Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2012
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013]
- Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas
- Bob Dylan — Tempest
- Jack White — Blunderbuss
- Dr. John — Locked Down
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Bill Fay — Life is People
- Ty Segall & White Fence — Hair
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Psychedelic Pill
- Bruce Springsteen — Wrecking Ball
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Go-Kart Mozart — On The Hot Dog Streets
- Dexys — One Day I’m Going to Soar
- Paul Buchanan — Mid Air
- Field Music — Plumb
- Ty Segall Band — Slaughterhouse
- Grimes — Visions
- Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
- Neneh Cherry & the Thing — The Cherry Thing
- The xx — Coexist
- Beachwood Sparks — Tarnished Gold
- Mark Lanegan Band — Blues Funeral
- Julia Holter — Ekstasis
- Allah-Lahs — Allah-Las
- Patti Smith — Banga
- Graham Coxon — A+E
- Alabama Shakes — Boys & Girls
- Paul Weller — Sonik Kicks
- The Chris Robinson Brotherhood — Big Moon Ritual
- Ry Cooder — Election Special
- Hot Chip — In Our Heads
- Richard Hawley — Standing at the Sky’s Edge
- Micachu & The Shapes — Never
- Bobby Womack — The Bravest Man in the Universe
- Six Organs of Admittance — Ascent
- Sun Kil Moon — Among the Leaves
- Patterson Hood — Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance
- Lightships — Electric Cables
- Dirty Three — Toward the Low Sun
- First Aid Kit — The Lion’s Roar
- Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Americana
- Sun Araw & M Geddes Gengras meet the Congos — Icon Give Thank
- Japandroids — Celebration Rock
- Cat Power — Sun
- Anaïs Mitchell — Young Man in America
- Howlin Rain — The Russian Wilds
- Damon Albarn — Dr. Dee
- Laetitia Sadier — Silencio
- Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
- Cate Le Bon — Cyrk
- PiL — This is PiL
- Yeti Lane — The Echo Show
- The 2 Bears — Be Strong
- Pond — Beard, Wives, Denim
- David Byrne & St. Vincent — Love this Giant
- Donald Fagen — Sunken Condos
- Father John Misty — Fear Fun
- The Liminanas — Crystal Anis
- Thee Oh Sees — Putrifiers II
- Ian Hunter & The Rant Band — When I’m President
- Calexico — Algiers
- Orbital — Wonky
- Nite Jewel — One Second of Love
- Goat — World Music
- Cornershop — Urban Turban: The Singhles Club
- Woods — Bend Beyond
- Ty Segall — Twins
- Simone Felice — Simone Felice
- Lee Ranaldo — Between the Times and the Tides
- Rufus Wainwright — Out of The Game
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion — Meat + Bone
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Carter Tutti Void — Transverse