| 5.0 classic |
| Braids Native Speaker |
| Burial Untrue |
| Burial Kindred |
| Chromatics Kill for Love |
| the sound of doing cocaine and drinking champagne and driving at night in the city and also the sound of the best album of 2012 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Dangers Anger |
| Daughters Daughters |
| Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Eric's Trip Love Tara |
| An unbelievably emotional and striking release. Eric's Trip may toil in obscurity today, but this opus, mixing distorted rockers, acoustic heartbreakers, and raucous punk, deserves to be remembered. |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Iron Lung Sexless // No Sex |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire |
| Menomena Mines |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Perfume JPN |
| Perfume Triangle |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| A two-hour monster that never bores and easily outclasses anything else this Texan two-piece has ever attempted and created before. This is far-reaching ambient/drone that never bores, not even during the seventeen-minute "December Hunting for Vegetarian Fuckface", which is also the greatest song title ever. TRUFF |
| Swans The Seer |
| it took a 58-year-old man to finally create something massive and something new, something that didn't just derive off old influences but took all of them and created something truly fresh, something so modern and abrasive that it's actually scary. it took someone this far removed from popular culture to create 2012's best record. when michael gira says the seer took 30 years of growth and preparation to make, he fucking means it, and his honesty, his belief in his songs and his ambition, is evident in the gigantic pieces that populate the seer, from the 30-minute title track to the 23-minute "the apostate." but seriously: what else do i need to tell you but that this is simply the album of the year? just fucking get it. if not, then you fucking people make me sick. |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
