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Top 50 Albums of 2012

01 | Shearwater: Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
02 | Pallbearer: Sorrow and Extinction (Profound Lore)
03 | Caspian: Waking Season (Triple Crown)
04 | Pig Destroyer: Book Burner (Relapse)
05 | Lost in the Trees: A Church that Fits Our Needs (Anti-)
06 | Kishi Bashi: 151a (Joyful Noise)
07 | Ilsa: Intoxicantations (A389)
08 | Brandi Carlile: Bear Creek (Columbia)
09 | Beach House: Bloom (Sub Pop)
10 | King Giant: Dismal Hollow (Graveyard Hill)
11 | Neil Halstead: Palindrome Hunches (Univeral Republic)
12 | Screen Vinyl Image: Strange Behavior (Custom Made Music)
13 | Alcest: Les Voyages De L'Ame (Prophecy Productions)
14 | Neurosis: Honor Found in Decay (Neurot)
15 | Cattle Decapitation: Monolith of Inhumanity (Metal Blade)
16 | Janel & Anthony: Where Is Home (Cuneiform)
17 | Rush: Clockwork Angels (Roadrunner)
18 | Royal Thunder: CVI (Relapse)
19 | Bowerbirds: the Clearing (Dead Oceans)
20 | Calexico: Algiers (Anti-)
21 | Supreme Commander: Paper Tigers (Basement Records)
22 | Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II (Southern Lord)
23 | Dirty Three: Toward the Low Sun (Drag City)
24 | Wanda Jackson: Unfinished Business (Sugar Hill Records)
25 | Lord Huron: Lonesome Dreams (Iamsound)
26 | Sigur Ros: Valtari (XL Recordings)
27 | Wintersun: Time I (Nuclear Blast)
28 | Sons of Bill: Sirens (Gray Fox Records)
29 | Drew Gibson: the Southern Draw (self-released)
30 | Black Clouds: Everything Is Not Going To Be OK (Black Clouds)
31 | Swans: the Seer (Young God Records)
32 | Allo Darlin': Europe (Slumberland)
33 | Of Monsters and Men: My Head Is an Animal (Universal Republic)
34 | the Tallest Man on Earth: There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
35 | Dysrhythmia: Test of Submission (Profound Lore)
36 | Six Organs of Admittance: Ascent (101 Distribution)
37 | Old Crow Medicine Show: Carry Me Back (ATO Records)
38 | Kathleen Edwards: Voyageur (Zoe/Rounder)
39 | Aimee Mann: Charmer (Superego)
40 | Hooded Menace: Effiges of Evil (Relapse)
41 | Graveyard: Lights Out (Nuclear Blast)
42 | Pilgrim: Misery Wizard (Metal Blade)
43 | Cat Power: Sun (Matador)
44 | Beth Orton: Sugaring Season (Anti-)
45 | the Future of the Left: The Plot Against Common Sense (Xtra Mile)
46 | O'Brother: Garden Window (Triple Crown)
47 | Meshuggah: Koloss (Nuclear Blast)
48 | the Sword: Apocryphon (Razor & Tie)
49 | Sharon Van Etten: Tramp (Jagjaguwar)
50 | David Byrne & St. Vincent: Love This Giant (4AD)