Best Records of 2012

Tame Impala

1. Tame Impala "Lonerism"
2. Grimes "Visions"
3. Leonard Cohen "Old Ideas"
4. Cate Le Bon "CYRK"
5. Alabama Shakes "Boys and Girls"
6. Brian Eno "Lux"
7. Crystal Castles "III"
8. Swans "The Seer"
9. Father John Misty "Fear Fun"
10. Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"



Cate Le Bon



Beach House

11. Beak> ">>" > INTERVIEW
12. Hundred Waters "Hundred Waters"
13. Of Monsters and Men "My Head Is An Animal"
14. Beach House "Bloom"
15. Thee Oh Sees "Putrifiers 2"
16. Bat For Lashes "The Haunted Man"
17. White Fence "Vol 1-2 Family Perfume"
18. Frankie Rose "Interstellar"
19. Chairlift "Something"
20. Purity Ring "Shrines"



Bat For Lashes



Chairlift



White Fence

21. DIIV "Oshin"
22. Sharon Van Etten "Tramp"
23. Melody's Echo Chamber "Melody's Echo Chamber"
24. Dead Can Dance "Anastasis" > INTERVIEW
25. Fiona Apple "The Idler Wheel"
26. School of Seven Bells "Ghostory" > INTERVIEW
27. Niki and The Dove "Instinct"
28. Ringo Deathstarr "Mauve" > INTERVIEW
29. First Aid Kit "The Lion's Roar" > INTERVIEW
30. Brian Jonestown Massacre "Aufheben"



Melody's Echo Chamber



School of Seven Bells



Ringo Deathstarr



First Aid Kit

31. Liars "WIXIW" > INTERVIEW
32. Metz "Metz"
33. Opossum "Electric Hawaii"
34. Dark Dark Dark "Who Needs Who"
35. Ultraista "Ultraista"
36. Richard Hawley "Standing At The Sky's Edge"
37. Tennis "Young and Old"
38. Ty Segall "Slaughterhouse"
39. Patti Smith "Banga"
40. Lower Dens "Nootropics"



Liars



Lower Dens

41. Wild Nothing "Nocturne"
42. Stealing Sheep "Into The Diamond Sun"
43. Allah Las "Allah Las"
44. Lana Del Rey "Born To Die"
45. Ty Segall & White Fence "Hair"
46. Grizzly Bear "Shields"
47. Chromatics "Kill For Love"
48. Death Grips "The Money Store"
49. Exitmusic "Passage" > INTERVIEW
50. Oberhofer "Time Capsules II"



Wild Nothing



Exitmusic



Oberhofer


Honorable mention:

Hallock Hill "The Union / A Hem of Evening"
Mynabirds "Generals"
Magic Wands "Aloha Moon"
Screaming Females "Ugly"
Foxygen "Take The Kids Off Broadway" > INTERVIEW



Foxygen

All photos by Angel Ceballos.