Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2012
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Fiona Apple — The Idler Wheel…
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Swans — The Seer
- Grimes — Visions
- Beach House — Bloom
- Chromatics — Kill for Love
- Death Grips — The Money Store
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Japandroids — Celebration Rock
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor — ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
- Killer Mike — R.A.P. Music
- Andy Stott — Luxury Problems
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
- Burial — Kindred
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Ty Segall Band — Slaughterhouse
- Ty Segall and White Hair — Hair
- Cloud Nothings — Attack on Memory
- Jessie Ware — Devotion
- Ariel Pink — Mature Themes
- Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
- Miguel — Kaleidoscope Dream
- Purity Ring — Shrines
- Schoolboy Q — Habits & Contradictions
- Julia Holter — Ekstasis
- John Talabot — fIN
- How to Dress Well — Total Loss
- Cat Power — Sun
- The Men — Open Your Heart
- Spiritualized — Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
- Action Bronson — Blue Chips
- Actress — R.I.P.
- Chairlift — Something
- TNGHT — TNGHT EP
- Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
- Future — Pluto
- Lotus Plaza — Spooky Action at a Distance
- Hot Chip — In Our Heads
- DIIV — Oshin
- Dum Dum Girls — End of Daze
- Rick Ross — Rich Forever
- Mac DeMarco — 2
- Metz — Metz
- El-P — Cancer 4 Cure
- Rustie — Essential Mix
- Pallbearer — Sorrow and Extinction
- Peaking Lights — Lucifer
- Crystal Castles — (III)
- Lambchop — Mr. M