Year-End Lists

Fact Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2012

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2011]

1. Kendrick Lamar
   good kid, m.A.A.d city
2. Lee Gamble
   Diversions 1994-1996 / Dutch Tvashar Plumes
3. Cooly G
   Playin’ Me
4. Horrid Red
   Celestial Joy
5. Spaceghostpurrp
   God Of Black
6. How to Dress Well
   Total Loss
7. Jam City
   Classical Curves
8. Terrence Dixon
   From The Far Future Pt. 2
9. Swans
   The Seer
10. Wolfgang Voigt
    Rückverauberung 6
11. Actress
    R.I.P.
12. Jeremih
    Late Nights: The Album
13. Madteo
    Noi No
14. Julia Holter
    Ekstasis
15. Sand Circles
    Motor City
16. Frank Ocean
    Channel Orange
17. I:Cube
    “M” Megamix
18. Wiley
    Step Freestyles
19. Lana Del Rey
    Born to Die
20. Silent Servant
    Negative Fascination
21. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
    Ebony
22. Future
    Pluto
23. Heroin In Tahiti
    Death Surf
24. The Internet
    Purple Naked Ladies
25. Main Attrakionz
    Bossalinis & Fooliyones
26. Grimes
    Visions
27. Scott Walker
    Bish Bosch
28. Ariel Pink & R. Stevie Moore
    Ku Klux Glam
29. Ricardo Villalobos
    Dependent and Happy
30. Supreme Cuts
    Whispers In The Dark
31. Nas
    Life Is Good
32. D’Eon
    Music For Keyboards vol. 1
33. Altered Natives
    Tenement Yard vol. 3
34. Lorenzo Senni
    Quantum Jelly
35. Young Smoke
    Space Zone
36. Gunplay
    Bogota Rich: The Prequel
37. LE1F
    Dark York
38. Miguel
    Kaleidoscope Dream
39. Black Breath
    Sentenced To Life
40. Bat for Lashes
    The Haunted Man
41. Cocaine 80s
    Express OG EP
42. Schoolboy Q
    Habits & Contradictions
43. Carter Tutti Void
    Transverse
44. Triad God
    NXB
45. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
    Timon Irnok Manta
46. Purity Ring
    Shrines
47. The xx
    Coexist
48. Haleek Maul
    Oxyconteen
49. Helm
    Impossible Symmetry
50. Bigg Jus
    Machines That Make Civilization Fun