Otis Hart
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The NPR Music senior manager shares his favorite albums and songs of 2021. -
From Jersey club to the U.K. underground, 2021's best electronic music looks like a complex melting pot of genre and history. -
Listen to the South African producer's latest bliss transmission.
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Wales, the rural coastal country just west of England, isn't where you'd expect to find one of the year's better bangers, but Juice Menace is here to blow up your Welsh stereotypes.
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The drama of Koreless' "Black Rainbow" comes at you from all sides: undulating synths, urgent clatter and hi-res pizzicato loops that pop out of your speakers.
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The high-low breakbeats and ambient bassquakes on Overmono's "So U Kno" sound right out of the classic Burial playbook, but our underground overlord rarely has this much fun these days.
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The title track to the mysterious collective's fifth LP is an aspirational bop about overcoming social injustice.
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In a Grammy ceremony filled that mixed surprisingly intimate moments with familiar staged bombast, Megan Thee Stallion won best new artist and Beyonc茅 became the most awarded performer of all time. -
The former member of The Walker Brothers and singer of "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" was also one of experimental music's most beloved composers. -
Dick Dale, the surf rock pioneer who took guitar distortion to new levels and whose version of "Misirlou" became pop-culture shorthand, died on Saturday night.
