2021

Little Citrus’ Favorite 2021 Albums

• Japanese Breakfast-Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
• Bo Burnham-Inside (The Songs) (Netflix)
• Ginger Root-City Clicker EP (Acrophase Records)
• Nation of Language-A Way Forward (Play It Again Sam)
• Hand Habits– Fun House (Saddle Creek)
• Lin Manuel Miranda, Germaine Franco, Encanto Cast-Encanto Motion Picture Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records)
• Olivia Rodrigo-Sour (Geffen Records)
• Doja Cat-Planet Her (Kemosabe Records)
• Black Marble-Fast Idol (Sacred Bones)
• Lauer-Answers To Trouble (Permanent Vacation)
• Arlo Parks-Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive)
• Tyler The Creator-Call Me If You Get Lost (Columbia)
• Benny Sings-Music (Stones Throw Records)
• Durand Jones & The Indications-Private Space (Dead Oceans)
• Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett-Her (Original Score)  (SONY)
• Bryan and Aaron DessnerC’mon C’mon (Original Motion Picture Score) (A24 Music)
• Taylor Swift-Red (Taylor’s Version) (Taylor Swift)

Things that came out in 2021 (December 2020 counts)

• Roundhay Garden Scene – Some Rain Must Fall (S/R)
• Biosphere – Angel’s Flight (Biophon)
• Burial & Four Tet & Thom Yorke – Her Revolution / His Rope (XL Recordings)
• Aindulmedir – The Winter Scriptures (Hypnagoga Press)
• Jane the Message – High Functioning (S/R)

Albums I discovered in 2021 that did not come out in 2021

• Blackhill Transmitter – Blackhill Transmitter (FSOLdigital)
• Dis Fig – PURGE (Purple Tape Pedigree)
• Polyphia – New Levels New Devils (Equal Vision)
• Pantayo – Pantayo (Telephone Explosion)

Tracks I discovered in 2021 that did not come out in 2021

• Yellow Magic Orchestra – “Prologue” – Technodelic (Alfa)
• Chris Child & Micah Frank – “Debris Of The Days” – Tape Pieces Vol. 1 (Foil)
• Hudson People – “Trip To Your Mind” – Trip To Your Mind / Power To The Hour (Hithouse)
• Dee D. Jackson – “Automatic Lover” – Automatic Lover (AVI)
• Disparition – “Eliezer’s Waltz” (S/R)
• Vito Tommaso – “Fred Astaire”  – A Day in Rome (REKON)
• Naoki Kodaka “Under Pressure” – Gremlins 2: The New Batch [NES] (Sun Corporation)
• Busdriver – “The Troglodyte Wins” – RoadKillOvercoat (Epitaph)
• Song Sung – “I’m Not In Love” – LateNightTales – David Holmes (LateNightTales)
• Yellow Magic Orchestra – “Epilogue” – Technodelic (Alfa)

• Woob “5005”
• Ceephax Acid Crew “Box Steady”
• Matthieu Faubourg “Aqua EP”
• The BasementDiscos “Chapter 14 edits”
• u-Ziq & Mrs. Jynx “Secret Garden”
• Awakened Souls & From Overseas “Keep the Orange Sun”
• AES Dana “(a) period.”
• Gcom “E2-Xo”
• Noé Preszow “À Nous”
• Alice et Moi “Drama”
• Dua Lipa “Future Nostalgia (Moonlight Edition)”
• Joy Orbison “Still Slipping, Vol. 1”
• The Future Sound of London “Music For Calendars”
• Min-Y-Llan “Involatile”
• Humanoid “7 Songs”
• Derek Carr “Arrival”
• Norm Chambers “Seaside Resonance”
• Air “Air I – You”
• Anjimile “Stranger”
• Freedom to Spend Catalogue Compendium, Vol. 6
• Gaudi “KARMA”
• Biosphere “Angel’s Flight”
• Gas “Der Lange Marsch”
• Frozen Compilations
• Jessica Moss “Phosphenes”
• Clara Luciani “Coeur”
• Magdalena Bay “Mercurial World”
• Tim Dup “La Course Folle”
• Bistro Boy “Drifting”
• Pauline Anna Strom “Angel Tears in Sunlight”
• Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra “Promises”
• Dr. Atmo & Mick Chillage “Ruhleben”
• Christine Ott “Time to Die”
• Ocoeur “Connections”
• Tim Story “Moebius Strips”
• Leif “9 Airs”
• Ochre “An Eye to Windward”
• Masayoshi Fujita “Bird Ambience”
• MOY “Dynamics of Acid”
• The Black Dog “Music for Photographers”
• Modeselektor “Extended”
• 36 & Awakened Souls “The Other Side of Darkness”
• World Circuit “Desolate Snow Road”
• Infinite Scale “Accolade”
• Nuron “Likemind06 Remastered”
• Mick Chillage “Year One Before & After Silence”
• Neotantra’s compilations “Tantra XX”
• Dr. Atmo “Lost Tapes”
• Globular “Long Grass for Small Frogs”
• Heogen “Odd Radio Circle”
• Cult 48 “Underground Signals….”
• Ludwig A.F. Rohrscheid “Velocity”
• Placid Angles “Touch The Earth”
• Golden Donna “The Truth About Love EP”
• A Positive Life “Synaesthetic”
• KiloWatts “Six Silicates (remastered)”
• Octo Octa “She’s Calling”
• EOD “presents the Symbols”
• PCM “Macro”
• Halftribe “Lucenyt Forms Travelling”

FILM CLOSE-UPS Top Films of 2021

• About Endlessness by Roy Andersson [CB]
• Another Round by Thomas Vinterberg [EA]
• Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar by Josh Greenbaum [EA]
• Bernstein’s Wall by Douglas Tirola [CB]
• Bo Burnham: Inside by Bo Burnham [EA]
• Bring Your Own Brigade by Lucy Walker [AB, SM]
• The Card Counter by Paul Schrader [CB, AB]
• Censor by Prano Bailey-Bond [GS]
• A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks by John Maggio [SM]
• The Devil All The Time by Antonio Campos [AB]
• Don’t Look Up by Adam McKay [GS]
• Dune by Denis Villeneuve [EA]
• The First Wave by Matthew Heineman [SM]
• The Green Knight by David Lowery [EA, GS]
• Identifying Features by Fernanda Veladez [AB]
• Julia by Julie Cohen & Betsy West [SM]
• Lamb by Valdimar Johannsson [GS]
• Last Night in Soho by Edgar Wright [GS]
• Listening To Kenny G by Penny Lane [CB, SM]
• Lost Leonardo by Andreas Koefoed [GS]
• Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers) by Pedro Almodóvar [AB, SM]
• Motian In Motion by Michael Patrick Kelly [CB]
• Nightmare Alley by Guillermo del Toro [GS]
• No Sudden Move by Steven Soderbergh [CB]
• No Time to Waste: The Urgent Mission of Betty Reid Soskin by Carl Bidleman [SM]
• Paper & Glue by JR [SM]
• Pig by Michael Sarnoski [GS]
• The Power of the Dog by Jane Campion [CB, EA, AB]
• Procession by Robert Greene [CB]
• Saint Maud by Rose Glass [AB]
• The Souvenir: Part II by Joanna Hogg [EA]
• The Sparks Brothers by Edgar Wright [EA, AB, SM]
• Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street by Marilyn Agrelo [SM]
• Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson [EA, AB, SM]
• Terra Femme by Courtney Stephens [GS]
• Tove by Zaida Bergroth [GS]
• The Underground Railroad by Barry Jenkins [CB, SM]
• The Velvet Underground by Todd Haynes [CB, AB]
• Zola by Janicza Bravo [EA]

AB: Anthony Bonet
CB: Chandler Bennett
EA: Esme Agilar
GS: Greg Scharpen
SM: Sonia Mistry

DJ Aahh’s Top 2021 Shortwave Electronica Songs Z-to-A

• Poté – “Open Up” (Ninja Tune)
• The Pop Group – “We Are Time (Dennis Bovell Dub Version)” (Mute)
• Planningtorock – “Girl You’ve Got My Heart (rRoxymore Remix)” (Human Level)
• 박혜진 PARK HYE JIN – “Y DONT U ft Clams Casino & Take A Day Trip 1” (Ninja Tune)
• Metronomy – “Monday feat. Brian Nasty & Folly Group)” (Because Music)
• Jules – “Miami Breaks” (S/R)
• José González – “Tjomme (DJ Koze Remix)” (Imperial Recordings)
• Flowdan – “Welcome to London (J. Sparrow Remix)” (Tru Thoughts)
• boerd – “Ice Hot” (Anjunadeep)
• Bad with Phones – “HOME” (S/R)

• Acavernus & Yantra: “Gnose” (Buh)
• Olivia Block: “Innocent Passage In the Territorial Sea” (Room 40)
• Circuit Des Yeux: “-io” (Matador)
• Joe Colley: “Trance Tapes” (No Rent)
• Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt: “Lucy and Aaron” (Hanson)
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor: “G_d’s Pee at State’s End” (Constellation)
• Grouper: “Shade” (Kranky)
• Hide: “Interior Terror” (Dais)
• Kris & Tavi: “Chiral” (Post Present Medium)
• Cheryl E Leonard: “Schism” (Mappa)
• Jessica Moss: “Phosphenes” (Constellation)
• Diana Rogerson: “Blue Bottle In a Jam Jar” (S/R)