Welcome back to the Café! In the Season 2 Finale, I present to you my top 25 albums of 2021! I understand that the albums on my list might not make your list but that’s fine. Hopefully its some albums on here that you haven’t checked out, so if that’s the case, feel free to check them out. Here are some honorable mentions that didn’t make the cut but still worth checking out:
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Adele - 30
Tems - If Orange Was a Place
Rachel Chinouriri - Four In Winter
L’Rain - Fatigue
Raheem DeVaughn & Apollo Brown - Lovesick
Benny Sings - Beat Tapes 2
La Luz - Self-titled
Yebba - Dawn
Joyce Wrice - Overgrown
St. Vincent - Daddy’s Home
Nightmares on Wax - Shoutout to Freedom
Allison Russell - Outside Child
Kryptogram - Krypt Vol. 2
Polo & Pan - Cyclorama
John Batiste - We Are
Hounah - Broken Land LP
Jungle Loving In Stereo
Black Keys - Delta Kream
Georgia Ann Muldrow - Vwetto III
Tall Black Guy - Of Progress and Progression
Pink Pantheress - To (What) With It
Jenevieve Divison
Boom Baptist - Komfort Food
Khrysis - Khrysis on the Boards v. 2
Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World
Erika de Casier - Sensational
Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
Dawn Richard - Second Line: An Electro Revival
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
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(0:00) - Intro
(1:24) - First 15 Albums
(7:59) - Top 10 Albums
(14:07) - Outro
Thanks for supporting the Coffee & Beats movement! I’ll be kicking off season 3 with classic album reviews and new coffee recipe episodes. In the meantime, stay musically grounded for life! Enjoy!