Year-End Lists

The Quietus: 75 Favorite Albums of 2012

1. Swans
   The Seer
2. Scott Walker
   Bish Bosch
3. Carter Tutti Void
   Transverse
4. X-TG
   Desertshore/The Final Report
5. VCMG
   SSSS
6. Vatican Shadow
   Ghosts Of Chechnya
7. Dragged Into Sunlight
   Widowmaker
8. Laurel Halo
   Quarantine
9. Anaal Nathrakh
   Vanitas
10. KTL
    V
11. Kassem Mosse & Mix Mup
    MM/KM
12. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
    Black is Beautiful
13. Land Observations
    Roman Roads IV – XI
14. Jam City
    Classical Curves
15. Liars
    Wixiw
16. Neneh Cherry & the Thing
    The Cherry Thing
17. Lee Gamble
    Dutch Tvashar Plumes
18. Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras & The Congos
    Icon Give Thank
19. Actress
    R.I.P.
20. Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament
    The Violence
21. White Hills
    Frying On This Rock
22. Silent Servant
    Negative Fascination
23. Gravenhurst
    The Ghost in Daylight
24. Eccentronic Research Council ft. Maxine Peake
    1612 Underture
25. Necessary
    Galgeberg/Gimle
26. Emptyset
    Medium
27. High on Fire
    De Vermis Mysteriis
28. Andy Stott
    Luxury Problems
29. Alexander Tucker
    Third Mouth
30. Fairhorns
    Doki Doki Run
31. Thomas Koner
    Novaya Zemlya
32. Raime
    Quarter Turns Over A Living Line
33. Holly Herndon
    Movement
34. Shackleton
    The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour
35. Killer Mike
    R.A.P. Music
36. JK Flesh
    Posthuman
37. Richard Skelton
    Verse of Birds
38. Daphni
    Jiaolong
39. Dope Body
    Natural History
40. Oren Ambarchi
    Sagittarian Domain
41. Chromatics
    Kill for Love
42. Hexvessel
    No Holier Temple
43. Toy
    Toy
44. Traxman
    Da Mind of Traxman
45. Vindicatrix
    Mengamuk
46. Kendrick Lamar
    good kid, m.A.A.d city
47. UFOmammut
    ORO: Opus Primum/Alter
48. John Foxx and the Maths
    The Shape Of Things
49. Bee Mask
    When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
50. Robert Hood
    Motor: Nighttime World 3
51. Melody’s Echo Chamber
    Melody’s Echo Chamber
52. Hirsute Pursuit
    Tighten That Muscle Ring
53. Burial
    Kindred
54. Black Breath
    Sentenced To Life
55. The Pre New
    Music For People Who Hate Themselves
56. Forward Strategy Group
    Labour Division
57. Beak
    >>
58. Turbonegro
    Sexual Harassment
59. Killing Joke
    MMXII
60. New War
    New War
61. Angel Haze
    Reservation
62. Rolo Tomassi
    Astraea
63. Tim Burgess
    Oh No I Love You
64. Sir Richard Bishop
    Intermezzo
65. Bo Ningen
    Line The Wall
66. John Talabot
    fIN
67. Mark Lanegan Band
    Blues Funeral
68. Devilman
    Devilman
69. Motorpsycho And Ståle Storløkken
    The Death Defying Unicorn
70. Goat
    World Music
71. Guardian Alien
    See The World Given To A One Love Entity
72. Carlton Melton
    Photos Of Photos
73. Leonard Cohen
    Old Ideas
74. Six Organs of Admittance
    Ascent
75. Man Forever
    Pansophical Cataract