MeggaMusic : Best albums of 2021
In alphabetical order, not in order of preference.
- 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - Why Do We Fall Apart (White Light)
- a/lpaca - Make It Better (Sulatron / We Were Never Being Boring)
- Advanced Suite - Cruzin (Mystic Sound)
- Aes Dana - (a) period. (Ultimae)
- Ailuronyx - Flower's Secret Life (Plexus)
- Airbag - A Day In The Studio: Unplugged In Oslo (Karisma)
- Alapastel - Ceremony (Lost Tribe Sound)
- Alice Spacedoll - Chaos and Magick (Bandcamp)
- Alpha Wave Movement - Infinite Realms (Harmonic Resonance)
- Amin - Sadhana (Syndromeda)
- Andrew Heath - Drawings from Imagined Cities (Bandcamp)
- Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker - How to Breathe Like a Stone (Bandcamp)
- Andrew Ostler - Crossing The Line (Behind The Sky)
- Androcell - Fib (Androcell Music / Bandcamp)
- Android Trio - Other Worlds (Cuneiform)
- Anilah - Chrysalis (Bandcamp)
- Anoice - The Hidden Forest (Ricco Label)
- Antonello Perfetto & Greg Nieuwsma - Aquarium (Submarine Broadcasting Co.)
- Anyone - In Humanity (TogethermenT)
- Arc Of Life - Arc Of Life (Frontiers Music)
- Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive)
- Artifacts & Uranium - Artifacts & Uranium (Echodelick / Bandcamp)
- Asam - Pigs Fucking Pigs (Bad Beat)
- Astropilot - Diary Of A Restless Mind (Astropilot Music)
- Astropilot - Earthwalk (Astrosphere)
- AVAWAVES - Chrysalis (Bandcamp / One Little Independent)
- Aythar - Moonset (Bandcamp)
- Azure Ray - Remedy (Flower Moon)
- Badawi / Ghost Producer - Acid Dancehall Instrumentals Vol.1 (Raz Mesinai / Ruff Riddim)
- Balmorhea - The Wind (Deutsche Grammophon)
- Beach Fossils - The Other Side of Life: Piano Ballads (Bayonet)
- Beautify Junkyards - Cosmorama (Ghost Box)
- Bend The Future - Without Notice (Tonzonen)
- Beyond Berlin - Epiphany (Groove Unlimited)
- Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard (2021 Remix/Reissue)
- Bill Laswell / Various - Asana (Axiom)
- Biosphere - Angel's Flight (AD 93)
- Black Country, New Road - For The First Time (Ninja Tune)
- Black Midi - Cavalcade (Rough Trade)
- Boris Lelong - Fireflies in Gondwana (Carpe Sonum)
- Brendan Pollard - Phrases and Protocols (Bandcamp)
- BRUIT ≤ - The Machine Is Burning And Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again (Pelagic / Medication Time)
- bvdub | Brock Van Wey - Measures of a Greater Mercy (Bandcamp)
- Byron Metcalf - Rhythms of Remembering (Dr Bam's Music)
- California Storm - A Silent Movement (Carpe Sonum)
- Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (Ba Da Bing!)
- Celeste - Il Principe Del Regno Perduto (Mellow Records)
- Chrome - Scaropy (Cleopatra)
- Chronos - Synthesizer Wall (Mystic Sound)
- Chronotope Project - Gnosis (Spotted Peccary)
- Chuck van Zyl - Votive: The Western Gate (Synkronos)
- Chvrches - Screen Violence (EMI / Glassnote / Goodbye Records)
- Ciccada - Harvest (Bad Elephant)
- Clinic - Fantasy Island (Domino)
- Coldcut & Mixmaster Morris / Various - @0 (Ninja Tune)
- Confusion Field - Disconnection Complete (Rain Type / Just for Kicks / Spotify)
- Cousin Silas - Dreamsville (The Cousin Silas Emporium)
- Cousin Silas - Orphans 10 (The Cousin Silas Emporium)
- Cousin Silas & Kevin Lyons - The Worlds of Cousin Silas & Kevin Lyons (Emporium)
- Craig Fortnam - Ark (Onomatopoeia)
- Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen - StrangeGravity (Spotted Peccary)
- Crass - Normal Never Was: Remix Project (Crass Records / One Little Independent)
- Cult Of Dom Keller - They Carried The Dead In A U.F.O (Fuzz Club)
- Curved Light - A User's Guide To Existence (Behind The Sky)
- Cynic - Ascension Codes (Season Of Mist)
- Dan Caine - Rivers (Fluttery)
- Darkside - Spiral (Matador)
- David Crosby - For Free (BMG)
- Deafheaven - Infinite Granite (Sargent House)
- Deepspace - The Dream Polaroids (Deepspace / Bandcamp)
- Deine Lakaien - Dual (Chrom)
- Desert Dwellers & Paul Stamets - One Giant Consciousness (Black Swan)
- Devin Townsend - Acoustically Inclined, Live In Leeds (Inside Out Music)
- Diagonal - Diagonal 4 (Cobblers)
- Dikajee - Forget~Me~Nots (Bandcamp / Spotify / Deezer / AmazonMusic / etc.)
- Divine Matrix - Celestial Phenomena, Soundscapes Vol. 3 (AD Music)
- Django Django - Glowing In The Dark (Because Music)
- DJINN - Transmission (Rocket Recordings)
- Dot Allison - Heart-Shaped Scars (SA Recordings)
- Dr. Atmo - Lost Tapes (Fantasy Enhancing)
- Dr. Atmo - To You, Humanity (Carpe Sonum)
- Dr. Atmo & Mick Chillage - Ruhleben (ASIP)
- Dreadlock Tales - Dub Mystics (Dreadlock Tales Music)
- Drumspyder - Kenning (Bandcamp)
- Earth House Hold (Brock Van Wey) - Daybreak Basements and Broken Hearts (ASIP)
- Eat Lights Become Lights – The Romance Of The Stars (Polytechnic Youth / Bandcamp)
- Echo Says Echo - Pause (Fluttery)
- Eguana & Qeight - The Book Of Changes (Cosmicleaf)
- Elara Sunstreak Band - Vostok 1 (Sulatron)
- Elder & Kadavar - ELDOVAR: A Story of Darkness & Light (Robotor)
- Electric Eye - Horizons (Fuzz Club)
- Electric Orange - Psi-Hybrid (Studio Fleisch)
- Eliza Shaddad - The Woman You Want (Rosemundy)
- Elori Saxl - The Blue of Distance (Western Vinyl)
- Entheogenic - Meltwater Pulse 1B (Universal Symbiosis)
- Eric Hilton - Ceremony (Montserrat House)
- Erik Wøllo - Recurrence (Projekt)
- 永遠の双子 - 余波 (Eternal Twins - Aftermath) (No Problema)
- Evanescence - The Bitter Truth (Columbia)
- Explosions in the Sky - Big Bend: An Original Soundtrack for Public Television (Temporary Residence Ltd)
- Faru - Utasava (Carpe Sonum)
- Fiddlehead - Between the Richness (Run For Cover)
- Filter-Kaffee - 105 (Manikin)
- Fleeting Joys - All Lost Eyes And Glitter (Only Forever)
- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises (Luaka Bop)
- Fovea Hex - The Salt Garden: Landscaped (Steven Wilson Remixes) (Les Disques Du Crépuscule)
- From the Mouth of the Sun - A Broken House (Dronarivm)
- From the Mouth of the Sun - Light Caught The Edges (Lost Tribe Sound)
- Frost* - Day And Age (InsideOut Music)
- Full Moon Scientist vs. Amusiana - Dubiana (Amusiana)
- Gary Numan - Intruder (BMG)
- Gary Stroutsos & Stevin McNamara - Moonlight Meditations: Instrumental Sound Bath (White Swan)
- Gaze is Ghost - Lapis Cobalt Indigo Blue (Bandcamp)
- Geese - Projector (Partisan / PIAS)
- Ghost Rhythms - Spectral Music (Cuneiform)
- Giancarlo Erra - Departure Tapes (Kscope)
- Goat - Headsoup (Rocket Recordings)
- Goat Girl - On All Fours (Rough Trade)
- God Is An Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10 (Napalm)
- Gregory Paul Mineeff - Restraint (Cosmicleaf)
- Greta Van Fleet - The Battle At Garden's Gate (Lava / Republic)
- Halocraft - A Mother To Scare Away The Darkness (Bandcamp)
- Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (Produced by: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, NiN) (Capitol)
- Hawkwind - Somnia (Cherry Red)
- Hayden Pedigo - Letting Go (Mexican Summer)
- Henrik Meierkord - Kval (Ambientologist)
- Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)
- Himmellegeme - Variola Vera (Karisma)
- Hinkstep - A Little Bit Of Eternity (Bandcamp)
- Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter - Outland (Behind The Sky)
- Immersion (feat. Tarwater, Ulrich Schnauss, Scanner & Laetitia Sadier) - Nanocluster, Vol .1 (Swim)
- Incentive - Incentive (Submarine Broadcasting Co / Circle With A Dot)
- Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take (Saddle Creek)
- Intelligentsia - Ethnogenesis (Earth Academy)
- Ishq - Timelapse In Aquarius (ishq.org / Bandcamp)
- Jack Ellister - Lichtpyramide II (Megatier / Bandcamp)
- Jane Weaver - Flock (Fire Records)
- Jay Tausig - Purple View (Bandcamp)
- Johan Tronestam - Cosmic Steps (Groove Unlimited)
- John Likides - ATHANASIA: Soundtrack to the Book (Bandcamp)
- John Louis Kluck - A Gathering of Stars (Kahvi Collective)
- Jon Durant & Stephan Thelen - Crossings (Alchemy)
- Jon Hopkins - Music For Psychedelic Therapy (Domino)
- Jonas Munk - Altered Light (Azure Vista)
- Joy Crookes - Skin (Insanity / Sony)
- Julien Baker - Little Oblivions (Matador)
- Kahana - Full Circle (Bandcamp)
- Karmamoi - Room 101 (Karmamoi / Bandcamp)
- Karsh Kale - Touch : 2 (Six Degrees)
- Kaya Project - The Ghasi Ram Blues EP (Seb Taylor Music / Bandcamp)
- Ken Martin - 48 x albums !!! (Bandcamp)
- Kevin Keller - Shimmer (Bandcamp)
- Kill Shelter & Antipole - A Haunted Place (Manic Depression Records)
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000 (KGLW)
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - L.W. (Flightless / Heavenly)
- Kontroll-Raum - Live @ BYSS October 2nd, 2020 (Manikin)
- Lala Lala - I Want The Door To Open (Hardly Art)
- Le Grand Sbam - Furvent (Dur Et Doux) <== possibly the most far-out music ever !!
- Lena Raine - Chicory: The Sounds of Picnic Province (Radical Dreamland)
- Lena Raine - Moonglow Bay (Game Soundtrack) (Radical Dreamland)
- Leopold Stokowski conducts Henry Cowell & Lou Harrison - Persian Set / Suite (CRI 1957; Remastered: New World, 2021)
- Leprous - Aphelion (InsideOut Music)
- Liquid Bloom & Poranguí - Kuya Sessions: Cura (White Swan)
- Lisa Bella Donna - Appalachian Wilderness (Behind The Sky Music)
- Lisa Bella Donna - Moogmentum: Presented by the Bob Moog Foundation (Behind The Sky Music)
- Lord Helmet - Get Back to the Ship (Bandcamp)
- Low - Hey What (Sub Pop)
- Lucy Dacus - Home Video (Matador)
- Lunar Vacation - Inside Every Fig is a Dead Wasp (Keeled Scales)
- Lyonel Bauchet - The Diver (DiN)
- Mac McCaughan - The Sound of Yourself (Merge)
- Mac of BIOnighT - Astronauts 10 (Aural Films)
- Mac of BIOnighT - Classic EM 50: Ephemeral Phenomena (Bandcamp)
- Madlib & Four Tet - Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion)
- Maestro Maya - Live From Planet Maya (Nasoni)
- Mahogany Frog - In The Electric Universe (MoonJune / Mafrogany Hog)
- Mantra Move - Raven Dub (feat. Youth, Kuba, Nik Turner, Lee Harris, Mark Gemini Thwaite) (Liquid Sound Design)
- Marisa Anderson & William Tyler - Lost Futures (Thrill Jockey)
- Marissa Nadler - The Path of the Clouds (Bella Union)
- Mark Seelig - The Disciple’s Meditation (Projekt)
- Martina Topley-Bird - Forever I Wait (AWAL / Battle Box)
- mastroKristo - Departures (Lost Tribe Sound)
- Mathias Grassow - The Shamans of Science: Al-Shaman Chapters 1-3
- Max Richter - Voices 2 (Decca)
- Mogwai - As The Love Continues (Rock Action)
- Mono - Pilgrimage of the Soul (Temporary Residence Ltd / Pelagic)
- m00m - Deep Time (Aural Films)
- Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 2 (Sacred Bones)
- Motionfield - Cryonics (Neotantra)
- Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 (Warp)
- Natacha Atlas with Samy Bishai, Jason Singh, Yazz Ahmed & Alcyona Mick - The Inner & The Outer
- Neal Morse Band - Innocence & Danger (InsideOut Music)
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Barn (Reprise)
- Nell Smith & The Flaming Lips - Where The Viaduct Looms (Bella Union)
- Nemesis - Hydra (Bandcamp)
- Nemesis & Juha-Matti Rautiainen - Off The Map (Bandcamp)
- Nigel Mullaney - The Navigator (Behind The Sky Music)
- Nightmares On Wax - Shout Out! To Freedom... (Warp)
- Nik Turner & Sendelica - I Do What I Like (Sunshine Heart)
- Nitin Sawhney - Immigrants (Sony)
- Obsqure - Au Palais (Cosmicleaf)
- Old Time Relijun - Musicking (K)
- Olivia Rodrigo - Sour (Geffen)
- One Million Eyes - Brama (ASIP)
- Patrick R. Pärk - Sacred Winged Door / Green Powdered Magmas (Submarine Broadcasting Co.)
- Perpetual Loop - Isolation (Digital Duvet)
- Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments (Blood Music)
- Pêtr Aleksänder - Collage (Moderna)
- Phaeleh - Soma (Undertow)
- Piroshka - Love Drips And Gathers (Bella Union)
- Polypores - Shpongos (Behind The Sky)
- Pom Poko - Cheater (Bella Union)
- Poppy Ackroyd - Pause (One Little Independent)
- Professor Chill - Flow State (Disco Gecko)
- Proud Peasant - Peasantsongs (Basement Avatar)
- Rachika Nayar - Fragments (RVNG Intl.)
- Radical Face - Hidden Hollow, Vol.One: Singles (Bear Machine)
- Regal Worm - The Hideous Goblink (Quatermass)
- Robert Fripp - Music For Quiet Moments (8xCD Soundcapes box-set, 2004-2015) (Burning Shed)
- Robin Guthrie - Pearldiving (Soleil Après Minuit)
- Ron Boots - Screaming Whispers (Groove Unlimited)
- Ron Boots & Gert Emmens - A Night At Blackrock Station (Groove Unlimited)
- Rudy Adrian - As Dusk Becomes Night (Spotted Peccary)
- Saadji - Dystopik (Zalem / Bandcamp)
- Salook - Ideas In Transit II
- Satomimagae - Hanazono (GuruGuru Brain)
- Saturnia - Stranded in the Green (Sulatron)
- Sendelica - And Man Created God (Fruits de Mer / Frg)
- Sensitive Chaos - Closer to Home (Bandcamp)
- Serena Gabriel featuring Steve Roach - Seeing Inside (Timeroom Direct)
- Six By Seven - Kosmik Punks I & II (Bandcamp)
- Sky Cries Mary - Wandering In the Vastness (Trail Records)
- Sleeping Pandora - Lifting Water // Ride The Horizon // Atmosphere (Bandcamp / Spotify)
- Slow Meadow - Upstream Dream (Hammock Music)
- Smadj - Dual (Smadj Music)
- Smote - Bodkin (The Weird Beard / Bandcamp)
- Sneaker Pimps - Squaring The Circle (Unfall Productions)
- Snorri Hallgrímsson - Landbrot (Moderna)
- Snowdrops - Inner Fires (Forwind)
- Spirit of the Beehive - Entertainment, Death (Saddle Creek)
- Spirits Burning - Evolution Ritual (Noh Poetry)
- Spiritual Fields - Spiritual Fields (Natural Life Essence / Liquid Frog)
- Squid - Bright Green Field (Warp)
- State Azure - Light Span // Phoenix (Bandcamp)
- State Azure - To a Distant World (Bandcamp)
- Steven Wilson - The Future Bites (Caroline International)
- Still Corners - The Last Exit (Wrecking Light)
- Stray Theories - This Light (n5MD)
- Sufjan Stevens - Convocations (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Sun Colored Chair - Seated (Bandcamp)
- Suuns - The Witness (Joyful Noise)
- Sweet Trip - A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals (Darla)
- Sylvain Carel - Atlantide (Sylvain Carel Music)
- Syndromeda - The Path of Isolation (Syngate)
- Taras Bulba - Sometimes The Night (Bandcamp)
- The Anchoress - The Art Of Losing (plus: Expanded Edition, 2022) (Kscope)
- The Besnard Lakes - TBL Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Full Time Hobby)
- The City Gates - Age of Resilience (Icy Cold / Velouria Recordz)
- The Holy Family - The Holy Family (Rocket Recordings)
- The Joy Formidable - Into The Blue (Hassle)
- The Kings of Frog Island - The Kings of Frog Island 6.5 (Kozmik Artifactz)
- The Kings of Frog Island - The Kings of Frog Island VII (Kozmik Artifactz)
- The Lost Stoned Pandas - Dark Side Of The Noom (Sendelica)
- The Notwist - Vertigo Days (Morr Music)
- The Polvos - Darkness Emotions (Nasoni)
- The Pop Group - Y in Dub (Mute)
- The Soviet Space Dog Project - Late Night Constructions (Bandcamp)
- The Soviet Space Dog Project - Tape Operator (Bandcamp)
- The Soviet Space Dog Project - The Mathematics of Satellite Motion (Bandcamp)
- The Spacelords - Unknown Species (Tonzonen)
- The Third Sound - First Light (Fuzz Club)
- The Weather Station - Ignorance (Fat Possum)
- Thom Brennan - Chasing the Rain (Kunaki / TMB Soundworks)
- Thorsten Quaeschning - AMA (Protanopia)
- Tim Hecker - The North Water (Original Score) (Lakeshore)
- Tom Hodge & Floex - Je Suis Karl Soundtrack (Minority)
- Tonstartssbandht - Petunia (Mexican Summer)
- Transatlantic Alliance - Transatlantic Alliance (Post. Recordings)
- Transponder - Astral Expanse (Exosphere)
- Tuesday The Sky - The Blurred Horizon (Metal Blade)
- Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - Eight Fragments Of An Illusion (Azure Vista)
- Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - Destiny Waiving (Bureau B)
- Umphrey's McGee - You Walked Up Shaking In Your Boots But You Stood Tall And Left A Raging Bull (Nothing Too Fancy)
- Unisphere - TempUs (Groove Unlimited)
- Various - Ambient Online Themed Compilation 11: Mars (Ambient Online)
- Various - Ambient Online Compilation: Volumes 12-15 (Ambient Online / Bandcamp)
- Various - Animals Reimagined: A Tribute To Pink Floyd (Cleopatra)
- Various - Chill Nation (Compiled by Liquid Soul & Ace Ventura) (Sofa Beats)
- Various - Cousin Silas & Friends Volume 8 Part 5 (WeAreAllGhosts)
- Various - Dubiquinone Volume 2 (Hadra AlterVision)
- Various - Frost (Compiled by E-Mantra) (Melusine)
- Various - Hawk Moon Records: Volume X (Hawk Moon)
- Various - Holding Hands In The Dark: A Second Language Confluence (Second Language)
- Various - LSD Special Selections Vol.1: CALAN HAF (Beltane Blessings) (Liquid Sound Design)
- Various - LSD Special Selections Vol.2: ALBAN ELFED (Equinox Celebration) (Liquid Sound Design)
- Various - Microcosmos Chill-out Vol.5 (Microcosmos)
- Various - Mystic Chill Vol. 3 (Mystic Sound)
- Various - Portal : A Compilation Curated by David Starfire (Gravitas)
- Various - Realismo Mágico (Piano and Coffee)
- Various - Sleep 001 (The Ambient Zone)
- Various - Spaciousness 2 (Lo Recordings)
- Various - Sub Signals Vol.2 (Selected and Mixed by Gaudi) (Dubmission)
- Various - Sustain Series, Vol. 2 (Ambientologist)
- Various - tʌntrə XIX (Neotantra)
- Various - The Cousin Silas Emporium Members Project (Vols. 1-20)
- Various - The Official Keith Emerson Tribute Concert: Fanfare For The Uncommon Man (Cherry Red)
- Various - The Sound of Northern Star (Northern Star)
- Vert:x + Pete Hope - Disintegrate (Bandcamp)
- Villagers - Fever Dreams (Domino)
- Wage War - Manic (Fearless)
- Wardruna - Kvitravn (By Norse Music)
- Wednesday - Twin Plagues (Orindal)
- William Ryan Fritch - Built Upon a Fearful Void (Lost Tribe Sound)
- William Ryan Fritch - Freeland OST (Lost Tribe Sound)
- Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend (Dirty Hit)
- Woob - AD4PTION / Welcome Back To The Midnight Arcade (Time Limited)
- Wye Oak - Cut All the Wires: 2009–2011 (Merge)
- Wyldest - Monthly Friend (Spotify)
- Yaima - Earth Trilogy 1 & 2 (Yaima / Bandcamp)
- Yann Tiersen - Kerber (Mute)
- YVA - Hype Machine (Bandcamp)
- Zen Baboon - Complete II (Baboon Clinic)
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