Andrés Cárdenas

This year I focused on listening to albums that were on my collection and I hadn’t played. I didn’t listen to a lot of music released in 2021, but I did overplay Black Country, New Road's debut.

This year I focused on listening to albums that were on my collection and I hadn’t played. I had to remove a bunch of records I was never going to listen to but made sure to play everything else.

So I didn’t listen to a lot of music released this year. I did overplay Black Country, New Road’s debut album from this year and considered the best album 2021 gave us.

The album I listened to the most this year was Built to Spill’s Perfect from Now On, which I ended up writing about for Tinta en las Cintas.

My favorite old new discovery is The Black Heart Procession. Listened to their first three records and absolutely love the song A Light So Dim.

Viky was really into XTC this year so I ended up going through their early records with her, I love Burning With Optimism’S Flames.

I was really into Robert Wyatt for a couple of months. There were a couple of weeks on which every day started and ended with Stallin Wasn’t Stallin’.

But here are the actual charts for 2021.

I played 10,010 different tracks, 17586 times during the year.

Top Tracks

1. Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On*
2. The Fall - Frenz
3. The Fall - Smile
4. Galaxie 500 - Tugboat
5. Silver Jews - Night Society
6. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
7. XTC - Burning With Optimism’s Flames
8. Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder
9. Galaxie 500 - When Will You Come Home
10. Neil Young - Differently
11. Television - Friction
12. Black Country, New Road - Track X
13. The Fall - Hit the North
14. The Sound - Missiles
15. The Velvet Underground - What Goes On
16. The Black Heart Procession - A Light So Dim
17. Devo - Mongoloid
18. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
19. Robert Wyatt - Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’
20. Duster - Gold Dust

*Every song in the album

Top 10 Artists

1. Built to Spill
2. The Fall
3. Ween
4. Sonic Youth
5. Parquet Courts
6. XTC
7. Galaxie 500
8. The Bevis Frond
9. Spiritualized
10. Spacemen 3

Top 10 Albums

1. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
2. Ween - Pure Guava
3. The Fall - The Frenz Experiment
4. Silver Jews - American Water
5. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
6. Brian Eno - Another Green World
7. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
8. Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
9. The Fall - Perverted By Language
10. Pescado Rabioso - Pescado 2

Hopefully 2022 is more varied and includes stuff released during the year.