Top 50 Albums of 2021 - Wire

1. Fatigue - L'Rain

2. Black Encyclopedia of the Air - Moor Mother

3. Promises - Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra

4. Hey What - Low

5. Axacan - Daniel Bachman

6. Number Pieces - John Cage

7. Some Good News - Hamid Drake / Elaine Mitchener / William Parker / Orphy Robinson / Pat Thomas

8. Painful Enlightenment - Jana Rush

9. -io - Circuit Des Yeux

10. New Decade - Phew

11. New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning

12. Hush Harbor Mixtape Vol. 1 Doxology - Angel Bat Dawid

13. Jesup Wagon - James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet

14. Made Out Of Sound - Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

15. At Pioneer Works - Les Filles de Illighadad

16. Intimate Immensity - Tomaga

17. 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 - Anthony Braxton

18. Fire - The Bug

19. Black To The Future - Sons of Kemet

20. Creative Contradiction: Poetry, Story, Song & Sound - Maggie Nicols

21. Minds in Flux - George Lewis with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

22. Kamil Manqus - Muqata'a

23. Chuckle - Alpha Maid

24. Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World - William Parker

25. Lucy & Aaron - Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt

26. Honest Labour - Space Afrika

27. The Voyager - Clarissa Connelly

28. How much time it is between you and me? - perila

29. Shade - Grouper

30. De Mòrt Viva - sourdure

31. Sound Ancestors - Madlib

32. BRASS - Moor Mother & billy woods

33. Gas Lit - Divide and Dissolve

34. Established! - RP Boo

35. Occam Ocean 3 - Eliane Radigue

36. Al Azraqayn - Karkhana

37. Angel Tears in Sunlight - Pauline Anna Strom

38. A Secret Code - Pamela Z

39. Maquishti - Patricia Brennan

40. parallel systems - Rambutan

41. Afrique Victime - Mdou Moctar

42. Glen Echo - Azita

43. Archeophony - Raed Yassin

44. NOW - Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble

45. Mayan Space Station - William Parker

46. Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter² - Meemo Comma

47. Hidemi - Patrick Shiroishi

48. Nights on Saturn (communication) - [Ahmed]

49. Open Arms to Open Us - Ben LaMar Gay

50. Drop by Old Heaven Books - IZ Band