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The 50 Best Albums of 2021

NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something new into reality.

The 50 Best Albums of 2021

NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something new into reality.

The 50 Best Albums Of 2021

NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something new into reality.

The 50 Best Albums of 2021

NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something new into reality.

The 50 Best Albums of 2021

NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something new into reality.

Talking With Ghosts

The new album by Joan as Police Woman began as a thrilling, one-night-only collaboration with Afrobeat legend Tony Allen. Then disaster struck.