musicOMH: Top 100 Albums of 2012
[see also 2011]
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Matthew Dear — Beams
- Chromatics — Kill for Love
- Blondes — Blondes
- John Talabot — fIN
- DIIV — Oshin
- Liars — Wixiw
- Carter Tutti Void — Transverse
- VCMG — SSSS
- Portico Quartet — Portico Quartet
- Anaïs Mitchell — Young Man in America
- David Byrne & St. Vincent — Love this Giant
- Dexys — One Day I’m Going to Soar
- Bruce Springsteen — Wrecking Ball
- TOY — TOY
- Neil Halstead — Palindrome Hunches
- Field Music — Plumb
- Bright Light, Bright Light — Make Me Believe in Hope
- Poliça — Give You the Ghost
- Jack White — Blunderbuss
- Beachwood Sparks — Tarnished Gold
- Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
- Grimes — Visions
- Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
- alt-J — An Awesome Wave
- Julia Holter — Ekstasis
- Sweet Billy Pilgrim — Crown And Treaty
- Sébastien Tellier — My God Is Blue
- The Invisible — Rispah
- Lindstrøm — Six Cups of Rebel
- Jessie Ware — Devotion
- Perfume Genius — Put Your Back N 2 It
- Public Image Ltd. — This Is PiL
- Swans — The Seer
- Beach House — Bloom
- Cat Power — Sun
- First Aid Kit — The Lion’s Roar
- Cooly G — Playin’ Me
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Sam Lee — Ground Of Its Own
- Susanne Sundfør — The Silicone Veil
- Shackleton — Music for the Quiet Hour
- Saint Etienne — Words and Music by Saint Etienne
- Actress — RIP
- Breton — Other People’s Problems
- Wadada Leo Smith — Ten Freedom Summers
- Dan Deacon — America
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor — ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
- 2:54 — 2:54
- Nedry — In A Dim Light
- Dirty Three — Toward the Low Sun
- Walkmen — Heaven
- Richard Hawley — Into The Diamond Sun
- Stealing Sheep — Into The Diamond Sun
- Paul Buchanan — Mid Air
- Tigercats — Isle Of Dogs
- Lau — Race The Loser
- Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas
- The Irrepressibles — Nude
- Allo Darlin’ — Europe
- THEESatisfaction — Awe Naturale
- Bobby Womack — The Bravest Man in the Universe
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Tall Ships — Everything Touching
- Sun Kil Moon — Among the Leaves
- Sidi Touré — Koïma
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
- Death Grips — The Money Store
- Katy Carr — Paszport
- Father John Misty — Fear Fun
- Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament — The Violence
- Twin Shadow — Confess
- Staff Benda Bilili — Bouger Le Monde!
- Hot Chip — In Our Heads
- The xx — Coexist
- Tindersticks — The Something Rain
- Django Django — Django Django
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Dr. John — Locked Down
- Soulsavers — The Light The Dead See
- Goat — World Music
- Vijay Iyer Trio — Accelerando
- How to Dress Well — Total Loss
- Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury — DROKK
- Fixers — We’ll Be The Moon
- Tim Burgess — Oh No I Love You
- Narasirato — Warato’o
- Nathan Fake — Steam Days
- 1982 + BJ Cole — 1982 + BJ Cole
- Soap & Skin — Narrow
- Cheval Sombre — Mad Love
- Future of the Left — The Plot Against Common Sense
- Laurel Halo — Quarantine
- Neneh Cherry & the Thing — The Cherry Thing
- Calexico — Algiers
- Paul Banks — Banks
- O. Children — Apnea
- Graham Coxon — A+E
- Kindness — World, You Need a Change of Mind