My Top 50 Albums of 2012

For the third year in a row, I’m doing my best albums of the year list. But since I’ve put my music blog on hiatus, I won’t bother writing a long introduction. Just the usual disclaimers about how this is my musical taste, and I haven’t heard every single album that came out in 2012. Anyway, here are my top 50 albums (including EPs) of this year.

1. Invalids -Eunoia
2. Tall Ships - Everything Touching
3. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
4. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
5. Te’ - Therefore The Illusion of Density Breach, The Tottering World “Forget” Tomorrow 
6. Hymns - Cardinal Sins / Contrary Virtues
7. The xx - Coexist
8. LITE - past, present, future
9. Purity Ring - Shrines
10. Sigur Ros - Valtari
11. Love Among The Mannequins - Radial Images 
12. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
13. toe - The Future Is Now
14. The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
15. Blacklisters - BLKLSTRS
16. Shoes & Socks Off - Miles of Mad Water
17. Baroness - Yellow & Green 
18. Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living
19. Liars - WIXIW
20. Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
21. Holy State - Electric Picture Palace
22. TM Hunter - Le Forte
23. Lana del Rey - Born To Die
24. Pulled Apart By Horses - Tough Love
25. Meshuggah - Koloss
26. Southern Line - Light Bridge Over Heavy Waters
27. Passion Pit - Gossamer 
28. So Much Light - Supine/Spellbound
29. Blood Red Shoes - In Time to Voices
30. The Cast of Cheers - Family
31. Mermonte - Mermonte
32. Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
33. Maps & Atlases - Beware and Be Grateful
34. Mutiny on the Bounty - Trial
35. Time Colums - Mana
36. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
37. Luke Sital-Singh - Fail For You
38. Eda Brig - Eda Brig
39. Death Grips - No Love Deep Web
40. Bloc Party - Four
41. Crystal Castles - III
42. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
43. Hold Your Horse Is - Frimley
44. Wot Gorilla? - Kebnekaise
45. Tame Impala - Lonerism
46. Best Coast - The Only Place
47. Young Guns - Bones
48. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
49. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
50. Gnarwolves - CRU 

EDIT: Gnarwolves. How the fuck did I forget Gnarwolves

24 December 2012 ·

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