Year-End Lists

Austin Town Hall: Top 100 Albums of 2012

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2011]

1. Killing Time
   Terry Malts
2. Attack on Memory
   Cloud Nothings
3. Freak Waves
   Sea Pinks
4. There’s No Leaving Now
   The Tallest Man on Earth
5. Leaving Atlanta
   Gentleman Jesse & His Men
6. You Love It Here
   I Was a King
7. Heaven
   Walkmen
8. All Blackshirts to Me
   Cats on Fire
9. Shields
   Grizzly Bear
10. Confess
    Twin Shadow
11. Radlands
    Mystery Jets
12. Open Your Heart
    The Men
13. Royal Headache
    Royal Headache
14. Bend Beyond
    Woods
15. Internal Logic
    Grass Widow
16. Bloom
    Beach House
17. Out of Sight, Out of Town
    Standard Fare
18. Hairdresser Blues
    Hunx
19. Nocturne
    Wild Nothing
20. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors
21. Long Slow Dance
    The Fresh & Onlys
22. Kill for Love
    Chromatics
23. Lonerism
    Tame Impala
24. Correct Behavior
    Eternal Summers
25. Tramp
    Sharon Van Etten
26. Arab Spring
    Literature
27. Ruler of the Night
    Magic Trick
28. Everybody’s Got It Easy But Me
    The Intelligence
29. Bad Expectations
    Punks On Mars
30. II
    Nude Beach
31. Moth
    Exlovers
32. Love Will Prevail
    Cult of Youth
33. Interstellar
    Frankie Rose
34. Oshin
    DIIV
35. A Different Arrangement
    Black Marble
36. Untogether
    Letting Up Despite Great Faults
37. Home
    The Bankees
38. I Love You, It’s Cool
    Bear In Heaven
39. Putrifiers II
    Thee Oh Sees
40. 2
    Mac DeMarco
41. Plateaus
    Plateaus
42. On a Bedroom Wall
    Still Flyin
43. Stray Ashes
    JBM
44. Hands of Glory
    Andrew Bird
45. Mature Themes
    Ariel Pink
46. Deep Time
    Deep Time
47. Television Youth
    Sonic Avenues
48. Plumb
    Field Music
49. (III)
    Crystal Castles
50. Mixed Emotions
    Tanlines
51. Hospitality
    Hospitality
52. Valentina
    The Wedding Present
53. OBN IIIs
    OBN IIIs
54. Sun
    Cat Power
55. I Know What Love Isn’t
    Jens Lekman
56. Long Black Cars
    The Wave Pictures
57. Two Wounded Birds
    Two Wounded Birds
58. Coexist
    The xx
59. The Haunted Man
    Bat for Lashes
60. In Our Heads
    Hot Chip
61. Holograms
    Holograms
62. The Ghost in Daylight
    Gravenhurst
63. The Clearing
    Bowerbirds
64. Ugly
    Screaming Females
65. The Nature of Things
    The Daredevil Christopher Wright
66. Make a Mess of Sacred Ground
    We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves
67. Meltdown
    Mind Spiders
68. Summer Bodies
    Dana Buoy
69. All of Us Together
    Teen Daze
70. Europe
    Allo Darlin’
71. Shut Down the Streets
    A.C. Newman
72. A Date With You
    Grape Street
73. WWIII
    White Wires
74. Sees the Light
    La Sera
75. Dry Land is Not a Myth
    White Arrows
76. Winter Garden Light
    Dot Dash
77. All Gone
    Pop Singles
78. Plague
    The Eastern Sea
79. Four Girls
    Woolen Kits
80. King Tuff
    King Tuff
81. Hard in Heaven
    Natural Child
82. Evans the Death
    Evans the Death
83. Slaughterhouse
    Ty Segall Band
84. Arrivals & Departures
    The Calm Blue Sea
85. Our House on the Hill
    The Babies
86. Light Up Gold
    Parquet Courts
87. Local Business
    Titus Andronicus
88. Land Grab
    Unnatural Helpers
89. Pinata
    Volcano
90. The Memories
    The Memories
91. Tarnished Gold
    Beachwood Sparks
92. All Hell
    Daughn Gibson
93. Stoned and Alone
    The Pharmacy
94. Life Less Ordinary
    Big Wave Riders
95. Warm Nothing
    So Many Wizards
96. Endless Flowers
    Crocodiles
97. Metz
    Metz
98. Voyeur
    Saint Motel
99. Wild Quiet
    Junk Culture
100. The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness
     Lace Curtains