Year-End Lists

Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2012

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1. good kid, m.A.A.d city
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Channel Orange
   Frank Ocean
3. The Idler Wheel…
   Fiona Apple
4. Lonerism
   Tame Impala
5. The Seer
   Swans
6. Visions
   Grimes
7. Bloom
   Beach House
8. Kill for Love
   Chromatics
9. The Money Store
   Death Grips
10. Shields
    Grizzly Bear
11. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
12. ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
13. R.A.P. Music
    Killer Mike
14. Luxury Problems
    Andy Stott
15. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors
16. Kindred
    Burial
17. The Haunted Man
    Bat for Lashes
18. Slaughterhouse
    Ty Segall Band
18. Hair
    Ty Segall & White Fence
19. Attack on Memory
    Cloud Nothings
20. Devotion
    Jessie Ware
21. Mature Themes
    Ariel Pink
22. Until the Quiet Comes
    Flying Lotus
23. Kaleidoscope Dream
    Miguel
24. Shrines
    Purity Ring
25. Habits & Contradictions
    Schoolboy Q
26. Ekstasis
    Julia Holter
27. fIN
    John Talabot
28. Total Loss
    How to Dress Well
29. Sun
    Cat Power
30. Open Your Heart
    The Men
31. Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
    Spiritualized
32. Blue Chips
    Action Bronson
33. R.I.P.
    Actress
34. Something
    Chairlift
35. TNGHT EP
    TNGHT
36. Tramp
    Sharon Van Etten
37. Pluto
    Future
38. Spooky Action at a Distance
    Lotus Plaza
39. In Our Heads
    Hot Chip
40. Oshin
    DIIV
41. End of Daze
    Dum Dum Girls
42. Rich Forever
    Rick Ross
43. 2
    Mac DeMarco
44. Metz
    Metz
45. Cancer 4 Cure
    El-P
46. Essential Mix
    Rustie
47. Sorrow and Extinction
    Pallbearer
48. Lucifer
    Peaking Lights
49. (III)
    Crystal Castles
50. Mr. M
    Lambchop