Year-End Lists

Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2012

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Until the Quiet Comes
   Flying Lotus
2. Kill for Love
   Chromatics
3. Luxury Problems
   Andy Stott
4. Channel Orange
   Frank Ocean
5. Lonerism
   Tame Impala
6. I Know What Love Isn’t
   Jens Lekman
7. good kid, m.A.A.d city
   Kendrick Lamar
8. Total Loss
   How to Dress Well
9. Ekstasis
   Julia Holter
10. The Seer
    Swans
11. Ocean Roar
    Mount Eerie
11. Clear Moon
    Mount Eerie
12. A Church That Fits Our Needs
    Lost In The Trees
13. Twins
    Ty Segall
14. fIN
    John Talabot
15. Put Your Back N 2 It
    Perfume Genius
16. Open Your Heart
    The Men
17. Motion Sickness of Time Travel
    Motion Sickness of Time Travel
18. Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
    Spiritualized
19. Echoes of Silence
    The Weeknd
20. 2
    Mac DeMarco
21. Shrines
    Purity Ring
22. Slaughterhouse
    Ty Segall Band
23. R.A.P. Music
    Killer Mike
24. Sorrow and Extinction
    Pallbearer
25. Bloom
    Beach House
26. ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
27. Children of Desire
    Merchandise
28. Sundowning
    Nü Sensae
29. Held
    Holy Other
30. Oshin
    DIIV
31. The Idler Wheel…
    Fiona Apple
32. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
33. Coexist
    The xx
34. Cancer 4 Cure
    El-P
35. The Haunted Man
    Bat for Lashes
36. Devotion
    Jessie Ware
37. Centipede Hz
    Animal Collective
38. Keepers of the Light
    LHF
39. Mr. M
    Lambchop
40. Habits & Contradictions
    Schoolboy Q
41. Hive Mind
    Ital
42. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors
43. Attack on Memory
    Cloud Nothings
44. America
    Dan Deacon
45. Blue Chips
    Action Bronson
46. The Money Store
    Death Grips
47. Voices from the Lake
    Voices From The Lake
48. Tramp
    Sharon Van Etten
49. Family Perfume Vol. 1 & 2
    White Fence
50. Galaxy Garden
    Lone