Chegou o momento que muitos aguardam, quando os principais veículos de comunicação ligados à música liberam as listas de melhores discos de 2021. E as primeiras são de pesos pesados no mercado pop e rock: as conceituadas revistas Mojo e Uncut.
É importante deixar claro que se trata de duas publicações generalistas. Portanto, você não vai encontrar apenas nomes ligados ao rock nas indicações.
Dito isso, segue os rankings de melhores discos de 2021 para ambos os veículos, do 75º lugar ao 1º de cada uma.
Os melhores discos de 2021, para a Mojo
- BLK JKS – Abantu/Before Humans
- Gruff Rhys – Seeking New Gods
- Stephen Fretwell – Busy Guy
- Hiss Golden Messenger – Quietly Blowing It
- Emma-Jean Thackray – Yellow
- black midi – Cavalcade
- Dinosaur Jr. – Sweep It Into Space
- Loretta Lynn – Still Woman Enough
- AC/DC – Power Up
- Lucy Dacus – Home Video
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!
- Tony Allen – There Is No End
- Howlin’ Rain – The Dharma Wheel
- Parquet Courts – Sympathy for Life
- Steve Gunn – Other You
- Cedric Burnside – I Be Trying
- Billy F Gibbons – Hardware
- Ryley Walker – Course In Fable
- Reigning Sound – A Little More Time with Reigning Sound
- Lorde – Solar Power
- BADBADNOTGOOD – Talk Memory
- Tony Joe White – Smoke from the Chimney
- Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood – LIVE
- Nathan Salsburg – Psalms
- Dean Blunt – Black Metal 2
- Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Matt Sweeney – Superwolves
- Public Service Broadcasting – Bright Magic
- Squid – Bright Green Field
- Tyler, the Creator – CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
- Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha
- Jungle – Loving In Stereo
- Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark
- Damon Albarn – The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
- Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space
- Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8
- Chrissie Hynde – Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Dylan
- Jane Weaver – Flock
- Saint Etienne – I’ve Been Trying To Tell You
- Sturgill Simpson – Cuttin’ Grass – Vol. 2 (Cowboy Arms Sessions)
- Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend
- The Stranglers – Dark Matters
- Greentea Peng – MAN MADE
- Endless Boogie – Admonitions
- Paul McCartney – McCartney III
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – L.W.
- Yola – Stand for Myself
- Field Music – Flat White Moon
- Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
- Lindsey Buckingham – Lindsey Buckingham
- Mogwai – As The Love Continues
- The Black Keys – Delta Kream
- SAULT – Nine
- Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade
- Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort to Me
- The Bug – Fire
- Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
- David Crosby – For Free
- Idles – CRAWLER
- The War on Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
- Manic Street Preachers – The Ultra Vivid Lament
- Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
- Black Country, New Road – For the first time
- Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs
- The Weather Station – Ignorance
- John Grant – Boy from Michigan
- Villagers – Fever Dreams
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Raise The Roof
- Sons of Kemet – Black To The Future
- The Coral – Coral Island
- Paul Weller – Fat Pop (Volume 1)
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – CARNAGE
- Low – Hey What
- Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
- St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home
- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
Os melhores discos de 2021, para a Uncut
*A revista enumerou 74 em vez de 75.
- Rose City Band – Earth Trip
- Rosali – No Medium
- Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness
- Marianne Faithfull With Warren Ellis – She Walks In Beauty
- Buffalo Nichols – Buffalo Nichols
- black midi – Cavalcade
- Dave – We’re All Alone In This Together
- Cathal Coughlan – Song of Co-Aklan
- Lucy Dacus – Home Video
- Sarah Davachi – Antiphonals
- Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia of the Air
- Pino Palladino & Blake Mills – Notes With Attachments
- Chris Schlarb & Chad Taylor – Time No Changes
- Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine – A Beginner’s Mind
- The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
- Grouper – Shade
- Strand of Oaks – In Heaven
- Big Red Machine – How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?
- Haiku Salut – The Hill, The Light, The Ghost
- LoneLady – Former Things
- Daniel Bachman – Axacan
- The Black Keys – Delta Kream
- Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – Now
- Yasmin Williams – Urban Driftwood
- Lindsey Buckingham – Lindsey Buckingham
- Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Pick A Day To Die
- David Crosby – For Free
- Elephant9 – Arrival of the New Elders
- Israel Nash – Topaz
- Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes
- Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi – They’re Calling Me Home
- My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket
- Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha
- Damon Albarn – The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
- Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
- Squid – Bright Green Field
- Madlib – Sound Ancestors
- Dean Wareham – I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L A
- Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark
- John Murry – The Stars Are God’s Bullet Holes
- Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time
- Chuck Johnson – The Cinder Grove
- The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Raise The Roof
- Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade
- Steve Gunn – Other You
- Ryley Walker – Course In Fable
- Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams
- Paul Weller – Fat Pop (Volume 1)
- Jane Weaver – Flock
- Valerie June – The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
- St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home
- The Coral – Coral Island
- Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
- Modern Nature – Island Of Noise
- John Grant – Boy from Michigan
- Hiss Golden Messenger – Quietly Blowing It
- Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
- Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs
- Mogwai – As The Love Continues
- Saint Etienne – I’ve Been Trying To Tell You
- Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
- Sons of Kemet – Black To The Future
- Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
- Richard Dawson & Circle – Henki
- Black Country, New Road – For the first time
- The War on Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
- Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
- Arooj Aftab – Vulture Prince
- SAULT – Nine
- Low – Hey What
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – CARNAGE
- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
- The Weather Station – Ignorance