An end of year list, in February! Hopefully the brilliance of the 200 artists featured shines through my own tardiness.
There are playlists for all the major streaming platforms below, but if you discover any music you love please consider supporting the artist by buying something on Bandcamp or as the world slowly opens up ‘after’ covid, going along to see them live.
Spotify is effectivly theft, they don’t care about music or the musicians who make it. That artist you love only gets 0.0004p everytime you play their music, while Spotify generated 3 billion dollars in revenue in 2021. Of the 200 artists in this end of year list, it’s safe to say only one or two (hello, Adele) receive any meaningful income from Spotify.
There are links to Bandcamp for most of the songs on the list. For every 99 pence or cents paid for a track, 85% goes directly to the artist (100% on a Bandcamp Friday).
PLAYLISTS:
(TOP 200 TRACKS OF 2021)👂🔊LISTEN ON
APPLE MUSIC, SPOTIFY, YOUTUBE OR DEEZER
1.
Wheelchair Sports Camp
‘YESS i’m a MESS’
YESS i’m a MESS
YESS i’m in debt
YESS i’m upset
But i got outta bed
So it can’t be that bad
can it?
2.
For Those I Love
‘Birthday / The Pain’
We did that cause we were broke
We did that cause we had no hope
We did that cause we were broke
We did that cause we had no hope
3.
Benefits
‘Flag’
That flag won’t protect you forever, it’ll sink, it looks worn, the colours are running, wasn’t even made here
4.
Jonnie Common & Sarah MacNeil
‘Trickle Treat’
5.
Snapped Ankles
‘Rhythm Is Our Business (Edit)’
6.
Lucy Dacus
‘Thumbs’
I would kill him
If you let me
7.
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
‘Movement 6’
8..
Cassandra Jenkins
‘Hard Drive’
You know the mind
The mind is just a hard drive
9.
Noname
‘Rainforest’
How you make excuses for billionaires you broke on the bus?
10.
Yard Act
‘Fixer Upper’ (feat. Gemma Doherty)
Well, I just moved into the area, yeah
That big old thing over the road
11.
Tierra Whack
‘Stand Up / Link’
12.
M(h)aol
‘Gender Studies’
Why don’t you study my gender
Peddle those tired old lines
13.
Overmono
‘So U Kno’
14.
Joy Oladokun
‘jordan’
I washed up on the shores alone
In a tattered wedding gown
15.
Lila Ikè
‘Batty Rider Shorts / Thy Will’
Every day you and yuh dirty big man friend ah talk
‘Bout her batty rider shorts
16.
Wet Leg
‘Chaise Longue’
Hey you, over there
On the chaise longue in your underwear
17.
Self Esteem
‘I Do This All The Time’
Stop trying to have so many friends
Don’t be intimidated by all the babies they have
18.
Blaze
‘Do You Remember House? (feat. Palmer Brown) (Bob Sinclar & The Cube Guys Extended Remix)’
19.
serpentwithfeet
‘Same Size Shoe’
20.
Zeitklein
‘Skydivers’
Have you never quite believed that you are worthy of love?
21.
IAMGAWD/Custom Made
‘The Ghost of Cavalier Mitchell’
22.
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
‘Soon It Will Be Fire (feat. Moses Sumney)’
23.
Emily Scott Robinson
‘Let ‘Em Burn’
24.
Busy Signal & Bounty Killer
‘Bang Bung’
25.
Yola
‘Diamond Studded Shoes’
26.
Equiknoxx
‘Urban Snare Cypher’
27.
Valerie June
‘Why The Bright Stars Glow (Feat. Mavis Staples) (Acoustic)’
28.
Sons Of Kemet
‘Hustle (feat. Kojey Radical)’
29.
Shad
‘Black Averageness’
People want me to be bad but I won’t
People want me to like jazz but I don’t
30.
Fimber Bravo
‘Santana’s Daughter / Hiyah Man’
31.
El Michels Affair meets Liam Bailey
‘Walk With Me’
32.
Emily D’Angelo
‘Nausicaa’
33.
Winston Reedy
‘Flash It Natty Dread (feat. UK Principal)’
34.
Respek BA
‘Living for the day’
35.
Anunaku
‘Spirale’
36.
Little Simz
‘Introvert’
One day I’m wordless, next day I’m a wordsmith
Close to success but to happiness I’m the furthest
37.
B. Dolan
‘Call Me When You Can’
38.
Jazmine Sullivan
‘Pick Up Your Feelings’
39.
Br3nya
‘Homecoming Freestyle’
40.
Ohtis
‘Schatze (feat. Stef Chura)’
41.
Gruff Rhys
‘Loan Your Loneliness’
42.
The Chemical Brothers
‘The Darkness That You Fear’
43.
Sarah Mary Chadwick
‘That Feeling Like’
That feeling like crushing a month in my palm
That feeling like millions of holes still to darn
44.
Injury Reserve
‘Knees’
45.
Kevin Gates
‘Yes Lawd’
46.
Eddie Chacon
‘Hurt (Seahawks Remix)’
47.
Cadence Weapon
‘SENNA’
48.
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
‘Stonefruit’
Said okay just to save face but she never forgave
It’s only so many ways you can say grace