Year-End Lists

AllMusic: 50 Best Albums of 2012

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1. Visions
   Grimes
2. Channel Orange
   Frank Ocean
3. The Idler Wheel…
   Fiona Apple
4. good kid, m.A.A.d city
   Kendrick Lamar
5. Kaleidoscope Dream
   Miguel
6. Until the Quiet Comes
   Flying Lotus
7. Harmonicraft
   Torche
8. Devotion
   Jessie Ware
9. Love this Giant
   David Byrne & St. Vincent
10. Kiss
    Carly Rae Jepsen
11. Breakup Song
    Deerhoof
12. 3 Pears
    Dwight Yoakam
13. Lonerism
    Tame Impala
14. Black Radio
    Robert Glasper Experiment
15. R.A.P. Music
    Killer Mike
16. Sunken Condos
    Donald Fagen
17. Beams
    Matthew Dear
18. The Money Store
    Death Grips
19. America
    Dan Deacon
20. Awe Naturale
    THEESatisfaction
21. Electric Cables
    Lightships
22. Bloom
    Beach House
23. Tarnished Gold
    Beachwood Sparks
24. Alone Together
    Karriem Riggins
25. Christian aTunde Adjuah
    Christian Scott
26. All We Love We Leave Behind
    Converge
27. By Your Side
    Breakbot
28. Kill for Love
    Chromatics
29. Some Nights
    fun.
30. In Our Heads
    Hot Chip
31. Sun
    Cat Power
32. Coexist
    The xx
33. Perfectly Imperfect
    Elle Varner
34. Researching the Blues
    Redd Kross
35. Living for a Song: Tribute to Hank Cochran
    Jamey Johnson
36. Blunderbuss
    Jack White
37. Master of My Make-Believe
    Santigold
38. Shields
    Grizzly Bear
39. Oceania
    Smashing Pumpkins
40. I Like to Keep Myself in Pain
    Kelly Hogan
41. Off!
    Off!
42. The Bravest Man in the Universe
    Bobby Womack
43. The Seer
    Swans
44. The Haunted Man
    Bat for Lashes
45. The Temper Trap
    The Temper Trap
46. The Ghost in Daylight
    Gravenhurst
47. Silver Age
    Bob Mould
48. Heaven
    Walkmen
49. 777 - Cosmosophy
    Blut Aus Nord
50. Life is People
    Bill Fay