Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
Slate: K. Austin Collins: Favorite Films of 2024
Observer: Kitty Empire: 10 Best Albums of 2024
more...
2012 Music
Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2012
02 January 2013
Beats Per Minute
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Top 50 Albums of 2012
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Until the Quiet Comes
Flying Lotus
Kill for Love
Chromatics
Luxury Problems
Andy Stott
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
Lonerism
Tame Impala
I Know What Love Isn’t
Jens Lekman
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
Total Loss
How to Dress Well
Ekstasis
Julia Holter
The Seer
Swans
Ocean Roar
Mount Eerie
Clear Moon
Mount Eerie
A Church That Fits Our Needs
Lost In The Trees
Twins
Ty Segall
fIN
John Talabot
Put Your Back N 2 It
Perfume Genius
Open Your Heart
The Men
Motion Sickness of Time Travel
Motion Sickness of Time Travel
Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
Spiritualized
Echoes of Silence
The Weeknd
2
Mac DeMarco
Shrines
Purity Ring
Slaughterhouse
Ty Segall Band
R.A.P. Music
Killer Mike
Sorrow and Extinction
Pallbearer
Bloom
Beach House
‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Children of Desire
Merchandise
Sundowning
Nü Sensae
Held
Holy Other
Oshin
DIIV
The Idler Wheel…
Fiona Apple
Celebration Rock
Japandroids
Coexist
The xx
Cancer 4 Cure
El-P
The Haunted Man
Bat for Lashes
Devotion
Jessie Ware
Centipede Hz
Animal Collective
Keepers of the Light
LHF
Mr. M
Lambchop
Habits & Contradictions
Schoolboy Q
Hive Mind
Ital
Swing Lo Magellan
Dirty Projectors
Attack on Memory
Cloud Nothings
America
Dan Deacon
Blue Chips
Action Bronson
The Money Store
Death Grips
Voices from the Lake
Voices From The Lake
Tramp
Sharon Van Etten
Family Perfume Vol. 1 & 2
White Fence
Galaxy Garden
Lone