Unlike previous years, it was challenging to recall everything that came out in 2021 and even more challenging to remember what happened in 2021, the second year of a distorted space time .
Some lists, in no order, of a few things that helped me get through 2021.
Music
Taylor Deupree: Mur [Dauw]
Federico Durnad
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Ilyas Ahmed: You Can See Your Own Way Out [Devotion]
Mach-Hommy: Pray For Haiti [Griselda Records/Daupe!]
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt: Made Out Of Sound [Palilalia Records]
M. Sage: Wants A Diamond Pivot Bright [Florabelle]
Patrick Shiroishi: Hidemi [American Dreams Records]
Perila & Ulla: Memories of Log [VAAGNER]
Thme: Red roses are red now [Seil]
Olivia Block: October, 1984 [Longform Editions]
Lea Bertucci: A Visible Length of Light [Cibachrome Editions]
Midori Hirano: Soniscope [Dauw]
Matt Rösner: No Lasting Form [Room40]
Fuubutsushi: Shiki [Cached]
Josh Mason: Recreación Segura [Self Released]
Film
Dune
Sisters With Transistors
The French Dispatch
The Beatles: Get Back
The Velvet Underground
TV Series
White Lotus
Succession
Mare of Easttown
WandaVision
Ted Lasso
Podcasts
No Dogs In Space
The Dropout
Did I Ever Tell You the One About...MF DOOM
Reads
Girl in a Band: A Memoir: Kim Gordon
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest: Hanif Abdurraqib