Number Five: Dead Lights – The Uncanny Valley VIDEO The Uncanny Valley borders on metalcore with its heavy riffs and harsh vocals, but I made the choice to include it in the post-hardcore list. Whatever you choose to tag it, it remains an incredibly strong album from 2021!
Number Four: A Secret Revealed – When the Day Yearns for Light VIDEO When the Day Yearns for Light is an amazing and disgusting album, one of the strong points of the year!
Number Three: Telomēre – Where Are We Still VIDEO Where Are We Still is filled with groovy riffs and melodic hooks so that there are only a few moments where you’re not banging your head (and those calmer moments are great too!)
Number Two: The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – Illusory Walls VIDEO
Number One: Hail the Sun – New Age Filth VIDEO New Age Filth , sets up a golden standard for this particular style of post-hardcore. I’ve played it multiple times wishing to scream my lungs out in sync (I can’t), and so it stuck in my mind the strongest. All hail Hail the Sun!
Notable Releases Hover over foreign scripts for pronunciation and romanization.
Friday, 15 January The Sick Boy Method – For Karyn 32:22Muncie, Indiana
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Il Tabarro [06:41]
2. No News is Good News [03:15]
3. If the Body is a Vessel, God Willing this One is Empty [08:17]
4. Death [04:41]
5. Acceptance [09:28]
Sunday, 14 February Vautours – The Queen 18:35Lille, France
Tracklist (click to display) 1. The Queen [04:41]
2. La Grande Saignée [02:32]
3. Ascend [03:41]
4. Haut & Court [00:48]
5. Unclean Wounds [04:18]
6. The Idiot [02:35]
Friday, 26 Pulses – Speak Less 18:28Dumfries, Virginia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Absence of Evidence [00:32]
2. Bold New Taste [01:39]
3. We’re Gonna Play, Steve [01:18]
4. Meet Me in Temecula [01:33]
5. No Good Can Come From This, But It Can’t Get Any Worse [01:27]
6. If Life’s a Gift, I Hope You Kept the Receipt [00:31]
7. Miss Me [01:36]
8. I Meant It (feat. Tyler Adlam) [00:31]
9. As A Treat [02:19]
10. II. [01:52]
11. General Grievance [01:45]
12. Evidence of Absence [03:25]
Inner Space – Echoes 50:06Denver, Colorado
Tracklist (click to display) 1. O’o [02:03]
2. Earthlings [03:59]
3. Badlands [04:23]
4. Bokota [03:13]
5. Airwalk [04:10]
6. Dive [04:51]
7. Baiji [02:17]
8. Runaway [03:50]
9. Eastern Sky [04:47]
10. Dusky Seaside Sparrow [02:32]
11. Marble Slates [05:09]
12. Desert Rain [06:06]
13. Trees of Green (feat. Carisa Cipolla) [02:46]
Friday, 5 March Suffer Club – Tar and Feather 23:10
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Secret [0:03:28]
2. Happy Now? [0:03:26]
3. Torn Between [0:04:24]
4. Tar and Feather [0:03:44]
5. Leave [0:03:55]
6. Fever [0:04:20]
Friday, 19 Летние войны – Сажа 25:01Russia
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Ковенант [0:04:05]
2. Отдел тайн [0:03:13]
3. 154 [0:03:27]
4. Изменники тьмы [0:03:09]
5. Царь углей [0:03:11]
6. Вместо [0:03:43]
7. Мы договорились [0:04:15]
Friday, 26 March The Drowned God – Pale Home 45:24USA
Tracklist (click to display)
1. I Met You [0:04:32]
2. Buried in the Room [0:03:33]
3. Awake in the Mourning [0:05:00]
4. Without Ceremony [0:03:30]
5. Near Spanish Lake [0:03:55]
6. And It Was Weeping [0:05:17]
7. All Haunted [0:03:05]
8. Gnashing of Teeth [0:03:49]
9. Bleeding Nature [0:03:42]
10. You Remained Silent [0:09:18]
Friday, 16 April Hail the Sun – New Age Filth 34:02California
Read our review.
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Domino [04:24]
2. Slander [03:45]
3. Solipsism [03:38]
4. Misfire [03:32]
5. Made Your Mark [02:45]
6. Slipped My Mind [03:51]
7. Parasitic Cleanse [03:24]
8. Hysteriantics [03:01]
9. Devaluation [02:27]
10. Punch Drunk [03:17]
Friday, 23 Tilian – Factory Reset 35:09USA
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Holy Water [0:04:37]
2. Dose [0:03:55]
3. Caught In The Carousel [0:02:58]
4. Anthem [0:02:50]
5. Breathe [0:01:32]
6. All I Crave Is Peace [0:04:20]
7. Is Anarchy A Good Hobby? [0:03:25]
8. Factory Reset [0:02:10]
9. Imagination (feat. Tim Henson) [0:02:37]
10. Act Out [0:03:14]
11. Hands Around My Throat [0:03:38]
Wild Powers – What You Wanted 38:37Seattle, Washington
Tracklist (click to display) 1. …Sucks [03:45]
2. Bone Throw [03:23]
3. Real Deal Phil [02:18]
4. Decades [04:08]
5. Chrome [04:12]
6. Pygmalion [04:19]
7. Pageant [04:17]
8. Tricky [04:15]
9. SJR [03:38]
10. Trans Am [04:22]
Friday, 21 May Dead Lights – The Uncanny Valley 43:19Brisbane, Australia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. The Uncanny Valley [03:21]
2. Schedule 1 [03:43]
3. The King of Nowhere [04:14]
4. Born Of A Lie [03:47]
5. Contact [04:38]
6. Electrodome [03:41]
7. [I See The Future] [01:38]
8. Echo Chamber [04:49]
9. Sudden Life / Sudden Death [03:51]
10. Pythia [04:46]
11. Frozen Over [04:51]
Monday, 24 May Adventurer – Pacifica 38:38Detroit, Michigan
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Voices Over Infinite Distance [04:18]
2. Telepathy Club [03:10]
3. This Is Not For You [02:24]
4. Your Favorite Mistake ft Andres [03:31]
5. Angel Island [02:13]
6. Vicious Circle [04:02]
7. Solstice [04:47]
8. Afterlife ft Andy Cizek & Cristina Pena [04:33]
9. Two Tides [04:10]
10. 210 Cherry St [02:30]
11. Champagne [03:00]
Friday, 25 June Votto – Quindi noi sbagliando facemmo giusto 17:39Piacenza, Italy
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Quindi noi sbagliando facemmo giusto [02:05]
2. Ogni paura, ogni certezza [02:38]
3. Il tempo si è guastato [02:49]
4. Finire tutto prima di iniziare qualcosa di nuovo [01:43]
5. Oikos [03:56]
6. Spettro [01:27]
7. Un altro giorno [03:01]
Friday, 9 July Telomēre – Where Are We Still 28:42Toronto, Ontario
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Ode [00:36]
2. Kindred Will [06:26]
3. Sequoia 1: Ashes [05:43]
4. Sequoia II: For The Wind To Take [04:16]
5. Microcosms [07:25]
6. Where Are We Still [04:16]
Monday, 12 Albeit, a Moon – Sanguine 20:52Lewes, Delaware
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Monologue [02:37]
2. Noir [02:09]
3. Re; [03:34]
4. Panic Dreams [03:26]
5. The Heart, The Kind [06:32]
6. Roots [02:34]
Friday, 16 July To Octavia – Somewhere in a World, Not of the Dream 21:09Melbourne, Australia
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Fall into the Sun [0:02:51]
2. The Sound of the Rain [0:03:23]
3. COCO MOJO [0:03:46]
4. Sleep [0:03:50]
5. Unknown Worlds [0:03:42]
6. Edge of the Universe [0:03:44]
Friday, 17 September Eidola – The Architect 45:13Salt Lake City, Utah
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Hidden Worship [02:52]
2. Counterfeit Shrines [04:34]
3. Caustic Prayer [03:38]
4. Empty Gardens [04:51]
5. Occam’s Razor [01:51]
6. Perennial Philosophy [04:03]
7. Forgotten Tongues [03:53]
8. Unequivocal Nature [03:38]
9. Alchemist Ascendant [01:16]
10. Elephant Bones [04:25]
11. Mutual Fear (feat. Jon Mess) [03:52]
12. Ancient Temperament [06:30]
Friday, 8 October The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – Illusory Walls 70:25Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Afraid to Die [03:09]
2. Queen Sophie for President [03:29]
3. Invading the World of the Guilty as a Spirit of Vengeance [05:50]
4. Blank // Drone [01:40]
5. We Saw Birds through the Hole in the Ceiling [03:35]
6. Died in the Prison of the Holy Office [06:48]
7. Your Brain is a Rubbermaid [03:03]
8. Blank // Worker [02:46]
9. Trouble [04:42]
10. Infinite Josh [15:39]
11. Fewer Afraid [19:44]
Sunday, 10 No God Only Teeth – Placenta 41:55Hamburg, Germany
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Gegenlicht [09:04]
2. Safer [06:09]
3. Stockholm [06:20]
4. 15.37.12 [05:30]
5. Bethune [05:46]
6. Raffer [09:06]
Wednesday, 13 October Knocked Loose – A Tear in the Fabric of Life 21:02Pasadena, California
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Where Light Divides The Holler [03:42]
2. God Knows [03:35]
3. Forced To Stay [03:55]
4. Contorted in the Faille [03:55]
5. Return to Passion [01:13]
6. Permanent [04:42]
Friday, 29 October A Secret Revealed – When the Day Yearns for Light 38:01Würzburg, Germany
Tracklist (click to display) 1. As I Watch You Perish [05:11]
2. No Shelter. No Hope. [06:07]
3. With Blind Apathy [05:45]
4. In Shoals [03:56]
5. ~ [02:00]
6. Rotten [04:44]
7. The Arsonist [05:34]
8. Monument of Guilt [04:44]
Friday, 12 November The Seafloor Cinema – In Cinemascope with Stereophonic Sound 43:01Sacramento, California
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Adjusting Expectations [03:22]
2. Glimmer [03:05]
3. Crash Nebula… On Ice! [02:50]
4. John Henry, the Man Who Beat the Machine [03:40]
5. Nightjammer [03:43]
6. May [03:32]
7. 1,000 Ways to Say You’re Okay Every Day [03:36]
8. Drip God [02:46]
9. Can Someone Please Draw Me a Map to Serotonin [03:13]
10. Such Smol Hands [02:48]
11. If You Deserve It, You Deserve It [03:18]
12. Rayla [03:22]
13. Tap Tapply [03:46]
Friday, 26 March Origami Button – No Parking 26:30Chicago, Illinois
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Rot [03:36]
2. Transient [03:32]
3. Helix [04:01]
4. Feel [03:36]
5. Peach [04:21]
6. Nervous [03:43]
7. Stag [03:41]
Best of 2021 01/01 – Best of Afrobeat 01/02 – Best of Atmospheric Black Metal 01/03 – Best of Avant-Garde Black Metal 01/04 – Best of Brutal Death Metal 01/05 – Best of Classical 01/06 – Best of Death Metal 01/07 – Best of Deathcore 01/08 – Best of Doom Metal 01/09 – Best of Folk 01/10 – Best of Grindcore 01/11 – Best of Hardcore 01/12 – Best Improvisation 01/13 – Best of Indie Rock 01/14 – Best of Jazz Fusion 01/15 – Best of Jazzcore 01/16 – Best of Math Rock 01/17 – Best of Mathcore 01/18 – Best of Metalcore 01/19 – Best of Modern Jazz 01/20 – Best of Noise Rock 01/21 – Best of Nu Jazz 01/22 – Best of Nu Prog 01/23 – Best of Pop
[…] of Noise Rock 01/21 – Best of Nu Jazz 01/22 – Best of Nu Prog 01/23 – Best of Pop 01/24 – Best of Post-Hardcore 01/25 – Best of Post-Metal 01/26 – Best of Post-Rock 01/27 – Best of Progressive […]
[…] of Noise Rock 01/21 – Best of Nu Jazz 01/22 – Best of Nu Prog 01/23 – Best of Pop 01/24 – Best of Post-Hardcore 01/25 – Best of Post-Metal 01/26 – Best of Post-Rock 01/27 – Best of Progressive […]