Year-End Lists

Q Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2012 (alphabetical)

• The 2 Bears
  Be Strong
• Alabama Shakes
  Boys & Girls
• alt-J
  An Awesome Wave
• Paul Banks
  Banks
• Bat for Lashes
  The Haunted Man
• Beach House
  Bloom
• Jake Bugg
  Jake Bugg
• David Byrne & St. Vincent
  Love this Giant
• Cat Power
  Sun
• Leonard Cohen
  Old Ideas
• Daphni
  Jiaolong
• Lana Del Rey
  Born to Die
• Dirty Projectors
  Swing Lo Magellan
• Django Django
  Django Django
• Bob Dylan
  Tempest
• El-P
  Cancer 4 Cure
• Field Music
  Plumb
• Go-Kart Mozart
  On The Hot Dog Streets
• Grimes
  Visions
• Grizzly Bear
  Shields
• Ren Harvieu
  Through The Night
• Richard Hawley
  Standing at the Sky’s Edge
• Here We Go Magic
  A Different Ship
• Hot Chip
  In Our Heads
• Elton John Vs. Pnau
  Good Morning To The Night
• Josephine
  Portrait
• The Killers
  Battle Born
• Kindness
  World, You Need a Change of Mind
• Mark Lanegan Band
  Blues Funeral
• The Maccabees
  Given to the Wild
• Mala In Cuba
  Mala In Cuba
• Mumford & Sons
  Babel
• Muse
  The 2nd Law
• Frank Ocean
  Channel Orange
• Orbital
  Wonky
• Peaking Lights
  Lucifer
• Plan B
  Ill Manors
• Emeli Sande
  Our Version of Events
• Saint Etienne
  Words and Music by Saint Etienne
• School Of Seven Bells
  Ghostory
• Bruce Springsteen
  Wrecking Ball
• Tame Impala
  Lonerism
• Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
  Trouble
• The Vaccines
  Come of Age
• Sharon Van Etten
  Tramp
• Walkmen
  Heaven
• Jessie Ware
  Devotion
• Paul Weller
  Sonik Kicks
• Jack White
  Blunderbuss
• Bobby Womack
  The Bravest Man in the Universe