I follow just one arbitrary rule: that no primary artist may appear twice. But you know where to find that other stuff if you want to. Many of 2021's most popular tunes still don't make any sense to my ears. This year I feel more out of sync with the singles charts than at any other time I can remember.

Still, I bought a ticket to see Michael Feuerstack and David-Ivar Herman Düne in September, in a basement up the road, and as I whispered along I felt like I was finally waking up from something. I listened from home-because attending concerts was, for a while there, plausibly lethal. In 2021, I listened to as much or more music than in any year I can remember. A habit that's made its way into my bones. Writing about these songs is a tradition now almost two decades old and at this point it feels deeply seasonal - at the end of November I start feeling like I imagine pumpkins must feel in August or bears as the first frosts appear. Said the Gramophone is an old blog and we publish rarely. Here are my 100 favourite songs of 2021: songs I love more than sand-worms, insurrections, and successfully traversing the Suez Canal.

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