Year-End Lists

Treble: Top 50 Albums of 2012

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1. Channel Orange
   Frank Ocean
2. Kill for Love
   Chromatics
3. Lonerism
   Tame Impala
4. Bloom
   Beach House
5. The Idler Wheel…
   Fiona Apple
6. All We Love We Leave Behind
   Converge
7. Shields
   Grizzly Bear
8. Visions
   Grimes
9. R.A.P. Music
   Killer Mike
10. good kid, m.A.A.d city
    Kendrick Lamar
11. Until the Quiet Comes
    Flying Lotus
12. The Seer
    Swans
13. Attack on Memory
    Cloud Nothings
14. Interstellar
    Frankie Rose
15. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
16. Yellow & Green
    Baroness
17. Coexist
    The xx
18. The Money Store
    Death Grips
19. Luxury Problems
    Andy Stott
20. Confess
    Twin Shadow
21. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors
22. Cancer 4 Cure
    El-P
23. The Haunted Man
    Bat for Lashes
24. Kaleidoscope Dream
    Miguel
25. Harmonicraft
    Torche
26. R.I.P.
    Actress
27. Mature Themes
    Ariel Pink
28. Ekstasis
    Julia Holter
29. Sun
    Cat Power
30. Put Your Back N 2 It
    Perfume Genius
31. Gossamer
    Passion Pit
32. Reign of Terror
    Sleigh Bells
33. Spooky Action at a Distance
    Lotus Plaza
34. Open Your Heart
    The Men
35. fIN
    John Talabot
36. Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
    Spiritualized
37. 2
    Mac DeMarco
38. Ocean Roar
    Mount Eerie
39. ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
40. Book Burner
    Pig Destroyer
41. Shrines
    Purity Ring
42. Pink
    Four Tet
43. Devotion
    Jessie Ware
44. Kindred
    Burial
45. I Know What Love Isn’t
    Jens Lekman
46. Slaughterhouse
    Ty Segall Band
47. Melody’s Echo Chamber
    Melody’s Echo Chamber
48. (III)
    Crystal Castles
49. Mr. M
    Lambchop
50. Metz
    Metz