Year-End Lists

FasterLouder: Top 50 Albums of 2012

[see also 2015 • 2011]

1. Tame Impala
   Lonerism
2. Dirty Projectors
   Swing Lo Magellan
3. Father John Misty
   Fear Fun
4. Cat Power
   Sun
5. David Byrne & St. Vincent
   Love this Giant
6. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
7. Cloud Nothings
   Attack on Memory
8. Jack White
   Blunderbuss
9. Dirty Three
   Toward the Low Sun
10. Alpine
    A is For Alpine
11. Mark Lanegan Band
    Blues Funeral
12. Dr. John
    Locked Down
13. Django Django
    Django Django
14. Bat for Lashes
    The Haunted Man
15. Ariel Pink
    Mature Themes
16. Pony Face
    Hypnotized
17. Japandroids
    Celebration Rock
18. Hermitude
    HyperParadise
19. Kendrick Lamar
    good kid, m.A.A.d city
20. Converge
    All We Love We Leave Behind
21. Spiritualized
    Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
22. Sigur Rós
    Valtari
23. Ultraísta
    Ultraísta
24. Grizzly Bear
    Shields
25. Fiona Apple
    The Idler Wheel…
26. Dinosaur Jr.
    I Bet on Sky
27. Flume
    Flume
28. Divine Fits
    A Thing Called Divine Fits
29. Silversun Pickups
    Neck of the Woods
30. Boomgates
    Double Natural
31. Walkmen
    Heaven
32. alt-J
    An Awesome Wave
33. The xx
    Coexist
34. Sarah Blasko
    I Awake
35. Quakers
    Quakers
36. Joe McKee
    Burning Boy
37. The Mark Of Cain
    Songs Of The Third and Fifth
38. Bored Nothing
    Bored Nothing
39. Paul Kelly
    Spring and Fall
40. Something For Kate
    Leave Your Soul to Science
41. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
    Psychedelic Pill
42. Grimes
    Visions
43. Chairlift
    Something
44. Lana Del Rey
    Born to Die
45. Lower Plenty
    Hard Rubbish
46. Deep Sea Arcade
    Outlands
47. The Men
    Open Your Heart
48. Oh Mercy
    Deep Heat
49. Sharon Van Etten
    Tramp
50. TOY
    TOY