Dec 22, 2013

The Best Albums Of 2012

Top 50













  1. Sun - CAT POWER
  2. Visions - GRIMES
  3. Shrines - PURITY RING
  4. Blues funeral - MARK LANEGAN BAND
  5. Bloom - BEACH HOUSE
  6. Attack on memory - CLOUD NOTHINGS
  7. Silver age - BOB MOULD
  8. Blunderbuss - JACK WHITE
  9. Kill for love - CHROMATICS
  10. (III) - CRYSTAL CASTLES
  11. Give you the ghost - POLIÇA
  12. Cancer 4 cure - EL-P
  13. WIXIW - LIARS
  14. Celebration rock - JAPANDROIDS
  15. I bet on sky - DINOSAUR JR.
  16. Lost songs - ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
  17. Metz - METZ
  18. 2:54 - 2:54
  19. A thing called Divine Fits - DIVINE FITS
  20. The bears for lunch - GUIDED BY VOICES
  21. The seer - SWANS
  22. World music - GOAT
  23. Worship - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
  24. Reign of terror - SLEIGH BELLS
  25. Lonerism - TAME IMPALA
  26. Our house on the hill - THE BABIES
  27. Twins - TY SEGALL
  28. Open your heart - THE MEN
  29. Meat and bone - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
  30. Mature themes - ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI
  31. Swing lo Magellan - DIRTY PROJECTORS
  32. Django Django - DJANGO DJANGO
  33. Synthetica - METRIC
  34. Tramp - SHARON VAN ETTEN
  35. Ekstasis - JULIA HOLTER
  36. Between the times and the tides - LEE RANALDO
  37. Kill my blues - CORIN TUCKER BAND
  38. Europe - ALLO DARLIN'
  39. Nocturne - WILD NOTHING
  40. The haunted man - BAT FOR LASHES
  41. Sweet heart, sweet light - SPIRITUALIZED
  42. Circles - MOON DUO
  43. R.A.P. music - KILLER MIKE
  44. The money store - DEATH GRIPS
  45. Ghostory - SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
  46. Endless flowers - CROCODILES
  47. The only place - BEST COAST
  48. Animal joy - SHEARWATER
  49. Nootropics - LOWER DENS
  50. Centipede Hz - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Also recommended:

Hospitality - HOSPITALITY, Interstellar - FRANKIE ROSE, Oshin - DIIV, good kid, m.A.A.d city - KENDRICK LAMAR, Manifest! - FRIENDS, Toy - TOY, Allah-Las - ALLAH-LAS, Tuscon - GIANT GIANT SAND, Researching the blues - REDD KROSS, The horror - POP. 1280, Zeros - THE SOFT MOON, Strapped - THE SOFT PACK, Heaven - THE WALKMEN, Port of morrow - THE SHINS, Sees the light - LA SERA, Melody's Echo Chamber - MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER, Free reign - CLINIC, Clay class - PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL, Future this - THE BIG PINK, Banks - PAUL BANKS, With Siinai: Heartbreaking bravery - MOONFACE, Let's go eat the factory - GUIDED BY VOICES, Confess - TWIN SHADOW, Master of my make-believe - SANTIGOLD, Four - BLOC PARTY, In the belly of the brazen bull - THE CRIBS, In time to voices - BLOOD RED SHOES, Something - CHAIRLIFT, Quarantine - LAUREL HALO, Coexist - THE XX, Never - MICACHU & THE SHAPES, Class clown spots a UFO - GUIDED BY VOICES, The Flaming Lips and heady fwends - THE FLAMING LIPS, Until the quiet comes - FLYING LOTUS, No love deep web - DEATH GRIPS, Peel it - INDIAN JEWELRY, Slaughterhouse - TY SEGALL BAND, Hair - TY SEGALL & WHITE FENCE, Putrifiers II - THEE OH SEES, Tender new signs - TAMARYN, Blood speaks - SMOKE FAIRIES, Into the diamond sun - STEALING SHEEP, The something rain - TINDERSTICKS, Algiers - CALEXICO, Maraqopa - DAMIEN JURADO, The lion's roar - FIRST AID KIT, Shields - GRIZZLY BEAR, The north - STARS, Beard, wives, denim - POND, Moms - MENOMENA, Negotiations - THE HELLO SEQUENCE, Long slow dance - THE FRESH & ONLYS, Valentina - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Local business - TITUS ANDRONICUS, Off! - OFF!, Unsound - MISSION OF BURMA, MMXII - KILLING JOKE, The plot against common sense - FUTURE OF THE LEFT, Mass vulture - BOKOMOLECH, Internal logic - GRASS WIDOW, Breakup song - DEERHOOF, Mr M - LAMBCHOP, Don't be a stranger - MARK EITZEL, Former lives - BENJAMIN GIBBARD, What kind of world - BRENDAN BENSON, Shut down the streets - A.C. NEWMAN, Dept. of disappearance - JASON LYTLE, Clear heart full eyes - CRAIG FINN, A+E - GRAHAM COXON, Silencio - LAETITIA SADIER, Fragrant world - YEASAYER, Lucifer - PEAKING LIGHTS, Red night - THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS, Habits & contradictions - SCHOOLBOY Q, The OF Tape Vol. 2 - ODD FUTURE, In our heads - HOT CHIP, R.I.P - ACTRESS, The politics of envy - MARK STEWART, Harmony - DIE! DIE! DIE!, Bend beyond - WOODS, Mirage rock - BAND OF HORSES, Paralytic stalks - OF MONTREAL, Radlands - MYSTERY JETS, Sonik kicks - PAUL WELLER, Standing at the sky’s edge - RICHARD HAWLEY, CYRK - CATE LE BON,  Pre language - DISAPPEARS, Better luck next life - ROYAL BATHS, Crystal anis - LIMINANAS, Good don't sleep - EGYPTIAN HIP HOP, This Many Boyfriends - THIS MANY BOYFRIENDS, Always - XIU XIU, Zoo - CEREMONY, Boys & girls - ALABAMA SHAKES, Sweet sour - BAND OF SKULLS, Mauve - RINGO DEATHSTARR, Neck of the woods - SILVERSUN PICKUPS, Oceania - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, This Is P.I.L. - P.I.L., Lex Hives - THE HIVES, National health - MAXÏMO PARK, Anxiety - LADYHAWKE, America - DAN DEACON, Dream house - LAKE R▲DIO, Channel orange - FRANK OCEAN, Skelethon - AESOP ROCK, 1999 - JOEY BADA$$, The diver - LED ER EST, Light Asylum - LIGHT ASYLUM, Apnea - O'CHILDREN, 119 - TRASH TALK, Line the wall - BO NINGEN, Frying on this rock - WHITE HILLS, Ascent - SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, Heavy mood - TILLY AND THE WALL, Out of sight, out of town - STANDARD FARE, Wildlife - THE LOVELY EGGS, The odds - THE EVENS, King Tuff - KING TUFF, Love this giant - DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT, The idler wheel is wiser than the driver of the screw and whipping cords will serve you more than ropes will ever do - FIONA APPLE, Wrecking ball - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Psychedelic pill - NEIL YOUNG AND THE CRAZY HORSE, Allelujah! Don’t bend! Ascend - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, Children of desire - MERCHANDISE, Harmonicraft - TORCHE, Given to the wild - THE MACCABEES, fIN - JOHN TALABOT,  Devotion - JESSIE WARE, An awesome wave - ALT-J, Observator - THE RAVEONETTES, Mechanimal - MECHANIMAL, 2 - MAC DEMARCO, Kaleidoscope dream - MIGUEL, Urban turban - CORNERSHOP, EP's 1988 - 1991 - MY BLOODY VALENTINE

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