The Best Albums of 2021-2022: Finalists and Winners!

The Finalists in each of 11 categories were selected from the multitudes of CDs that were considered.

**Winners are bounded by stars**

For those of you who submitted recordings for the awards, thank you for your excellent work. It is our hope that these awards will help all indie artists by generating increased awareness of independently produced music from around the world.

	Artist	Title	Label
	Album of the Year
	Rosier	Légèrement	Steeplejack
	AAA (Adult Album Alternative)
	HuDost **Rosier** Molly Tuttle	Anthems of Home Légèrement But I’d Rather Be With You	Self-Produced Steeplejack Music Compass
	Americana
	Tony Furtado Her Silo **James McMurtry**	Decembering Don’t Forget The Heart That’s Beating Horses and Hounds	Self-Produced Self-Produced New West
	Best Lyrics (tie)
	**Charlie Dore** **The Nields** Suzanne Santo	Like Animals November Yardsale	Black Ink Self-Produced Self-Produced
	EP
	**My Sister, My Brother** Danny Schmidt Sarah Walk	My Sister, My Brother The 2020 Singles Simply	Soundly Self-Produced One Little Independant
	Jazz
	**Miguel Espinoza** Alvaro Rojas Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita	Veneta Gran Kasa Suba	Mountain River Self-Produced bendigedig
	Modern Roots/Revival
	**Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno** The McDades Bella White	Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno The Empress Just Like Leaving	Free Dirt Self-Produced Self-Produced
	Multi-Genre Fusion
	**Flairck** Kendall Street Company Ley Line	Back Alive Stories We Write for Ourselves We Saw Blue	Homerecords Self-Produced Self-Produced
	Progressive Edge
	Augustus Band **Klo Pelgag** They Might Be Giants	Color TV & Tall Tales Notre Dame des Sept Douleurs Book	Self-Produced Secret City Self-Produced
	Rock
	Big Little Lions K.C. Jones **Billie Marten**	Are We There Yet Queen of the In Between Flora Fauna	Self-Produced Self-Produced Imperial/Fiction
	Singer-Songwriter
	Emily Barker Jesse Terry **Beth Whitney**	A Dark Murmuration of Words When We Wander Into the Ground	Thirty Tigers Self-Produced Self-Produced
	World Music
	**Ara Dinkjian** Kateřina Göttlichová Yellow Sisters	Live at Princeton University Zimnice Zvěřinec 3	Krikor Indies Scope Indies Scope