Year-End Lists

musicOMH: Top 100 Albums of 2012

[see also 2011]

1. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
2. Tame Impala
   Lonerism
3. Matthew Dear
   Beams
4. Chromatics
   Kill for Love
5. Blondes
   Blondes
6. John Talabot
   fIN
7. DIIV
   Oshin
8. Liars
   Wixiw
9. Carter Tutti Void
   Transverse
10. VCMG
    SSSS
11. Portico Quartet
    Portico Quartet
12. Anaïs Mitchell
    Young Man in America
13. David Byrne & St. Vincent
    Love this Giant
14. Dexys
    One Day I’m Going to Soar
15. Bruce Springsteen
    Wrecking Ball
16. TOY
    TOY
17. Neil Halstead
    Palindrome Hunches
18. Field Music
    Plumb
19. Bright Light Bright Light
    Make Me Believe in Hope
20. Poliça
    Give You the Ghost
21. Jack White
    Blunderbuss
22. Beachwood Sparks
    Tarnished Gold
23. Flying Lotus
    Until the Quiet Comes
24. Grimes
    Visions
25. Sharon Van Etten
    Tramp
26. alt-J
    An Awesome Wave
27. Julia Holter
    Ekstasis
28. Sweet Billy Pilgrim
    Crown And Treaty
29. Sébastien Tellier
    My God Is Blue
30. The Invisible
    Rispah
31. Lindstrøm
    Six Cups of Rebel
32. Jessie Ware
    Devotion
33. Perfume Genius
    Put Your Back N 2 It
34. Public Image Ltd.
    This Is PiL
35. Swans
    The Seer
36. Beach House
    Bloom
37. Cat Power
    Sun
38. First Aid Kit
    The Lion’s Roar
39. Cooly G
    Playin’ Me
40. Bat for Lashes
    The Haunted Man
41. Sam Lee
    Ground Of Its Own
42. Susanne Sundfør
    The Silicone Veil
43. Shackleton
    Music for the Quiet Hour
44. Saint Etienne
    Words and Music by Saint Etienne
45. Actress
    RIP
46. Breton
    Other People’s Problems
47. Wadada Leo Smith
    Ten Freedom Summers
48. Dan Deacon
    America
49. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
50. 2:54
    2:54
51. Nedry
    In A Dim Light
52. Dirty Three
    Toward the Low Sun
53. Walkmen
    Heaven
54. Richard Hawley
    Into The Diamond Sun
55. Stealing Sheep
    Into The Diamond Sun
56. Paul Buchanan
    Mid Air
57. Tigercats
    Isle Of Dogs
58. Lau
    Race The Loser
59. Leonard Cohen
    Old Ideas
60. The Irrepressibles
    Nude
61. Allo Darlin’
    Europe
62. THEESatisfaction
    Awe Naturale
63. Bobby Womack
    The Bravest Man in the Universe
64. Grizzly Bear
    Shields
65. Tall Ships
    Everything Touching
66. Sun Kil Moon
    Among the Leaves
67. Sidi Touré
    Koïma
68. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
69. Death Grips
    The Money Store
70. Katy Carr
    Paszport
71. Father John Misty
    Fear Fun
72. Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament
    The Violence
73. Twin Shadow
    Confess
74. Staff Benda Bilili
    Bouger Le Monde!
75. Hot Chip
    In Our Heads
76. The xx
    Coexist
77. Tindersticks
    The Something Rain
78. Django Django
    Django Django
79. Kendrick Lamar
    good kid, m.A.A.d city
80. Dr. John
    Locked Down
81. Soulsavers
    The Light The Dead See
82. Goat
    World Music
83. Vijay Iyer Trio
    Accelerando
84. How to Dress Well
    Total Loss
85. Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury
    DROKK
86. Fixers
    We’ll Be The Moon
87. Tim Burgess
    Oh No I Love You
88. Narasirato
    Warato’o
89. Nathan Fake
    Steam Days
90. 1982 + BJ Cole
    1982 + BJ Cole
91. Soap & Skin
    Narrow
92. Cheval Sombre
    Mad Love
93. Future of the Left
    The Plot Against Common Sense
94. Laurel Halo
    Quarantine
95. Neneh Cherry & the Thing
    The Cherry Thing
96. Calexico
    Algiers
97. Paul Banks
    Banks
98. O. Children
    Apnea
99. Graham Coxon
    A+E
100. Kindness
     World, You Need a Change of Mind