Year-End Lists

Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2012

1. Kendrick Lamar
   good kid, m.A.A.d city
2. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
3. Fiona Apple
   The Idler Wheel…
4. Tame Impala
   Lonerism
5. Swans
   The Seer
6. Grimes
   Visions
7. Beach House
   Bloom
8. Chromatics
   Kill for Love
9. Death Grips
   The Money Store
10. Grizzly Bear
    Shields
11. Japandroids
    Celebration Rock
12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
13. Killer Mike
    R.A.P. Music
14. Andy Stott
    Luxury Problems
15. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
16. Burial
    Kindred
17. Bat for Lashes
    The Haunted Man
18. Ty Segall Band
    Slaughterhouse
18. Ty Segall & White Fence
    Hair
19. Cloud Nothings
    Attack on Memory
20. Jessie Ware
    Devotion
21. Ariel Pink
    Mature Themes
22. Flying Lotus
    Until the Quiet Comes
23. Miguel
    Kaleidoscope Dream
24. Purity Ring
    Shrines
25. Schoolboy Q
    Habits & Contradictions
26. Julia Holter
    Ekstasis
27. John Talabot
    fIN
28. How to Dress Well
    Total Loss
29. Cat Power
    Sun
30. The Men
    Open Your Heart
31. Spiritualized
    Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
32. Action Bronson
    Blue Chips
33. Actress
    R.I.P.
34. Chairlift
    Something
35. TNGHT
    TNGHT EP
36. Sharon Van Etten
    Tramp
37. Future
    Pluto
38. Lotus Plaza
    Spooky Action at a Distance
39. Hot Chip
    In Our Heads
40. DIIV
    Oshin
41. Dum Dum Girls
    End of Daze
42. Rick Ross
    Rich Forever
43. Mac DeMarco
    2
44. Metz
    Metz
45. El-P
    Cancer 4 Cure
46. Rustie
    Essential Mix
47. Pallbearer
    Sorrow and Extinction
48. Peaking Lights
    Lucifer
49. Crystal Castles
    (III)
50. Lambchop
    Mr. M