The Fly: Top 50 Albums of 2012
[see also 2011]
- Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
- Grimes — Visions
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Cat Power — Sun
- Jessie Ware — Devotion
- Django Django — Django Django
- Field Music — Plumb
- Kindness — World, You Need a Change of Mind
- The Maccabees — Given to the Wild
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
- alt-J — An Awesome Wave
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Ariel Pink — Mature Themes
- Purity Ring — Shrines
- The Vaccines — Come of Age
- The xx — Coexist
- Pond — Beard, Wives, Denim
- Diiv — Oshin
- King Tuff — King Tuff
- The Cribs — In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
- Twin Shadow — Confess
- Daughn Gibson — All Hell
- Melody’s Echo Chamber — Melody’s Echo Chamber
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Chairlift — Something
- TOY — TOY
- Poliça — Give You the Ghost
- Graham Coxon — A+E
- Here We Go Magic — A Different Ship
- Beach House — Bloom
- Animal Collective — Centipede Hz
- David Byrne & St. Vincent — Love this Giant
- Howler — America Give Up
- Liars — Wixiw
- The Invisible — Rispah
- Best Coast — The Only Place
- Mystery Jets — Radlands
- Allah-Lahs — Allah-Las
- Two Door Cinema Club — Beacon
- Trash Talk — 119
- Pulled Apart By Horses — Tough Love
- Stealing Sheep — Into The Diamond Sun
- Errors — Have Some Faith in Magic
- Egyptian Hip Hop — Good Don’t Sleep
- 2:54 — 2:54
- Lotus Plaza — Spooky Action at a Distance
- Lucy Rose — Like I Used To
- Trailer Trash Tracy’s — Ester