Episode 122: The Kitchen Sink Best of 2021 on Eardrumbuzz Radio

My Best of '21 show features nearly three hours of my favorite music from last year. It is presented in no particular order as I do not rank favorites. The complete playlist is below. Thanks for listening.

Best of 2021 Top 40

Justin Sullivan – Stone and Heather (Surrounded, Bradford UK indie folk)

Break 1

The Telephone Numbers – Curtains Close (The Ballad of Doug, SF indie pop, not a Slumberland band as announced, they are on Paisley Shirt Records)

The Shop Window – Sad Eyes (The State of Being Human, UK indie pop)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – I Hope I Never Fall in Love (Uncommon Weather, SF indie pop)

Chime School – Anywhere But Here (s/t, SF jangle pop)

Jetstream Pony – Strood McD F.C. (Misplaced Words EP, Brighton UK indie rock, featuring Beth Arzy from Aberdeen/Trembling Blue Stars/Luxembourg Signal)

The Chills – Safe and Sound (Scatterbrain, NZ indie rock)

The Catenary Wires – Alpine (Birling Gap, UK indie pop, Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey of Heavenly and Talulah Gosh)

Jorge Elbrecht – The Clouds Are Gone (Presentable Corpse 002, NYC indie pop)

Daniel Wylie – Red Sunset (Green Eyes), Atoms and Energy, Scottish indie pop)

Break 2

Nation of Language – This Fractured Mind (The Way Forward, Brooklyn synth pop)

Ed Dowie – Dear Florence (The Obvious I, London UK electronica)

Fawns of Love – Stylistic Tears (Innocence of Protection, Bakersfield synth pop from Jenny and Joe Andreotti)

Cold Beat – Weeds (War Garden, California synth pop)

Cold Cave – Psalm 23 (Fate in Seven Lessons, LA darkwave)

ACTORS – Killing Time (Is Over) (Acts of Worship, Vancouver synth pop)

Black Swan Lane – Smiling with You (Hide in View, Atlanta post punk)

Break 3

Triptides – Hand of Time (Alter Echoes, LA psych pop)

Flyying Colours – This One (Fantasy Country, Australian psychgaze)

New Candys – Q&K (Vyvyd, Venetian psychgaze)

The KVB – Omni (Unity, psych gaze from Manchester UK)

Magic Castles – Asuras (Sunburst, Minneapolis psych rock with Jason Edmonds) 

Muun Bato – Golden Lyre (Paraphonic Vapors, Minneapolis psych featuring members of First Communion Afterparty)

Sungaze – Stormchaser (This Dream, Cincinnati psych rock)

Astral Brain – Behind Our House (The Bewildered Mind, Stockholm dream pop) 

Firestations – Machine Country (Pixel Wilderness, UK dream pop) 

BRYAN’S MAGIC TEARS – Tuesdays (Vacuum Sealed, Parisian psych rock) 

Break 4

The Fleeting Joys – Sing to the Sea (All Lost Eyes and Glitter, CA dream pop from John Loring and Rorika Loring)

All Eyes- Backslide (Daystar, Minneapolis dream pop) 

Postcards – January (After the Fire, Before the End, Beirut dream pop)

Bathe Alone – Curbside (Last Looks, Atlanta dream pop from Bailey Crone)

Carina Messier – Out of Time (No Where and No When, CA dream pop)

Burning Hearts – I lost my colour vision (new, Aboa Sleeping, Turku Finland indie pop)

HYLA – Done Before (Caravel, Melbourne shoegaze)

Break 5

Beachy Head – October (s/t, Christian Cavill from Slowdive collaborating with various friends, including Ryan Graveface, Steve Clarke, and Rachel Goswell)

Echodrone – Midnight Frost (Resurgence, SF shoegaze)

Blankenberge – No Sense (Everything, St Petersburg shoegaze) 

Film School – Superperfection (We Weren’t Here, LA psych)

Submotile – Cyanotic (Sonic Day Codas, Irish-Italian shoegaze)

Break 6

the black watch-Days When the Rain (Here and There, LA indie rock from John Andrew Frederick)