Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2012
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Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2012
- Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – Amazon
- Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
- Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
- Tame Impala – Lonerism
- Swans – The Seer
- Grimes – Visions
- Beach House – Bloom
- Chromatics – Kill for Love
- Death Grips – The Money Store
- Grizzly Bear – Shields
- Japandroids – Celebration Rock
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
- Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
- Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
- Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
- Burial – Kindred EP
- Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
- Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse
- [tie] Ty Segall and White Hair – Hair
- Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
- Jessie Ware – Devotion
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
- Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes
- Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
- Purity Ring – Shrines
- Schoolboy Q – Habits & Contradictions
- Julia Holter – Ekstasis
- John Talabot – fIN
- How to Dress Well – Total Loss
- Cat Power – Sun
- The Men – Open Your Heart
- Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
- Action Bronson – Blue Chips
- Actress – R.I.P.
- Chairlift – Something
- TNGHT – TNGHT EP
- Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
- Future – Pluto
- Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
- Hot Chip – In Our Heads
- DIIV – Oshin
- Dum Dum Girls – End of Daze EP
- Rick Ross – Rich Forever
- Mac DeMarco – 2
- Metz – Metz
- El-P – Cancer 4 Cure
- Rustie – Essential Mix
- Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction
- Peaking Lights – Lucifer
- Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles [III]
- Lambchop – Mr. M