Year-End Lists

The Fly: Top 50 Albums of 2012

[see also 2011]

1. Sharon Van Etten
   Tramp
2. Grimes
   Visions
3. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
4. Cat Power
   Sun
5. Jessie Ware
   Devotion
6. Django Django
   Django Django
7. Field Music
   Plumb
8. Kindness
   World, You Need a Change of Mind
9. The Maccabees
   Given to the Wild
10. Tame Impala
    Lonerism
11. Lana Del Rey
    Born to Die
12. alt-J
    An Awesome Wave
13. Grizzly Bear
    Shields
14. Ariel Pink
    Mature Themes
15. Purity Ring
    Shrines
16. The Vaccines
    Come of Age
17. The xx
    Coexist
18. Pond
    Beard, Wives, Denim
19. DIIV
    Oshin
20. King Tuff
    King Tuff
21. The Cribs
    In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
22. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
23. Twin Shadow
    Confess
24. Daughn Gibson
    All Hell
25. Melody’s Echo Chamber
    Melody’s Echo Chamber
26. Bat for Lashes
    The Haunted Man
27. Chairlift
    Something
28. TOY
    TOY
29. Poliça
    Give You the Ghost
30. Graham Coxon
    A+E
31. Here We Go Magic
    A Different Ship
32. Beach House
    Bloom
33. Animal Collective
    Centipede Hz
34. David Byrne & St. Vincent
    Love this Giant
35. Howler
    America Give Up
36. Liars
    Wixiw
37. The Invisible
    Rispah
38. Best Coast
    The Only Place
39. Mystery Jets
    Radlands
40. Allah-Lahs
    Allah-Las
41. Two Door Cinema Club
    Beacon
42. Trash Talk
    119
43. Pulled Apart By Horses
    Tough Love
44. Stealing Sheep
    Into The Diamond Sun
45. Errors
    Have Some Faith in Magic
46. Egyptian Hip Hop
    Good Don’t Sleep
47. 2:54
    2:54
48. Lotus Plaza
    Spooky Action at a Distance
49. Lucy Rose
    Like I Used To
50. Trailer Trash Tracy’s
    Ester