2021 Albums Poll: Thread of States and Balloons

Mixed, Bold DNP, ^Nominated & Placed, *Sole Voter

^Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra ‎– Promises
Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall - Marfa Tapes
Illuminati Hotties - Let Me Do One More
Dawn Richard - Second Line

*Allison Russell - Outside Child
DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - The Makin' Magick II Album
*Eric Church - Heart & Soul
Flock of Dimes - Head of Roses
Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
Indigo de Souza - Any Shape You Take
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds
Julian Baker - Little Oblivions
Low - HEY WHAT
Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World
Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
Sofia Kourtesis - Fresia Magdalena EP
St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
Sun-El Musician - African Electronic Dance Music
The Weather Station - Ignorance
Tinashe - 333
Turnstile - Glow On
Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood

Just missed my ballot:

Tirzah - Colourgrade
Iceage - Seek Shelter
Torres - Thirstier
Serpentwithfeet - DEACON
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage

My ballot. *=sole voter

Rosali - No Medium
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
The Murlocs - Bittersweet Demons
*Ducks Ltd. - Modern Fiction
*Temperance - Diamanti
*Asphyxiate - Altar of Decomposed
*Worm - Foreverglade
*Bill MacKay & Nathan Bowles - Keys
*Snet - Mokvani V Okovech
Lingua Ingnota - SINNER GET READY

my full list of 2021 albums + blurbs: https://voodoochili.tumblr.com/post/672641404920561664/my-favorite-albums-of-2021

only heisei no oto made it!

Electric Party - Play
Ssiege - Meteora
The Zenmenn - Enter the Zenmenn
Froid Dub - An Iceberg Cruising the Jamaican Coastline
Various Artists - And Felt Like...
Michal Turtle & Suso Saiz - Static Journeys
Michel Banabila - Echo Transformations
Various Artists and Tomislav Simović - Visitors From The Galaxy Revisited (Original Soundtrack Remixed)
YNV - Golden Hour Ritual
December - Debut
Martinou - Rift
Prins Emanuel - Vhassal
Various Artists ‎- Heisei No Oto: Japanese Left-Field Pop From The CD Age, 1989-1996
Steve Summers - Generation Loss
MLO - Oumuamua
Gilb'r - On danse comme des fous
downstairs J - basement, etc…
kacey musgraves- star-crossed
Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham
nueen - Circular Sequence
Pavel Milyakov & Yana Pavlova - Blue
RXK Nephew - Slitherman Activated
Various Artists - Planet Love Vol. 1: Early Transmissions 1991-95
Triigroup - Interest In Music
Benedek - Mr Goods

That MLO album was one of my favourites of the year (think I nominated it) but then completely forgot to put it on my ballot 🙈

Bold DNP

Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Grouper - Shade
Low - HEY WHAT
Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World
Wild Up - Julius Eastman Vol.1: Femenine
Lamp Of Murmuur - Submission And Slavery
BUMMER - Dead Horse
Really From - Really From
The Armed - Ultrapop
Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
Portal - Hagbulbia
Youth Novel - Youth Novel
Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
Senyawa - Alkisah
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!
Krallice - Demonic Wealth
Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Alister Fawnwoda, Suzanne Ciani, Greg Leisz - Milan
Lingua Ingnota - SINNER GET READY
CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
Victory Over The Sun - Nowherer
Rhododendron - Protozoan Battle Hymns
The HIRS Collective - THE THIRD 100 SONGS
Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
Jana Rush - Painful Enlightenment
The Armed - Ultrapop
Iceage - Seek Shelter
Low - HEY WHAT
BackRoad Gee - Reporting Live (From the Back of the Roads)
Emeka Ogboh - Beyond the Yellow Haze
Teni - WONDALAND
Anna Webber - Idiom
Black Dice - Mod Prog Sic
Danny L Harle - Harlecore
pinkpantheress - To Hell With It
Arca - Kick ii
LLNN - Unmaker
Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air
DJ Manny - Signals In My Head
Lantlôs - Wildhund
Caroline Shaw & So Percussion - Let The Soil Play It's Simple Part
SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Loraine James - Reflection
Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet
Uden Ord - Eventyr
Serpentwithfeet - Deacon
Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

I was the sole voter for Iceage. Didn't see that one coming...