Pitchfork's Top Albums Of 2012

Pitchfork has shared its Top Albums Of 2012. Check it out below, along with its Top Tracks Of 2012, here.



50. Lambchop - Mr. M [Merge/City Slang]
49. Crystal Castles - (III) [Fiction/Casablanca/Universal Republic]
48. Peaking Lights - Lucifer [Mexican Summer/Weird World]
47. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction [Profound Lore]
46. Rustie -Essential Mix [BBC]
45. El-P - Cancer for Cure [Fat Possum]
44. METZ - METZ [Sub Pop]
43. Mac DeMarco - 2 [Captured Tracks]
42. Rick Ross - Rich Forever [Maybach]
41. Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze EP [Sub Pop]
40. DIIV - Oshin [Captured Tracks]
39. Hot Chip - In Our Heads [Domino]
38. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance [Kranky]
37. Future - Pluto [Epic/A1/Free Bandz]
36. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp [Jagjaguwar]
35. TNGHT - TNGHT [Warp/Luckyme]
34. Chairlift - Something [Columbia]
33. Actress - R.I.P. [Honest Jon's]
32. Action Bronson/Party Supplies -Blue Chips [Fool's Gold/Reebok Classics]
31. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light [Fat Possum]
30. The Men - Open Your Heart [Sacred Bones]
29. Cat Power - Sun [Matador]
28. How to Dress Well - Total Loss [Acéphale/Weird World]
27. John Talabot - ƒIN [Permanent Vacation]
26. Julia Holter - Ekstasis [Rvng Intl.]
25. Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions [Top Dawg]
24. Purity Ring - Shrines [4AD]
23. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream [RCA]
22. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes [Warp]
21. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes [4AD]
20. Jessie Ware - Devotion [PMR]
19. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory [Carpark]
18. Ty Segall Band/Ty Segall & White Fence - Slaughterhouse/Hair [In the Red/Drag City]
17. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man [Parlophone]
16. Burial - Kindred EP [Hyperdub]
15. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan [Domino]
14. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems [Modern Love]
13. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music [Williams Street]
12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! [Constellation]
11. Japandroids - Celebration Rock [Polyvinyl]
10. Grizzly Bear - Shields [Warp]
09. Death Grips - The Money Store [Epic]
08. Chromatics - Kill For Love [Italians Do It Better]
07. Beach House - Bloom [Sub Pop]
06. Grimes - Visions [4AD/Arbutus]
05. Swans - The Seer [Young God]
04. Tame Impala - Lonerism [Modular]
03. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... [Epic]
02. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange [Def Jam]
01. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city [Interscope/Top Dawg]



Honorable Mention

Ab-Soul - Control System [Top Dawg]
Angel Olsen - Half Way Home [Bathetic]
The Congos / Sun Araw / M. Geddes Gengras - Icon Give Thank [Rvng Intl.]
Daughn Gibson - All Hell [White Denim]
Four Tet - Pink [Text]
Frankie Rose - Interstellar [Slumberland]
Holly Herndon - Movement [Rvng Intl.]
Holy Other - Held [Tri Angle]
Jeremih - Late Nights with Jeremih [self-released]
Joey Bada$$ - 1999 [Cinematic / Creative Control]
Laurel Halo - Quarantine [Hyperdub]
Liars - WIXIW [Mute]
Lone Galaxy - Garden [R&S]
Matthew E. White - Big Inner [Hometapes/Spacebomb]
Merchandise - Children of Desire [Katorga Works]
Royal Headache - Royal Headache [What's Your Rupture?]
Swearin' - Swearin' [Salinas]
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II [In the Red]
Voices From the Lake - Voices From the Lake [Prologue]
Waxahatchee - American Weekend [Don Giovanni]



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