OITC's Best Of 2021!

It's that time of year - here's our annual list of our favourite new releases for the year! From local, independent artists of the likes of Crown Lands, The Jailbirds, JJ Wilde, and Stone Cold Crowes, to some of our lifelong favourites - from Prince to Metallica, and John Coltrane to Myles Kennedy - here are the albums we could not get enough of in 2021:

The Bronx - The Bronx VI

Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic

Jon Batiste - We Are

Myles Kennedy - The Ides Of March

Crown Lands - Odyssey Vol. 1

Crown Lands - White Buffalo

Sumo Cyco - Initiation

DMX - Exodus

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle

Prince - Welcome 2 America

JJ Wilde - Wilde

Between the Buried and Me - Colors II

Metallica - The Metallica Blacklist

Dirty Honey - Dirty Honey

Biffy Clyro - The Myth Of The Happily Ever After

The Jailbirds - Jungle

Foo Fighters - Medicine At Midnight

Sate - The Fool

Amy Winehouse - At The BBC

Stone Cold Crowes - Original Sin Pt. I

Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World

Bullet for My Valentine - Bullet for My Valentine

The Reed Effect - 1973

Dooms Children - Dooms Children

Chevelle - Niratias

Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

Tom Morello & The Bloody Beetroots - The Catastrophists EP

Jerry Cantrell - Brighten

Black Pistol Fire - Look Alive

Phantom Atlantic - Your View Of A Former Me

Big Wreck - Big Wreck 7.1

The Tragically Hip - Saskadelphia

John Mayer - Sob Rock

Serj Tankian - Elasticity

Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 3

Gojira - Fortitude