Dennis Cooper: 20 Favorite Albums of 2012 (as numbered on Cooper’s site, but note that he precedes the list with “in no order”)
- Death Grips — No Love Deep Web
- Scott Walker — Bish Bosch
- Raime — Quarter
- Guided By Voices — The Bears for Lunch
- William Basinski — The Disintegration Loops
- Pinback — Information Retrieved
- Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
- Détective — However Strange
- New White Light — Bela Tarr 7-13
- Swans — The Seer
- Robert Pollard — Jack Sells the Cow
- Japandroids — Celebration Rock
- Grimes — Visions
- Spiritualized — Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
- Actress — R.I.P.
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Julia Holter — Ekstasis
- Los Angeles — 555/666/777
- El-P — Cancer 4 Cure
- Crystal Castles — III