Year-End Lists

Gorilla vs. Bear: 50 Best Albums of 2012

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1. Visions
   Grimes
2. Kill for Love
   Chromatics
3. good kid, m.A.A.d city
   Kendrick Lamar
4. Kindred
   Burial
5. Devotion
   Jessie Ware
6. Habits & Contradictions
   Schoolboy Q
7. Bloom
   Beach House
8. Tender Opposites
   Tops
9. Kaleidoscope Dream
   Miguel
10. Something
    Chairlift
11. R.A.P. Music
    Killer Mike
12. Shields
    Grizzly Bear
13. Quarantine
    Laurel Halo
14. Held
    Holy Other
15. Black is Beautiful
    Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
16. Channel Orange
    Frank Ocean
17. Jessica Pratt
    Jessica Pratt
18. Interstellar
    Frankie Rose
19. Themes For An Imaginary Film
    Symmetry
20. Luxury Problems
    Andy Stott
21. Running From the Sun
    Chromatics
22. Half Way Home
    Angel Olsen
23. Instrumentals II
    Clams Casino
24. Don’t Break My Love / The Prism
    Nicolas Jaar
25. Kingdoms
    Fort Romeau
26. Armor On
    Dawn Richard
27. Tender New Signs
    Tamaryn
28. Music for the Quiet Hour
    Shackleton
29. Foreign Body
    Mirroring
30. Until the Quiet Comes
    Flying Lotus
31. Phedré
    Phedré
32. Changes
    LOL Boys
33. Reloaded
    Roc Marciano
34. Fight Bite
    Fight Bite
35. Age Waves
    Sam Flax
36. End of Daze
    Dum Dum Girls
37. Nootropics
    Lower Dens
38. Maleza
    Las Malas Amistades
39. The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness
    Lace Curtains
40. Last Words + Collected
    Ryan Hemsworth
41. Other Worlds
    Taken By Trees
42. Mature Themes
    Ariel Pink
43. End of Earth
    Antwon
44. Sleep Games
    Pye Corner Audio
45. History
    Molly Nilsson
46. Lucifer
    Peaking Lights
47. The Money Store
    Death Grips
48. Pure Bathing Culture
    Pure Bathing Culture
49. Awe Naturale
    THEESatisfaction
50. Motor City
    Sand Circles