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Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2012

02 January 2013

Until the Quiet Comes - Flying Lotus

Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2012

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  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
  12. Clear Moon
    Mount Eerie
  13. A Church That Fits Our Needs
    Lost In The Trees
  14. Twins
    Ty Segall
  15. fIN
    John Talabot
  16. Put Your Back N 2 It
    Perfume Genius
  17. Open Your Heart
    The Men
  18. Motion Sickness of Time Travel
    Motion Sickness of Time Travel
  19. Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
    Spiritualized
  20. Echoes of Silence
    The Weeknd
  21. 2
    Mac DeMarco
  22. Shrines
    Purity Ring
  23. Slaughterhouse
    Ty Segall Band
  24. R.A.P. Music
    Killer Mike
  25. Sorrow and Extinction
    Pallbearer
  26. Bloom
    Beach House
  27. ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  28. Children of Desire
    Merchandise
  29. Sundowning
    Nü Sensae
  30. Held
    Holy Other
  31. Oshin
    DIIV
  32. The Idler Wheel…
    Fiona Apple
  33. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
  34. Coexist
    The xx
  35. Cancer 4 Cure
    El-P
  36. The Haunted Man
    Bat for Lashes
  37. Devotion
    Jessie Ware
  38. Centipede Hz
    Animal Collective
  39. Keepers of the Light
    LHF
  40. Mr. M
    Lambchop
  41. Habits & Contradictions
    Schoolboy Q
  42. Hive Mind
    Ital
  43. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors
  44. Attack on Memory
    Cloud Nothings
  45. America
    Dan Deacon
  46. Blue Chips
    Action Bronson
  47. The Money Store
    Death Grips
  48. Voices from the Lake
    Voices From The Lake
  49. Tramp
    Sharon Van Etten
  50. Family Perfume Vol. 1 & 2
    White Fence
  51. Galaxy Garden
    Lone

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