Spinner: 50 Best Albums of 2012
- Fiona Apple — The Idler Wheel…
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Japandroids — Celebration Rock
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas
- Divine Fits — A Thing Called Divine Fits
- Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
- Alabama Shakes — Boys & Girls
- Beach House — Bloom
- Grimes — Visions
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
- P.O.S. — We Don’t Even Live Here
- Metric — Synthetica
- Father John Misty — Fear Fun
- Daphni — Jiaolong
- Jack White — Blunderbuss
- Solange — True
- Killer Mike — R.A.P. Music
- Screaming Females — Ugly
- Bob Mould — Silver Age
- Lianne La Havas — Is Your Love Big Enough?
- PUJOL — United States of Being
- Purity Ring — Shrines
- Kathleen Edwards — Voyageur
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Cloud Nothings — Attack on Memory
- Mumford & Sons — Babel
- Schoolboy Q — Habits & Contradictions
- Tennis — Young and Old
- Mac DeMarco — 2
- Will Stratton — Post-Empire
- The xx — Coexist
- El-P — Cancer 4 Cure
- Crystal Castles — III
- Poliça — Give You the Ghost
- Miguel — Kaleidoscope Dream
- Titus Andronicus — Local Business
- Zeus — Busting Visions
- Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
- Stars — The North
- Neil Young — Psychedelic Pill
- Dirty Ghosts — Metal Moon
- Walkmen — Heaven
- Lee Fields — Faithful Man
- Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
- Four Tet — Pink
- The Hives — Lex Hives
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Murder by Death — Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
- The Flaming Lips — The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends