The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in the second half of 2021. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2021 in music.
For information on albums released in the first half of 2021, see List of 2021 albums (January–June).
Third quarter July + List of albums released in July 2021 Release date Artist Album Genre Label July1 Antiguo Autómata Mexicano 20+ Piano Improvisations Static Discos July2 At the Gates The Nightmare of Being Melodic death metal Century Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth Utopian Ashes Third Man Bomba Estéreo Deja Sony Music Latin Born of Osiris Angel or Alien Progressive metalcore, symphonic metal, djent Sumerian G Herbo 25 Trap Republic The Go! Team Get Up Sequences Part One Indie pop, funk Memphis Industries Jimmy Barnes Flesh and Blood Bloodlines Records Jonathan Wolff Seinfeld (Original Television Soundtrack) Jxdn Tell Me About Tomorrow Pop-punk DTA Records, Elektra Laura Mvula Pink Noise Electropop, R&B, synth-funk Atlantic July5 SF9 Turn Over FNC Soyeon Windy K-pop, k-hip-hop Cube July8 Ashwarya Nocturnal Hours Noize Recordings Zelooperz Van Gogh's Left Ear July9 Charlotte Day Wilson Alpha Alternative R&B, soul Stone Woman Music DZ Deathrays Positive Rising: Part 2 I Oh You Foodman Yasuragi Land Hyperdub Frances Forever Paranoia Party Mom + Pop The Goon Sax Mirror II Matador Half Waif Mythopoetics Anti- Hybrid Black Halo Distinctive IDK USee4Yourself Hip-hop Clue No Clue, Warner Inhaler It Won't Always Be Like This Indie rock Polydor Jess & Matt Wildflowers Jess & Matt Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Jam & Lewis: Volume One Flyte Tyme Records, BMG Koreless Agor Young Les Filles de Illighadad At Pioneer Works Tuareg blues Sahel, Pioneer Works Press The Maine XOXO: From Love and Anxiety in Real Time Indie pop, pop rock 8123 Mariah the Scientist Ry Ry World RCA, One Umbrella Mayhem Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando Century Rejjie Snow Baw Baw Black Sheep BMG Snoh Aalegra Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies R&B ARTium, Roc Nation Tkay Maidza Last Year Was Weird (Vol. 3) 4AD, Dew Process Twin Shadow Twin Shadow Cheree Cheree Various artists Space Jam: A New Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Republic, WaterTower Vince Staples Vince Staples Hip-hop Blacksmith Recordings, Capitol, Motown, EMI The Wallflowers Exit Wounds Rock, Americana, power pop New West July10 Nancy Ajram Nancy 10 Arabic pop, dance-pop In2Musica July13 Aaron Dilloway and Lucrecia Dalt Lucy & Aaron Hanson July14 Connan Mockasin and Ade It's Just Wind Mexican Summer July15 Anna Meredith Bumps Per Minute (18 Studies for Dodgems) Moshi Moshi Jawny The Story of Hugo Suboi No-Nê Yonaka Seize the Power Yves Tumor The Asymptotical World Experimental rock, nu gaze Warp July16 Barbie Almalbis Scenes from Inside Sony Music Philippines Barenaked Ladies Detour de Force Pop rock Raisin' Records Blondie Blondie: Vivir En La Habana Cakes da Killa Muvaland Vol. 2 He.She.They Chet Faker Hotel Surrender Detail Records, BMG Chloe Flower Chloe Flower Sony Classical Clairo Sling Fader Label, Republic Drakeo the Ruler Ain't That the Truth Stinc Team, Empire Enny Under 25 FAMM Gang of Youths Total Serene Warner Music UK, Mosy Music Illenium Fallen Embers 12Tone Music John Mayer Sob Rock Pop rock, soft rock Columbia K.D.A.P. Influences Arts and Crafts KSI All Over the Place RBC, BMG Linn da Quebrada Trava línguas Midland The Last Resort Country, neotraditional country Big Machine A Place to Bury Strangers Hologram Dedstrange Pop Smoke Faith Drill, trap, hip-hop Victor Victor, Republic Powerwolf Call of the Wild Power metal, heavy metal, symphonic metal Napalm Rodrigo Amarante Drama Polyvinyl Stephen Fretwell Busy Guy Speedy Wunderground Tedeschi Trucks Band Layla Revisited (Live at Lockn') Fantasy Times of Grace Songs of Loss and Separation Roadrunner Tones and I Welcome to the Madhouse Pop Bad Batch Records U-Roy Solid Gold U-Roy Trojan Jamaica, BMG Wavves Hideaway Power pop, indie rock, pop-punk Fat Possum Willow Lately I Feel Everything Roc Nation July17 Dee Gees Hail Satin Disco, rock RCA Various artists May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson Psychedelic rock Light in the Attic July18 Luísa Sonza Doce 22 Pop Universal July22 SB19 Pagsibol Sony Music July23 Alexis Marshall House of Lull. House of When Sargent House Alice Skye I Feel Better but I Don't Feel Good Bad Apples Altın Gün Âlem ATO Anika Change Sacred Bones Anne-Marie Therapy Pop, R&B Major Tom's, Asylum Attila Closure Nu metalcore Beatriz Ferreyra Canto+ Room40 Brittany Howard Jaime (Reimagined) ATO Christone "Kingfish" Ingram 662 Blues Alligator Darkside Spiral Electronic Matador Dave We're All Alone in This Together Neighbourhood Recordings David Crosby For Free Rock BMG Descendents 9th & Walnut Punk rock, melodic hardcore Epitaph Gavin Turek Madame Gold DPR Live Iite Cool Joel Culpepper Sgt Culpepper Joshua Radin The Ghost and the Wall Nettwerk Jackson Browne Downhill from Everywhere Rock Inside The Jungle Giants Love Signs Amplifire Music Leon Bridges Gold-Diggers Sound Alternative R&B Columbia Mega Bog Life, and Another Folk-pop Paradise of Bachelors Molly Burch Romantic Images Captured Tracks Nothing but Thieves Moral Panic II Obongjayar and Sarz Sweetness Rodney Crowell Triage RC1, Thirty Tigers Samia Scout Tommy Torres El Playlist de Anoche Latin pop Rimas Entertainment Yes/And (Meg Duffy and Joel Ford) Yes/And Driftless Recordings Yngwie Malmsteen Parabellum Mascot Yung Bleu Moon Boy Hip-hop, R&B, trap Empire July25 BbyMutha Cherrytape July26 AKMU Next Episode Synth-pop, retrowave, downtempo YG D.O. Empathy K-pop SM July28 Sam Mehran Cold Brew Weird World Twice Perfect World J-pop Warner Music Japan July29 Jon Batiste Live at Electric Lady July30 Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever Darkroom, Interscope Bleachers Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night Synth-pop, indie pop, slowcore RCA Blues Traveler Traveler's Blues Round Hill Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Gone Are the Good Days Pop-punk, easycore Fearless Creeper American Noir gothic rock, glam rock, art rock Roadrunner Curtismith Museo Pool Records Dave East and Harry Fraud Hoffa Dee Snider Leave a Scar Napalm Dot Allison Heart-Shaped Scars SA Recordings Dreamcatcher Summer Holiday Dreamcatcher Company Durand Jones & The Indications Private Space Dead Oceans Isaiah Rashad The House Is Burning Hip-hop Top Dawg Kasper Bjørke Sprinkles King Woman Celestial Blues Doom metal, grunge, post-rock Relapse L Devine Near Life Experience: Part 1 Warner Logic Bobby Tarantino III Hip-hop Def Jam, Visionary Los Lobos Native Sons New West Lump (Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay) Animal Partisan, Chrysalis Parker McCollum Gold Chain Cowboy Country MCA Nashville Parmalee For You Country Stoney Creek Peppa Pig Peppa's Adventures: The Album eOne Prince Welcome 2 America Funk, soul, rock NPG Ryuichi Sakamoto Minamata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Milan Sarkodie No Pressure Hip-hop, Afrobeats Sarkcess Music, Ziiki Media Shirley Collins Crowlink Domino Son Volt Electro Melodier Transmit Sound, Thirty Tigers Sycco Sycco's First EP Future Classic Tink Heat of the Moment Torres Thirstier Rock, synth-pop Merge Underdark Our Bodies Burned Bright Upon Re-Entry Surviving Sounds, Through Love Records, Tridroid Records Voices An Audience of Mannequins Church Road Records Yola Stand for Myself Americana, country soul, pop Easy Eye Sound, Concord Young Dolph and various artists Paper Route Illuminati Paper Route Empire
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