Q: 50 Best Albums of 2012
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Q Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2012 (alphabetical)
- 2 Bears – Be Strong
- Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
- ∆ (Alt-J) – An Awesome Wave
- Paul Banks – Banks
- Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man
- Beach House – Bloom
- Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
- David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant
- Cat Power – Sun
- Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
- Daphni – Jiaolong
- Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
- Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
- Django Django – Django Django
- Bob Dylan – Tempest
- EL-P – Cancer4Cure
- Field Music – Plumb
- Go-Kart Mozart – On The Hot Dog Streets
- Grimes – Visions
- Grizzly Bear – Shields
- Ren Harvieu – Through The Night
- Richard Hawley – Standing At The Sky’s Edge
- Here We Go Magic – A Different Ship
- Hot Chip – In Our Heads
- Elton John Vs. Pnau – Good Morning To The Night
- Josephine – Portrait
- The Killers – Battle Born
- Kindness – World, You Need A Change Of Mind
- Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral
- The Maccabees – Given To The Wild
- Mala In Cuba – Mala In Cuba
- Mumford & Sons – Babel
- Muse – The 2nd Law
- Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
- Orbital – Wonky
- Peaking Lights – Lucifer
- Plan B – Ill Manors
- Emeli Sande – Our Version Of Events
- Saint Etienne – Words And Music By Saint Etienne
- School Of Seven Bells – Ghostory
- Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
- Tame Impala – Lonerism
- Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Trouble
- The Vaccines – Come Of Age
- Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
- The Walkmen – Heaven
- Jessie Ware – Devotion
- Paul Weller – Sonik Kicks
- Jack White – Blunderbuss
- Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In The Universe