Year-End Lists

Q Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2012 (alphabetical)

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• Be Strong
  The 2 Bears
• Boys & Girls
  Alabama Shakes
• An Awesome Wave
  alt-J
• Banks
  Paul Banks
• The Haunted Man
  Bat for Lashes
• Bloom
  Beach House
• Jake Bugg
  Jake Bugg
• Love this Giant
  David Byrne & St. Vincent
• Sun
  Cat Power
• Old Ideas
  Leonard Cohen
• Jiaolong
  Daphni
• Born to Die
  Lana Del Rey
• Swing Lo Magellan
  Dirty Projectors
• Django Django
  Django Django
• Tempest
  Bob Dylan
• Cancer 4 Cure
  El-P
• Plumb
  Field Music
• On The Hot Dog Streets
  Go-Kart Mozart
• Visions
  Grimes
• Shields
  Grizzly Bear
• Through The Night
  Ren Harvieu
• Standing at the Sky’s Edge
  Richard Hawley
• A Different Ship
  Here We Go Magic
• In Our Heads
  Hot Chip
• Good Morning To The Night
  Elton John Vs. Pnau
• Portrait
  Josephine
• Battle Born
  The Killers
• World, You Need a Change of Mind
  Kindness
• Blues Funeral
  Mark Lanegan Band
• Given to the Wild
  The Maccabees
• Mala In Cuba
  Mala In Cuba
• Babel
  Mumford & Sons
• The 2nd Law
  Muse
• Channel Orange
  Frank Ocean
• Wonky
  Orbital
• Lucifer
  Peaking Lights
• Ill Manors
  Plan B
• Our Version of Events
  Emeli Sande
• Words and Music by Saint Etienne
  Saint Etienne
• Ghostory
  School Of Seven Bells
• Wrecking Ball
  Bruce Springsteen
• Lonerism
  Tame Impala
• Trouble
  Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
• Come of Age
  The Vaccines
• Tramp
  Sharon Van Etten
• Heaven
  Walkmen
• Devotion
  Jessie Ware
• Sonik Kicks
  Paul Weller
• Blunderbuss
  Jack White
• The Bravest Man in the Universe
  Bobby Womack