Year-End Lists

AllMusic: 50 Best Albums of 2012

1. Grimes
   Visions
2. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
3. Fiona Apple
   The Idler Wheel…
4. Kendrick Lamar
   good kid, m.A.A.d city
5. Miguel
   Kaleidoscope Dream
6. Flying Lotus
   Until the Quiet Comes
7. Torche
   Harmonicraft
8. Jessie Ware
   Devotion
9. David Byrne & St. Vincent
   Love this Giant
10. Carly Rae Jepsen
    Kiss
11. Deerhoof
    Breakup Song
12. Dwight Yoakam
    3 Pears
13. Tame Impala
    Lonerism
14. Robert Glasper Experiment
    Black Radio
15. Killer Mike
    R.A.P. Music
16. Donald Fagen
    Sunken Condos
17. Matthew Dear
    Beams
18. Death Grips
    The Money Store
19. Dan Deacon
    America
20. THEESatisfaction
    Awe Naturale
21. Lightships
    Electric Cables
22. Beach House
    Bloom
23. Beachwood Sparks
    Tarnished Gold
24. Karriem Riggins
    Alone Together
25. Christian Scott
    Christian aTunde Adjuah
26. Converge
    All We Love We Leave Behind
27. Breakbot
    By Your Side
28. Chromatics
    Kill for Love
29. fun.
    Some Nights
30. Hot Chip
    In Our Heads
31. Cat Power
    Sun
32. The xx
    Coexist
33. Elle Varner
    Perfectly Imperfect
34. Redd Kross
    Researching the Blues
35. Jamey Johnson
    Living for a Song: Tribute to Hank Cochran
36. Jack White
    Blunderbuss
37. Santigold
    Master of My Make-Believe
38. Grizzly Bear
    Shields
39. Smashing Pumpkins
    Oceania
40. Kelly Hogan
    I Like to Keep Myself in Pain
41. Off!
    Off!
42. Bobby Womack
    The Bravest Man in the Universe
43. Swans
    The Seer
44. Bat for Lashes
    The Haunted Man
45. The Temper Trap
    The Temper Trap
46. Gravenhurst
    The Ghost in Daylight
47. Bob Mould
    Silver Age
48. Walkmen
    Heaven
49. Blut Aus Nord
    777 - Cosmosophy
50. Bill Fay
    Life is People