The Quietus: 75 Favorite Albums of 2012
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]
- Swans — The Seer
- Scott Walker — Bish Bosch
- Carter Tutti Void — Transverse
- X-TG — Desertshore/The Final Report
- VCMG — SSSS
- Vatican Shadow — Ghosts Of Chechnya
- Dragged Into Sunlight — Widowmaker
- Laurel Halo — Quarantine
- Anaal Nathrakh — Vanitas
- KTL — V
- Kassem Mosse & Mix Mup — MM/KM
- Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland — Black is Beautiful
- Land Observations — Roman Roads IV – XI
- Jam City — Classical Curves
- Liars — Wixiw
- Neneh Cherry & the Thing — The Cherry Thing
- Lee Gamble — Dutch Tvashar Plumes
- Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras & The Congos — Icon Give Thank
- Actress — R.I.P.
- Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament — The Violence
- White Hills — Frying On This Rock
- Silent Servant — Negative Fascination
- Gravenhurst — The Ghost in Daylight
- Eccentronic Research Council ft. Maxine Peake — 1612 Underture
- Necessary — Galgeberg/Gimle
- Emptyset — Medium
- High on Fire — De Vermis Mysteriis
- Andy Stott — Luxury Problems
- Alexander Tucker — Third Mouth
- Fairhorns — Doki Doki Run
- Thomas Koner — Novaya Zemlya
- Raime — Quarter Turns Over A Living Line
- Holly Herndon — Movement
- Shackleton — The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour
- Killer Mike — R.A.P. Music
- JK Flesh — Posthuman
- Richard Skelton — Verse of Birds
- Daphni — Jiaolong
- Dope Body — Natural History
- Oren Ambarchi — Sagittarian Domain
- Chromatics — Kill for Love
- Hexvessel — No Holier Temple
- Toy — Toy
- Traxman — Da Mind of Traxman
- Vindicatrix — Mengamuk
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- UFOmammut — ORO: Opus Primum/Alter
- John Foxx and the Maths — The Shape Of Things
- Bee Mask — When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
- Robert Hood — Motor: Nighttime World 3
- Melody’s Echo Chamber — Melody’s Echo Chamber
- Hirsute Pursuit — Tighten That Muscle Ring
- Burial — Kindred
- Black Breath — Sentenced To Life
- The Pre New — Music For People Who Hate Themselves
- Forward Strategy Group — Labour Division
- Beak — >>
- Turbonegro — Sexual Harassment
- Killing Joke — MMXII
- New War — New War
- Angel Haze — Reservation
- Rolo Tomassi — Astraea
- Tim Burgess — Oh No I Love You
- Sir Richard Bishop — Intermezzo
- Bo Ningen — Line The Wall
- John Talabot — fIN
- Mark Lanegan Band — Blues Funeral
- Devilman — Devilman
- Motorpsycho And Ståle Storløkken — The Death Defying Unicorn
- Goat — World Music
- Guardian Alien — See The World Given To A One Love Entity
- Carlton Melton — Photos Of Photos
- Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas
- Six Organs of Admittance — Ascent
- Man Forever — Pansophical Cataract