Music we loved in 2021

Each year, Theater in Asylum polls its community to compile a list (and a playlist!) of our favorite songs, albums, and musical artists. Below, see our list of musical acts we loved in 2020. And see here for last year's list!

Emily Johnson-Erday playing at Occupy Prescott; photo by Shubhra Mishra, 2021

TIA's 2021 Spotify Playlist

Musicians & Bands

• TIA’s musicians! Emily Johnson-Erday! Ama Encore! Ali Dineen!
•  Arooj Aftab
• The Books
• Doja Cat
• Dua Lipa
• Ella Fitzgerald, she’s a goddess
• David Malloy
• Greta Van Fleet
• The Kaiser Quartett
• Truly the entire portfolio of Manchester Orchestra.
• Olivia Rodrigo
• Willow Smith
• Stevie Wonder

Albums & Compositions

• 30 by Adele
• The Color Purple, Broadway Cast Recording, both 2005 and 2015
• Goldberg Variations by Bach, played by Glenn Gould
• digital druglord by blackbear
• Planet Her by Doja Cat
• Sediments we Move by Charlotte Greve+Wood River+Cantus Domus
• i become birds by Home Is Where
• Let Me Do One More by Illuminati Hotties
• An Overview of Phenomenal Nature by Cassandra Jenkins
• The Rich are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives by Anthony Joseph 
• Another Side by Leo Nocentelli
• Queens of the Summer Hotel by Aimee Mann
• Promises by Floating Points and Pharaoh Sanders with the London Symphony Orchestra
• Heaux Tales by Jazmine Sullivan
• Urban Driftwood by Yasmin Williams

Songs

• “If I Had a Hammer”, written by Pete Seeger, performed by many, including the cast of Occupy Prescott
• Emily Johnson-Erday’s rendition of “This Land is Your Land”
• “Don’t Shut Me Down” by Abba (a new song!)
• “Say Neighbor” by Burrell
• “Shelter Island” by Xavier Dubois Foley
• “Liberated” by DeJ Loaf and Leon Bridges
• “Industry Baby” by Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow
• “Rumors” by Lizzo and Cardi B
• “The Feeling” by Sammy Rae and the Friends
• “Bad Friend” by Rina Sawayama
• “Prayer in Passing” by Ayanna Witter-Johnson with Anoushka Shankar
  

TIA's 2021 Spotify Playlist