Year-End Lists

The Quietus: 75 Favorite Albums of 2012

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1. The Seer
   Swans
2. Bish Bosch
   Scott Walker
3. Transverse
   Carter Tutti Void
4. Desertshore/The Final Report
   X-TG
5. SSSS
   VCMG
6. Ghosts Of Chechnya
   Vatican Shadow
7. Widowmaker
   Dragged Into Sunlight
8. Quarantine
   Laurel Halo
9. Vanitas
   Anaal Nathrakh
10. V
    KTL
11. MM/KM
    Kassem Mosse & Mix Mup
12. Black is Beautiful
    Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
13. Roman Roads IV – XI
    Land Observations
14. Classical Curves
    Jam City
15. Wixiw
    Liars
16. The Cherry Thing
    Neneh Cherry & the Thing
17. Dutch Tvashar Plumes
    Lee Gamble
18. Icon Give Thank
    Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras & The Congos
19. R.I.P.
    Actress
20. The Violence
    Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament
21. Frying On This Rock
    White Hills
22. Negative Fascination
    Silent Servant
23. The Ghost in Daylight
    Gravenhurst
24. 1612 Underture
    Eccentronic Research Council ft. Maxine Peake
25. Galgeberg/Gimle
    Necessary
26. Medium
    Emptyset
27. De Vermis Mysteriis
    High on Fire
28. Luxury Problems
    Andy Stott
29. Third Mouth
    Alexander Tucker
30. Doki Doki Run
    Fairhorns
31. Novaya Zemlya
    Thomas Koner
32. Quarter Turns Over A Living Line
    Raime
33. Movement
    Holly Herndon
34. The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour
    Shackleton
35. R.A.P. Music
    Killer Mike
36. Posthuman
    JK Flesh
37. Verse of Birds
    Richard Skelton
38. Jiaolong
    Daphni
39. Natural History
    Dope Body
40. Sagittarian Domain
    Oren Ambarchi
41. Kill for Love
    Chromatics
42. No Holier Temple
    Hexvessel
43. Toy
    Toy
44. Da Mind of Traxman
    Traxman
45. Mengamuk
    Vindicatrix
46. good kid, m.A.A.d city
    Kendrick Lamar
47. ORO: Opus Primum/Alter
    UFOmammut
48. The Shape Of Things
    John Foxx and the Maths
49. When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
    Bee Mask
50. Motor: Nighttime World 3
    Robert Hood
51. Melody’s Echo Chamber
    Melody’s Echo Chamber
52. Tighten That Muscle Ring
    Hirsute Pursuit
53. Kindred
    Burial
54. Sentenced To Life
    Black Breath
55. Music For People Who Hate Themselves
    The Pre New
56. Labour Division
    Forward Strategy Group
57. >>
    Beak
58. Sexual Harassment
    Turbonegro
59. MMXII
    Killing Joke
60. New War
    New War
61. Reservation
    Angel Haze
62. Astraea
    Rolo Tomassi
63. Oh No I Love You
    Tim Burgess
64. Intermezzo
    Sir Richard Bishop
65. Line The Wall
    Bo Ningen
66. fIN
    John Talabot
67. Blues Funeral
    Mark Lanegan Band
68. Devilman
    Devilman
69. The Death Defying Unicorn
    Motorpsycho And Ståle Storløkken
70. World Music
    Goat
71. See The World Given To A One Love Entity
    Guardian Alien
72. Photos Of Photos
    Carlton Melton
73. Old Ideas
    Leonard Cohen
74. Ascent
    Six Organs of Admittance
75. Pansophical Cataract
    Man Forever