Album Reviews: 2021 Maybeshewill – No Feeling is Final W. H. Lung – Vanities Delta Sleep – Spring Island Courtney Barnett – Things Take Times, Take Time The War On Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore Idles – Crawler Emma Ruth Rundle – Engine Of Hell Gnod – La Mort Du Sens Parquet Courts – Sympathy For Life Biffy Clyro – The Myth Of The Happily Ever After Frank Carter and The Rattlesnakes – Sticky Ian Miles – Degradation Death Decay We Are Scientists – Huffy JOHN – Nocturnal Manoeuvres Blanket – Modern Escapism Public Service Broadcasting – Bright Magic Employed To Serve – Conquering We Were Promised Jetpacks- Enjoy The View Low – HEY WHAT I Feel Fine – The Cold In Every Shelter God Damn – Raw Coward Chubby and the Gang – The Mutt’s Nuts Filth Is Eternal – Love Is A Lie, Filth Is Eternal Sugar Horse – The Live Long After Turnstile – Glow On Deafheaven – Infinite Granite Villagers – Fever Dreams Quicksand – Distant Populations A Great Big Pile of Leaves – Pono Barney Artist & Mr Jukes – The Locket Fauxchisels – Education or Catastrophe LUMP – Animal Stephen Fretwell – Busy Guy Supermilk – Four by Three Snapped Ankles – Forest Of Your Problems The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part One FACS – Present Tense Outlander – Sundowning / Unconditional Lucy Gooch – Rain’s Break Kid Kin – Discompose John Grant – Boy from Michigan Lucy Dacus – Home Video Tigercub – As Blue As Indigo ME REX – Megabear Max Bloom – Pedestrian Part Chimp – Drool Thank – Thankology Red Fang – Arrows N0V3L – NON-FICTION Black Midi – Cavalcade Noctule – Wretched Abyss Gruff Rhys – Seeking New Gods worriedaboutsatan – Providence Squid – Bright Green Field Salem – Salem II Mutes – Dreams of Being Cornered Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade Manchester Orchestra – The Million Masks of God Dinosaur Jr. – Sweep It Into Space Field Music – Flat White Moon Cory Hanson – Pale Horse Rider The Armed – ULTRAPOP Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee at State’s End! Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg Celestial Sanctuary – Soul Diminished Death From Above 1979 – Is 4 Lovers A.A. Williams – Songs From Isolation Poly-Math – The Cadaver Tomb Pt.2 New Pagans – The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark The Hyena Kill – A Disconnect Architects – For Those That Wish To Exist A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Invisible Cities Blanck Mass – In Ferneaux Cloud Nothings – The Shadow I Remember Julien Baker – Little Oblivions Fast Blood – Fast Blood Mogwai – As The Love Continues PY-MH – THE CADAVER TOMB PT.1 Kiwi Jr – Cooler Returns Broken Candles – Left With This Feeling Lily the Fields – Illuminations Slowthai – TYRON Algernon Cornelius – The Miraculous Weapons of Clarkus_Dark Sugar Horse – Slam Dancing in a Burning Building Black Country, New Road – For The First Time John Carpenter – Lost Themes III: Alive After Death TV Priest – Uppers Gaffa Bandana – Fraught in Waves Anna B Savage – A Common Turn Memory of Elephants – Dark Flannel AK Patterson – Mettle Lande Hekt – Going to Hell Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs Shame – Drunk Tank Pink Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou – The Helm Of Sorrow Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz COWER – BOYS