laika [Isabelle Thorn] - Pluperfect Mind (not in PA)
8. otay:onii - 冥冥 [Míng Míng] (not in PA)

Notes: Tapfret did an amazing job organising the Collab album of the Year for 2021. Most unfortunately, feel terrible about it, when it was suggested that I unsticky past lists due to needing to scroll down as much as one did in the Top ten Lists forum because of having so many stickies (done this many times over the past 16 years), I had some issue and the usual way that would not involve editing a post was unavailable (at least in the browsers I tried with my settings) So I edited the post and it became unreadable and full of code (an issue with the post editor). I should try to fix that as best I can as it's my fault. Luckily he also provided a list on google-drive, which is what I linked to earlier.

I had not expected to see black midi's Cavalcade, which is number two on the collab list and two in my list, down at number 76 for PA's top albums of 2021.

Here is my top 20 list at AP for 2021 which I put up there today.

1. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready [AP Non-Prog]
2. Black Midi - Cavalcade
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
4. Black Country, New Road - For The First Time
5. Squid - Bright Green Field
6. BRUIT ≤ - The Machine Is Burning and Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again [AP Prog]
7. Bruno Pernadas - Private Reasons [AP Prog]
8. Dear Laika - Pluperfect Mind [AP Non-Prog]
9. otay:onii - 冥冥 (Míng Míng) [AP]
10. Portico Quartet - Monument [AP]
11. Needlepoint - Walking Up That Valley
12. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - We're OK. But we're lost anyway. [AP]
13. Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou [AP]
14. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind [AP]
15. SPELLLING - The Turning Wheel [AP]
16. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
17. Richard Dawson - Henki (with Circle)
18. L'Rain - Fatigue
19. delving - Hirschbrunnen
20. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home [AP Prog]

Hope lots at the forum will know and mention things they like on and off the list. Love to see modern/ more contemporary music being discussed and supported. Thanks.

Edited by Logan - 10 hours 32 minutes ago at 15:10

Elephant9

Alco Frisbass. The mumbling subroutine only likes integers, so I sent it a noun and now the Earth isn't there anymore.

Shamblemaths
Big Big Train
Alco Frisbass
Jordsjø

This was Norway's year in my opinion.
Shamblemaths
Needlepoint
Jordsjo
And I just recently picked up that Elephant9 release, but haven't heard it yet.

1. Frost* - Day and Age [BC] [SPO] 2. Krokofant - Fifth [AP Prog] [SPO] 3. Glass Hammer - Skallagrim - Into The Breach 4. Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 3 [SPO] 5. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim [SPO] 6. Isobar - Isobar II