Mavoy Music Awards and our favourite EPs of 2021

These are our favourite extended plays of the year. This is actually the second EP award for Niia, who started her big career... on our blog in 2014 with the release of her first EP, Generation Blue. It's necessary to note that the distinction between EPs and albums got murky in last couple of years, and some of the promo material does present If I Should Die as an album.

Niia

Niia – If I Should Die (R&B, self-released)
Angel Olsen – Aisles (indie, somethingcosmic)
Faye Meana – Sweeter Than Heaven (R&B, self-released)
William Doyle – Alternate Lands (indie, Tough Love)
Sofia Kourtesis – Fresia Magdalena (electronic, Technicolour)
Kedr Livanskiy – Jetlag (score, 2MR)
Roz Yuen – Awakening (singer-songwriter, self-released)
JONES – Blue Sunshine (R&B, BMG)
Saucy Lady – Delirious (R&B/disco, Star Creature Universal Vibrations)
Katy B – Peace And Offerings (R&B, Rinse)
Sidibe – Saturn Return (R&B, self-released)
Brothertiger – Heaven (chillwave, self-released)
Midsommar – The Dream We Had (shoegaze, self-released)
Freedom Fry – Broken Down On Planet 909 (indie pop, Caveman Arts Society)
Jorja Smith – Be Right Back (R&B, FAMM)
Madelaine – Colour Me (R&B, IXCHEL)
Chaos In The CBD – Brainstorm (electronic, In Dust We Trust)
Benouit Pioulard – Silencer (ambient, Disques D’Honore)
Seoul Magic Club – Hope (shoegaze, self-released)
Kekko – Dreaming Life (indie pop, Spirit Goth)
Eboni Band – Eboni Band (reissue, funk, We Are Busy Bodies)
Robin Guthrie – Mockingbird Love (ambient, Soleil Apres Minuit)
Marie Dahlstorm – Safe Place (R&B, JFH)
Awate – Fear! (hip-hop, Quite Defiant)
Hilary Woods – Feral Hymns (ambient, Sacred Bones)
Thrillhouse – Wedding Disco (indie, self-released)
Neon Cathedral – Velvet (Replica Collective)
Papercuts – Baxter’s Blues (indie pop, Psychic Friends)
Saint Etienne – Her Winter Coat (indie pop, PIAS)
Kayla Painter – Somewhen (electronic, self-released)
Laurel – Limbo Cherry (indie pop, self-released)
Tertia May – TM Radio (R&B, Twisted Hearts)
Adeline – Ade Oasis (R&B, Unity Records)
Rosie Lowe – Now, You Know (R&B, Blue Flowers)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – The Distance (electronic, Nice Age/self-released)
Brothertiger – Fundamentals, Vol. 3 (electronic, self-released)
Flora Yin-Wong – Sacrifice (experimental, First Light)
Amber-Simone – Black No Sugar (R&B, Juicebox)
Gotts Street Park – Diego (funk, Blue Flowers)
Ego Ella May – Fieldnotes (R&B, self-released)
Quelle Rox – Coffee and a Cig (R&B, self-released)
Lauren Jauregui – Prelude (R&B, Attunement)
Amaria – Bittersweet (R&B, self-released)
Cha:dy – Manifesto Of Honesty (R&B, self-released)
O Future - Maculate (indie, Studiofuture)
Glare – Heavenly (shoegaze, Sunday Drive)
A Place To Bury Strangers – Hologram (alternative, Dedstrange)
Yves Tumor – The Asymptomatical World (alternative, Warp)
Laurence Guy – Your Good Times Are Here (electronic, Shall Not Fade)
Latanya Alberto – The Royal Escape (R&B, self-released)