2nd Album Listening Club Awards

The **2021 Album Listening Club Awards**, also known as the **ALC Awards** were held to celebrate the favorite nominations, general music releases, and other aspects of ALC in 2021. Nominations for each category were submitted by club members, which was later followed by several rounds of voting to determine a winner.

## Winners and nominees

### 2021 Releases

* *Baby Keem*
* *birdshit*
* *Black Country, New Road*
* *Cassandra Jenkins*
* *Charli Adams*
* *dltzk*
* *Genesis Owusu*
* *leroy*
* *Magdalena Bay*
* *Maisie Peters*
* *Olivia Rodrigo*
* *Parannoul*
* *Rachel Lime*
* *underscores*
* *Bin Hammer 2 - Babytron*
* *BREAKING UP - Rural Internet*
* *Bin Reaper 2 - Babytron*
* *Call Me If You Get Lost - Tyler, The Creator*
* *Donda - Kanye West*
* *For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her - McKinley Dixon*
* *I LIE HERE WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES - Backxwash*
* *LP! - JPEGMAFIA*
* *Magic - Nas*
* *Planet Her - Doja Cat*
* *Smiling with No Teeth - Genesis Owusu*
 Best Pop Album
 **Mercurial World - Magdalena Bay**
* *a touch of the beat... - Aly & AJ*
* *Blue Banisters - Lana Del Rey*
* *Bullseye - Charli Adams*
* *Civilisation - Kero Kero Bonito*
* *fishmonger - underscores*
* *Frailty - dltzk*
* *Greatest Hits - Waterparks*
* *HEY WHAT - Low*
* *I Know I'm Funny Haha - Faye Webster*
* *Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast*
* *Montero - Lil Nas X*
* *Screen Violence - CHVRCHES*
* *Somewhere - Sun June*
* *Stand For Myself - Yola*
* *Supermonster - Claud*
* *Take the Sadness out of Saturday Night - Bleachers*
* *t.i.a.p.f.y.h. - Left At London*
* *A Tiny House, in Secret Speeches, Polar Equals - Sweet Trip*
* *Clamor - Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés*
* *EGO DEATH - ALEPH*
* *Faith in Persona - death's dynamic shroud*
* *Forever In Your Heart - Black Dresses*
* *Frailty - dltzk*
* *i stayed up all night and saw the sunrise - birdshit*
* *KicK ii - Arca*
* *Lei Line Eon - Iglooghost*
* *Lustful Sacraments - Perturbator*
* *memoryland - CFCF*
* *MingMing - otay:onii*
* *Mirror Guide - Giant Claw*
* *Nurture - Porter Robinson*
* *Pool - Skee Mask*
* *The Makin' Magick II Album - DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ*
 Best Rock Album
 **Valentine - Snail Mail**
* *Actually, You Can - Deerhoof*
* *...And Again Into The Light - Panopticon*
* *Blue Weekend - Wolf Alice*
* *Bright Green Field - Squid*
* *Cavalcade - black midi*
* *For The First Time - Black Country, New Road*
* *Flux - Poppy*
* *G\_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! - Godspeed You! Black Emperor*
* *Home Video - Lucy Dacus*
* *I Don't Live Here Anymore - The War on Drugs*
* *Inconvenience Store - Smol Data*
* *Infinite Granite - Deafheaven*
* *Pictures of Your Pets - Newgrounds Death Rugby*
* *Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots*
* *spirit of the beehive - entertainment, death*
* *Spring Island - Delta Sleep*
* *the machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again - BRUIT*
* *to see the next dream - Parannoul*
* *Ultrapop - The Armed*
* *333 - Tinashe*
* *A Beginner's Mind - Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine*
* *American Siren - Emily Scott Robinson*
* *An Evening With Silk Sonic - Silk Sonic*
* *By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Injury Reserve*
* *Blue Banisters - Lana Del Rey*
* *DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ's Life Fast Lite*
* *Forever In Your Heart - Black Dresses*
* *Frailty - dltzk*
* *Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine - Wild Up*
* *Liminal Space - Ill Considered*
* *Meadow Platinum Vol. 3 - Mild Sorrow Integrated*
* *Private Reasons - Bruno Pernadas*
* *Promises - Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra*
* *Sinner Get Ready - Lingua Ignota*
* *Smiling With No Teeth - Genesis Owusu*
* *The Turning Wheel - Spellling*
 Song Of The Year
 **Industry Baby - Lil Nas X**
* *Be Sweet - Japanese Breakfast*
* *Genesis Owusu - Don't Need You*
* *Family Ties - Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar*
* *Happier Than Ever - Billie Eilish*
* *Introvert - Little Sims*
* *Knees - Injury Reserve*
* *kodak moment - dltzk*
* *Leave The Door Open - Silk Sonic*
* *Little Deer - Spellling*
* *Lumberjack - Tyler, The Creator*
* *Moon - Kanye West*
* *Musician - Porter Robinson*
* *Pennsylvania Furnace - Lingua Ignota*
* *Pink Funeral - Beach House*
* *Redecorate - Twenty One Pilots*
* *seer - 8485*
* *See You In The Future - Waterparks*
* *Stop Making This Hurt - Bleachers*
* *Try Not To Be Afraid - DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ*
* *A.U. - Rachel Lime*
* *Blue Banisters - Lana Del Rey*
* *By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Injury Reserve*
* *Call Me If You Get Lost - Tyler, The Creator*
* *Donda - Kanye West*
* *fishmonger - underscores*
* *Frailty - dltzk*
* *Greatest Hits - Waterparks*
* *Happier Than Ever - Billie Eilish*
* *LP! - JPEGMAFIA*
* *Meadow Platinum Vol. 3 - Mild Sorrow Integrated*
* *Nurture - Porter Robinson*
* *Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots*
* *Sinner Get Ready - Lingua Ignota*
* *Smiling With No Teeth - Genesis Owusu*
* *Songwrights Apothecary Lap - Esperanza Spalding*
* *The Makin' Magick II Album - DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ*

### 2021 Club Specific Awards

* *Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030*
* *MM.. Food - MF DOOM*
* *Modal Soul - Nujabes*
* *fishmonger - underscores*
* *Purple Rain - Prince*
* *Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder*
 Best Electronic Album
 **Discovery - Daft Punk**
* *22, A Million - Bon Iver*
* *Lei Line Eon - Iglooghost*
* *Meadow Platinum, Vol. 3 - Mild Sorrow Integrated*
* *Modal Soul - Nujabes*
* *OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES - SOPHIE*
* *Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta*
* *The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers*
 Best "Other" Album
 **The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Ms. Lauryn Hill**
* *Charmed - DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ*
* *Doopee Time - Doopees*
* *My Teenage Dream Ended - Farrah Abraham*
* *Scenery - Ryo Fukui*
* *Silent Hill 2 Soundtracks - Akira Yamaoka*
* *Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder*
* *Sunbather - Deafheaven*
* *Charmed - DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ*
* *Discovery - Daft Punk*
* *Disintegration - The Cure*
* *Donuts - J Dilla*
* *Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta*
* *OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES - SOPHIE*
* *Sunbather - Deafheaven*
* *Teen Dream - Beach House*
* *The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Ms. Lauren Hill*
* *The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie*