Year-End Lists

Piccadilly Records: Top 100 Albums of 2012

[see also 2011]

1. World Music
   Goat
2. The Lion’s Roar
   First Aid Kit
3. White Manna
   White Manna
4. Django Django
   Django Django
5. Blood Speaks
   Smoke Fairies
6. Circles
   Moon Duo
7. Kill for Love
   Chromatics
8. Tramp
   Sharon Van Etten
9. Shields
   Grizzly Bear
10. Manifest!
    Friends
11. Toy
    Toy
12. Standing at the Sky’s Edge
    Richard Hawley
13. Endless Flowers
    Crocodiles
14. And Never Ending Nights
    Loops Of Your Heart
15. Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
    Spiritualized
16. Icon Give Thank
    The Congos / Sun Araw / M. Geddes Gengras
17. Visions
    Grimes
18. Lucifer
    Peaking Lights
19. There Are Witches In The Woods
    Pretty Lightning
20. ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
21. Until the Quiet Comes
    Flying Lotus
22. Kingdoms
    Fort Romeau
23. Between the Times and the Tides
    Lee Ranaldo
24. Putrifiers II
    Thee Oh Sees
25. The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour
    Shackleton
26. An Awesome Wave
    alt-J
27. Awe Naturale
    THEESatisfaction
28. Pre Language
    Disappears
29. Lonerism
    Tame Impala
30. Coexist
    The xx
31. The Return Of Love
    Woolfy Vs Projections
32. RIP
    Actress
33. Zeros
    The Soft Moon
34. Living In Patterns
    Pollyn
35. Heavy Electrics
    Eat Lights Become Lights
36. Nocturne
    Wild Nothing
37. Tarnished Gold
    Beachwood Sparks
38. The Seer
    Swans
39. Plumb
    Field Music
40. Blunderbuss
    Jack White
41. Life is People
    Bill Fay
42. Electric Sound Of Summer
    Füxa
43. Boys & Girls
    Alabama Shakes
44. Sun
    Cat Power
45. Aqua Disco
    Seahawks
46. Will Happiness Find Me?
    Maria Minerva
47. Oh No I Love You
    Tim Burgess
48. Bloom
    Beach House
49. Into The Diamond Sun
    Stealing Sheep
50. Key To The Kuffs
    JJ DOOM
51. Blues Funeral
    Mark Lanegan Band
52. Strange Weekend
    Porcelain Raft
53. Oshin
    DIIV
54. Electric Cables
    Lightships
55. The Savage Heart
    The Jim Jones Revue
56. Mature Themes
    Ariel Pink
57. Total Loss
    How to Dress Well
58. Jiaolong
    Daphni
59. Three
    Flavor Crystals
60. Photos Of Photos
    Carlton Melton
61. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors
62. Holograms
    Holograms
63. A Wasteland Companion
    M. Ward
64. The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
    The Flaming Lips
65. Port of Morrow
    The Shins
66. Give You the Ghost
    Poliça
67. A World Out Of Time
    Eternal Tapestry
68. Ultraísta – Bonus Disc Edition
    Ultraísta
69. Themes For An Imaginary Film
    Symmetry
70. Total Dust
    Dusted
71. The Echo Show
    Yeti Lane
72. Mungodelics
    Mungolian Jetset
73. Temporary Happiness
    Mock & Toof
74. Tosta Mista
    Hooded Fang
75. The Inner Treaty
    Sun Araw
76. Interstellar
    Frankie Rose
77. Advaitic Songs
    OM
78. Centipede Hz
    Animal Collective
79. Held
    Holy Other
80. Frying On This Rock
    White Hills
81. Good Music
    Colorama
82. Black Music
    Dark Horses
83. Cancer 4 Cure
    El-P
84. One Second of Love
    Nite Jewel
85. Metz
    Metz
86. Presents In Motion #1
    The Cinematic Orchestra
87. Smalhans
    Lindstrøm
88. The Bravest Man in the Universe
    Bobby Womack
89. Breakthrough
    The Gaslamp Killer
90. Algiers
    Calexico
91. Slaughterhouse
    Ty Segall Band
92. Sweet Lights
    Sweet Lights
93. The Orbserver in the Star House
    The Orb Featuring Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
94. Valtari
    Sigur Rós
95. Survival & Resistance
    Adrian Sherwood
96. In Ghostlike Fading
    My Best Fiend
97. Born to Die
    Lana Del Rey
98. Quarantine
    Laurel Halo
99. Fin
    John Talabot
100. Lay Hollow
     Howse