Fact Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2012
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Lee Gamble — Diversions 1994-1996 / Dutch Tvashar Plumes
- Cooly G — Playin’ Me
- Horrid Red — Celestial Joy
- Spaceghostpurrp — God Of Black
- How to Dress Well — Total Loss
- Jam City — Classical Curves
- Terrence Dixon — From The Far Future Pt. 2
- Swans — The Seer
- Wolfgang Voigt — Rückverauberung 6
- Actress — R.I.P.
- Jeremih — Late Nights With Jeremih
- Madteo — Noi No
- Julia Holter — Ekstasis
- Sand Circles — Motor City
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- I:Cube — “M” Megamix
- Wiley — Step Freestyles
- Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
- Silent Servant — Negative Fascination
- Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland — Ebony
- Future — Pluto
- Heroin In Tahiti — Death Surf
- The Internet — Purple Naked Ladies
- Main Attrakionz — Bossalinis & Fooliyones
- Grimes — Visions
- Scott Walker — Bish Bosch
- Ariel Pink & R. Stevie Moore — Ku Klux Glam
- Ricardo Villalobos — Dependent and Happy
- Supreme Cuts — Whispers In The Dark
- Nas — Life Is Good
- D’Eon — Music For Keyboards vol. 1
- Altered Natives — Tenement Yard vol. 3
- Lorenzo Senni — Quantum Jelly
- Young Smoke — Space Zone
- Gunplay — Bogota Rich: The Prequel
- LE1F — Dark York
- Miguel — Kaleidoscope Dream
- Black Breath — Sentenced To Life
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Cocaine 80s — Express OG EP
- Schoolboy Q — Habits & Contradictions
- Carter Tutti Void — Transverse
- Triad God — NXB
- Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe — Timon Irnok Manta
- Purity Ring — Shrines
- The xx — Coexist
- Haleek Maul — Oxyconteen
- Helm — Impossible Symmetry
- Bigg Jus — Machines That Make Civilization Fun