By Massimo Usai
A list of records worthy of deep listening and which, for various reasons, are not part of my top 20, but perhaps of your ranking and which in any case are not lost and at various times have filled my days in 2021.
For the Top 20 of the year, I refer you to this Link.
Jay-Jay Johanson “Silver Screen”.
The Album Leaf “One Day I’ll be on time”
Arlo Parks “Collapsed in Sunbeams”
Cory Hanson “Pale Horse Rider”
London Grammar “Californian Soil”
Lana Del rey “ Chemtrails Over the Country Club”
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra “Promises”
Jazmine Sullivan “Heaux tales”
Ben Lamar Gay “Open Arms to open us”
Christone Kingfish Ingram “662”
Halsey – “If I can’t have love, I want power”
Dirk Maassen “Re: Visions”
James Blake – “Friends that break your Heart”

Grace Cummings “Storm Queen” ***
Makaya McCraven “ Deciphering the message”
Big Red Machine “How Long do you think it’s gonna last?”
Anderson East “Maybe We never die”
Andy Stott “Never The right time”
Angus and Julia Stone “Life is strange”
Art School Girlfriend “Is it where you are”
Arushi Jain “Under the Lilac Sky”
Badbadnotgood “Talk Memory”
Sufjan Stevens Angelo De Augustine “A beginner’s mind”
Sofia Kourtesis “Fresia Magdalena”
St Entienne – “I’ve been trying to tell you”
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