Year-End Lists

Austin Town Hall: Top 100 Albums of 2012

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2011]

1. Terry Malts
   Killing Time
2. Cloud Nothings
   Attack on Memory
3. Sea Pinks
   Freak Waves
4. The Tallest Man on Earth
   There’s No Leaving Now
5. Gentleman Jesse & His Men
   Leaving Atlanta
6. I Was a King
   You Love It Here
7. Walkmen
   Heaven
8. Cats on Fire
   All Blackshirts to Me
9. Grizzly Bear
   Shields
10. Twin Shadow
    Confess
11. Mystery Jets
    Radlands
12. The Men
    Open Your Heart
13. Royal Headache
    Royal Headache
14. Woods
    Bend Beyond
15. Grass Widow
    Internal Logic
16. Beach House
    Bloom
17. Standard Fare
    Out of Sight, Out of Town
18. Hunx
    Hairdresser Blues
19. Wild Nothing
    Nocturne
20. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
21. The Fresh & Onlys
    Long Slow Dance
22. Chromatics
    Kill for Love
23. Tame Impala
    Lonerism
24. Eternal Summers
    Correct Behavior
25. Sharon Van Etten
    Tramp
26. Literature
    Arab Spring
27. Magic Trick
    Ruler of the Night
28. The Intelligence
    Everybody’s Got It Easy But Me
29. Punks On Mars
    Bad Expectations
30. Nude Beach
    II
31. Exlovers
    Moth
32. Cult of Youth
    Love Will Prevail
33. Frankie Rose
    Interstellar
34. DIIV
    Oshin
35. Black Marble
    A Different Arrangement
36. Letting Up Despite Great Faults
    Untogether
37. The Bankees
    Home
38. Bear In Heaven
    I Love You, It’s Cool
39. Thee Oh Sees
    Putrifiers II
40. Mac DeMarco
    2
41. Plateaus
    Plateaus
42. Still Flyin
    On a Bedroom Wall
43. JBM
    Stray Ashes
44. Andrew Bird
    Hands of Glory
45. Ariel Pink
    Mature Themes
46. Deep Time
    Deep Time
47. Sonic Avenues
    Television Youth
48. Field Music
    Plumb
49. Crystal Castles
    (III)
50. Tanlines
    Mixed Emotions
51. Hospitality
    Hospitality
52. The Wedding Present
    Valentina
53. OBN IIIs
    OBN IIIs
54. Cat Power
    Sun
55. Jens Lekman
    I Know What Love Isn’t
56. The Wave Pictures
    Long Black Cars
57. Two Wounded Birds
    Two Wounded Birds
58. The xx
    Coexist
59. Bat for Lashes
    The Haunted Man
60. Hot Chip
    In Our Heads
61. Holograms
    Holograms
62. Gravenhurst
    The Ghost in Daylight
63. Bowerbirds
    The Clearing
64. Screaming Females
    Ugly
65. The Daredevil Christopher Wright
    The Nature of Things
66. We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves
    Make a Mess of Sacred Ground
67. Mind Spiders
    Meltdown
68. Dana Buoy
    Summer Bodies
69. Teen Daze
    All of Us Together
70. Allo Darlin’
    Europe
71. A.C. Newman
    Shut Down the Streets
72. Grape Street
    A Date With You
73. White Wires
    WWIII
74. La Sera
    Sees the Light
75. White Arrows
    Dry Land is Not a Myth
76. Dot Dash
    Winter Garden Light
77. Pop Singles
    All Gone
78. The Eastern Sea
    Plague
79. Woolen Kits
    Four Girls
80. King Tuff
    King Tuff
81. Natural Child
    Hard in Heaven
82. Evans the Death
    Evans the Death
83. Ty Segall Band
    Slaughterhouse
84. The Calm Blue Sea
    Arrivals & Departures
85. The Babies
    Our House on the Hill
86. Parquet Courts
    Light Up Gold
87. Titus Andronicus
    Local Business
88. Unnatural Helpers
    Land Grab
89. Volcano
    Pinata
90. The Memories
    The Memories
91. Beachwood Sparks
    Tarnished Gold
92. Daughn Gibson
    All Hell
93. The Pharmacy
    Stoned and Alone
94. Big Wave Riders
    Life Less Ordinary
95. So Many Wizards
    Warm Nothing
96. Crocodiles
    Endless Flowers
97. Metz
    Metz
98. Saint Motel
    Voyeur
99. Junk Culture
    Wild Quiet
100. Lace Curtains
     The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness