Gorilla vs. Bear: 50 Best Albums of 2012
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]
- Grimes — Visions
- Chromatics — Kill for Love
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Burial — Kindred
- Jessie Ware — Devotion
- Schoolboy Q — Habits & Contradictions
- Beach House — Bloom
- Tops — Tender Opposites
- Miguel — Kaleidoscope Dream
- Chairlift — Something
- Killer Mike — R.A.P. Music
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Laurel Halo — Quarantine
- Holy Other — Held
- Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland — Black is Beautiful
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Jessica Pratt — Jessica Pratt
- Frankie Rose — Interstellar
- Symmetry — Themes For An Imaginary Film
- Andy Stott — Luxury Problems
- Chromatics — Running From the Sun
- Angel Olsen — Half Way Home
- Clams Casino — Instrumentals II
- Nicolas Jaar — Don’t Break My Love / The Prism
- Fort Romeau — Kingdoms
- Dawn Richard — Armor On
- Tamaryn — Tender New Signs
- Shackleton — Music for the Quiet Hour
- Mirroring — Foreign Body
- Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
- Phedré — Phedré
- LOL Boys — Changes
- Roc Marciano — Reloaded
- Fight Bite — Fight Bite
- Sam Flax — Age Waves
- Dum Dum Girls — End of Daze
- Lower Dens — Nootropics
- Las Malas Amistades — Maleza
- Lace Curtains — The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness
- Ryan Hemsworth — Last Words + Collected
- Taken By Trees — Other Worlds
- Ariel Pink — Mature Themes
- Antwon — End of Earth
- Pye Corner Audio — Sleep Games
- Molly Nilsson — History
- Peaking Lights — Lucifer
- Death Grips — The Money Store
- Pure Bathing Culture — Pure Bathing Culture
- THEESatisfaction — Awe Naturale
- Sand Circles — Motor City