Mittwoch Mix - 2021 AotY Overflow

While I’ve already provided my Idiosyncratic Top 25 Albums of 2021, here are thirteen more that just missed the cut—some because they are soundtracks, reissues or EPs, but all are great albums but just didn’t quite make my top 25.

 

The top gross of albums I listened to in 2021, upon which many of these albums feature.

An Idiosyncratic Ranking of the Top 25 Albums of 2021

 

It is again that time of year when post my idiosyncratic Top 25 albums of the year...

According to last.fm, where I track most (but not all) of my listening, I listened to 16,297 tracks and 1,699 different artists in 2021 alone. Albums are harder to track on last.fm if they have multiple artists, but I easily listened to over 800 different albums...

68% of those over 16 thousand track were new to 2021, so picking out 25 albums, even of just what was released in 2021 and not just new to me in 2021 was tough, but here are my current top 25 of 2021...

You can find a mixcloud mix with a sample track from each album here. 

An Idiosyncratic Ranking of the Top 25 Albums of 2020

2020 might have been a slouching beast of a year in many ways, but I did grab a ton of great music, in large part due to Bandcamp Fridays, which will return in February 2021.

Would it really be the end of the year if I didn't make a list of my favorite 25 albums from 2020? Probably, but I'm not willing to take that chance...