Year-End Lists

Frontier Psychiatrist: Top 50 Albums of 2012

1. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
2. Fiona Apple
   The Idler Wheel…
3. Kendrick Lamar
   good kid, m.A.A.d city
4. Ty Segall Band
   Slaughterhouse
4. Ty Segall
   Twins
5. Cloud Nothings
   Attack on Memory
6. Grizzly Bear
   Shields
7. Sharon Van Etten
   Tramp
8. Flying Lotus
   Until the Quiet Comes
9. Tame Impala
   Lonerism
10. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
11. Andrew Bird
    Hands of Glory
11. Andrew Bird
    Break It Yourself
12. Animal Collective
    Centipede Hz
13. Killer Mike
    R.A.P. Music
14. The Men
    Open Your Heart
15. Liars
    Wixiw
16. Spiritualized
    Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
17. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
18. Swans
    The Seer
19. Schoolboy Q
    Habits & Contradictions
20. Twin Shadow
    Confess
21. Action Bronson & Party Supplies
    Blue Chips
22. Punch Brothers
    Who’s Feeling Young Now?
23. Japandroids
    Celebration Rock
24. Lower Dens
    Nootropics
25. Grimes
    Visions
26. Lana Del Rey
    Born to Die
27. Dan Deacon
    America
28. Anaïs Mitchell
    Young Man in America
29. Chromatics
    Kill for Love
30. Jessie Ware
    Devotion
31. A.C. Newman
    Shut Down the Streets
32. Sufjan Stevens
    Silver & Gold
33. Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
    Jazz Mind
34. High on Fire
    De Vermis Mysteriis
35. BBU
    bell hooks
36. Titus Andronicus
    Local Business
37. Spider Bags
    Shake My Head
38. The Menzingers
    On The Impossible Past
39. Django Django
    Django Django
40. Miguel
    Kaleidoscope Dream
41. The xx
    Coexist
42. Dr. John
    Locked Down
43. Purity Ring
    Shrines
44. Miike Snow
    Happy to You
45. Daughn Gibson
    All Hell
46. El-P
    Cancer 4 Cure
47. Ariel Pink
    Mature Themes
48. Thee Oh Sees
    Putrifiers II
49. Andy Stott
    Luxury Problems
50. Netherfriends
    Middle America