Gigwise: 50 Albums of the 2012
[see also 2011]
- Twin Shadow — Confess
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- alt-J — An Awesome Wave
- Alabama Shakes — Boys & Girls
- Sigur Rós — Valtari
- Best Coast — The Only Place
- The Skints — Part & Parcel
- The xx — Coexist
- Japandroids — Celebration Rock
- The Vaccines — Come of Age
- Perfume Genius — Put Your Back N 2 It
- Django Django — Django Django
- Of Monsters And Men — My Head is an Animal
- Field Music — Plumb
- G.O.O.D. Music — Cruel Summer
- Cave Painting — Votive Life
- TOY — TOY
- Killer Mike — R.A.P. Music
- Grimes — Visions
- Passion Pit — Gossamer
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Muse — The 2nd Law
- The Maccabees — Given to the Wild
- Bright Light, Bright Light — Make Me Believe in Hope
- Purity Ring — Shrines
- Submotion Orchestra — Fragments
- Oberhofer — Time Capsules II
- Death Grips — The Money Store
- Cooly G — Playin’ Me
- Tribes — Baby
- Jessie Ware — Devotion
- Kindness — World, You Need a Change of Mind
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- The Shins — Port of Morrow
- TNGHT — TNGHT EP
- Ariel Pink — Mature Themes
- The Cribs — In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
- Darren Hayman — Lido
- Santigold — Master of My Make-Believe
- Ellie Goulding — Halcyon
- Jake Bugg — Jake Bugg
- Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
- Portico Quartet — Portico Quartet
- Cloud Nothings — Attack on Memory
- Mumford & Sons — Babel
- The Orb Featuring Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry — The Orbserver in the Star House
- Bruce Springsteen — Wrecking Ball
- Clams Casino — Instrumental Mixtape 2
- Miike Snow — Happy to You
- Jack White — Blunderbuss