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2012 Music

Fly: Top 50 Albums of 2012

02 December 2012

Tramp - Sharon Van Etten

The Fly: Top 50 Albums of 2012

[see also 2011]

  1. Tramp
    Sharon Van Etten
  2. Visions
    Grimes
  3. Channel Orange
    Frank Ocean
  4. Sun
    Cat Power
  5. Devotion
    Jessie Ware
  6. Django Django
    Django Django
  7. Plumb
    Field Music
  8. World, You Need a Change of Mind
    Kindness
  9. Given to the Wild
    The Maccabees
  10. Lonerism
    Tame Impala
  11. Born to Die
    Lana Del Rey
  12. An Awesome Wave
    alt-J
  13. Shields
    Grizzly Bear
  14. Mature Themes
    Ariel Pink
  15. Shrines
    Purity Ring
  16. Come of Age
    The Vaccines
  17. Coexist
    The xx
  18. Beard, Wives, Denim
    Pond
  19. Oshin
    DIIV
  20. King Tuff
    King Tuff
  21. In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
    The Cribs
  22. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors
  23. Confess
    Twin Shadow
  24. All Hell
    Daughn Gibson
  25. Melody’s Echo Chamber
    Melody’s Echo Chamber
  26. The Haunted Man
    Bat for Lashes
  27. Something
    Chairlift
  28. TOY
    TOY
  29. Give You the Ghost
    Poliça
  30. A+E
    Graham Coxon
  31. A Different Ship
    Here We Go Magic
  32. Bloom
    Beach House
  33. Centipede Hz
    Animal Collective
  34. Love this Giant
    David Byrne & St. Vincent
  35. America Give Up
    Howler
  36. Wixiw
    Liars
  37. Rispah
    The Invisible
  38. The Only Place
    Best Coast
  39. Radlands
    Mystery Jets
  40. Allah-Las
    Allah-Lahs
  41. Beacon
    Two Door Cinema Club
  42. 119
    Trash Talk
  43. Tough Love
    Pulled Apart By Horses
  44. Into The Diamond Sun
    Stealing Sheep
  45. Have Some Faith in Magic
    Errors
  46. Good Don’t Sleep
    Egyptian Hip Hop
  47. 2:54
    2:54
  48. Spooky Action at a Distance
    Lotus Plaza
  49. Like I Used To
    Lucy Rose
  50. Ester
    Trailer Trash Tracy’s

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