Year-End Lists

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Top 50 Albums of 2013 Les Inrocks

60 Best Albums of 2012 Pretty Much Amazing

Top 50 Albums of 2012 Frontier Psychiatrist

Top 102 Albums of 2012 Barnes & Noble Review: Robert Christgau

Top 100 Albums of 2012 Pazz & Jop

10 Best Albums of 2012 MSN

Top 25 Albums of 2012 Engine 145

Top 20 Albums of 2012 Source

20 Favorite Albums of 2012 Dennis Cooper

Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall

10 Best Albums of 2012 Billboard

Top 50 Albums of 2012 Beats Per Minute

Top 50 Albums of 2012 WUOG

25 Best Albums of 2012 Death and Taxes

40 Best Albums of 2012 New Yorker: Sasha Frere-Jones

50 Best Albums of 2012 AllMusic

10 Best Pop Albums of 2012 Observer: Kitty Empire

Top 50 Albums of 2012 Cokemachineglow

Top 50 Albums of 2012 Pitchfork

20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine

50 Best Albums of 2012 Complex

Favorite 50 Albums of 2012 Tiny Mix Tapes

Top 50 Albums of 2012 American Songwriter

Top 40 Albums of 2012 Clash

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.