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Category: Best Songs of 2021
50 Best Songs of 2021 #2 Villagers – The First Day
Connor O’Brien finally turns his Villagers project into more than the sum of it’s parts. Get through the first 30 … More
50 Best Songs of 2021 #3 The War On Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
The War On Drugs sounding at their mellifluous, road trip best, whilst singer Adam Granduciel philosophically considered life, the universe … More
50 Best Songs of 2021 #4 Self Esteem – I Do This All The Time
Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s decade plus spent with Charles Watson in Slow Club never promised this. The surprise breakthrough of the … More
50 Best Songs of 2021 #5 The Bronx – High Five
Punk rock? Literally no-one does it better. Read about the sixth album by The Bronx, VI, here.
50 Best Songs of 2021 #8 Django Django – Kick The Devil Out
Art rockers go full on Madchester with ode to removing negativity (And old St.Nick) from your life. Read a review … More
50 Best Songs of 2021 #9 Gruff Rhys – Can’t Carry On
Making pop this sublime is becoming a lost art. Here was yet more evidence that the (Former?) Super Furry Animals … More
Best Albums of 2021 #4 The War On Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Fatherhood has left an indelible mark on Adam Granduciel, shaping The War On Drugs most human and best album to … More
50 Best Songs of 2021 #10 Manic Street Preachers – Orwellian
James Dean Bradfield composes new material on upright piano, rediscovers inner ABBA whilst railing against big tech. Pick of their … More
Best Albums of 2021 #13 Leon Vynehall – Rare, Forever
In making the follow up to 2018’s more straightforward Nothing Is Still Leon Vynehall drew threads around a concept he … More