2021 has been yet another great year for music, and nothing excites me more than to compile my year-end lists of what my favorite albums are. This year, I decided to do a halfway point of some of my most treasured records from the year. I’m not going to put any of these albums in any particular order and keep in mind, I more than likely missed several great records, so don’t hold it against me. Regardless, here are OutOfShapeMusic’s favorite albums of 2021 (so far).

1. Altın Gün – Yol

2. Armand Hammer and The Alchemist – Haram

3. The Armed – ULTRAPOP

4. Backxwash – I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES

5. Big Ghost Ltd and Conway The Machine – If It Bleeds It Can Be Killed

6. Black Country, New Road – For the First Time

7. Black midi – Cavalcade

8. “Blue” Gene Tyranny – Degrees Of Freedom Found

9. Brockhampton – ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE

10.  Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined

11.  Conway The Machine – La Maquina

12.  Cordae – Just Until…

13.  Crumb – Ice Melt

14.  Death From Above 1979 – Is 4 Lovers

15.  Feu! Chatterton – Palais d’argile

16.  Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises

17.  Genesis Owusu – Smiling with No Teeth

18.  Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee at State’s End!

19.  Iceage – Seek Shelter

20.  Japanese Breakfast – Jubile

21.  Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales

22.  King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – L.W.

23.  Kojaque – Town’s Dead

24.  Lana Del Ray – Chemtrails Over The Country Club

25.  Mach-Hommy – Pray For Haiti

26.  Madlib – Sound Ancestors

27.  Mogwai – As The Love Continues

28.  Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – CARNAGE

29.  Porter Robinson – Nurture

30.  Rural Interest – BREAKING UP

31.  Sematary – Rainbow Bridge 3

32.  Shame – Drunk Tank Pink

33.  Slowthai – TYRON

34.  Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future

35.  SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE – ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH

36.  Squid – Bright Green Field

37.  St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home

38.  Sweet Trip – A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals

39.  Tyler, The Creator – CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

40.  Viagara Boys – Welfare Jazz

41.  Weezer – OK Human

42.  Xiu Xiu – OH NO