Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2012

1. Laurel Halo
   Quarantine
2. Sun Araw & M Geddes Gengras meet the Congos
   Icon Give Thank
3. Actress
   RIP
4. Jakob Ullmann
   Fremde Zeit Addendum
5. Jason Lescalleet
   Songs About Nothing
6. CC Hennix & The Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage
   Live at the Grimm Museum 1
7. Bob Dylan
   Tempest
8. Julia Holter
   Ekstasis
9. Carter Tutti Void
   Transverse
10. Ricardo Villalobos
    Dependent and Happy
11. Scott Walker
    Bish Bosch
12. Josephine Foster
    Blood Rushing
13. Fushitsusha
    Mabushii Itazura Na Inori
14. Haino/O’Rourke/Ambarchi
    Imikuzushi
15. Death Grips
    The Money Store
16. Emptyset
    Medium
17. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
    Black is Beautiful
18. Andy Stott
    Luxury Problems
19. V/A
    Wandelweiser und so Weiter
20. Morton Feldman
    Crippled Symmetry: At June in Buffalo
21. Richard Skelton
    Verse of Birds
22. The Bohman Brothers
    Back on the Streets
23. Kendrick Lamar
    good kid, m.A.A.d city
24. Michael Pisaro and Toshiya Tsunoda
    Crosshatches
25. Bass Clef
    Reeling Skullways
26. Aaron Dilloway
    Modern Jester
27. Killer Mike
    R.A.P. Music
28. Shackleton
    The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour
29. Rhodri Davies
    Wound Response
30. Ariel Pink
    Mature Themes
31. Wadada Leo Smith
    Ten Freedom Summers
32. Thomas Koner
    Novaya Zemlya
33. Annea Lockwood
    In our Name
34. Earth
    Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
35. Lee Gamble
    Diversions 1994-1996
36. Heatsick
    Deviation
37. Duane Pitre
    Feel Free
38. Raime
    Quarter Turns over a Living Line
39. Swans
    The Seer
40. Mark Ernestus Presents Jeri-Jeri with Mbene Diatta Seck
    Mbeuguel Dafa Nekh
41. Cooly G
    Playin’ Me
42. Traxman
    Da Mind of Traxman
43. DJ Rashad
    Teklife Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi
44. Charles Gayle Trio
    Streets
45. Frank Ocean
    Channel Orange
46. Pye Corner Audio
    Sleep Games
47. Peter Cusack
    Sounds from Dangerous Places
48. Pelt
    Effigy
49. DVA
    Pretty Ugly
50. Brotzmann/Satoh/Moriyama
    Yatagarasu