Year-End Lists

Mojo Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2012

1. Jack White
   Blunderbuss
2. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
3. Bill Fay
   Life is People
4. Leonard Cohen
   Old Ideas
5. Dexys
   One Day I’m Going to Soar
6. The Black Keys
   El Camino
7. Django Django
   Django Django
8. Dr. John
   Locked Down
9. Julia Holter
   Ekstasis
10. Bob Dylan
    Tempest
11. Scott Walker
    Bish Bosch
12. Tame Impala
    Lonerism
13. The xx
    Coexist
14. Hot Chip
    In Our Heads
15. Cat Power
    Sun
16. Bobby Womack
    The Bravest Man in the Universe
17. Mark Lanegan Band
    Blues Funeral
18. Orbital
    Wonky
19. Advance Base
    A Shut-In’s Prayer
20. Lee Fields & the Expressions
    Faithful Man
21. Mount Eerie
    Clear Moon
22. Aimee Mann
    Charmer
23. TOY
    TOY
24. Richard Hawley
    Standing at the Sky’s Edge
25. Spoek Mathambo
    Father Creeper
26. The Nightingales
    No Love Lost
27. ZZ Top
    La Futura
28. Bruce Springsteen
    Wrecking Ball
29. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
    Psychedelic Pill
30. Field Music
    Plumb
31. Sweet Billy Pilgrim
    Crown And Treaty
32. Damon Albarn
    Dr. Dee
33. Jessie Ware
    Devotion
34. Grimes
    Visions
35. Sharon Van Etten
    Tramp
36. Michael Kiwanuka
    Home Again
37. Public Image Ltd.
    This Is PiL
38. Dan Michaelson
    Sudden Fiction
39. Flying Lotus
    Until the Quiet Comes
40. Beach House
    Bloom
41. Cate Le Bon
    CYRK
42. Ty Segall
    Twins
43. Grizzly Bear
    Shields
44. Animal Collective
    Centipede Hz
45. Actress
    R.I.P.
46. Paul Buchanan
    Mid Air
47. The Beach Boys
    That’s Why God Made The Radio
48. Paul Weller
    Sonik Kicks
49. Jake Bugg
    Jake Bugg
50. Oren Ambarchi
    Audience Of One