Year-End Lists

Gorilla vs. Bear: 50 Best Albums of 2012

1. Grimes
   Visions
2. Chromatics
   Kill for Love
3. Kendrick Lamar
   good kid, m.A.A.d city
4. Burial
   Kindred
5. Jessie Ware
   Devotion
6. Schoolboy Q
   Habits & Contradictions
7. Beach House
   Bloom
8. Tops
   Tender Opposites
9. Miguel
   Kaleidoscope Dream
10. Chairlift
    Something
11. Killer Mike
    R.A.P. Music
12. Grizzly Bear
    Shields
13. Laurel Halo
    Quarantine
14. Holy Other
    Held
15. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
    Black is Beautiful
16. Frank Ocean
    Channel Orange
17. Jessica Pratt
    Jessica Pratt
18. Frankie Rose
    Interstellar
19. Symmetry
    Themes For An Imaginary Film
20. Andy Stott
    Luxury Problems
21. Chromatics
    Running From the Sun
22. Angel Olsen
    Half Way Home
23. Clams Casino
    Instrumentals II
24. Nicolas Jaar
    Don’t Break My Love / The Prism
25. Fort Romeau
    Kingdoms
26. Dawn Richard
    Armor On
27. Tamaryn
    Tender New Signs
28. Shackleton
    Music for the Quiet Hour
29. Mirroring
    Foreign Body
30. Flying Lotus
    Until the Quiet Comes
31. Phedré
    Phedré
32. LOL Boys
    Changes
33. Roc Marciano
    Reloaded
34. Fight Bite
    Fight Bite
35. Sam Flax
    Age Waves
36. Dum Dum Girls
    End of Daze
37. Lower Dens
    Nootropics
38. Las Malas Amistades
    Maleza
39. Lace Curtains
    The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness
40. Ryan Hemsworth
    Last Words + Collected
41. Taken By Trees
    Other Worlds
42. Ariel Pink
    Mature Themes
43. Antwon
    End of Earth
44. Pye Corner Audio
    Sleep Games
45. Molly Nilsson
    History
46. Peaking Lights
    Lucifer
47. Death Grips
    The Money Store
48. Pure Bathing Culture
    Pure Bathing Culture
49. THEESatisfaction
    Awe Naturale
50. Sand Circles
    Motor City