Year-End Lists

Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2012

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1. Flying Lotus
   Until the Quiet Comes
2. Chromatics
   Kill for Love
3. Andy Stott
   Luxury Problems
4. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
5. Tame Impala
   Lonerism
6. Jens Lekman
   I Know What Love Isn’t
7. Kendrick Lamar
   good kid, m.A.A.d city
8. How to Dress Well
   Total Loss
9. Julia Holter
   Ekstasis
10. Swans
    The Seer
11. Mount Eerie
    Ocean Roar
11. Mount Eerie
    Clear Moon
12. Lost In The Trees
    A Church That Fits Our Needs
13. Ty Segall
    Twins
14. John Talabot
    fIN
15. Perfume Genius
    Put Your Back N 2 It
16. The Men
    Open Your Heart
17. Motion Sickness of Time Travel
    Motion Sickness of Time Travel
18. Spiritualized
    Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
19. The Weeknd
    Echoes of Silence
20. Mac DeMarco
    2
21. Purity Ring
    Shrines
22. Ty Segall Band
    Slaughterhouse
23. Killer Mike
    R.A.P. Music
24. Pallbearer
    Sorrow and Extinction
25. Beach House
    Bloom
26. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
27. Merchandise
    Children of Desire
28. Nü Sensae
    Sundowning
29. Holy Other
    Held
30. DIIV
    Oshin
31. Fiona Apple
    The Idler Wheel…
32. Japandroids
    Celebration Rock
33. The xx
    Coexist
34. El-P
    Cancer 4 Cure
35. Bat for Lashes
    The Haunted Man
36. Jessie Ware
    Devotion
37. Animal Collective
    Centipede Hz
38. LHF
    Keepers of the Light
39. Lambchop
    Mr. M
40. Schoolboy Q
    Habits & Contradictions
41. Ital
    Hive Mind
42. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
43. Cloud Nothings
    Attack on Memory
44. Dan Deacon
    America
45. Action Bronson
    Blue Chips
46. Death Grips
    The Money Store
47. Voices From The Lake
    Voices from the Lake
48. Sharon Van Etten
    Tramp
49. White Fence
    Family Perfume Vol. 1 & 2
50. Lone
    Galaxy Garden