Les Inrockuptibles: Top 100 Albums of 2012
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011]
- alt-J — An Awesome Wave
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Liars — Wixiw
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Django Django — Django Django
- Hot Chip — In Our Heads
- Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
- Lescop — Lescop
- Alabama Shakes — Boys & Girls
- The xx — Coexist
- Beach House — Bloom
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Ariel Pink — Mature Themes
- Cat Power — Sun
- Benjamin Biolay — Vengeance
- Chromatics — Kill for Love
- Matthew Dear — Beams
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
- Electric Guest — Mondo
- Grimes — Visions
- Lou Doillon — Places
- Kindness — World, You Need a Change of Mind
- Mermonte — Mermonte
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Citizens — Here We Are
- Breton — Other People’s Problems
- Eugene Mc Guiness — The invitation to the Voyage
- Spiritualized — Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
- Bewitched Hands — Vampiric way
- DIIV — Oshin
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor — ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
- Richard Hawley — Standing at the Sky’s Edge
- Michael Kiwanuka — Home Again
- The Vaccines — Come of Age
- Willis Earl Beal — Acousmatic Sorcery
- Bill Fay — Life is People
- Chassol — X-Pianos
- Dominique A — Vers les lueurs
- Dan Deacon — America
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Psychedelic Pill
- Swans — The Seer
- Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas
- Barbara Carlotti — L’Amour, l’Argent, le vent
- Actress — R.I.P.
- Two Door Cinema Club — Beacon
- Avec Pas D’Casque — Astronomie
- Beth Jeans Houghton — Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose
- Matthew E. White — Big Inner
- Poliça — Give You the Ghost
- O. Children — Apnea
- Animal Collective — Centipede Hz
- Jack White — Blunderbuss
- Chairlift — Something
- Cheek Mountain Thief — Cheek Mountain Thief
- The Magnetic North — Orkney Symphony of The Magnetic North
- Concrete Knives — Be Your Own King
- Jonathan Boulet — We Keep The Beat, Found The Sound, See The Need, Start The Heart
- Thee Oh Sees — Putrifiers II
- M. Ward — A Wasteland Companion
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion — Meat + Bone
- Friends — Manifest!
- Lower Dens — Nootropics
- Para One — Passion
- Rich Aucoin — We’re All Dying to Live
- Moon Duo — Circles
- Rick Ross — Rich Forever
- Dr. John — Locked Down
- How to Dress Well — Total Loss
- Baden Baden — Coline
- Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
- Rover — Rover
- Monogrenade — Tantale
- Holy Other — Held
- First Aid Kit — The Lion’s Roar
- Mina Tindle — Taranta
- Meridian Brothers — Desesperanza
- Die Antwoord — $O$
- James Levy & The Blood Red Rose — Pray to Be Free
- SKIP&DIE — Riots in the Jungle
- Klub des Loosers — La Fin De L’espèce
- Beachwood Sparks — Tarnished Gold
- Father John Misty — Fear Fun
- Lucas Santtana — O Deus que devasta mas também cura
- The Maccabees — Given to the Wild
- Melody’s Echo Chamber — Melody’s Echo Chamber
- Zombie Zombie — Rituels d’un nouveau monde
- Prince Rama — Top Ten Hits of the End of the World
- Neil Halstead — Palindrome Hunches
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Pinkunoizu — Free Time!
- of Montreal — Daughter of Cloud
- Lotus Plaza — Spooky Action at a Distance
- Cold Specks — I Predict a Graceful Expulsion
- Booba — Futur
- Bobby Womack — The Bravest Man in the Universe
- THEESatisfaction — Awe Naturale
- Théodore Paul & Gabriel — Please Her, Please Him
- The Spinto Band — Shy Pursuit
- Jason Lytle — Dept. of Disappearance
- Bang On! — [Sic]