Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2012
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011]
- Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
- Blondes — Blondes
- Chromatics — Kill for Love
- Swans — The Seer
- Liars — Wixiw
- Fiona Apple — The Idler Wheel…
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor — ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
- School Of Seven Bells — Ghostory
- Aesop Rock — Skelethon
- Julia Holter — Ekstasis
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Chairlift — Something
- The Twilight Sad — No One Will Ever Know
- Poliça — Give You the Ghost
- Perfume Genius — Put Your Back N 2 It
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Jessie Ware — Devotion
- Killer Mike — R.A.P. Music
- LHF — Keepers of the Light
- FOE — Bad Dream Hotline
- Twin Shadow — Confess
- Motion Sickness of Time Travel — Motion Sickness of Time Travel
- Django Django — Django Django
- Cat Power — Sun
- Deftones — Koi No Yokan
- Yppah — Eighty One
- Errors — Have Some Faith in Magic
- John Talabot — Fin
- Melody’s Echo Chamber — Melody’s Echo Chamber
- Cloud Nothings — Attack on Memory
- Efterklang — Piramida
- Actress — R.I.P.
- Metric — Synthetica
- The Lost Rivers — Sin & Lostness
- Crystal Castles — iii
- Field Music — Plumb
- Grimes — Visions
- LV — Sebenza
- Blood Red Shoes — In Time To Voices
- Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
- Japandroids — Celebration Rock
- The Maccabees — Given to the Wild
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Muse — The 2nd Law
- Scott Walker — Bish Bosch
- Yeasayer — Fragrant World
- Echo Lake — Wild Peace
- How to Dress Well — Total Loss
- Bloc Party — Four
- Shearwater — Animal Joy
- …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead — Lost Songs
- Earth — Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Sigur Rós — Valtari
- Death Grips — The Money Store
- Andrew Bird — Break It Yourself
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Tindersticks — The Something Rain
- Eight and a Half — Eight and a Half
- Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas
- The Cribs — In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
- Future of the Left — The Plot Against Common Sense
- Purity Ring — Shrines
- The xx — Coexist
- First Aid Kit — The Lion’s Roar
- The Shins — Port of Morrow
- Orbital — Wonky
- Neil Young — Psychedelic Pill
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Stumbleine — Spiderwebbed
- Exitmusic — Passage
- Diiv — Oshin
- El-P — Cancer 4 Cure
- Richard Hawley — Standing at the Sky’s Edge
- Lower Dens — Nootropics
- Halls — Ark
- Dirty Three — Toward the Low Sun
- The Magnetic Fields — Love at the Bottom of the Sea
- Nils Frahm — Screws
- Walkmen — Heaven
- BATS — The Sleep of Reason
- Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
- Ghosting Season — The Very Last of the Saints
- dEUS — Following Sea
- Dan Deacon — America
- Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament — The Violence
- why? — Sod the Seed
- Lee Ranaldo — Between the Times and the Tides
- Passion Pit — Gossamer
- Beach House — Bloom
- I Like Trains — The Shallows
- Anaïs Mitchell — Young Man in America
- Spiritualized — Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
- Bruce Springsteen — Wrecking Ball
- alt-J — An Awesome Wave
- John Cale — Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood
- CFCF — Exercises
- Hot Chip — In Our Heads
- Hey Sholay — ((o))
- Cursive — I Am Gemini