Mojo Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2012
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]
- Jack White — Blunderbuss
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Bill Fay — Life is People
- Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas
- Dexys — One Day I’m Going to Soar
- The Black Keys — El Camino
- Django Django — Django Django
- Dr. John — Locked Down
- Julia Holter — Ekstasis
- Bob Dylan — Tempest
- Scott Walker — Bish Bosch
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- The xx — Coexist
- Hot Chip — In Our Heads
- Cat Power — Sun
- Bobby Womack — The Bravest Man in the Universe
- Mark Lanegan Band — Blues Funeral
- Orbital — Wonky
- Advance Base — A Shut-In’s Prayer
- Lee Fields & the Expressions — Faithful Man
- Mount Eerie — Clear Moon
- Aimee Mann — Charmer
- TOY — TOY
- Richard Hawley — Standing at the Sky’s Edge
- Spoek Mathambo — Father Creeper
- The Nightingales — No Love Lost
- ZZ Top — La Futura
- Bruce Springsteen — Wrecking Ball
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Psychedelic Pill
- Field Music — Plumb
- Sweet Billy Pilgrim — Crown And Treaty
- Damon Albarn — Dr. Dee
- Jessie Ware — Devotion
- Grimes — Visions
- Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
- Michael Kiwanuka — Home Again
- Public Image Ltd. — This Is PiL
- Dan Michaelson — Sudden Fiction
- Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
- Beach House — Bloom
- Cate Le Bon — CYRK
- Ty Segall — Twins
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Animal Collective — Centipede Hz
- Actress — R.I.P.
- Paul Buchanan — Mid Air
- The Beach Boys — That’s Why God Made The Radio
- Paul Weller — Sonik Kicks
- Jake Bugg — Jake Bugg
- Oren Ambarchi — Audience Of One