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

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