Best Albums of the Years: 2012

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Original Top 40

  1. Kreng – Works for Abattoir Fermé 2007 – 2011
  2. Richard Barrett – Dark Matter
  3. Black Swan – Heaven
  4. Jakob Ullmann – fremde zeit addendum
  5. Edward Ka-Spel – Ghost Logik & This Saturated Land
  6. Monty Adkins – Four Shibusa
  7. iamamiwhoami – kin
  8. Evan Caminiti – Dreamless Sleep
  9. Aaron Cassidy – The Crutch of Memory
  10. K2 – Funeral Songs
  11. Beach House – Bloom
  12. Greg Haines – Digressions
  13. Claire Chase – Terrestre
  14. Helm – Impossible Symmetry
  15. Chubby Wolf – Seasick
  16. Sarah Blasko – I Awake
  17. David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant
  18. Ben Lukas Boysen – Restive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  19. Gareth Davis & Frances-Marie Uitti – Gramercy
  20. Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
  21. Deerhoof – Breakup Song
  22. Julia Holter – Ekstasis
  23. Scott Miller & Carla Rees – Devices and Desires
  24. Ramon Humet – Niwa. Chamber works
  25. The Legendary Pink Dots – The Creature that Tasted Sound
  26. Sunken Foal – Friday Syndrome Vol.1
  27. Susanne Sundfør – The Silicone Veil
  28. voidesque – moving walls and simpler things
  29. Kenneth Kirschner – January 10, 2012
  30. Yeti Lane – The Echo Show
  31. Kettel & Secede – When Can
  32. of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks
  33. The Flashbulb – Opus At The End Of Everything
  34. Dai Fujikura – Secret Forest
  35. irr. app. (ext.) – Their Little Bones, Becoming Sharp, Find Repose But Fail To Avoid Worrying A Breach In The Ghostly Skin Which Separates That Above From That Below (This Being The Last And Final Seal) And Whereupon All Light Evacuated The Furnace. Several Consequences Ensue.
  36. Lindstrøm – Six Cups of Rebel
  37. Hanne Hukkelberg – Featherbrain
  38. Au – Both Lights
  39. Metric – Synthetica
  40. Sleep Party People – We Were Drifting on a Sad Song

Revised Top 30​

  1. Kreng – Works for Abattoir Fermé 2007 – 2011
  2. Richard Barrett – Dark Matter
  3. Jakob Ullmann – fremde zeit addendum
  4. Monty Adkins – Four Shibusa
  5. Altus – The Sidereal Cycle 2
  6. Chubby Wolf – Seasick
  7. Keith Fullerton Whitman – Occlusions
  8. Kenneth Kirschner – September 13, 2012
  9. Gareth Davis & Frances-Marie Uitti – Terra Incognita
  10. Philippe Petit – The Extraordinary Tale Of A Lemon Girl trilogy : Chapter II: Fire-Walking To Wonderland
  11. Edward Ka-Spel – This Saturated Land
  12. iamamiwhoami – kin
  13. aTelecine – Entkopplung
  14. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Egor
  15. Evan Caminiti – Dreamless Sleep
  16. John Wall & Mark Durgan – 139
  17. Ben Lukas Boysen – Restive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  18. Aaron Cassidy – The Crutch of Memory
  19. Henrik Nordvargr Björkk – Music for N,N-Dimetyltryptamin
  20. K2 – Funeral Songs
  21. Beach House – Bloom
  22. Greg Haines – Digressions
  23. Claire Chase – Terrestre
  24. Helm – Impossible Symmetry
  25. Sarah Blasko – I Awake
  26. David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant
  27. Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
  28. Deerhoof – Breakup Song
  29. Julia Holter – Ekstasis
  30. Scott Miller & Carla Rees – Devices and Desires