Year-End Lists

Piccadilly Records: Top 100 Albums of 2012

[see also 2011]

1. Goat
   World Music
2. First Aid Kit
   The Lion’s Roar
3. White Manna
   White Manna
4. Django Django
   Django Django
5. Smoke Fairies
   Blood Speaks
6. Moon Duo
   Circles
7. Chromatics
   Kill for Love
8. Sharon Van Etten
   Tramp
9. Grizzly Bear
   Shields
10. Friends
    Manifest!
11. Toy
    Toy
12. Richard Hawley
    Standing at the Sky’s Edge
13. Crocodiles
    Endless Flowers
14. Loops Of Your Heart
    And Never Ending Nights
15. Spiritualized
    Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
16. The Congos / Sun Araw / M. Geddes Gengras
    Icon Give Thank
17. Grimes
    Visions
18. Peaking Lights
    Lucifer
19. Pretty Lightning
    There Are Witches In The Woods
20. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
21. Flying Lotus
    Until the Quiet Comes
22. Fort Romeau
    Kingdoms
23. Lee Ranaldo
    Between the Times and the Tides
24. Thee Oh Sees
    Putrifiers II
25. Shackleton
    The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour
26. alt-J
    An Awesome Wave
27. THEESatisfaction
    Awe Naturale
28. Disappears
    Pre Language
29. Tame Impala
    Lonerism
30. The xx
    Coexist
31. Woolfy Vs Projections
    The Return Of Love
32. Actress
    RIP
33. The Soft Moon
    Zeros
34. Pollyn
    Living In Patterns
35. Eat Lights Become Lights
    Heavy Electrics
36. Wild Nothing
    Nocturne
37. Beachwood Sparks
    Tarnished Gold
38. Swans
    The Seer
39. Field Music
    Plumb
40. Jack White
    Blunderbuss
41. Bill Fay
    Life is People
42. Füxa
    Electric Sound Of Summer
43. Alabama Shakes
    Boys & Girls
44. Cat Power
    Sun
45. Seahawks
    Aqua Disco
46. Maria Minerva
    Will Happiness Find Me?
47. Tim Burgess
    Oh No I Love You
48. Beach House
    Bloom
49. Stealing Sheep
    Into The Diamond Sun
50. JJ DOOM
    Key To The Kuffs
51. Mark Lanegan Band
    Blues Funeral
52. Porcelain Raft
    Strange Weekend
53. DIIV
    Oshin
54. Lightships
    Electric Cables
55. The Jim Jones Revue
    The Savage Heart
56. Ariel Pink
    Mature Themes
57. How to Dress Well
    Total Loss
58. Daphni
    Jiaolong
59. Flavor Crystals
    Three
60. Carlton Melton
    Photos Of Photos
61. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
62. Holograms
    Holograms
63. M. Ward
    A Wasteland Companion
64. The Flaming Lips
    The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
65. The Shins
    Port of Morrow
66. Poliça
    Give You the Ghost
67. Eternal Tapestry
    A World Out Of Time
68. Ultraísta
    Ultraísta – Bonus Disc Edition
69. Symmetry
    Themes For An Imaginary Film
70. Dusted
    Total Dust
71. Yeti Lane
    The Echo Show
72. Mungolian Jetset
    Mungodelics
73. Mock & Toof
    Temporary Happiness
74. Hooded Fang
    Tosta Mista
75. Sun Araw
    The Inner Treaty
76. Frankie Rose
    Interstellar
77. OM
    Advaitic Songs
78. Animal Collective
    Centipede Hz
79. Holy Other
    Held
80. White Hills
    Frying On This Rock
81. Colorama
    Good Music
82. Dark Horses
    Black Music
83. El-P
    Cancer 4 Cure
84. Nite Jewel
    One Second of Love
85. Metz
    Metz
86. The Cinematic Orchestra
    Presents In Motion #1
87. Lindstrøm
    Smalhans
88. Bobby Womack
    The Bravest Man in the Universe
89. The Gaslamp Killer
    Breakthrough
90. Calexico
    Algiers
91. Ty Segall Band
    Slaughterhouse
92. Sweet Lights
    Sweet Lights
93. The Orb Featuring Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
    The Orbserver in the Star House
94. Sigur Rós
    Valtari
95. Adrian Sherwood
    Survival & Resistance
96. My Best Fiend
    In Ghostlike Fading
97. Lana Del Rey
    Born to Die
98. Laurel Halo
    Quarantine
99. John Talabot
    Fin
100. Howse
     Lay Hollow