The 10 best tracks and albums of 2021
BBCThe 10 best tracks and albums of 2021 Getty Images Arwa Haider and Nick Levine highlight BBC Culture's musical picks of the year. Getty Images Albums Pink Noise by Laura Mvula The first shimmer of Pink Noise – via British singer-songwriter, composer and producer Laura Mvula's livestream set in early 2021 – felt like a vibrantly funky antidote to the seasonal gloom. Getty Images Planet Her by Doja Cat A coolly assured, hotly insistent third album from US rapper, singer-songwriter and meme supremo Doja Cat, who strikes an intergalactic pose on David LaChapelle's glossy cover portrait. Getty Images Got Me by Laura Mvula This delirious update of Michael Jackson's 1980s sound isn't just gutsy and unexpected – Mvula was previously known for orchestral ballads – but utterly brilliant.
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