Opening with a spoken-word piece, Sunbeams pays homage not only to Parks as a singer-songwriter, but as a poet.
From collaborating with Phoebe Bridgers to being featured on a playlist by Michelle Obama, the Londoner was surrounded by buzz-so the long-awaited release of her debut album Collapsed in Sunbeams was right on time. Here are our picks for the 25 best albums of the first half of 2021.Īrlo Parks was already primed to have a big year. With six months still left in the year, it’s crazy to think that any of these releases will be dethroned as our favorites from 2021. Vincent, next-level releases from Japanese Breakfast and SPELLLING, and unflinching debuts from girl in red and Arlo Parks. Pandemic-inspired or not, elsewhere in 2021 so far we’ve gotten exciting collaborations from artists like Madlib and Four Tet and Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders, head-turning album rollouts from Tyler, the Creator and St. In place of the pre-pandemic existential breakdown records from the likes of Phoebe Bridgers are the mid-pandemic products of severals months of introspection from, well, the rest of boygenius, while in lieu of Charli’s optimistic take on the thought of an indefinite amount of time spent indoors we have an unexpected array of ecstatic dance records-ranging from Danity Kane star turned hip-house innovator Dawn Richard to hardcore-punk rule-rewriters The Armed-providing somewhat over-the-top preludes to the long-awaited return to venues. It’s pretty safe to say that we’re in a less anxious place than we were last year when we put together our mid-year list of our forecasted favorite albums of 2020.
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