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Top 50 albums of 2012

(Quick note: I originally had ScHoolboy Q, Baroness, and Beach House in low positions, but bumped them to the previously published honorable mentions list to make room for a few things I forgot.)

1. Swans - The Seer
2. Death Grips - The Money Store
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
4. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
5. Burial - Kindred
6. The Men - Open Your Heart
7. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
8. El-P  - Cancer 4 Cure
9. Actress - R.I.P.
10. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
11. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
12. Dragged Into Sunlight - Widowmaker
13. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
14. Metz - Metz
15. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
16. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
17. Loma Prieta - I.V.
18. Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
19. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
20. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
21. Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair
22. Grimes - Visions
23. The Ropes - Always Nothing
24. Tame Impala - Lonerism
25. Bob Mould - Silver Age
26. Death Grips - NO LOVE DEEP WEB
27. Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
28. Bob Dylan - Tempest
29. White Lung - Sorry
30. Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay
31. Disappears - Pre Language
32. Om - Advaitic Songs
33. DIIV - Oshin
34. JJ DOOM - Key to the Kuffs
35. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life
36. Wild Nothing - Nocturne
37. Torche - Harminocraft
38. Crazy Spirit - Crazy Spirit
39. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
40. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
41. Ty Segall - Twins
42. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
43. iamamiwhoami - kin
44. Lil B - God’s Father
45. Whirr - Pipe Dreams
46. Merchandise - Children of Desire
47. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
48. Lust for Youth - Growing Seeds
49. Chromatics - Kill for Love
50. Pop. 1280 - The Horror