Year-End Lists

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Top 25 Albums of 2012 BBC Music

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50 Favorite Albums of 2012 NPR Music

Books

10 Best Books of 2012 Publishers Weekly

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Kaleidoscope Dream - Miguel

10 Best New Albums of 2012 Idolator

Music
The Idler Wheel… - Fiona Apple

50 Best Albums of 2012 Spinner

Movies

10 Best Movies of 2012 Time: Richard Corliss

Movies
Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow

30+ Best Movies of 2012 HuffPost

Music

50 Best Albums of 2012 Fact

Music

Top 25 Albums of 2012 Magnet

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Lonerism - Tame Impala

Top 40 Albums of 2012 Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis

Music
Channel Orange - Frank Ocean

Top 10 Albums of 2012 Sound Opinions: Greg Kot

Movies
Cosmopolis - David Cronenberg

Top 10 Films of 2012 Artforum: Amy Taubin

Music
The Idler Wheel… - Fiona Apple

Top 10 Albums of 2012 Time: Douglas Wolk

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All We Love We Leave Behind - Converge

Top 40 Albums of 2012 Decibel

Music
The Idler Wheel… - Fiona Apple

Top 50 Albums of 2012 Stereogum

Music
Quarantine - Laurel Halo

Top 50 Albums of 2012 The Wire

Music
Blak and Blu - Gary Clark Jr.

Top 10 Albums of 2012 KCRW: Jason Bentley

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Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen

Top 50 Albums of 2012 Rolling Stone

Music
The Seer - Swans

100 Favourite Albums of 2012 Drowned in Sound

Music
Lonerism - Tame Impala

Top 20 Albums of 2012 Filter

Music
Lonerism - Tame Impala

Top 50 Albums of 2012 FasterLouder

Music
Channel Orange - Frank Ocean

50 Best Albums of 2012 Spin

Music

50 Best Albums of 2012 Gorilla vs. Bear

Books

Top 10 Books of 2012 New York: Kathryn Schulz

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