NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2021 (40-31)
NPRNPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2021 Enlarge this image Renee Klahr/NPR Renee Klahr/NPR If the year presently coming to a close was a dance, it'd be a hesitant shuffle, tentative steps toward — or heyyyy, maybe away from? Sponsor Message Stream NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2021: Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / Amazon Music / YouTube Music Yasmin Williams Urban Driftwood Spinster Or listen on the streaming platform of your choice. Amythyst Kiah's musical existence was a bifurcated one, alternately given over to alt-rock brooding or to accomplished updates of old-time and piedmont blues styles, up until she found a way to combine those interests into the eerily immersive world of Wary + Strange, a major contribution to the side-by-side displays of artistic agency and individuality that Black women made in country and roots scenes this year. Mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo might be prized for singing Mozart and Handel in the world's great opera houses, but for her debut album she ditched the standard repertoire for music composed solely by women across nine centuries.
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