The Wire -
Top 50 albums of 2021
| 1 | L'Rain | Fatigue | 2021 |
| 2 | Moor mother | Black encyclopedia of the air | 2021 |
| 3 | Floating points, Pharoah Sanders c.s. | Promises | 2021 |
| 4 | Low | Hey what | 2021 |
| 5 | Daniel Bachman | Axacan | 2021 |
| 6 | John Cage | Number pieces | 2021 |
| 7 | # | Some good news | 2021 |
| 8 | Jana Rush | Painful Enlightenment | 2021 |
| 9 | Circuit des yeux | -io | 2021 |
| 10 | Phew | New decade | 2021 |
| 11 | Dry cleaning | New long leg | 2021 |
| 12 | Angel Bat Dawid | Hush harbor mixtape : vol. 1 Doxology | 2021 |
| 13 | James Brandon Lewis & Red Lily quartet | Jesup wagon | 2021 |
| 14 | Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt | Made out of sound | 2021 |
| 15 | Les Filles de Illighadad | At Pioneer works | 2021 |
| 16 | Tomaga | Intimate immensity | 2021 |
| 17 | Anthony Braxton | 12 comp (ZIM) 2017 | 2021 |
| 18 | Bug | Fire | 2021 |
| 19 | Sons of Kemet | Black to the future | 2021 |
| 20 | Maggie Nichols | Creative contradiction: Poetr, Story, Song & Sound | 2021 |
| 21 | George Lewis with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Minds in flux | 2021 |
| 22 | Muqata’a | Kamil Manqus | 2021 |
| 23 | Alpha maid | Chuckle | 2021 |
| 24 | William Parker | Migration of silence into and out of the tone world | 2021 |
| 25 | Lucrecia Dalt & Aaron Dilloway | Lucy & Aaron | 2021 |
| 26 | Space Afrika | Honest labour | 2021 |
| 27 | Clarissa Connelly | The voyager | 2021 |
| 28 | Perila | How much is between you and me? | 2021 |
| 29 | Grouper | Shade | 2021 |
| 30 | Sourdure | De mòrt viva | 2021 |
| 31 | Madlib | Sound ancestors | 2021 |
| 32 | Moor mother & Billy Woods | Brass | 2021 |
| 33 | Divide and dissolve | Gas lit | 2021 |
| 34 | RP Boo | Established! | 2021 |
| 35 | Eliane Radigue | Occam ocean 3 | 2021 |
| 36 | Karkhana | Al Azraqayn | 2021 |
| 37 | Pauline Anna Strom | Angel tears in sunlight | 2021 |
| 38 | Pamela Z | A secret code | 2021 |
| 39 | Patricia Brennan | Maquishti | 2021 |
| 40 | Rambutan | Parallel systems | 2021 |
| 41 | Mdou Moctar | Afrique victime | 2021 |
| 42 | Azita | Glen echo | 2021 |
| 43 | Raed Yassin | Archeophony | 2021 |
| 44 | Damon Locks & Black monument ensemble | NOW | 2021 |
| 45 | William Parker | Mayan space station | 2021 |
| 46 | Meemo Comma | Neon Genesis : soul into matter | 2021 |
| 47 | Patrick Shiroishi | Hidemi | 2021 |
| 48 | Ahmed | Nights on Saturn (Commumication) | 2021 |
| 49 | Ben Lamar Gay | Open arms to open us | 2021 |
| 50 | IZ band | Drop by old heaven books | 2021 |
| 7 | # | Some good news | 2021 |
| 48 | Ahmed | Nights on Saturn (Commumication) | 2021 |
| 23 | Alpha maid | Chuckle | 2021 |
| 42 | Azita | Glen echo | 2021 |
| 5 | Daniel Bachman | Axacan | 2021 |
| 34 | RP Boo | Established! | 2021 |
| 17 | Anthony Braxton | 12 comp (ZIM) 2017 | 2021 |
| 39 | Patricia Brennan | Maquishti | 2021 |
| 18 | Bug | Fire | 2021 |
| 6 | John Cage | Number pieces | 2021 |
| 9 | Circuit des yeux | -io | 2021 |
| 46 | Meemo Comma | Neon Genesis : soul into matter | 2021 |
| 27 | Clarissa Connelly | The voyager | 2021 |
| 14 | Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt | Made out of sound | 2021 |
| 25 | Lucrecia Dalt & Aaron Dilloway | Lucy & Aaron | 2021 |
| 12 | Angel Bat Dawid | Hush harbor mixtape : vol. 1 Doxology | 2021 |
| 33 | Divide and dissolve | Gas lit | 2021 |
| 11 | Dry cleaning | New long leg | 2021 |
| 15 | Les Filles de Illighadad | At Pioneer works | 2021 |
| 3 | Floating points, Pharoah Sanders c.s. | Promises | 2021 |
| 29 | Grouper | Shade | 2021 |
| 50 | IZ band | Drop by old heaven books | 2021 |
| 36 | Karkhana | Al Azraqayn | 2021 |
| 49 | Ben Lamar Gay | Open arms to open us | 2021 |
| 21 | George Lewis with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Minds in flux | 2021 |
| 13 | James Brandon Lewis & Red Lily quartet | Jesup wagon | 2021 |
| 44 | Damon Locks & Black monument ensemble | NOW | 2021 |
| 4 | Low | Hey what | 2021 |
| 1 | L'Rain | Fatigue | 2021 |
| 31 | Madlib | Sound ancestors | 2021 |
| 41 | Mdou Moctar | Afrique victime | 2021 |
| 2 | Moor mother | Black encyclopedia of the air | 2021 |
| 32 | Moor mother & Billy Woods | Brass | 2021 |
| 22 | Muqata’a | Kamil Manqus | 2021 |
| 20 | Maggie Nichols | Creative contradiction: Poetr, Story, Song & Sound | 2021 |
| 38 | Pamela Z | A secret code | 2021 |
| 45 | William Parker | Mayan space station | 2021 |
| 24 | William Parker | Migration of silence into and out of the tone world | 2021 |
| 28 | Perila | How much is between you and me? | 2021 |
| 10 | Phew | New decade | 2021 |
| 35 | Eliane Radigue | Occam ocean 3 | 2021 |
| 40 | Rambutan | Parallel systems | 2021 |
| 8 | Jana Rush | Painful Enlightenment | 2021 |
| 47 | Patrick Shiroishi | Hidemi | 2021 |
| 19 | Sons of Kemet | Black to the future | 2021 |
| 30 | Sourdure | De mòrt viva | 2021 |
| 26 | Space Afrika | Honest labour | 2021 |
| 37 | Pauline Anna Strom | Angel tears in sunlight | 2021 |
| 16 | Tomaga | Intimate immensity | 2021 |
| 43 | Raed Yassin | Archeophony | 2021 |
(Donderdag 16 december 2022)