Year-End Lists

Kitty Empire: 10 Best Pop Albums of 2012 (as published by The Observer, in no particular order)

• The xx – Coexist
• Dirty Three – Toward the Low Sun
• The 2 Bears – Be Strong
• Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
• Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
• Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
• Jack White – Blunderbuss
• Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
• Plan B – Ill Manors
• Grizzly Bear – Shields