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2012 Music

Spinner: 50 Best Albums of 2012

07 December 2012

The Idler Wheel… - Fiona Apple

Spinner: 50 Best Albums of 2012

  1. The Idler Wheel…
    Fiona Apple
  2. Channel Orange
    Frank Ocean
  3. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
  4. good kid, m.A.A.d city
    Kendrick Lamar
  5. Old Ideas
    Leonard Cohen
  6. A Thing Called Divine Fits
    Divine Fits
  7. Tramp
    Sharon Van Etten
  8. Boys & Girls
    Alabama Shakes
  9. Bloom
    Beach House
  10. Visions
    Grimes
  11. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors
  12. We Don’t Even Live Here
    P.O.S.
  13. Synthetica
    Metric
  14. Fear Fun
    Father John Misty
  15. Jiaolong
    Daphni
  16. Blunderbuss
    Jack White
  17. True
    Solange
  18. R.A.P. Music
    Killer Mike
  19. Ugly
    Screaming Females
  20. Silver Age
    Bob Mould
  21. Is Your Love Big Enough?
    Lianne La Havas
  22. United States of Being
    PUJOL
  23. Shrines
    Purity Ring
  24. Voyageur
    Kathleen Edwards
  25. Shields
    Grizzly Bear
  26. Attack on Memory
    Cloud Nothings
  27. Babel
    Mumford & Sons
  28. Habits & Contradictions
    Schoolboy Q
  29. Young and Old
    Tennis
  30. 2
    Mac DeMarco
  31. Post-Empire
    Will Stratton
  32. Coexist
    The xx
  33. Cancer 4 Cure
    El-P
  34. (III)
    Crystal Castles
  35. Give You the Ghost
    Poliça
  36. Kaleidoscope Dream
    Miguel
  37. Local Business
    Titus Andronicus
  38. Busting Visions
    Zeus
  39. Until the Quiet Comes
    Flying Lotus
  40. The North
    Stars
  41. Psychedelic Pill
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse
  42. Metal Moon
    Dirty Ghosts
  43. Heaven
    Walkmen
  44. Faithful Man
    Lee Fields
  45. Born to Die
    Lana Del Rey
  46. Pink
    Four Tet
  47. Lex Hives
    The Hives
  48. Lonerism
    Tame Impala
  49. Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
    Murder by Death
  50. The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
    The Flaming Lips

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