Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2012
- Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
- Chromatics — Kill for Love
- Andy Stott — Luxury Problems
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Jens Lekman — I Know What Love Isn’t
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- How to Dress Well — Total Loss
- Julia Holter — Ekstasis
- Swans — The Seer
- Mount Eerie — Ocean Roar
- Mount Eerie — Clear Moon
- Lost In The Trees — A Church That Fits Our Needs
- Ty Segall — Twins
- John Talabot — fIN
- Perfume Genius — Put Your Back N 2 It
- The Men — Open Your Heart
- Motion Sickness of Time Travel — Motion Sickness of Time Travel
- Spiritualized — Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
- The Weeknd — Echoes of Silence
- Mac DeMarco — 2
- Purity Ring — Shrines
- Ty Segall Band — Slaughterhouse
- Killer Mike — R.A.P. Music
- Pallbearer — Sorrow and Extinction
- Beach House — Bloom
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor — ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
- Merchandise — Children of Desire
- Nü Sensae — Sundowning
- Holy Other — Held
- DIIV — Oshin
- Fiona Apple — The Idler Wheel…
- Japandroids — Celebration Rock
- The xx — Coexist
- El-P — Cancer 4 Cure
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Jessie Ware — Devotion
- Animal Collective — Centipede Hz
- LHF — Keepers of the Light
- Lambchop — Mr. M
- Schoolboy Q — Habits & Contradictions
- Ital — Hive Mind
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
- Cloud Nothings — Attack on Memory
- Dan Deacon — America
- Action Bronson — Blue Chips
- Death Grips — The Money Store
- Voices From The Lake — Voices from the Lake
- Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
- White Fence — Family Perfume Vol. 1 & 2
- Lone — Galaxy Garden