Year-End Lists

Stereogum: Top 50 Albums of 2012

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1. The Idler Wheel…
   Fiona Apple
2. Channel Orange
   Frank Ocean
3. good kid, m.A.A.d city
   Kendrick Lamar
4. The Seer
   Swans
5. Devotion
   Jessie Ware
6. Attack on Memory
   Cloud Nothings
7. Celebration Rock
   Japandroids
8. Heaven
   Walkmen
9. Something
   Chairlift
10. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors
11. Lonerism
    Tame Impala
12. Kaleidoscope Dream
    Miguel
13. ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
14. Kill for Love
    Chromatics
15. Cancer 4 Cure
    El-P
16. Shields
    Grizzly Bear
17. Open Your Heart
    The Men
18. Yellow & Green
    Baroness
19. Red
    Taylor Swift
20. Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
    Spiritualized
21. Ugly
    Screaming Females
22. Oshin
    DIIV
23. R.A.P. Music
    Killer Mike
24. Reign of Terror
    Sleigh Bells
25. II
    Nude Beach
26. Visions
    Grimes
27. Bloom
    Beach House
28. Sun
    Cat Power
29. Shine
    Purity Ring
30. Harmonicraft
    Torche
31. Habits & Contradictions
    Schoolboy Q
32. Twins
    Ty Segall
33. Total Loss
    How to Dress Well
34. Pluto
    Future
35. Swearin’
    Swearin’
36. Overgrown Path
    Chris Cohen
37. 1999
    Joey Bada$$
38. Ocean Roar
    Mount Eerie
39. Jessica Pratt
    Jessica Pratt
40. All We Love We Leave Behind
    Converge
41. Among the Leaves
    Sun Kil Moon
42. Tramp
    Sharon Van Etten
43. Blue Chips
    Action Bronson & Party Supplies
44. The Haunted Man
    Bat for Lashes
45. The Odds
    The Evens
46. Big Inner
    Matthew E. White
47. Rich Forever
    Rick Ross
48. Port of Morrow
    The Shins
49. Light Up Gold
    Parquet Courts
50. Until the Quiet Comes
    Flying Lotus