Best Albums Of 2021
Best Albums Of 2021
We have reached our final year-end list, Best Albums of 2021. If you missed the publication of our “Honourable Mentions” for albums of the year, you can check it out here.
While looking back on the past year to create this list, it’s hard not to notice that a plethora of wonderful albums were released. Many acts waited out 2020 for the hope of touring and many more used their year of isolation to craft incredible art. We cannot remember ever seeing a year with so many amazing releases, it made picking our favourites really difficult.
2021 also saw the return of live music, although we are not out of the woods yet, with the ability to tour now back on the table we are expecting another great year in 2022.
The Cups N Cakes Network continued to grow in leaps and bounds. Our volunteer base grew to over 30 strong and we covered more music than ever before. We saw the emergence of two new shows with Marlaena Moore’s “Hang Your Hat” radio show and Brandon Kruze’s “Tasty Jams,” a video review program. We also began written interviews with our “In Conversation” features and our “Inside The Artists Studio” podcast hit a milestone with our 100th episode (featuring Dan Mangan). All this while continuing to pump out all of our regular content.
What a year!
Now it’s time to deliver our final hurrah of 2021… our Best Albums of the year list.
Enjoy!
See you in the new year!
#25 - Haviah Mighty
Stock Exchange // Mighty Gang Inc
From start to finish you’re pulled in by the overwhelming yet amazing sounds of an electric/synth orchestra and a lyrical ability that reminds me of none other than Ms. Lauryn Hill. If this isn’t in your rotation, let me be the first to say wake up, don’t sleep on Haviah Mighty, she deserves all the flowers that will come to her as her sounds continues to develop.
- Cameron Kilfoy
#24 - Fitness
Full Well // Sad Cactus
After years of anticipation, 2021 finally saw the release of Fitness’ follow up to 2018’s -ing with Full Well. Expanding on their unique angular sound and profound lyrical content, Full Well reveals itself through a constant changing of mood. From the morose “Telephone,” to the jerky “Priests Feet” Fitness excel in emotion over a bed of intricately rhythmic instrumentation and deft vocal takes.
- Kennedy Pawluk
#23 - Cedric Noel
Hang Time // Joyful Noise Recordings & Forward Music Group
Although Cedric Noel’s Hang Time comes in at number 23 this year on the Best Albums list, this stunning and gripping album is definitely in my top 5 for Canadian releases of 2021. The passion, beauty and warmth behind Noel’s songwriting is immensely present in each song, and the lyricism is honest and emotional, generously exposing us to an artist giving themselves to their craft.
- LG
#22 - Dorothea Paas
Anything Can’t Happen // Telephone Explosion Records
“When you can’t even trust yourself / It’s so hard to trust / When anything can happen at any time” — this is the central dilemma of Anything Can’t Happen, the anticipated debut album from Dorothea Paas. With a nostalgic and warm alt-folk-pop sound, and wistful Laurel Canyon-esque vocals, Paas offers an intimate and self-explorative rumination on the very relatable trust, fear, and intimacy issues that make relationships so goddamn hard sometimes.
- Julie Maier
#21 - Yu Su
Yellow River Blue // bié Records
During a 2019 trip to China, Yu Su found prompts in nature and the electronic musicians of the area to craft an audacious production effort. Whether it be ambience, drum n bass, or industrial noise, Yu Su proves herself a master of her influences and a prolific DJ able to blend the unlikeliest of tones. Yellow River Blue is as mesmeric as it is entrancing.
- Clay Geddert
#20 - JP Lancaster
Around Town // Factotum
Focusing on his experiences living in Kamloops and reflecting on the “uptick in violence that has plagued the downtown”, Lancaster laces together lyrics related to stories and observations of his neighbourhood throughout the album’s ten tracks. The mosaic style cover art is a creative complement to the concept of the album, and a reference to the multiple genres that Lancaster explores like folk-country, psychedelia, and pop-rock. Around Town is a solid debut album - full of sharp songwriting and commendable musicianship.
- Gregory Torwalt
#19 - Fiver
Fiver With the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition // You’ve Changed Records
Wrangling the freedom of improv into an album that feels familiar and nostalgic but also unexpected and new is no small feat. Influences abound as country proclivities lead, swirling and prancing playfully with ease; there is little urgency to be found amongst Fiver & company. Shadows from fence posts grow long as Fiver dances and plays in the waning evening light, finding their way by having nowhere to go.
- Clay Geddert
#18 - Whitney K
Two Years // Maple Death Records
In 2021 Whitney K gave us Two Years, an introspective boot stomper that swings us between deep thought and humour, usually in the same breath. The album is a snapshot of two years of frontman Connor Whitney’s life that is vulnerable and honest. Sometimes he's a lonesome country-poet with a salty swagger and slide-guitar and other times a stumbling garage rocker regretting the things he did at the party the night before. I’m sure we can all relate.
- Mo Lawrance
#17 - Cartel Madras
The Serpent & The Tiger // Sub Pop
A Hip-Hop duo out of Calgary composed of two sisters from Chennai, India, Cartel Madras is an intense juxtaposition of traditional Hip-Hop with imagery and sounds that evoke South India. Wildly engaging and unique, like the rest of their music, their latest project The Serpent & The Tiger is a promise that Cartel Madras doesn’t intend to slow down in the slightest.
- Devon Acuña
#16 - VISSIA
With Pleasure // Hurry Hard Records
Vissia’s highly anticipated second full-length album, With Pleasure, took us on a beautiful sonic ride with a mix of alt-pop, soul and R&B. We danced to bangers like "Take It Apart” or “On My Mind”, and relaxed with songs like “The Cliffs” or “About Moving On”. VISSIA’s powerful voice along with a dynamic, always groovy rhythm section delivered the right vibes we needed this year.
- Fel Gamarra
#15 - Ouri
Frame of a Fauna // Born Twice, Lighter Than Air
Montreal’s Ouri presents Frame of a Fauna, released October 22nd, 2021. Ouri’s classical training on the harp and cello mixed with the harshness of industrial beats creates a completely avant-garde electronic sound with a keen eye for beauty and newness. It would not be a stretch to see Ouri as Canada’s electronic leading-lady for years to come.
- Lana Winterhalt
#14 - Sarin
You Can’t Go Back // Prosthetic Records
Set in a moment of transition for Toronto Post-Metal act Sarin, You Can’t Go Back marks the bands most realized and emotive album yet. Sparse with vocals, the album is peppered with moments of beauty and hope contrasting the overall dark tone of the album. Crisp production and adept songwriting form a musical arc throughout the album that grips the listener. Easily one of the best heavy albums of the year.
- Kennedy Pawluk
#13 - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Theory of Ice // You’ve Changed Records
At once surreal and grounded, Theory of Ice ebbs and flows between the weight of real scars and the freedom of spiritual liberation. Philosophy and poetry are woven into a tapestry that is as much a call to action as it is a spiritual exploration of nature. While the theme remains tied to nature, resiliency and urgency bleed through every moment. Simpson put pen to paper with a fervor that cannot be shaken; with each stroke of her pen she made sure that the genocide of Indigenous peoples is harder and harder for Canadians to ignore any longer.
- Clay Geddert
#12 - Ada Lea
one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden // Outside Music
The more you listen the better it gets, which is an absolute shock considering I was absolutely hooked on Ada Lea from first listen–one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden, produced by Phoebe Bridger’s drummer Marshall Vore, is an ode to late nights, kitchen conversations and harsh truths, all in the town you grew up in. Ada Lea asks every question, makes jokes and laughs at herself, and sits you down to tell you how she’s really feeling.
- Lana Winterhalt
#11 - Devours
Escape From Planet Devours // Surviving The Game
Devours’ third full-length release, the double album Escape From Planet Devours, is a prolific14-tracks of queer synth pop - influenced by the sounds of new wave, glitch pop, and experimental punk, Devours offers a dramatic sound across the board. Among the stand out tracks, I would include “Poltergeist,” “Dick Disciple,” “Exposure,” “Yoshi’s Revenge,” and “Two Kids.” Devours captivates the future of punk in an electronic format.
- Simone A. Medina Polo
#10 - Megan Nash and The Best of Intentions
Soft Focus Futures // Acronym Records
The stunning self-produced album Soft Focus Futures finds songwriter Megan Nash examining the breakdown of her marriage while taking listeners on a journey of deeper self-discovery. Recorded with Nash’s bandmates and longtime collaborators The Best of Intentions, the album unsurprisingly features beautiful instrumentation and rich harmonies.
Soft Focus Futures explores the unravelling of Nash’s marriage with the opening and closing tracks acting as bookends. Lyrically, these song share a striking reminder that this album (released on what would have been Nash’s 4th wedding anniversary) is most certainly not the outcome Nash had in mind when vows were exchanged. The eight tracks sandwiched in between see Nash exploring those years, placing heavier hitting alt-rock poetic punches “Artifact”, “Quiet”, and “Chew Quietly / Clean Slate” around softer songs like “My Own Heart” and “Are We Still In Love”. On “Another Silent Night”, Nash channels pure and clean countrified vocals reminiscent of Reba McEntire with skillful songwriting that brings to mind the melancholy prairie Christmas classic “River” by Joni Mitchell.
Nash is a dynamic vocalist - able to blow listeners away with their passion and power, but also masterful at showcasing devastatingly honest lyrics with softly emotive phrasing. And while the Juno nominated songwriter may be known for wearing their heart on their sleeve, Nash goes a step further on Soft Focus Futures, and puts heart in hand - squeezing out beautifully bloody heartfelt songs and working together with The Best of Intentions to craft one of the best albums of 2021.
- Gregory Torwalt
#9 - Yoo Doo Right
Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose // Mothland
With Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose, Yoo Doo Right was “determined to push the barriers of guitar music… with an overwhelming sense of urgency.” But instead of pushing the barriers, they just blew them up and shredded on the rubble left in their wake. Psych, kraut, prog, grunge, shoegaze and noise textures abound as the three-piece constructs a tsunami of sound and then surfs the very wave they instigated. Never do they let the darkness overtake them, nor do they let the levity of psych distract them, Yoo Doo Right set out on a mission and nothing could stand in their way.
Like some sort of psychedelic shoegaze mutant, DTYCEYP feels like a monster of psychedelia for the contemporary age. It foregoes the overwhelming dread that post-rock and shoegaze often find themselves wallowing through, swapping ambience for improvisational energy - marching forward fervently, but not so stubbornly that intuition is left lacking. Spontaneous moments of chaos were seized to inform the direction of their urgent march into a sonic black hole. Eventually the heft becomes so great that nothing can escape the gravity of Yoo Doo Right. Each and every time I turn this album on, my day gets completely derailed as I’m pulled in, chewed up, and spit out. Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose! Yoo Doo Right made sure that escape is impossible.
- Clay Geddert
#8 - Shad
TAO // Secret City
2021 saw Toronto Rapper Shad, dropping his vibe-heavy effort, TAO, their 6th full-length record. TAO delivers non-stop heat, using a diverse range of drum beats, instrumental tracks, and vocals that range from tight verses, choir-styled choruses, and spoken word excellence. Shad describes the inspiration for TAO as "...this image in my mind of a circle, but it's getting fragmented, and then the pieces start floating away from each other. And that felt to me like a picture of ourselves as individuals. Suppose you think of our humanity as one whole. In that case, there are all these different aspects of that, whether that's work, our relationship to the land, our relationship to the transcendent, our relationship to our bodies, or our inner child. That was on my mind for a while: What's happening to all these different dimensions of ourselves?"
While it's easy to interpret theme's on this record as a desire for togetherness in the age of quarantine, TAO was written and recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic forced us into hiding. And yet, the events of the past year have only amplified the album's sense of currency and relevancy. As Shad notes, "COVID is almost not like a new situation—it just accelerated what was already happening in terms of isolation and precarity of work." But now that vaccines are allowing us to take our first steps back to the lives we once knew, TAO arrives right on time for a world that's ready to laugh, hug, and dance together again. The circle is complete.
- Earl Donald
#7 - The Weather Station
Ignorance // Next Door Records
Songwriter Tamara Lindeman has been putting out records under the moniker ‘The Weather Station’ for almost fifteen years now, honing her lyrical gift of gab and expansive sound in the thicknesses of Toronto’s huge indie folk scene. Quite a few acclaimed EPs, LPs, and collaborations later, we arrive at Ignorance - bold, stately, a comfortable quilt.
Lindeman’s patient, dusky alto breathes across the landscape, murmuring low or twinning with falsetto harmonies to become a rising zephyr, swirling with electric pianos and tastefully subdued disco energy. The rhythm section is crisp and efficient, rolling out a red carpet for her arresting voice and vivid storytelling. Intimate and warm, Lindeman’s exultant spirit flows through her words, made all the more striking by the almost filmic accompaniment of piano, flute flourishes, and string arrangements in collaboration with none other than Owen Pallett.
The first song, “Robber,” is perhaps the best on the record - it has so many qualities that make it listenable again and again. The atmosphere is alive and buzzing with bass and keyboards, droning low and soothingly like hot soup. The lyrics are witty and self-aware, telling a story that piques our curiosity in a way we wouldn’t have expected. And Lindeman’s arrangements hold our attention as different instruments take the stage and move into the spotlight with her. There is a flair to this song that makes it stand out - a sense of drama, of tension. Other highlights are “Separated” and “Wear.”
The Weather Station continues to build momentum outside Canada as the world reckons with Tamara Lindeman’s songwriting prowess and her triumphant and new(ish) rock sound. Make sure Ignorance is among your end-of-year listens.
- Nick Maas
#6 - Motorbike James
VIISIONS // Slow Weather
Visionary of vibe and enigmatic wheelie warrior Motorbike James parks his motorcycle in front of your house, drops the kickstand, swaps his leathers for a space suit and launches your party into the stratosphere with his transcendent debut VIISIONS. In his private life, he is hell-bent on keeping the front wheel of his motorcycle off the pavement, and with his music, he is equally motivated to elevate the vibe and not let it fall. After all, you “don’t need to see the road with sufficient vibin’.”
VIISIONS is a conceptual voyage through space and time - a hero’s journey that twists and turns through emotions, discoveries, perspectives, and dimensions. Indie psychedelia fills the atmosphere as he propels us through a cosmic soup of groove. While it leans heavy on concept, each track proves itself an earworm that will be as much a fixture of your favourite playlists as it is an enduring fixture in your psyche. Few albums are stacked with so much heat back to back, especially debut albums, but Motorbike James seems unconcerned as he effortlessly dishes out psych pop mastery over stream-of-consciousness writing. It’s like he has returned from his cosmic journey forever changed, forever altered by his shift in perspective – it’s in his DNA now, good luck escaping the gravity of his groove.
With its release earlier this year, it was immediately clear that VIISIONS would stand tall amongst the other finest Canadian albums of 2021. Many other albums have impressed but few have permeated my physiology so tangibly as I listened to them. Motorbike James truly has his finger on the pulse, and yet, he produced a piece of work completely fresh from tired tropes – it’s the energy your party didn’t know it needed, just beware of the gravitational pull of Motorbikes James’ VISSIONS.
- Clay Geddert
#5 - The Besnard Lakes
The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings // Flemish Eye
“This is where lonely hearts live.”
An arresting and uncompromising expression of love, grief, and choosing a graceful presence in the face of death — in part taking its shape after the 2019 passing of Jace Lasek’s father — The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is a lush, warm, and sweetly eerie long-form 72-minute double album opus that offers an absolutely prime example of the band’s signature enveloping and reverberating psychedelic rock sound.
With boldly driving rock rhythms, atmosphere built on expansive synth drones, and The Besnard Lakes’ romantic and ever-luminescent harmonic vocals, this is an immersive and comforting wall-to-wall sonic experience that carries the listener along on an odyssey to the brink of this human existence and back, as they journey through the four LP sides labelled Near Death, Death, After Death, and finally, Life. In turns both heartbreakingly raw and gently uplifting, …the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is a wake-up call delivered from a mountaintop, a ringing alarm to forecast an unknown and inescapable gale that is bearing down on all of us, and an appeal to pay closer attention that that which matters most: “For the life of beauty and pain / That suspends us in its grace / The thing I lost will last an eternity.” This is an unflinching and poetic depiction of all that it means to love with a burning abandon, including the gutting realities and unknowable mysteries of what it means to be parted from those we love. Like fearless travellers moving through the storm, The Besnard Lakes are here in striking courage and defiance to remind us that love is as enduring as loss, and that while the ways of creation may remain a mystery, “with love there is no death.”
- Julie Maier
#4 - Hildegard
Hildegard // section1
Perhaps the most under-appreciated album of the year, Montreal’s Ouri and Helena Deland combine forces as Hildegard, giving us their self-titled debut album Hildegard. Fresh off the heels of Helena Deland’s Someone New (Oct 2020) and on the heels of Ouri’s Frame of a Fauna (Oct 2021), the two emerge with a project that is truly the best of both sounds, creating a new world that both looks to the past and future for inspiration – there is sacred knowledge in the past. And in the future? Questions that must be explored and a self that must be known.
Not only does the duo borrow their name from the 12th century Hildegard of Bingen, they also borrow her mysticism and spirituality, introspection and poeticism, questioning and suspense. Recorded over 8 days (what?!) Ouri and Deland bring their entire toolbox of classical harp and cello training, folksy storytelling and vocal techniques, uneasy rhythms and pulsating drone bass notes, and masterful arrangement styling, creating a piece that can act as both background and foreground listening.
It is safe to say that femme Canadians are currently defining the current “cutting edge” now more than ever – this music isn’t just good, it’s masterfully created by multi-talented artist/producer/composer/dancers/songwriters/dreamers with a wholistic vision for a stunning piece of art. The time frame from which this album was created matched with the visuals and marketing show that these artists don’t just make great music, they bleed great music and great art. These are our modern-day prodigies, savants, and geniuses, paving the way for more femme and non-binary Canadian musicians to simply create what they need. To create rather than wait for the industry to make a way for them. They’re here. They’re pushing forward. They invite us to sway and move with them.
- Lana Winterhalt
#3 - The Garrys
Get Thee to a Nunnery // Grey Records
Coming in bronze on our “best of” list is the Garrys’ latest LP. The Saskatchewan surf rock sisters (yes, that is a thing that exists) have been making waves (pun intended) in Canadian indie scenes over the past few years with their tongue-in-cheek homage to the sounds of the early 1960s American west coast, which is really the only appropriate approach to the genre when you live in the sharply contrasting dryness of the prairies. As someone who also lives on the prairie but prefers the culture and moist air of the coasts and the Great Lakes (and is also a fan of ‘60s rock ‘n’ roll), there’s something oddly relatable about listening to this band on a personal level; and Get Thee to a Nunnery adds to that feeling with lyrics alluding to the sights and landmarks of the band’s place of origin as well as the impact of a religion that they don’t subscribe to but previous generations of their family did.
There’s not a lot left for me to say about Nunnery that I haven’t already covered for our “Picks of the Week” series, but that makes it no less worthy of recommendation. Whether it’s the irony of surf rock coming out of a province that has no surf, the lovely ‘60s-esque vocal harmonies, the sweet but haunting tones of clean electric guitar soaked in reverb, the cheeky sense of humour permeating throughout the album, or sheer curiosity over the more surprising things to come out of the Saskatchewan music scene, if you like music that’s fun you’re going to like this. Here’s to even more Garrys tunes in the future.
- Ty Vanden Dool
#2 - Cadence Weapon
Parallel World // eOne Music
Cadence Weapon, the rapping moniker of Edmonton hip-hop artist Roland Pemberton, has been an integral part of the Edmonton hip-hop scene since 2005 with his debut album Breaking Kayfabe. Since then he’s released three mixtapes and four studio albums, and this is beside his prolific guest appearances and position as Edmonton’s Poet Laureate between 2009 and 2011. His debut album was nominated for the first Polaris Prize in 2006 alongside artists such as Final Fantasy and Metric. Although no longer living in his hometown after relocating to Montreal before settling in Toronto, the City of Champions still calls Pemberton their own.
I had discovered Cadence Weapon when I started writing for Cups N Cakes. His 2021 release, Parallel World was the sixth album I had covered for the “Pick of The Week” column. This album takes the catchy poetry of hip-hop and blends it with a social commentary in a worldview he describes as a “dystopian present”. The opening single to this album, “Africville’s Revenge” is a track I’ve listened to on a weekly basis since the albums release. It contains an aggressive wisdom that’s rare to find expressed.
My second encounter with Cadence Weapon was when he served as MC for the Purple City Music Festival, a one day event in Edmonton’s Hawrelak Park back in August. I hadn’t recognized him, as I didn’t notice his name on the timecard, but when I was told his identity by Cups N Cakes Big Banana, Jeff MacCallum, my jaw dropped from my own ignorance, to see my favourite Edmonton rapper live without even realizing it! Believe you me I felt quite the numbskull.
I found out while researching for this article that Parallel World won the 2021 Polaris Prize, nominated alongside other artists covered by Cups N Cakes, such as DijahSB and The Weather Station. It warmed my heart to know that he’s received well deserved accolades for his decade and a half long career in the community. Cadence Weapon is a rapper who seeps his heart and mind out for us all to hear, and he will remain a vital part of our nation’s music for decades to come.
- Brandon Kruze
#1 - Willie Dunn
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology // Light in the Attic
It took no deliberation for me to arrive at my choice for best album of 2021. The Willie Dunn Anthology stands out as an absolutely monolithic testament to the deep and resonant canon of a criminally underappreciated Canadian treasure and Indigenous folk icon, now finally given his due in this fabulous, sprawling collection from Light in the Attic.
When I first encountered this collection in the spring of this year, I was struck by how current, how vital and applicable these songs were to the modern struggles facing Canada’s Indigenous people, and what an indictment of our progress as a nation it was that the words of Willie were still so dearly relevant. How little I knew then the depths of national shame we would plumb in the months following the release of this crucial collection of Indigenous activist rhetoric. As I write this, the current count of recovered remains of victims of the residential school system in the national memorial register stands at a staggering 4,126 lost children. We've seen RCMP shock troops armed with assault rifles descend on Wet'suwet'en traditional territory, arresting protesters and hereditary land defenders in an ecstasy of colonial violence that laid absolutely bare the hollow promises of the truth and reconciliation movement. It’s fair to say that 2021 has been one of the culminating points in the 500 years of resistance undertaken by the hereditary stewards of this land. This year, like no other in recent memory, is a year that desperately needs the words and music of Willie Dunn.
There’s little else I can offer to summarize the gravitas of this collection beyond that of the multiple critics and journalists who are in agreement that this collection finally sheds light on a critically undervalued figure in the annals of Canadian folk music, one who should be afforded the same measure of respect as that of Gordon Lightfoot, Stan Rogers, Buffy St. Marie, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Coburn et al. If you value the concept of a national identity, of a distinctly Canadian folk tradition, this collection is an essential component. Listening to it, I couldn’t help but feel the loss of the pre-NAFTA national consciousness, for the album hearkens back to a time when there was a genuine push to establish a distinct national identity, one that definitely seemed to be moving in a direction where environmentalism, social justice, and Indigenous rights would be woven inexorably into the fabric of our national culture.
Ok, so topical political discourse aside, this album is far from all protest songs. Willie was a poet-philosopher with a deep abiding love for the environment, and a passion for history, and a lot of that comes across in his work here. When he’s not using his voice to shine a light on colonial injustice, he’s a great transmitter of historical knowledge, and in the classical folk tradition, a chronicler of the land on which he lives and clearly has a deep, abiding love for. There’s a gravity to his voice, a weight of character that comes through in the music, and a casual intimacy that makes listening to this collection feel like spending an afternoon at the knee of a wise old storyteller.
Beyond the music, the package itself is a treasure, complete with Grammy nominated liner notes that take the reader on a deep dive into the multi-dimensional life of this grand, compelling figure in the annals of Canadian folk, all lovingly crafted with the appearance of an underground mimeographed newspaper. It’s a great bit of aesthetic design mastery that really gives the whole collection the feel of a homespun artifact, and makes the double vinyl package a real tangible heirloom of classic Canadiana.
But above all, it’s the overarching sense that this is a release by an artist whose time has truly come, whose voice is so clearly of the times that qualifies it for our choice for best of 2021. This is, genuinely, an album that every Canadian should hear, and that should set a benchmark for how labels approach reissue packages. Much like Buena Vista Social Club and Searching for Sugarman shed new light on their respective subjects and brought them into an entirely new sphere, I expect that Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies will also serve to introduce Willie Dunn to a generation who will value and cherish his inspiring canon of work.
- Shaun Lee
Check out our look back at 2021 by visiting our features:
Best Albums of 2021: Honourable Mention