Music Trajectory’s 20 Albums of the Year + 5 Honorable Mentions

Hello! If you are coming from the 20 Songs of the Year or 25 Underrated Songs of the Year posts, thanks for continuing on with the 2021 year-end posts here on the site. As you may have read, this year is the 10-year anniversary of the site. That’s right, for 10 years I have been posting to the site on a weekly basis – and then more heavily at the end of the year – to showcase the best of the alternative music scene’s new songs and albums.

The 20 album list below is the some of best albums released here in 2021, at least in my universe. Please feel free to share your own top albums list in the comments section at the end of the post.

Thank you for supporting the site and I will see you again in the new year with New Music Trajectories!

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1. Senjutsu by Iron Maiden

2. Scaled and Icy by Twenty One Pilots

3. Hushed and Grim by Mastodon

4. Nowhere Generation by Rise Against

5. Crawler by IDLES

6. I Don’t Live Here Anymore by The War on Drugs

7. Strength by Unto Others

8. Solar Power by Lorde

9. This Is This by Grouplove

10. Things Take Time, Take Time by Courtney Barnett

11. Rock Out by Wolfmother

12. Let the Bad Times Roll by The Offspring

13. The Battle at Garden’s Gate by Greta Van Fleet

14. Bodies by AFI

15. No Gods No Masters by Garbage

16. Livin’ the Apocalypse by Voodoo Glow Skulls

17. When You See Yourself by Kings of Leon

18. OK Human by Weezer

19. The Nightmare of Being by At the Gates

20. Back In Love City by The Vaccines

Honorable Mentions

1. In Heaven by Strand of Oaks

2. Blue Weekend by Wolf Alice

3. Motorheart by The Darkness

4. Brighten by Jerry Cantrell

5. Hotel Roosevelt by Kid Karate

More 2021 Year-End Posts

Music Trajectory’s 20 Songs of the Year + 5 Pop Guilty Pleasures

Music Trajectory’s 25 Underrated Songs of the Year