Microtone’s Most Memorable 25 Albums and + 2 Retrospectives from 2021 (ordered by release date)
- Yu Su 苏玉 – Yellow River Blue (Music from Memory)
- Chuck Johnson – The Cinder Grove (VDSQ)
- A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Invisible Cities (Artificial Pine Arch Manufacturing)
- Dax Pierson – Nerve Bumps (A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction) (Rat Skin/Dark Entries)
- Alex Albrecht – Campfire Stories (Analogue Attic)
- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop)
- Tomaga – Intimate Immensity (Hands in the Dark)
- Flock of Dimes – Head of Roses (Sub Pop)
- Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – NOW (International Anthem)
- Howie Lee 李化迪 – Birdy Island 鸟岛 (Mais Um Discos)
- Inhmost – Early Horizons (Huinali)
- Mong Tong 夢東 – Music from Taiwan Mystery 台灣謎景 (WV Sorceror)
- Sarah Neufeld – Detritus (Paper Bag)
- Gianluca Petrella & Pasquale Mirra – Correspondence (Tuk Music)
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – We’re OK. But We’re Lost Anyway (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
- Arushi Jain – Under the Lilac Sky (Leaving)
- Guzz – Seven Days and Twelve Nights 七天十二夜 (S/R)
- Haco – Nova Naturo (Someone Good)
- Li Yilei 李亦蕾 – 之 / Of (Metron)
- Low – HEY WHAT (Sub Pop)
- Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher – Inner Symphonies (Deutsche Gramaphon)
- Channelers – Another Entrance (Inner Islands)
- Jon Hopkins – Music for Psychedelic Therapy (Domino)
- Fishdoll 漁 – Moonsense 月感 (S/R)
- Hualun 花伦 – Wuhan Wuhan 武汉武汉 (S/R)
+ Two Retrospectives
- Willie Dunn – Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies (Light in the Attic)
- “Blue” Gene Tyranny – Degrees of Freedom Found (Unseen Worlds)
