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2021’s best emerging artist!
PawPaw Rod
2021’s 50 best albums!
1. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert by Little Simz
2. Liquor Store by Remi Wolf
3. Drayan! by Kai Whiston
4. Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish
5. Loving in Stereo by Jungle
6. Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast
7. Call Me If You Get Lost by Tyler, the Creator
8. Friends That Break Your Heart by James Blake
9. LP! by JPEGMAFIA
10. WINK by CHAI
11. Vince Staples by Vince Staples
12. Long Lost by Lord Huron
13. By the Time I Get to Phoenix by Injury Reserve
14. Screen Violence by CHVRCHES
15. Scaled and Icy by Twenty One Pilots
16. a liquid breakfast by AUDREY NUNA
17. The Rise & Fall of Loverboy by Sir Sly
18. Mood Valiant by Hiatus Kaiyote
19. Elephant in the Room by Mick Jenkins
20. All Day Gentle Hold! by Porches
21. If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power by Halsey
22. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings by Various Artists
23. Mother by Cleo Sol
24. I’ve Got Some Living To Do by Jelani Aryeh
25. Super Monster by Claud
26. if i could make it go quiet by girl in red
27. Hotel Surrender by Chet Faker
28. Floatin’ by Cool Company
29. I Know I’m Funny haha by Faye Webster
30. DEACON by serpentwithfeet
31. Going Mainstream by Coast Modern
32. And Then Life Was Beautiful by Nao
33. Any Shape You Take by Indigo De Souza
34. The Fight (Remixed / Extended) by Overcoats
35. Butterfly 3000 by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
36. The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Saint Motel
37. Big Femme Energy Volume 1 by Femme It Forward
38. Today We’re the Greatest by Middle Kids
39. Smiling With No Teeth by Genesis Owusu
40. Ashlyn by Ashe
41. Ostinato, by Xavier Euphory
42. CHROMATOPIA by NoMBe
43. A Woman by Qveen Herby
44. Harmony House by Dayglow
45. MONTERO by Lil Nas X
46. Letter Blue by Wet
47. The Million Masks of God by Manchester Orchestra
48. Sunny Boy by Ritt Momney
49. Out in the Ether by Kevin Devine
50. Bodies of Water by Moontype
2021’s best EPs!
- A PawPaw Rod EP by PawPaw Rod
- Sad Night Dynamite by Sad Night Dynamite
- Full Circle by Hamzaa
- SG8* by Duckwrth
- LUNO by Blood Cultures
- Civilisation by Kero Kero Bonito
- Hallowqveen by Qveen Herby
- VANISHING ACT I: NO NOUNS by Clarence Clarity
- parallel universe pt. 1 by Alaina Castillo
- Are You Happy by NNAMDÏ
- Scout by Samia
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone? by Deb Never
- AZEB by Mereba
- NEGATIVE by EKKSTACY
- Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 by Tkay Maidza
- MONOPHOBIA by Reality Check
- MOTOR FUNCTION by binki
- Four° In Winter by Rachel Chinouriri
- The Witness by SUUNS
- CIRCLES by KALI
- Voyager by Valerie Broussard
- Digital Meadow by Dora Jar
- An Overview on Phenomenal Nature by Cassandra Jenkins
- A Piper for Janet by Cosmo Pyke
- Stein $200 by Louis Prince
- And Friends by Jae Stephens
- Ode by Kwaku Asante
- Table for Two by Lucky Daye
- See The Hue by Atlantic Canyons
- Fragments of a Dying Star by Dispirited Spirits
- Masquerade by Darren Criss
