Year-End Lists

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2012 (an annual poll of critics, published by The Village Voice)

1. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
2. Kendrick Lamar
   good kid, m.A.A.d city
3. Fiona Apple
   The Idler Wheel…
4. Japandroids
   Celebration Rock
5. Miguel
   Kaleidoscope Dream
6. Tame Impala
   Lonerism
7. Swans
   The Seer
8. Killer Mike
   R.A.P. Music
9. Grimes
   Visions
10. Beach House
    Bloom
11. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
12. Jack White
    Blunderbuss
13. Cloud Nothings
    Attack on Memory
14. Father John Misty
    Fear Fun
15. Bruce Springsteen
    Wrecking Ball
16. Bob Dylan
    Tempest
17. Taylor Swift
    Red
18. Future
    Pluto
19. Alabama Shakes
    Boys & Girls
20. Sharon Van Etten
    Tramp
21. Dr. John
    Locked Down
22. Leonard Cohen
    Old Ideas
23. Cat Power
    Sun
24. Baroness
    Yellow & Green
25. Scott Walker
    Bish Bosch
26. El-P
    Cancer 4 Cure
27. Grizzly Bear
    Shields
28. Chromatics
    Kill for Love
29. Andy Stott
    Luxury Problems
30. Jessie Ware
    Devotion
31. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
    Psychedelic Pill
32. Loudon Wainwright III
    Older Than My Old Man Now
33. The Mountain Goats
    Transcendental Youth
34. Spiritualized
    Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
35. Bat for Lashes
    The Haunted Man
36. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
37. Julia Holter
    Ekstasis
38. Hot Chip
    In Our Heads
39. Carly Rae Jepsen
    Kiss
40. Todd Snider
    Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
41. fun.
    Some Nights
42. Bob Mould
    Silver Age
43. Converge
    All We Love We Leave Behind
44. Kelly Hogan
    I Like to Keep Myself in Pain
45. Death Grips
    The Money Store
46. Purity Ring
    Shrines
47. Nada Surf
    The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
48. Iris DeMent
    Sing the Delta
49. The xx
    Coexist
50. The Men
    Open Your Heart
51. Jens Lekman
    I Know What Love Isn’t
52. Titus Andronicus
    Local Business
53. Goat
    World Music
54. Lana Del Rey
    Born to Die
55. Allo Darlin’
    Europe
56. Metz
    Metz
57. Neneh Cherry & the Thing
    The Cherry Thing
58. Pallbearer
    Sorrow and Extinction
59. Burial
    Kindred
60. Sleigh Bells
    Reign of Terror
61. Ariel Pink
    Mature Themes
62. Nas
    Life Is Good
63. Robert Glasper Experiment
    Black Radio
64. Flying Lotus
    Until the Quiet Comes
65. Laurel Halo
    Quarantine
66. Liars
    Wixiw
67. Divine Fits
    A Thing Called Divine Fits
68. Action Bronson & Party Supplies
    Blue Chips
69. Redd Kross
    Researching the Blues
70. Actress
    R.I.P.
71. King Tuff
    King Tuff
72. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
    Black is Beautiful
73. Lambchop
    Mr. M
74. Walkmen
    Heaven
75. The Coup
    Sorry to Bother You
76. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
    Americana
77. First Aid Kit
    The Lion’s Roar
78. Twin Shadow
    Confess
79. Avett Brothers
    The Carpenter
80. Rush
    Clockwork Angels
81. Vijay Iyer
    Accelerando
82. Dinosaur Jr.
    I Bet on Sky
83. David Byrne & St. Vincent
    Love this Giant
84. Santigold
    Master of My Make-Believe
85. Le1f
    Dark York
86. Elle Varner
    Perfectly Imperfect
87. Can
    The Lost Tapes
88. Saint Etienne
    Words and Music by Saint Etienne
89. Ke$ha
    Warrior
90. Donald Fagen
    Sunken Condos
91. THEESatisfaction
    Awe Naturale
92. Ty Segall
    Twins
93. Dwight Yoakam
    3 Pears
94. Patti Smith
    Banga
95. Matthew E. White
    Big Inner
96. Nicki Minaj
    Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
97. Best Coast
    The Only Place
98. Kathleen Edwards
    Voyageur
99. J.D. McPherson
    Signs & Signifiers
100. The dB’s
     Falling Off the Sky