Year-End Lists

Fact Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2012

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

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