Year-End Lists

Crack Magazine: The Top 100 Albums of 2012

[see also 2022 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

1. Fin
   John Talabot
2. Lonerism
   Tame Impala
3. Portico Quartet
   Portico Quartet
4. Open Your Heart
   The Men
5. good kid, m.A.A.d city
   Kendrick Lamar
6. Channel Orange
   Frank Ocean
7. Until the Quiet Comes
   Flying Lotus
8. Metz
   Metz
9. Dream On
   Ital
10. The Seer
    Swans
11. Tender New Signs
    Tamaryn
12. A+E
    Graham Coxon
13. World Music
    Goat
14. Visions
    Grimes
15. fabric 64
    Guy Gerber
16. Dependent and Happy
    Ricardo Villalobos
17. They!Live
    Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka
18. Brothers Fowl
    Dam Mantle
19. Black Radio
    Robert Glasper Experiment
20. Mantasy
    Michael Mayer
21. Adventures In Your Own Backyard
    Patrick Watson
22. Teklife Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi
    DJ Rashad
23. Future Rhythm Machine
    Auntie Flo
24. R.I.P.
    Actress
25. Mysterious Phonk: Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp
    Spaceghostpurrp
26. Wixiw
    Liars
27. Kill for Love
    Chromatics
28. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors
29. Shields
    Grizzly Bear
30. Never
    Micachu & The Shapes
31. There’s No Leaving Now
    The Tallest Man on Earth
32. Nocturne
    Wild Nothing
33. Blondes
    Blondes
34. Tourist / Sleeper
    Seams
35. Melody’s Echo Chamber
    Melody’s Echo Chamber
36. Phèdre
    Phèdre
37. Things That Fade
    Greeen Linez
38. Total Loss
    How to Dress Well
39. Key To The Kuffs
    JJ DOOM
40. Rispah
    The Invisible
41. The Cherry Thing
    Neneh Cherry & the Thing
42. Devotion
    Jessie Ware
43. Standing at the Sky’s Edge
    Richard Hawley
44. Versus
    Wolf + Lamb
45. Oshin
    DIIV
46. Galaxy Garden
    Lone
47. Bloom
    Beach House
48. World, You Need a Change of Mind
    Kindness
49. Fear Fun
    Father John Misty
50. I Bet on Sky
    Dinosaur Jr.
51. Heaven
    Walkmen
52. State of Flux
    Mr. G
53. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
54. Shrines
    Purity Ring
55. Tender Leaf
    Erdbeerschnitzel
56. NZCA/LINES
    NZCA/LINES
57. The Integration LP
    LA Vampires with Maria Minerva
58. Held
    Holy Other
59. Everything Touching
    Tall Ships
60. Awe Naturale
    THEESatisfaction
61. Mala in Cuba
    Mala
62. Transverse
    Carter Tutti Void
63. Tramp
    Sharon Van Etten
64. Personality
    Scuba
65. Twins
    Ty Segall
66. R.A.P. Music
    Killer Mike
67. Centipede Hz
    Animal Collective
68. 2
    Mac DeMarco
69. BEAK>
    Beak>
70. Love this Giant
    David Byrne & St. Vincent
71. Black Propaganda
    Oscar Mulero
72. Pink
    Four Tet
73. Off!
    Off!
74. An Awesome Wave
    alt-J
75. The Killer
    Shed
76. Transistor Rhythm
    Addison Groove
77. Sees the Light
    La Sera
78. Order of Noise
    Vessel
79. Breakup Song
    Deerhoof
80. Piramida
    Efterklang
81. Life Is Good
    Nas
82. Putrifiers II
    Thee Oh Sees
83. Luxury Problems
    Andy Stott
84. Beams
    Matthew Dear
85. Sun
    Cat Power
86. All We Love We Leave Behind
    Converge
87. Give You the Ghost
    Poliça
88. Instrumental Tourist
    Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin
89. Towers
    Baltic Fleet
90. No Love Deep Web
    Death Grips
91. Free Time!
    Pinkunoizu
92. Jiaolong
    Daphni
93. The Haunted Man
    Bat for Lashes
94. Good Don’t Sleep
    Egyptian Hip Hop
95. The Very Last of the Saints
    Ghosting Season
96. Falling
    Seapony
97. Steam Days
    Nathan Fake
98. Solo Piano II
    Chilly Gonzales
99. Work is Love Made Visible
    Typesun
100. Hot Doctor
     Dagger Brothers