# 2021 in Canadian music

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The following musical events and releases that happened in 2021 in Canada.

## Events

* April 10 – 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards
* April 12 - CBC Music launches Canada Listens, a new musical version of the CBC's long-running literature debate show Canada Reads. Kardinal Offishall's album Quest for Fire: Firestarter, Vol. 1 is announced as the winner of the competition at the end of the week.
* June 6 – Juno Awards of 2021
* June 15 - Initial longlist for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize announced
* July 15 - Shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize announced
* July 26 - Prism Prize winners announced
* July 28 - SOCAN Songwriting Prize winners announced
* September 27 - Cadence Weapon wins the 2021 Polaris Music Prize for his album Parallel World
* November 7 - 43rd Félix Awards
* November 29 - 2021 Canadian Country Music Awards

## Albums released
### 0-9

* 347aidan, Chasing Harmony

### A

* Afrikana Soul Sister, Kalasö
* AHI, Prospect
* Alaskan Tapes, For Us Alone
* Jeremie Albino and Cat Clyde, Blue Blue Blue
* Alee, Feels Like This - July 16
* All Hands Make Light, All Hands Make Light
* a l l i e, Tabula Rasa
* Arkells, Blink Once - September 30
* Tenille Arts, Girl to Girl - October 22

### B

* Backxwash, I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses - May 28
* BadBadNotGood, Talk Memory - October 8
* James Baley, A Story
* Ashleigh Ball, Before All the Magic's Gone
* Gord Bamford, Diamonds in a Whiskey Glass - June 4
* Barenaked Ladies, Detour de Force - July 16
* The Beaches, Sisters Not Twins (The Professional Lovers Album)
* Beatchild, Unselfish Desires - August 13
* Bell Orchestre, House Music - March 19
* Belly, See You Next Wednesday - August 27
* Beppie, Dino-Mite!
* Art Bergmann, Late Stage Empire Dementia - May 21
* Bernice, Eau de Bonjourno
* The Besnard Lakes, The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings - January 29
* Justin Bieber, Justice - March 19
* Big Brave, Vital
* Big Brave with The Body, Leaving None but Small Birds
* Big Wreck, Big Wreck 7.1 - November 19
* Blue Rodeo, Many a Mile - December 3
* The Blue Stones, Hidden Gems - March 19
* Born Ruffians, Pulp - April 16
* Boslen, Dusk to Dawn
* Boy Golden, Church of Better Daze
* Boys Night Out, Nevermind 2 - July 16
* Jon Bryant, Psychidyllic Salutations - November 26
* Spencer Burton, Coyote

### C

* Cadence Weapon, Parallel World - April 30
* Alessia Cara, In the Meantime - September 24
* Casey MQ, babycasey: ultra
* Charlotte Cardin, Phoenix - April 23
* Casper Skulls, Knows No Kindness - November 12
* Annabelle Chvostek, String of Pearls
* Cœur de pirate, Perséides (April 30); Impossible à aimer (October 15)
* Louis-Jean Cormier, Le ciel est au plancher - April 16
* Charlotte Cornfield, Highs in the Minuses - October 29
* Crown Lands, White Buffalo

### D

* Death From Above 1979, Is 4 Lovers - March 26
* Art d'Ecco, In Standard Definition
* The Deep Dark Woods, Changing Faces
* Del Barber, Stray Dogs (Collected B-Sides / Vol. 1) - August 20
* Devours, Escape from Planet Devours
* The Dirty Nil, Fuck Art - January 1
* Julie Doiron, I Thought of You - November 26
* Drake, Certified Lover Boy - September 3
* Drake, Scary Hours 2 - March 5
* Kevin Drew, Influences - July 16
* Dru, The Rebirth MMXX - May 27
* Ducks Ltd., Modern Fiction
* Willie Dunn, Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies
* Marc Dupré, Où sera le monde
* Melanie Durrant, Where I'm At - May 7
* Dvsn, Amusing Her Feelings - January 15
* Dvsn and Ty Dolla Sign, Cheers to the Best Memories - August 20

### E

* Jade Eagleson, Honkytonk Revival - November 12
* Efajemue, Aesthetics
* Emanuel, Alt Therapy
* Micah Erenberg, For the Ones Who Love Me Now; Frozen in Time
* André Ethier, Further Up Island

### F

* Michael Feuerstack, Harmonize The Moon - March 19
* Dominique Fils-Aimé, Three Little Words - February 12
* Jeremy Fisher, Hello Blue Monday
* The Franklin Electric, This Time I See It - September 24

### G

* The Garrys, Get Thee to a Nunnery
* Gayance, No Toning Down
* Godspeed You! Black Emperor, G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! - April 2
* Great Aunt Ida, Unsayable - September 7
* Great Lake Swimmers, Live at the Redeemer 2007 - May 14
* Grievous Angels, Summer Before the Storm
* G. R. Gritt, Ancestors

### H

* Half Moon Run, Inwards & Onwards
* Hillsburn, Slipping Away
* Home Front, Think of the Lie
* TheHonestGuy, Love Songs for No One
* Hunter Brothers, Been a Minute - June 30
* Nate Husser, Adult Supervision
* Andrew Hyatt, The Wanderspace Sessions (February); Wild Flowers (July)

### I

* Brandon Isaak, Modern Primitive
* Islands, Islomania - June 11

### J

* JayWood, Some Days
* Jazz Cartier, The Fleur Print - September 10
* Sean Jones, Weekend Lover - November 5

### K

* Greg Keelor, Share the Love
* Mo Kenney, Covers - February 26
* Shawnee Kish, Shawnee Kish - June 25
* Brett Kissel, What Is Life? - April 9
* Kiwi Jr., Cooler Returns - January 22
* Korea Town Acid, Metamorphosis (April); Cosmos (October)
* Nicholas Krgovich, This Spring

### L

* Land of Talk, Calming Night Partner - November 12
* Daniel Lanois, Heavy Sun - March 19
* Thierry Larose, Cantalou
* Sook-Yin Lee and Adam Litovitz, jooj two
* Hubert Lenoir, Pictura de Ipse: Musique directe - September 15
* Simon Leoza, Albatross
* Loony, Soft Thing; Turf
* Loscil, Clara - May 28
* Russell Louder, Humor
* The Lowest of the Low, Taverns and Palaces - December 10

### M

* Majid Jordan, Wildest Dreams - October 22
* Manila Grey, No Saints on Knight Street
* Martha and the Muffins, Marthology: In and Outtakes - November 5
* Matt Mays, From Burnside with Love
* Kyle McKearney, Down-Home
* Kairo McLean, Easy Now
* Kelly McMichael, Waves
* Myst Milano, Shapeshyfter
* Millimetrik, Sun-Drenched
* Ariane Moffatt, Incarnat - March 25
* Monowhales, Daytona Bleach
* Jess Moskaluke, The Demos - February 19
* Mother Mother, Inside - June 25
* Mouth Congress, Waiting for Henry - December 10
* Mustafa, When Smoke Rises - May 28

### N

* N Nao and Joni Void, L’oiseau chante avec ses doigts
* Nimkii and the Niniis, Nang Giizhigoong
* Laura Niquay, Waska Matisiwin
* Safia Nolin, Seum
* Justin Nozuka, Then, Now & Again - April 9

### O

* Ocie Elliott, Slow Tide
* Odonis Odonis, Spectrums
* Steven Lee Olsen, Relationship Goals - July 30
* The Oot n' Oots, Ponderosa Bunchgrass and the Golden Rule
* Ouri, Frame of a Fauna

### P

* Dorothea Paas, Anything Can't Happen - May 7
* Meghan Patrick, Heart on My Glass - June 25
* Nico Paulo, Live at First Light
* Dany Placard, Astronomie (suite)
* Planet Giza, Don't Throw Rocks at the Moon
* The Joel Plaskett Emergency, Twenty Years Gone: The Joel Plaskett Emergency Revisits Down at the Khyber
* Plaza, Nocturnes - October 1
* Postdata, Twin Flames - March 5
* Garth Prince, Falling in Africa
* Priyanka, Taste Test - July 16

### R

* Raised By Swans, Raised By Swans Is the Name of a Man, Volume 1 - February 9
* Rare Americans, Rare Americans 2 (March); Jamesy Boy & The Screw Loose Zoo (November)
* Rhye, Home - January 22
* Daniel Romano, Cobra Poems
* Daniel Romano, Fully Plugged In
* Daniel Romano, Kissing the Foe
* Royal Canoe, Sidelining - July 9
* Justin Rutledge, Islands - March 26
* Ruth B., Moments In Between - June 11
* Serena Ryder, The Art of Falling Apart - March 12

### S

* Julien Sagot, Sagot
* Said the Whale, Dandelion - October 22
* SATE, The Fool
* JP Saxe, Dangerous Levels Of Introspection - June 25
* Jay Scøtt, Ses plus grands succès
* Joseph Shabason, The Fellowship - April 30
* Shabason, Krgovich and Harris, Florence
* Shad, TAO - October 1
* Andy Shauf, Wilds
* Jairus Sharif, Mega Optics
* Tyler Shaw, Tyler Shaw - August 20
* Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Theory of Ice
* Skiifall, Woiiyoie Tapes Vol. 1
* Small Sins, Volume II - February 12
* Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Life After
* Spiritbox, Eternal Blue - September 17
* Arielle Soucy, Unresolved Collection
* Souldia, Dixque d'art
* Status/Non-Status, 1 2 3 4 500 Years
* Emily Steinwall, Welcome to the Garden
* Stripper's Union, The Undertaking
* Adrian Sutherland, When the Magic Hits
* Suuns, The Witness

### T

* Talk, Talk to Me
* Tebey, The Good Ones - January 22
* TEKE::TEKE, Shirushi
* TiKA, Anywhere But Here
* Tommy Lefroy, Flight Risk
* Morgan Toney, First Flight
* The Tragically Hip, Saskadelphia (EP) - May 21
* The Tragically Hip, Road Apples: 30th Anniversary Edition - October 15
* The Trews, Wanderer - November 19
* Tuns, Duly Noted - March 26

### U

* Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker, Einsteins of Consciousness - January 8
* Suzie Ungerleider, My Name Is Suzie Ungerleider - August 13

### V

* Mathew V, The Outer Circle
* Vincent Vallières, Toute beauté n'est pas perdue
* Chad VanGaalen, World's Most Stressed Out Gardener — March 19
* Jon Vinyl, Lost in You

### W

* Martha Wainwright, Love Will Be Reborn - August 20
* The Weather Station, Ignorance - February 5
* Whitehorse, Modern Love
* Whitehorse, Strike Me Down
* The Wilderness of Manitoba, Farewell to Cathedral - October 29
* Charlotte Day Wilson, Alpha - July 9

### Y

* Yoo Doo Right, Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose

## Deaths

* January 12 - Curtis "Shingoose" Jonnie, singer-songwriter (COVID-19)
* January 28 - Jay W. McGee, R&B, soul and hip hop musician ("Ladies Delight", "Another Love in Your Life")
* April 4 - Paul Humphrey, lead singer for Blue Peter (multiple system atrophy)
* April 14 - Michel Louvain, singer (cancer)
* April 19 - Bob Lanois, record producer and recording engineer
* June 23 - Ellen McIlwaine, blues singer
* December 18 - Custom, filmmaker and musician (cardiac arrest)