The midway point through the year seems to have sneaked up on me. So it’s time to post my favourite albums of 2021 so far.

Cassandra Jenkins – An overview on phenomenal nature (Ba Da Bing Records)

Jim Ghedi – In the furrows of common place (Basin Rock Records)

Karima Walker – Waking the dreaming body (Keeled Scales)

Harbottle and Jonas – The Beacon (Brook View Records)

Liz Simmons – Poets (Liz Simmons)

William the Conqueror – Maverick Thinker (Chrysalis Records)

Jon Boden – Last Mile Home (Hudson Records)

Vanessa Peters – Modern Age (Idol Records)

Peter James Millson – The Accidental (Reveal Records)

Aerial East – Try Harder (Partisan Records)

Lawrence Illsley – Trees (Tiny Trees Records)

Amy Speace with the Orphan Brigade – There used to be horses here (Proper Records)

Eamon O’Leary – The Silver Sun (Reveal Records)

John Smith – The Fray (Commoner Records)

The Weather Station – Ignorance (Fat Possum Records)

M G Boulter – Cliff Town (Hudson Records)

Jon Wilks – Up the cut (Jon Wilks)

Laura Fell – Safe from me (Balloon Machine)

Esther Rose – How many times (Full-time Hobby Records)

Will Stratton – The changing wilderness (Bella Union Records)

The Magpie Arc – EP3 (Collective Perspective)

Lady Nade – Willing (Lady Nade)

Jesse Terry – When we wander

Neilson Hubbard – Digging up the scars

Lewis Barfoot – Glenaphuca (Lewis Barfoot)

Kimon Kirk – Altitude (Kimon Kirk)

Quarterman – Candondelet (Wood Head Records)

Emily Barker – Flight Path Rhymes (Everyone Sang)

The Deep Dark Woods – Changing Faces (Six Shooter Records)

Damien Jurado – The monster who hated Pennsylvania (Maraqopa Records)

Allison Russell – Outside Child (Fantasy Records)

Declan O’Rourke – Arrivals (East West Records)

Faeland – When I Close My Eyes (Faeland)

Paper Beat Scissors – La Mitad (Forward Music)

Adam Holmes – Dreamweaver (Adam Holmes)

Johanna Samuels – Excelsior! (Basin Rock Records)

Adrian Crowley – The watchful eye of the stars (Chemikal Underground)

Christina Alden and Alex Patterson – Hunter (Christina Alden and Alex Patterson)

Ray Cooper – Land of heroes (West Park Music)