FasterLouder: Top 50 Albums of 2012
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
- Father John Misty — Fear Fun
- Cat Power — Sun
- David Byrne & St. Vincent — Love this Giant
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Cloud Nothings — Attack on Memory
- Jack White — Blunderbuss
- Dirty Three — Toward the Low Sun
- Alpine — A is For Alpine
- Mark Lanegan Band — Blues Funeral
- Dr. John — Locked Down
- Django Django — Django Django
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Ariel Pink — Mature Themes
- Pony Face — Hypnotized
- Japandroids — Celebration Rock
- Hermitude — HyperParadise
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind
- Spiritualized — Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
- Sigur Rós — Valtari
- Ultraísta — Ultraísta
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Fiona Apple — The Idler Wheel…
- Dinosaur Jr. — I Bet on Sky
- Flume — Flume
- Divine Fits — A Thing Called Divine Fits
- Silversun Pickups — Neck of the Woods
- Boomgates — Double Natural
- Walkmen — Heaven
- alt-J — An Awesome Wave
- The xx — Coexist
- Sarah Blasko — I Awake
- Quakers — Quakers
- Joe McKee — Burning Boy
- The Mark Of Cain — Songs Of The Third and Fifth
- Bored Nothing — Bored Nothing
- Paul Kelly — Spring and Fall
- Something For Kate — Leave Your Soul to Science
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Psychedelic Pill
- Grimes — Visions
- Chairlift — Something
- Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
- Lower Plenty — Hard Rubbish
- Deep Sea Arcade — Outlands
- The Men — Open Your Heart
- Oh Mercy — Deep Heat
- Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
- TOY — TOY