Year-End Lists

Spinner: 50 Best Albums of 2012

1. Fiona Apple
   The Idler Wheel…
2. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
3. Japandroids
   Celebration Rock
4. Kendrick Lamar
   good kid, m.A.A.d city
5. Leonard Cohen
   Old Ideas
6. Divine Fits
   A Thing Called Divine Fits
7. Sharon Van Etten
   Tramp
8. Alabama Shakes
   Boys & Girls
9. Beach House
   Bloom
10. Grimes
    Visions
11. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
12. P.O.S.
    We Don’t Even Live Here
13. Metric
    Synthetica
14. Father John Misty
    Fear Fun
15. Daphni
    Jiaolong
16. Jack White
    Blunderbuss
17. Solange
    True
18. Killer Mike
    R.A.P. Music
19. Screaming Females
    Ugly
20. Bob Mould
    Silver Age
21. Lianne La Havas
    Is Your Love Big Enough?
22. PUJOL
    United States of Being
23. Purity Ring
    Shrines
24. Kathleen Edwards
    Voyageur
25. Grizzly Bear
    Shields
26. Cloud Nothings
    Attack on Memory
27. Mumford & Sons
    Babel
28. Schoolboy Q
    Habits & Contradictions
29. Tennis
    Young and Old
30. Mac DeMarco
    2
31. Will Stratton
    Post-Empire
32. The xx
    Coexist
33. El-P
    Cancer 4 Cure
34. Crystal Castles
    (III)
35. Poliça
    Give You the Ghost
36. Miguel
    Kaleidoscope Dream
37. Titus Andronicus
    Local Business
38. Zeus
    Busting Visions
39. Flying Lotus
    Until the Quiet Comes
40. Stars
    The North
41. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
    Psychedelic Pill
42. Dirty Ghosts
    Metal Moon
43. Walkmen
    Heaven
44. Lee Fields
    Faithful Man
45. Lana Del Rey
    Born to Die
46. Four Tet
    Pink
47. The Hives
    Lex Hives
48. Tame Impala
    Lonerism
49. Murder by Death
    Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
50. The Flaming Lips
    The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends