Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2012
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]
- Fiona Apple — The Idler Wheel…
- Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
- Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Tame Impala — Lonerism
- Japandroids — Celebration Rock
- Grizzly Bear — Shields
- Chromatics — Kill for Love
- Grimes — Visions
- Purity Ring — Shrines
- Dan Deacon — America
- Walkmen — Heaven
- Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes
- Jack White — Blunderbuss
- Jessie Ware — Devotion
- Beach House — Bloom
- Killer Mike — R.A.P. Music
- Lower Dens — Nootropics
- Spiritualized — Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
- Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
- El-P — Cancer 4 Cure
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor — ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
- Twin Shadow — Confess
- Death Grips — The Money Store
- Sharon Van Etten — Tramp
- The xx — Coexist
- THEESatisfaction — Awe Naturale
- The Men — Open Your Heart
- David Byrne & St. Vincent — Love this Giant
- Father John Misty — Fear Fun
- Bat for Lashes — The Haunted Man
- Miguel — Kaleidoscope Dream
- Bob Dylan — Tempest
- Cloud Nothings — Attack on Memory
- Lotus Plaza — Spooky Action at a Distance
- DIIV — Oshin
- Alabama Shakes — Boys & Girls
- Niki & The Dove — Instinct
- Divine Fits — A Thing Called Divine Fits
- Animal Collective — Centipede Hz
- Naomi Punk — The Feeling
- Dr. Dog — Be the Void
- Ty Segall Band — Slaughterhouse
- Schoolboy Q — Habits & Contradictions
- How to Dress Well — Total Loss
- Peaking Lights — Lucifer
- The Shins — Port of Morrow
- alt-J — An Awesome Wave
- Chairlift — Something
- Liars — Wixiw
- John Talabot — fIN
- Cat Power — Sun
- Swans — The Seer
- Poliça — Give You the Ghost
- iamamiwhoami — kin
- Metz — Metz
- Zammuto — Zammuto
- Hot Chip — In Our Heads
- Ab-Soul — Control System
- Porcelain Raft — Strange Weekend
- Perfume Genius — Put Your Back N 2 It