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NPR β 50 Best Albums of 2021
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#1
Heaux Tales
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Jazmine Sullivan
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#2
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
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Little Simz
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#3
Home Video
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Lucy Dacus
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#4
Outside Child
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Allison Russell
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#5
El MadrileΓ±o
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C. Tangana
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#6
Promises
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Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#7
Vulture Prince
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Arooj Aftab
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#8
Collapsed In Sunbeams
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Arlo Parks
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#9
Vince Staples
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Vince Staples
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#10
Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine
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Wild Up
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#11
Jubilee
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Japanese Breakfast
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#12
Far In
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Helado Negro
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#13
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
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Tyler, The Creator
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#14
30
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Adele
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#15
If Orange Was A Place
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Tems
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#16
The Melodic Blue
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Baby Keem
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#17
Lately I Feel EVERYTHING
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WILLOW
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#18
Pray For Haiti
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Mach-hommy
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#19
Let Me Do One More
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Illuminati Hotties
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#20
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
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Injury Reserve
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#21
Hey What
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Low
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#22
To Hell With It
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PinkPantheress
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#23
Remember Her Name
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Mickey Guyton
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#24
Glow On
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Turnstile
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#25
Quivering In Time
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Eris Drew
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#26
Mother
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Cleo Sol
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#27
KΓ΄rΓ΄lΓ©n
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Toumani DiabatΓ© And The London Symphony Orchestra
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#28
Still Over It
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Summer Walker
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#29
When The Black Hand Touches You
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Lukah
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#30
Montero
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Lil Nas X
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#31
Planet Her
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Doja Cat
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#32
Mood Valiant
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Hiatus Kaiyote
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#33
Jesup Wagon
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James Brandon Lewis
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#34
Enargeia
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Emily Dβangelo
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#35
Black Encyclopedia Of The Air
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Moor Mother
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#36
The Turning Wheel
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SPELLLING
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#37
Wary And Strange
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Amythyst Kiah
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#38
SEIS
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Mon Laferte
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#39
Disco!
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MIKE
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#40
Urban Driftwood
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Yasmin Williams
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#41
Palabras Urgentes
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Susana Baca
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#42
Sounds From The Ancestors
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Kenny Garrett
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#43
Dawn
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Yebba
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#44
A Southern Gothic
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Adia Victoria
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#45
Drama
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Rodrigo Amarante
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#46
Sofia Gubaidulina: Nelson β’ Repin
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Gewandhausorchester Lepzig
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#47
β¦and Then There's This
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Artifacts
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#48
GUMBO'!
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Pink Siifu
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#49
-io
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Circuit Des Yeux
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#50
An Evening With Silk Sonic
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Silk Sonic
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
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