The Mars Volta are gone now there is a hole waiting to be filled by these guys. As a music writer, it brings me, and all of us, endless pride to happen across a band whose debut screams out with such potential seemingly already realized. As a longtime prog fan, they make me proud to champion the genre, bucking the trends most tedious cliches while indulging in the same frenetic post-Magma instrumental workouts that make us adore it. Suffice to say, it blew every single one of our minds. I’m normally the prog guy and this is, well, very proggy, but Jeff caught me sleeping and slipped this one in to our circulation. So, here goes: The best albums of 2021.Įndless thanks to our fearless leader and editor-in-chief Jeff Terich for this find. And that’s reason enough to reflect and offer a second opportunity to endorse them before the calendar flips to the next year. In the end, it mostly comes down to this: These are the 50 albums we’ve been most excited about all year, and still are after the 12 months have come to an end. But what is year-end list season if not a time to reflect on the albums that caught us off guard or arrived when we needed them most, or simply did something that no other album could do. And it’s always tempting to couch it by saying these are our “favorite” albums rather than the best.Īnd I suppose we’re doing it again. And all of that is true the point is never to exclude anything but rather to highlight the music that just resonated a little bit more with us. It’s always tempting to preface a list of our top 50 albums of the year with a disclaimer about how there’s too much good music in one year to properly quantify, and that our ranking isn’t a system of value but of a this-moment-in-time consensus.
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