Top Albums of 2012
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Album▼ Genres▼
1
66
 Frank Ocean Channel Orange Alternative R&B
2
128
 Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d. city Conscious Hip Hop
3
339
 Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel… Art Pop, Singer/Songwriter
4
409
 Tame Impala Lonerism Neo-Psychedelia
5
424
 Grimes Visions Dream Pop, Synthpop
6
628
 Chromatics Kill for Love Dream Pop, Synthpop
7
687
 Lana Del Rey Born to Die Chamber Pop
8
716
 alt-J An Awesome Wave Art Pop, Indie Pop
9
742
 Japandroids Celebration Rock Indie Rock
10
816
 Swans The Seer Experimental Rock, Post-Rock
11
891
 Beach House Bloom Dream Pop, Indie Pop
12
970
 Death Grips The Money Store Hardcore Hip Hop, Industrial Hip Hop
13
1281
 Grizzly Bear Shields Indie Folk, Psychedelic Folk
14
1326
 Taylor Swift Red Pop, Singer/Songwriter
15
1460
 Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan Art Pop, Indie Pop, Progressive Pop
16
1473
 Parquet Courts Light Up Gold Indie Rock
17
1570
 Converge All We Love We Leave Behind Metalcore
18
1573
 Andy Stott Luxury Problems Dub Techno
19
1578
 Jessie Ware Devotion Alternative R&B
20
1654
 Killer Mike R.A.P. Music Hardcore Hip Hop
21
1665
 Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory Indie Rock, Post-Hardcore
22
1680
 Jack White Blunderbuss Blues Rock, Garage Rock Revival, Singer/Songwriter
23
1791
 The xx Coexist Dream Pop, Indie Pop
24
1926
 Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes IDM
25
1932
 Sharon Van Etten Tramp Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk
26
2126
 Purity Ring Shrines Synthpop
27
2143
 Bat for Lashes The Haunted Man Art Pop
28
2191
 Miguel Kaleidoscope Dream Alternative R&B
29
2236
 Actress R.I.P. IDM
30
2369
 Django Django Django Django Indie Pop
31
2423
 Godspeed You! Black Emperor Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! Post-Rock
32
2426
 John Talabot fIN Balearic Beat
33
2592
 Scott Walker Bish Bosch Experimental, Singer/Songwriter
34
2638
 Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls Blues Rock, Southern Rock
35
2651
 Baroness Yellow & Green Heavy Psych
36
2653
 Julia Holter Ekstasis Art Pop, Baroque Pop, Progressive Pop
37
2671
 Laurel Halo Quarantine Ambient Pop
38
2704
 Bob Dylan Tempest Singer/Songwriter
39
2801
 Burial Kindred EP Future Garage
40
2821
 Hot Chip In Our Heads Indietronica, Synthpop

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
DIIV Oshin Dream Pop
Mac DeMarco 2 Indie Pop, Jangle Pop
Spiritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light Neo-Psychedelia
Hop Along Get Disowned Indie Rock
Father John Misty Fear Fun Indie Folk, Psychedelic Folk, Singer/Songwriter
El-P Cancer 4 Cure Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
Cat Power Sun Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Art Pop
Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar Folk Pop, Indie Folk
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Psychedelic Pill Country Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse Garage Punk, Noise Rock
Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball Americana, Heartland Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Dr. John Locked Down New Orleans R&B
Jam City Classical Curves Deconstructed Club, UK Bass
The Men Open Your Heart Indie Rock, Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore
Wild Nothing Nocturne Dream Pop
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Mature Themes Hypnagogic Pop, Psychedelic Pop
Liars WIXIW Electronic, Experimental Rock
Leonard Cohen Old Ideas Singer/Songwriter
Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe Vaporwave
Bobby Womack The Bravest Man in the Universe Deep Soul
Twin Shadow Confess New Wave, Synthpop
Jake Bugg Jake Bugg Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
The Menzingers On the Impossible Past Punk Rock
How to Dress Well Total Loss Alternative R&B, Ambient Pop
Goat World Music Psychedelic Rock
Deftones Koi no Yokan Alternative Metal
Bill Fay Life Is People Singer/Songwriter
Dan Deacon America Indietronica
Nas Life Is Good Conscious Hip Hop
The Walkmen Heaven Indie Rock
Matthew E. White Big Inner Singer/Songwriter, Soul
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland Black is Beautiful Electronic, Hypnagogic Pop
David Byrne & St. Vincent Love This Giant Art Pop, Progressive Pop
Raime Quarter Turns Over a Living Line Dark Ambient
Hidrogenesse Un dígito binario dudoso. Recital para Alan Turing Art Pop, Synthpop
Shackleton Music for the Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs Progressive Electronic, Tribal Ambient
Anna von Hausswolff Ceremony Ambient Pop, Art Pop, Neoclassical Darkwave
Ases Falsos Juventud americana Indie Pop
METZ METZ Noise Rock
Kindness World, You Need a Change of Mind Nu-Disco
Santigold Master of My Make-Believe Electropop, Indietronica
Wadada Leo Smith Ten Freedom Summers Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream
Mark Lanegan Band Blues Funeral Alternative Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Trust TRST Futurepop
The Maccabees Given to the Wild Art Rock, Indie Rock
Torche Harmonicraft Stoner Rock
Future Pluto Pop Rap, Southern Hip Hop, Trap
Gepe GP Indie Pop, Latin Alternative, Singer/Songwriter
Saint Etienne Words and Music by Saint Etienne Dance-Pop, Synthpop
Chairlift Something Indie Pop, Synthpop
TOY TOY Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
Lescop Lescop Coldwave, Nouvelle chanson française
Robert Glasper Experiment Black Radio Neo-Soul, Nu Jazz
ScHoolboy Q Habits & Contradictions Hip Hop
Dexys One Day I'm Going to Soar Blue Eyed Soul
Melody's Echo Chamber Melody's Echo Chamber Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage Death Metal, Progressive Metal
Muse The 2nd Law Alternative Rock, Art Rock, Pop Rock
Daphni Jiaolong Tech House
Mount Eerie Ocean Roar Drone, Post-Rock
Voices from the Lake Voices from the Lake Ambient Techno
Mumford & Sons Babel Folk Pop, Indie Folk
Holy Other Held Ambient Dub, Witch House
The Shins Port of Morrow Indie Pop
Silent Servant Negative Fascination Industrial Techno
Jens Lekman I Know What Love Isn't Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Los Punsetes Una Montana es una Montana Dream Pop, Indie Rock, Noise Pop, Post-Punk
Ab-Soul Control System Conscious Hip Hop
Lambchop Mr. M Chamber Pop
Action Bronson & Party Supplies Blue Chips Hardcore Hip Hop
Pegasvs Pegasvs Dream Pop, Indietronica
Roc Marciano Reloaded Gangsta Rap
Neneh Cherry & The Thing The Cherry Thing Avant-Garde Jazz, Vocal Jazz
The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten Alternative Rock, Heartland Rock
Frankie Rose Interstellar Bedroom Pop, Dream Pop
Woods Bend Beyond Folk Rock, Psychedelic Folk
Deerhoof Breakup Song Experimental Rock, Indie Rock
Susanne Sundfør The Silicone Veil Art Pop, Indietronica
Ty Segall Twins Garage Rock
Field Music Plumb Art Pop, Progressive Pop
Mount Eerie Clear Moon Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Pallbearer Sorrow and Extinction Traditional Doom Metal
Animal Collective Centipede Hz Neo-Psychedelia, Noise Pop
Passion Pit Gossamer Indietronica, Synthpop
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Post-Metal
Michael Kiwanuka Home Again Singer/Songwriter, Soul
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles [III] Synthpop, Witch House
Flume Flume Wonky
Anaïs Mitchell Young Man in America Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Allo Darlin' Europe Twee Pop
Iris DeMent Sing the Delta Americana
Cooly G Playin' Me UK Bass, UK Funky
Richard Hawley Standing at the Sky's Edge Psychedelic Rock
Poliça Give You the Ghost Art Pop, Electropop, Indie Pop
Divine Fits A Thing Called Divine Fits Indie Rock
Andrew Bird Break It Yourself Chamber Pop, Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Lone Galaxy Garden Acid House, Hardcore Breaks
Paul Buchanan Mid Air Singer/Songwriter
Mala Mala in Cuba Dubstep
Lower Dens Nootropics Dream Pop, Indie Rock
Tindersticks The Something Rain Chamber Pop
Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror Noise Pop
Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense Post-Hardcore
Rush Clockwork Angels Progressive Rock
Lotus Plaza Spooky Action at a Distance Bedroom Pop, Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
Matthew Dear Beams Synthpop, Tech House
Bob Mould Silver Age Alternative Rock, Power Pop
The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth Indie Folk
Four Tet Pink Tech House
Donald Fagen Sunken Condos Jazz Pop, Sophisti-Pop
Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras Meet The Congos Icon Give Thank Ambient Dub, Neo-Psychedelia
The Avett Brothers The Carpenter Americana, Folk Pop
Cody ChesnuTT Landing on a Hundred Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis The Heist Conscious Hip Hop, Pop Rap
Ty Segall & White Fence Hair Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky Indie Rock
Dirty Three Towards the Low Sun Post-Rock
Rufus Wainwright Out of the Game Baroque Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Carter Tutti Void Transverse Industrial
Sigur Rós Valtari Ambient, Ambient Pop, Post-Rock
Peaking Lights Lucifer Hypnagogic Pop
Beachwood Sparks The Tarnished Gold Alt-Country
Aesop Rock Skelethon Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
M. Ward A Wasteland Companion Americana, Singer/Songwriter
THEESatisfaction awE naturalE Alternative R&B, Neo-Soul
Niki and the Dove Instinct Art Pop, Electropop, Indietronica
The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania Alternative Rock
The Vaccines Come of Age Indie Rock
Patti Smith Banga Art Rock, Singer/Songwriter
The Cribs In the Belly of the Brazen Bull Indie Rock
High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis Sludge Metal, Stoner Metal
The Tallest Man On Earth There's No Leaving Now Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Trouble Electropop, House
Two Door Cinema Club Beacon Indie Pop, Indietronica
Breton Other People's Problems Art Rock, Indie Rock
Plan B Ill Manors Conscious Hip Hop, Film Soundtrack, UK Hip Hop
Thee Oh Sees Putrifiers II EP Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Calexico Algiers Alt-Country, Americana
Death Grips No Love Deep Web Abstract Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Industrial Hip Hop
Los Evangelistas Homenaje a Enrique Morente Indie Rock, Post-Rock, Shoegaze