2012

Love is not a victory march; it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.

1. 92/100: Lost In The Trees – A Church That Fits Our Needs
2. 91/100: Graham Coxon – A+E
3. 91/100: Baroness – Yellow and Green
4. 88/100: Death Grips – The Money Store
5. 88/100: Swans – The Seer
6. 87/100: The Mars Volta – Noctourniquet
7. 87/100: Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City
8. 86/100: Rush – Clockwork Angels
9. 85/100: Torche – Harmonicraft
10. 85/100: Menomena – Moms
11. 85/100: Blood Red Shoes – In Time to Voices
12. 85/100: Gotye – Making Mirrors
13. 84/100: Japandroids – Celebration Rock
14. 84/100: Caspian – Waking Season
15. 84/100: El-P – Cancer 4 Cure
16. 83/100: Brian Jonestown Massacre – Aufheben
17. 83/100: Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
18. 83/100: Animal Collective – Centipede Hz
19. 83/100: Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
20. 83/100: Deftones – Koi No Yokan
21. 83/100: Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
22. 82/100: Anais Mitchell – Young Man In America
23. 82/100: Yeasayer – Fragrant World
24. 82/100: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
25. 82/100: Zammuto – Zammuto
26. 82/100: Freelance Whales – Diluvia
27. 82/100: Aesop Rock – Skelethon
28. 82/100: Beach House – Bloom
29. 82/100: Miike Snow – Happy To You
30. 81/100: Grizzly Bear – Shields
31. 81/100: Tame Impala – Lonerism
32. 81/100: Hot Chip – In Our Heads
33. 81/100: Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
34. 81/100: Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Ascension
35. 81/100: Shearwater – Animal Joy
36. 81/100: Punch Brothers – Who’s Feeling Young Now?
37. 80/100: Silversun Pickups – Neck of the Woods
38. 80/100: The Maccabees – Given to the Wild
39. 80/100: Purity Ring – Shrines
40. 80/100: Spiritualized – Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
41. 80/100: High On Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis
42. 80/100: Lisandro Aristimuño – Mundo Anfibio
43. 79/100: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
44. 79/100: Paul Weller – Sonik Kicks
45. 79/100: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Here
46. 79/100: First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
47. 79/100: Xiu Xiu – Always
48. 78/100: Hanne Hukkelberg – Featherbrain
49. 78/100: Dr. Dog – Be The Void
50. 78/100: Liars – WIXIW
51. 78/100: Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE
52. 77/100: Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It
53. 77/100: Field Music – Plumb
54. 77/100: Marilyn Manson – Born Villain
55. 77/100: The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know
56. 76/100: Deerhoof – Breakup Song
57. 76/100: Tenacious D – Rize of the Fenix
58. 75/100: Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror
59. 75/100: David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant
60. 75/100: Fang Island – Major
61. 75/100: Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
62. 75/100: Bloc Party – Four
63. 75/100: Grimes – Visions
64. 75/100: iamamiwhoami – Kin
65. 73/100: Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
66. 73/100: Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal
67. 73/100: Metric – Synthetica
68. 73/100: Islands – A Sleep and A Forgetting
69. 72/100: Sigur Ros – Valtari
70. 72/100: How to Dress Well – Total Loss
71. 72/100: Dry The River – Shallow Bed
72. 72/100: Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe
73. 72/100: Santigold – Master of My Make-Believe
74. 71/100: Fionn Regan - 100 Acres of Sycamore
75. 70/100: Plants And Animals – The End of That
76. 69/100: Django Django – Django Django
77. 69/100: Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself
78. 69/100: Jack White – Blunderbuss
79. 69/100: White Rabbits – Milk Famous
80. 69/100: Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
81. 68/100: A.C. Newman – Shut Down the Streets
82. 68/100: Titus Andronicus – Local Business
83. 68/100: Best Coast – The Only Place
84. 67/100: Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
85. 67/100: The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth
86. 67/100: M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion
87. 67/100: The Walkmen – Heaven
88. 67/100: Chairlift – Something
89. 63/100: Twin Shadow – Confess
90. 63/100: Scuba – Personality
91. 62/100: Circa Survive – Violent Waves
92. 62/100: Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man
93. 61/100: Lightships – Electric Cables
94. 61/100: The xx – Coexist
95. 60/100: Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks
96. 60/100: Grace Potter & The Nocturnals – The Lion The Beast The Beat
97. 59/100: The Shins – Port of Morrow
98. 59/100: Mumford & Sons – Babel
99. 57/100: Lana Del Rey – Born to Die
100. 52/100: fun. – Some Nights
101. 48/100: Muse – The 2nd Law
102. 27/100: Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded