(With Spotify playlist! Click: Best Albums 2012)
LIST:
40 Blunderbuss – Jack White
39 Open Your Heart – The Men
38 Trouble – Total Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
37 Lion’s Roar – First Aid Kit
36 Centipede Hz – Animal Collective
35 Mature Themes – Ariel Pink
34 Oshin – DIIV
33 Port of Morrow – The Shins
32 Life is Good – Nas
31 Put Your Back N 2 It – Perfume Genius
30 Sweet Heart, Sweet Light – Spiritualized
29 Bloom – Beach House
28 Channel Orange – Frank Ocean
27 The Haunted Man – Bat for Lashes
26 XXX – Danny Brown
25 Lonerism – Tame Impala
24 Drop Gloss – Battles
23 Kill For Love – Chromatics
22 Putrifiers II – Thee Oh Sees
21 III – Crystal Castles
20 Slaughterhouse – Ty Segall Band
19 Allah-Las – Allah-Las
18 Orbits – Starkey
17 Fear Fun – Father John Misty
16 Swing Lo Magellan – Dirty Projectors
15 Bend Beyond – Woods
14 Shields – Grizzly Bear
13 End of Daze EP – Dum Dum Girls
12 Sun – Cat Power
11 Good kid, m.A.A.d City – Kendrick Lamar
10 Get Disowned – Hop Along
9 Ugly – Screaming Females
8 I Bet on Sky – Dinosaur Jr
7 R.A.P. Music – Killer Mike
6 Devotion – Jessie Ware
5 Transcendental Youth – the Mountain Goats
4 Something – Chairlift
3 Yellow & Green – Baroness
2 Attack on Memory – Cloud Nothings
1 Celebration Rock – Japandroids
Worst Album of the Year: The Money Store – Death Grips