Death and Taxes: 25 Best Albums of 2012 (in no particular order)
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Burial — Kindred
- Lambchop — Mister M
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Grimes — Visions
- Brother Ali — Mourning in America
- Andrew Bird — Break It Yourself
- Norah Jones — Little Broken Hearts
- Rone — Tohu Bohu
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Japandroids — Celebration Rock
- Sam Willis — Winterval
- Matthew E. White — Big Inner
- Hot Chip — In Our Heads
- Action Bronson — Blue Chips
- Beach House — Bloom
- Makeup & Vanity Set — 88:88
- Wild Nothing — Nocturne
- Minotaur Shock — Orchard
- Death Grips — The Money Store
- Squarepusher — Ufabulum
- Azari & III — Azari & III
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — The Heist
- DIIV — Oshin
- Sophia Knapp — Into The Waves