Gigwise: 50 Albums of the 2012
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Gigwise: 50 Albums of the Year
- Twin Shadow – Confess
- Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
- ∆ (alt-j) – An Awesome Wave
- Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
- Sigur Rós – Valtari
- Best Coast – The Only Place
- The Skints – Part & Parcel
- The xx – Coexist
- Japandroids – Celebration Rock
- The Vaccines – The Vaccines Come of Age
- Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It
- Django Django – Django Django
- Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal
- Field Music – Plumb
- G.O.O.D. Music – Cruel Summer
- Cave Painting – Votive Life
- TOY – TOY
- Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
- Grimes – Visions
- Passion Pit – Gossamer
- Tame Impala – Lonerism
- Muse – The 2nd Law
- The Maccabees – Given to the Wild
- Bright Light Bright Light – Make Me Believe in Hope
- Purity Ring – Shrines
- Submotion Orchestra – Fragments
- Oberhofer – Time Capsules II
- Death Grips – The Money Store
- Cooly G – Playin’ Me
- Tribes – Baby
- Jessie Ware – Devotion
- Kindness – World, You Need a Change of Mind
- Grizzly Bear – Shields
- The Shins – Port of Morrow
- TNGHT – TNGHT EP
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
- The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
- Darren Hayman – Lido
- Santigold – Master of My Make-Believe
- Ellie Goulding – Halcyon
- Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
- Lana Del Rey – Born to Die
- Portico Quartet – Portico Quartet
- Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
- Mumford & Sons – Babel
- The featuring Lee “Scratch” Perry Orb – The Orbserver in the Star House
- Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
- Clams Casino – Instrumental Mixtape 2
- Miike Snow – Happy to You
- Jack White – Blunderbuss