Year-End Lists

Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2012

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2011]

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