Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Year: 2021

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Consumer Guide Index by Year: 2021

Listing for 130 records from 2021 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A	Amyl and the Sniffers: *Comfort to Me* [ATO] Nathan Bell: *Red, White and American Blues (It Couldn't Happen Here)* [Need to Know] Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: *Love for Sale* [Columbia/Interscope] Chuck Berry: *Live From Blueberry Hill* [Dualtone] Body Meta: *The Work Is Slow* [Hausu Mountain] Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber: *Angels Over Oakanda* [CDBaby] DJ Black Low: *Uwami* [Awesome Tapes From Africa] Billie Eilish: *Happier Than Ever* [Darkroom/Interscope] Illuminati Hotties: *Let Me Do One More* [Snack Shack Tracks/Hopeless] The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band: *Both Ways* [Bandcamp] Low Cut Connie: *Tough Cookies: Best of the Quarantine Broadcasts* [Contender] Lori McKenna: *Christmas Is Right Here* [CN/Thirty Tigers] My Idea: *That's My Idea* [Hardly Art EP] Carly Pearce: 29 [Big Machine EP] PinkPantheress: *To Hell With It* [Parlophone EP] Olivia Rodrigo: *Sour* [Geffen] Kalie Shorr: *I Got Here by Accident* [Kalie Shorr EP] Sleater-Kinney: *Path of Wellness* [Mom + Pop] Joseph Spence: *Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing* [Smithsonian/Folkways] Peter Stampfel: *Peter Stampfel's 20th Century in 100 Songs* [Louisiana Red Hot] tUnE-yArDs: *Sketchy* [4AD] Morgan Wade: *Reckless* [Ladylike] Tommy Womack: *I Thought I Was Fine* [Schoolkids] Neil Young & Crazy Horse: *Barn* [Reprise] *Sacred Soul of North Carolina* [Bible & Tire/Music Maker Foundation] *What Goes On: The Songs of Lou Reed* [Ace]
A-	Adele: 30 [Columbia] Thomas Anderson: *Ladies and Germs* [Out There] Khaira Arby: *New York Live* [Clermont Music] Asleep at the Wheel: *Half a Hundred Years* [Bismeaux] Courtney Barnett: *Things Take Time, Take Time* [Mom + Pop] Jon Batiste: *We Are* [Verve] Carsie Blanton: *Love and Rage* [So Ferocious] Fimber Bravo: *Lunar Tredd* [Moshi Moshi] Hayes Carll: *You Get It All* [Dualtone] Sarah Mary Chadwick: *Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby* [Ba Da Bing!] Chai: *Wink* [Sub Pop] Anansy Cissé: *Anoura* [Riverboat] Lucy Dacus: *Home Video* [Matador] Dave: *We're All Alone in This Together* [Dave/Neighbourhood] Lana Del Rey: *Chemtrails Over the Country Club* [Polydor/Interscope] Kady Diarra: *Burkina Hakili* [Lamastrock] Doja Cat: *Planet Her* [RCA] Dry Cleaning: *New Long Leg* [4AD] Emily Duff: *Razor Blade Smile* [Mr. Mudshow Music] Joe Fahey: *February on Ice* [Rough Fish] Fanfare Ciocarlia: *It Wasn't Hard to Love You* [Asphalt Tango] R.A.P. Ferreira: *Bob's Son: R.A.P. Ferreira in the Garden Level Cafe of the Scallops Hotel* [Ruby Yacht] Garbage: *No Gods No Masters* [Stunvolume/Infectious Music] Gift of Gab: *Finding Inspiration Somehow* [Nature Sounds] Girl in Red: *If I Could Make It Go Quiet* [World in Red/AWAL] Mickey Guyton: *Remember Her Name* [Capitol] Iamdoechii: *Bra-Less* [Iamdoechii EP] Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: *Georgia Blue* [Southeastern] Anthony Joseph: *The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives* [Heavenly Sweetness] Kasai Allstars: *Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound* [Crammed Discs] Loretta Lynn: *Still Woman Enough* [Legacy] Mach-Hommy: *Pray for Haiti* [Griselda] James McMurtry: *The Horses and the Hounds* [New West] Vic Mensa: *I Tape* [Roc Nation] Mereba: *Azeb* [Interscope EP] No-No Boy: *1975* [Smithsonian/Folkways] Onetwothree: *Onetwothree* [Kill Rock Stars] Parquet Courts: *Sympathy for Life* [Rough Trade] Carly Pearce: *29: Written in Stone* [Big Machine] Liz Phair: *Soberish* [Chrysalis] Pony: *TV Baby* [Take This to Heart] Wiki: *Half God* [Wikset Enterprises] Neil Young & Crazy Horse: *Way Down in the Rust Bucket* [Reprise] *Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine Vol. 2* [Oh Boy] *Directions in Music 1969 to 1973* [BGP] *A Gift to Pops: The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong All Stars* [Verve] *I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico* [Verve]
B+	BKtherula: *Love Black* [Warner] Bo Burnham: *Inside* [Imperial] Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba: *Nautilus* [Waveshifter] Eminem: *Music to Be Murdered By: Side B (Deluxe Edition)* [Aftermath/Shady/Interscope/Goliath] Kari Faux: *Lowkey Superstar Deluxe* [Don Giovanni] The Hold Steady: *Open Door Policy* [Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers] Femi Kuti & Made Kuti: *Legacy +* [Partisan] John R. Miller: *Depreciated* [Rounder] The Muslims: *Fuck These Fuckin Fascists* [Epitaph] Nas: *King's Disease II* [Mass Appeal] Youssou N'Dour: *Mbalax* [Universal Music Africa] Pom Pom Squad: *Death of a Cheerleader* [City Slang] Todd Snider: *First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder* [Aimless] Sons of Kemet: *Black to the Future* [Impulse] They Might Be Giants: *Book* [Idlewild] Too Much Joy: *Mistakes Were Made* [People Suck Music]
*******	Adult Mom: *Driver* [Epitaph] BaianaSystem: *Oxeaxeexu* [Maquina de Louco] Benji. & Spillage Village: *Smile, You're Alive!* [SinceThe80s] J Cole: *The Off-Season* [Dreamville/Roc Nation] Ka: *A Martyr's Tale* [Iron Works] Lil Nas X: *Montero* [Columbia] Los Lobos: *Native Sons* [New West] Mdou Moctar: *Afrique Victime* [Matador] Emily Scott Robinson: *American Siren* [Oh Boy] Sleaford Mods: *Spare Ribs* [Rough Trade] Vince Staples: *Vince Staples* [Motown] Lainey Wilson: *Sayin' What I'm Thinkin'* [Broken Bow] *Bushido* [Mello Music Group] *Lenny Kaye Presents Lightning Striking* [Ace] *Stop the War: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Black America 1965-1974* [Kent]
**	Cheekface: *Emphatically No.* [New Professor] Cloud Nothings: *The Shadow I Remember* [Carpark] Combo Lulo: *Neotropic Dream* [Names You Can Trust] The Contraptionists: *Working Man's Dread* [thecontraptionists.com] The Goon Sax: *Mirror II* [Matador] Corey Harris: *Insurrection Blues* [M.C.] Dylan Hicks: *Accidental Birds* [Soft Launch] Jack Ingram/Miranda Lambert/Jon Randall: *The Marfa Tapes* [Sony Music Nashville] John Kruth: *Love Letters From the Lazaretto* [self-released] Gary Lucas: *The Essential Gary Lucas* [KFR] Man on Man: *Man on Man* [Polyvinyl] Gurf Morlix: *The Tightening of the Screws* [Rootball] Kacey Musgraves: *Star-Crossed* [MCA Nashville/Interscope] Homeboy Sandman: *Anjelitu* [Mello Music] Kate Vargas: *Rumpumpo* [Bandaloop] Dean Wareham: *I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A.* [Double Feature] Wau Wau Collectif: *Yaral Sa Doom* [Sahel Sounds] Tierra Whack: *Rap?* [Interscope EP] *For the Good Times: The Songs of Kris Kristofferson* [Ace]
*	Tamar Aphek: *All Bets Are Off* [Kill Rock Stars] McKinley Dixon: *For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her* [Spacebomb] Robert Finley: *Sharecropper's Son* [Easy Eye Sound] Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: *Airport Sparrows* [Soft Launch] Ada Lea: *One Hand on the Steering Wheel the Other Sewing a Garden* [Saddle Creek] Billy Nomates: *Emergency Telephone* [Invada EP] Palberta: *Palberta5000* [Wharf Cat]

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