Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2012 Music
American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2012
18 December 2012
American Songwriter
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Top 50 Albums of 2012
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Tempest
Bob Dylan
Psychedelic Pill
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
O’ Be Joyful
Shovels and Rope
Old Ideas
Leonard Cohen
Wrecking Ball
Bruce Springsteen
Tramp
Sharon Van Etten
The Carpenter
Avett Brothers
Babel
Mumford & Sons
Slipstream
Bonnie Raitt
Boys & Girls
Alabama Shakes
Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
Todd Snider
Sing the Delta
Iris DeMent
The Lumineers
The Lumineers
Live From Alabama
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
Bear Creek
Brandi Carlile
Fear Fun
Father John Misty
The Idler Wheel…
Fiona Apple
3 Pears
Dwight Yoakam
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
Break It Yourself
Andrew Bird
Blunderbuss
Jack White
Port of Morrow
The Shins
Here
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
Mutt
Cory Branan
Little Broken Hearts
Norah Jones
Home Again
Michael Kiwanuka
Older Than My Old Man Now
Loudon Wainwright III
Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
Justin Townes Earle
Worried Man
Andrew Combs
Who’s Feeling Young Now?
Punch Brothers
From The Ground Up
John Fullbright
Kin
Rodney Crowell & Mary Karr
The Sound of The Life of The Mind
Ben Folds Five
New Multitudes
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames
The Dreamer
Rhett Miller
Voyageur
Kathleen Edwards
Lonerism
Tame Impala
What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
Regina Spektor
The Lion’s Roar
First Aid Kit
Diamond Rugs
Diamond Rugs
Old Crow Medicine Show
Carry Me Back
Every Kingdom
Ben Howard
Sugaring Reason
Beth Orton
Be the Void
Dr. Dog
Delta Spirit
Delta Spirit
A Wasteland Companion
M. Ward
Go Fly A Kite
Ben Kweller
Handwritten
The Gaslight Anthem
In The Dusk of Everything
Matthew Ryan
Mirage Rock
Band Of Horses