Q Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2012 (alphabetical)
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2011]
- The 2 Bears — Be Strong
- Alabama Shakes — Boys & Girls
- alt-J — An Awesome Wave
- Paul Banks — Banks
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Beach House — Bloom
- Jake Bugg — Jake Bugg
- David Byrne & St. Vincent — Love this Giant
- Cat Power — Sun
- Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas
- Daphni — Jiaolong
- Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
- Django Django — Django Django
- Bob Dylan — Tempest
- El-P — Cancer 4 Cure
- Field Music — Plumb
- Go-Kart Mozart — On The Hot Dog Streets
- Grimes — Visions
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Ren Harvieu — Through The Night
- Richard Hawley — Standing at the Sky’s Edge
- Here We Go Magic — A Different Ship
- Hot Chip — In Our Heads
- Elton John Vs. Pnau — Good Morning To The Night
- Josephine — Portrait
- The Killers — Battle Born
- Kindness — World, You Need a Change of Mind
- Mark Lanegan Band — Blues Funeral
- The Maccabees — Given to the Wild
- Mala In Cuba — Mala In Cuba
- Mumford & Sons — Babel
- Muse — The 2nd Law
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Orbital — Wonky
- Peaking Lights — Lucifer
- Plan B — Ill Manors
- Emeli Sande — Our Version of Events
- Saint Etienne — Words and Music by Saint Etienne
- School Of Seven Bells — Ghostory
- Bruce Springsteen — Wrecking Ball
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs — Trouble
- The Vaccines — Come of Age
- Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
- Walkmen — Heaven
- Jessie Ware — Devotion
- Paul Weller — Sonik Kicks
- Jack White — Blunderbuss
- Bobby Womack — The Bravest Man in the Universe