Year-End Lists

Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2012

1. Sharon Van Etten
   Tramp
1. Blondes
   Blondes
1. Chromatics
   Kill for Love
1. Swans
   The Seer
1. Liars
   Wixiw
6. Fiona Apple
   The Idler Wheel…
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
   ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
8. School Of Seven Bells
   Ghostory
9. Aesop Rock
   Skelethon
10. Julia Holter
    Ekstasis
11. Frank Ocean
    Channel Orange
12. Chairlift
    Something
13. The Twilight Sad
    No One Will Ever Know
14. Poliça
    Give You the Ghost
15. Perfume Genius
    Put Your Back N 2 It
16. Kendrick Lamar
    good kid, m.A.A.d city
17. Jessie Ware
    Devotion
18. Killer Mike
    R.A.P. Music
19. LHF
    Keepers of the Light
20. FOE
    Bad Dream Hotline
21. Twin Shadow
    Confess
22. Motion Sickness of Time Travel
    Motion Sickness of Time Travel
23. Django Django
    Django Django
24. Cat Power
    Sun
25. Deftones
    Koi No Yokan
26. Yppah
    Eighty One
27. Errors
    Have Some Faith in Magic
28. John Talabot
    Fin
29. Melody’s Echo Chamber
    Melody’s Echo Chamber
30. Cloud Nothings
    Attack on Memory
31. Efterklang
    Piramida
32. Actress
    R.I.P.
33. Metric
    Synthetica
34. The Lost Rivers
    Sin & Lostness
35. Crystal Castles
    (III)
36. Field Music
    Plumb
37. Grimes
    Visions
38. LV
    Sebenza
39. Blood Red Shoes
    In Time To Voices
40. Lana Del Rey
    Born to Die
41. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
42. Japandroids
    Celebration Rock
43. The Maccabees
    Given to the Wild
44. Grizzly Bear
    Shields
45. Muse
    The 2nd Law
46. Scott Walker
    Bish Bosch
47. Yeasayer
    Fragrant World
48. Echo Lake
    Wild Peace
49. How to Dress Well
    Total Loss
50. Bloc Party
    Four
51. Shearwater
    Animal Joy
52. …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
    Lost Songs
53. Earth
    Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
54. Sigur Rós
    Valtari
55. Death Grips
    The Money Store
56. Andrew Bird
    Break It Yourself
57. Bat for Lashes
    The Haunted Man
58. Tindersticks
    The Something Rain
59. Eight and a Half
    Eight and a Half
60. Leonard Cohen
    Old Ideas
61. The Cribs
    In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
62. Future of the Left
    The Plot Against Common Sense
63. Purity Ring
    Shrines
64. The xx
    Coexist
65. First Aid Kit
    The Lion’s Roar
66. The Shins
    Port of Morrow
67. Orbital
    Wonky
68. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
    Psychedelic Pill
69. Tame Impala
    Lonerism
70. Stumbleine
    Spiderwebbed
71. Exitmusic
    Passage
72. DIIV
    Oshin
73. El-P
    Cancer 4 Cure
74. Richard Hawley
    Standing at the Sky’s Edge
75. Lower Dens
    Nootropics
76. Halls
    Ark
77. Dirty Three
    Toward the Low Sun
78. The Magnetic Fields
    Love at the Bottom of the Sea
79. Nils Frahm
    Screws
80. Walkmen
    Heaven
81. BATS
    The Sleep of Reason
82. Flying Lotus
    Until the Quiet Comes
83. Ghosting Season
    The Very Last of the Saints
84. dEUS
    Following Sea
85. Dan Deacon
    America
86. Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament
    The Violence
87. why?
    Sod the Seed
88. Lee Ranaldo
    Between the Times and the Tides
89. Passion Pit
    Gossamer
90. Beach House
    Bloom
91. I Like Trains
    The Shallows
92. Anaïs Mitchell
    Young Man in America
93. Spiritualized
    Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
94. Bruce Springsteen
    Wrecking Ball
95. alt-J
    An Awesome Wave
96. John Cale
    Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood
97. CFCF
    Exercises
98. Hot Chip
    In Our Heads
99. Hey Sholay
    ((o))
100. Cursive
     I Am Gemini