Year-End Lists

Death and Taxes: 25 Best Albums of 2012 (in no particular order)

• Bat for Lashes
  The Haunted Man
• Burial
  Kindred
• Lambchop
  Mister M
• Tame Impala
  Lonerism
• Grimes
  Visions
• Brother Ali
  Mourning in America
• Andrew Bird
  Break It Yourself
• Norah Jones
  Little Broken Hearts
• Rone
  Tohu Bohu
• Frank Ocean
  Channel Orange
• Japandroids
  Celebration Rock
• Sam Willis
  Winterval
• Matthew E. White
  Big Inner
• Hot Chip
  In Our Heads
• Action Bronson
  Blue Chips
• Beach House
  Bloom
• Makeup & Vanity Set
  88:88
• Wild Nothing
  Nocturne
• Minotaur Shock
  Orchard
• Death Grips
  The Money Store
• Squarepusher
  Ufabulum
• Azari & III
  Azari & III
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
  The Heist
• DIIV
  Oshin
• Sophia Knapp
  Into The Waves