Year-End Lists

Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2012

1. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
2. Kendrick Lamar
   good kid, m.A.A.d city
3. Japandroids
   Celebration Rock
4. DJ Rashad
   Teklife Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi
5. Miguel
   Kaleidoscope Dream
6. Bat for Lashes
   The Haunted Man
7. Swans
   The Seer
8. Killer Mike
   R.A.P. Music
9. Ty Segall
   Twins
10. Santigold
    Master of My Make-Believe
11. Future
    Pluto
12. Death Grips
    No Love Deep Web
13. Cloud Nothings
    Attack on Memory
14. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
15. Baroness
    Yellow & Green
16. Fiona Apple
    The Idler Wheel…
17. Grizzly Bear
    Shields
18. King Tuff
    King Tuff
19. Traxman
    Da Mind of Traxman
20. Pallbearer
    Sorrow and Extinction
21. Daphni
    Jiaolong
22. Torche
    Harmonicraft
23. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
24. Cat Power
    Sun
25. Action Bronson
    Blue Chips
26. Tame Impala
    Lonerism
27. Sleigh Bells
    Reign of Terror
28. Jessie Ware
    Devotion
29. Dinosaur Jr.
    I Bet on Sky
30. Frankie Rose
    Interstellar
31. The xx
    Coexist
32. Goat
    World Music
33. Thee Oh Sees
    Putrifiers II
34. Mala
    Mala in Cuba
35. Jack White
    Blunderbuss
36. Beak
    >>
37. R. Kelly
    Write Me Back
38. Taylor Swift
    Red
39. Roc Marciano
    Reloaded
40. Animal Collective
    Centipede Hz
41. Purity Ring
    Shrines
42. Lindstrøm
    Six Cups of Rebel
43. Kathleen Edwards
    Voyageur
44. Deftones
    Koi No Yokan
45. Nicki Minaj
    Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
46. Spoek Mathambo
    Father Creeper
47. Metric
    Synthetica
48. Best Coast
    The Only Place
49. Heems
    Nehru Jackets
50. fun.
    Some Nights