The best albums of 2021 include Wale, Torres, Eric Church, serpentwithfeet, Mdou Moctar, Valerie June, Danny Elfman, Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth, Japanese Breakfast and Mastodon. Best of 202 Whew, we’ve almost made it halfway through our list of the best albums of 2021. This year may have felt…

Bobby Gillespie, lead singer of Primal Scream, has teamed up with Jehnny Beth of Savages for their first collaborative endeavor, Utopian Ashes, a gorgeously grim and gray project. Its alt-rock styles feature a string of songs situated around a crumbling relationship. With the inevitable end of a marriage in…