Year-End Lists

Piccadilly Records: Top 100 Albums of 2012

[see also 2011]

1. Goat — World Music
2. First Aid Kit — The Lion’s Roar
3. White Manna — White Manna
4. Django Django — Django Django
5. Smoke Fairies — Blood Speaks
6. Moon Duo — Circles
7. Chromatics — Kill for Love
8. Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
9. Grizzly Bear — Shields
10. Friends — Manifest!
11. Toy — Toy
12. Richard Hawley — Standing at the Sky’s Edge
13. Crocodiles — Endless Flowers
14. Loops Of Your Heart — And Never Ending Nights
15. Spiritualized — Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
16. The Congos / Sun Araw / M. Geddes Gengras — Icon Give Thank
17. Grimes — Visions
18. Peaking Lights — Lucifer
19. Pretty Lightning — There Are Witches In The Woods
20. Godspeed You! Black Emperor — ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
21. Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
22. Fort Romeau — Kingdoms
23. Lee Ranaldo — Between the Times and the Tides
24. Thee Oh Sees — Putrifiers II
25. Shackleton — The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour
26. alt-J — An Awesome Wave
27. THEESatisfaction — Awe Naturale
28. Disappears — Pre Language
29. Tame Impala — Lonerism
30. The xx — Coexist
31. Woolfy Vs Projections — The Return Of Love
32. Actress — RIP
33. The Soft Moon — Zeros
34. Pollyn — Living In Patterns
35. Eat Lights Become Lights — Heavy Electrics
36. Wild Nothing — Nocturne
37. Beachwood Sparks — Tarnished Gold
38. Swans — The Seer
39. Field Music — Plumb
40. Jack White — Blunderbuss
41. Bill Fay — Life is People
42. Füxa — Electric Sound Of Summer
43. Alabama Shakes — Boys & Girls
44. Cat Power — Sun
45. Seahawks — Aqua Disco
46. Maria Minerva — Will Happiness Find Me?
47. Tim Burgess — Oh No I Love You
48. Beach House — Bloom
49. Stealing Sheep — Into The Diamond Sun
50. JJ DOOM — Key To The Kuffs
51. Mark Lanegan Band — Blues Funeral
52. Porcelain Raft — Strange Weekend
53. DIIV — Oshin
54. Lightships — Electric Cables
55. The Jim Jones Revue — The Savage Heart
56. Ariel Pink — Mature Themes
57. How to Dress Well — Total Loss
58. Daphni — Jiaolong
59. Flavor Crystals — Three
60. Carlton Melton — Photos Of Photos
61. Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
62. Holograms — Holograms
63. M. Ward — A Wasteland Companion
64. The Flaming Lips — The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
65. The Shins — Port of Morrow
66. Poliça — Give You the Ghost
67. Eternal Tapestry — A World Out Of Time
68. Ultraísta — Ultraísta – Bonus Disc Edition
69. Symmetry — Themes For An Imaginary Film
70. Dusted — Total Dust
71. Yeti Lane — The Echo Show
72. Mungolian Jetset — Mungodelics
73. Mock & Toof — Temporary Happiness
74. Hooded Fang — Tosta Mista
75. Sun Araw — The Inner Treaty
76. Frankie Rose — Interstellar
77. OM — Advaitic Songs
78. Animal Collective — Centipede Hz
79. Holy Other — Held
80. White Hills — Frying On This Rock
81. Colorama — Good Music
82. Dark Horses — Black Music
83. El-P — Cancer 4 Cure
84. Nite Jewel — One Second of Love
85. Metz — Metz
86. The Cinematic Orchestra — Presents In Motion #1
87. Lindstrøm — Smalhans
88. Bobby Womack — The Bravest Man in the Universe
89. The Gaslamp Killer — Breakthrough
90. Calexico — Algiers
91. Ty Segall Band — Slaughterhouse
92. Sweet Lights — Sweet Lights
93. The Orb Featuring Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry — The Orbserver in the Star House
94. Sigur Rós — Valtari
95. Adrian Sherwood — Survival & Resistance
96. My Best Fiend — In Ghostlike Fading
97. Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
98. Laurel Halo — Quarantine
99. John Talabot — Fin
100. Howse — Lay Hollow