Year-End Lists

musicOMH: Top 100 Albums of 2012

[see also 2011]

1. Channel Orange
   Frank Ocean
2. Lonerism
   Tame Impala
3. Beams
   Matthew Dear
4. Kill for Love
   Chromatics
5. Blondes
   Blondes
6. fIN
   John Talabot
7. Oshin
   DIIV
8. Wixiw
   Liars
9. Transverse
   Carter Tutti Void
10. SSSS
    VCMG
11. Portico Quartet
    Portico Quartet
12. Young Man in America
    Anaïs Mitchell
13. Love this Giant
    David Byrne & St. Vincent
14. One Day I’m Going to Soar
    Dexys
15. Wrecking Ball
    Bruce Springsteen
16. TOY
    TOY
17. Palindrome Hunches
    Neil Halstead
18. Plumb
    Field Music
19. Make Me Believe in Hope
    Bright Light Bright Light
20. Give You the Ghost
    Poliça
21. Blunderbuss
    Jack White
22. Tarnished Gold
    Beachwood Sparks
23. Until the Quiet Comes
    Flying Lotus
24. Visions
    Grimes
25. Tramp
    Sharon Van Etten
26. An Awesome Wave
    alt-J
27. Ekstasis
    Julia Holter
28. Crown And Treaty
    Sweet Billy Pilgrim
29. My God Is Blue
    Sébastien Tellier
30. Rispah
    The Invisible
31. Six Cups of Rebel
    Lindstrøm
32. Devotion
    Jessie Ware
33. Put Your Back N 2 It
    Perfume Genius
34. This Is PiL
    Public Image Ltd.
35. The Seer
    Swans
36. Bloom
    Beach House
37. Sun
    Cat Power
38. The Lion’s Roar
    First Aid Kit
39. Playin’ Me
    Cooly G
40. The Haunted Man
    Bat for Lashes
41. Ground Of Its Own
    Sam Lee
42. The Silicone Veil
    Susanne Sundfør
43. Music for the Quiet Hour
    Shackleton
44. Words and Music by Saint Etienne
    Saint Etienne
45. RIP
    Actress
46. Other People’s Problems
    Breton
47. Ten Freedom Summers
    Wadada Leo Smith
48. America
    Dan Deacon
49. ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
50. 2:54
    2:54
51. In A Dim Light
    Nedry
52. Toward the Low Sun
    Dirty Three
53. Heaven
    Walkmen
54. Into The Diamond Sun
    Richard Hawley
55. Into The Diamond Sun
    Stealing Sheep
56. Mid Air
    Paul Buchanan
57. Isle Of Dogs
    Tigercats
58. Race The Loser
    Lau
59. Old Ideas
    Leonard Cohen
60. Nude
    The Irrepressibles
61. Europe
    Allo Darlin’
62. Awe Naturale
    THEESatisfaction
63. The Bravest Man in the Universe
    Bobby Womack
64. Shields
    Grizzly Bear
65. Everything Touching
    Tall Ships
66. Among the Leaves
    Sun Kil Moon
67. Koïma
    Sidi Touré
68. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors
69. The Money Store
    Death Grips
70. Paszport
    Katy Carr
71. Fear Fun
    Father John Misty
72. The Violence
    Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament
73. Confess
    Twin Shadow
74. Bouger Le Monde!
    Staff Benda Bilili
75. In Our Heads
    Hot Chip
76. Coexist
    The xx
77. The Something Rain
    Tindersticks
78. Django Django
    Django Django
79. good kid, m.A.A.d city
    Kendrick Lamar
80. Locked Down
    Dr. John
81. The Light The Dead See
    Soulsavers
82. World Music
    Goat
83. Accelerando
    Vijay Iyer Trio
84. Total Loss
    How to Dress Well
85. DROKK
    Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury
86. We’ll Be The Moon
    Fixers
87. Oh No I Love You
    Tim Burgess
88. Warato’o
    Narasirato
89. Steam Days
    Nathan Fake
90. 1982 + BJ Cole
    1982 + BJ Cole
91. Narrow
    Soap & Skin
92. Mad Love
    Cheval Sombre
93. The Plot Against Common Sense
    Future of the Left
94. Quarantine
    Laurel Halo
95. The Cherry Thing
    Neneh Cherry & the Thing
96. Algiers
    Calexico
97. Banks
    Paul Banks
98. Apnea
    O. Children
99. A+E
    Graham Coxon
100. World, You Need a Change of Mind
     Kindness