Hi, is everything ok? We know your New Year’s Eve concert plans have probably been cancelled, and everyone you know has a cold, and you are wondering how to cope this week as you stare down 2022. But, fear not, because the one thing COVID can’t take away from us this year is our god damn record player. So turn off the news, and turn on some tunes. Here is some music that got us through the last 12 months…play it loud!

In no particular order, please enjoy our favorite songs of 2021…

Jungle – ‘Can’t Stop the Stars’
The Record Company – ‘Gotta Be Movin’
Royal and the Serpent – ‘Overwhelmed’
Spoon – ‘The Hardest Cut’
My Morning Jacket – ‘Love Love Love’
St. Vincent – ‘Down’
Lord Huron – ‘Not Dead Yet’
Tame Impala – ‘No Choice’
The Black Keys – Crawling Kingsnake
Laura Stevenson – ‘State’
Parquet Courts – ‘Walking At A Downtown Pace’
Jack White – ‘Taking Me Back’
Bloc Party – ‘Traps’
Foals – ‘Wake Me Up’
LUMP (Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay) – ‘Bloom at Night’
Glass Animals – ‘I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)’
Marco Benevento – ‘At The End Or The Beginning’
Wet Leg – ‘Chaise Lounge’
Royal Blood – ‘Boilermaker’
Cleopatrick – ‘The Drake’
Billie Eilish – ‘NDA’
Dry Cleaning – ‘Unsmart Lady’
Courtney Barnett – ‘If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight’
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – ‘Interior People’
Ty Segall – ‘Harmonizer’
Weezer – ‘All My Favorite Songs’


Photo Credit: Konstantinos Hasandras


TheWaster.com | Listen Up
12.30.2021