Year-End Lists

Crack Magazine: The Top 100 Albums of 2012

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