| 2012 |
| 50 | | d'Eon
Music For Keyboards Vol. 1
3.5 | Favorite Tracks: #85, #86, and #118 |
| 49 |  | Key Nyata
Tha Phonkilation
3.5 | Favorite Tracks: Pitch Black, Get High (I Wanna Smoke), and Deep Meditation |
| 48 | | Egyptian Hip Hop
Good Don't Sleep
3.5 | Favorite Tracks: Tobago, Yoro Diallo, and One Eyed King |
| 47 |  | Captain Murphy
Duality
3.5 | Favorite Tracks: El Topo, Between Friends (feat. Earl Sweatshirt), and Drive Thru |
| 46 |  | Purity Ring
Shrines
3.5 | Favorite Tracks: Fineshrine, Belispeak, and Saltkin |
| 45 |  | Wizard Rifle
Speak Loud Say Nothing
4 | Favorite Tracks: Tears Won't Soften Steel, Frazetta, and Leathery Gentlemen |
| 44 |  | Lovesliescrushing
Tiny Shiny Stars
4 | Favorite Tracks: Gloxina, Snowfell Husher, and Overdose |
| 43 |  | BNNT
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4 | Favorite Tracks: Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga recruiting children, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti head separated from
his body, and Joseph Kony, a former Catholic altar boy from northern Uganda. |
| 42 |  | Gaza
No Absolutes in Human Suffering
4 | Favorite Tracks: Mostly Hair and Bones Now, The Crown, and When They Beg |
| 41 |  | Thoughts on Air
Paleo Sails
4 | Favorite Tracks: Yarn, Little Lull, and Face |
| 40 |  | Loma Prieta
I.V.
4 | Favorite Tracks: Trilogy 6 "Forgetting", Aside From This Distant Shadow, There is Nothing Left, and Biography |
| 39 |  | METZ
METZ
4 | Favorite Tracks: Sad Pricks, Knife in the Water, and Wasted |
| 38 |  | Crystal Palace
Spirit Quest
4 |
| 37 |  | King Tears Bat Trip
King Tears Bat Trip
4 |
| 36 |  | Vestals
Forever Falling Towards the Sky
4 | Favorite Tracks: Forever Falling, Of Ripples, and In Waking Dreams |
| 35 |  | Converge
All We Love We Leave Behind
4 | Favorite Tracks: Aimless Arrow, Trespasses, and Glacial Pace |
| 34 |  | Deerhoof
Breakup Song
4 | Favorite Tracks: Bad Kids to the Front, Mothball the Fleet, and The Trouble with Candyhands |
| 33 |  | Dope Body
Natural History
4 | Favorite Tracks: Beat, Twice the Life, and Lazy Slave |
| 32 |  | Isengrind
Night of Raining Fire
4 | Favorite Tracks: Lost Girls, Ascending, and Still Voyager |
| 31 |  | Phantom Horse
Phantom Horse
4 | Favorite Tracks: Fernando, Gecko, and Rongo Rongo |
| 30 |  | Meshuggah
Koloss
4 | Favorite Tracks: The Demon's Name is Surveillance, Marrow, and The Last Vigil |
| 29 |  | Yowie
Damning With Faint Praise
4 | Favorite Tracks: Slowly But Surly, Whippersnapper, and Shriners Sure Do Cuss a Lot |
| 28 |  | Field Music
Plumb
4 | Favorite Tracks: Guillotine, So Long Then, and Just Like Everyone Else |
| 27 |  | Spaceghostpurrp
Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp
4 | Favorite Tracks: Mystikal Maze, Osiris of the East, and Suck a Dick 2012 |
| 26 |  | Jessie Ware
Devotion
4 | Favorite Tracks: Devotion, Night Light, and Something Inside |
| 25 |  | Teen Suicide
i will be my own hell because there...
4 | Favorite Tracks: Give Me Back to the Sky, Have You Been Eating That Sandwich Again, and Dan Collins vs. the Maryland
Judicial System |
| 24 |  | Freddie Gibbs
Baby Face Killa
4 | Favorite Tracks: Money, Clothes, Hoes (MCH), Kush Cloud (feat. Spaceghostpurrp & Krayzie Bone), and Bout It Bout It
(feat. Kirko Bangz) |
| 23 |  | Traxman
Da Mind of Traxman
4 | Favorite Tracks: Itz Crack, Rock You, and I Need Some Money |
| 22 |  | Andy Stott
Luxury Problems
4 | Favorite Tracks: Lost and Found, Sleepless, and Leaving |
| 21 |  | White Lung
Sorry
4 | Favorite Tracks: Take the Mirror, Bag, and Glue |
| 20 |  | Beach House
Bloom
4 | Favorite Tracks: Myth, Other People, and New Year |
| 19 | | bvdub
Don't Say You Know
4 | Favorite Tracks: All It Takes, Pure of Heart, and Made It Here Without You |
| 18 |  | Normal Love
Survival Tricks
4 | Favorite Tracks: Lend Some Treats, Grimy Super Soaker, and Cultural Uppercut |
| 17 |  | Mac DeMarco
Rock and Roll Night Club
4 | Favorite Tracks: European Vegas, She's Really All I Need, and I'm a Man |
| 16 |  | The Walkmen
Heaven
4 | Favorite Tracks: Song for Leigh, Nightingales, and The Love You Love |
| 15 |  | bvdub
Serenity
4 | Favorite Tracks: Unity, Beauty, and Love |
| 14 |  | James Ferraro
Sushi
4 | Favorite Tracks: Jumpshot Earth, Lovesick, and Jet Skis & Sushi |
| 13 |  | Grizzly Bear
Shields
4 | Favorite Tracks: Sleeping Ute, Yet Again, and Gun-Shy |
| 12 | | Melody's Echo Chamber
Melody's Echo Chamber
4 | Favorite Tracks: You Won't Be Missing That Part of Me, Some Time Alone, Alone, and Be Proud of Your Kids |
| 11 |  | Chairlift
Something
4 | Favorite Tracks: Wrong Opinion, Amanaemonesia, and Turning |
| 10 |  | Micachu
Never
4 | Favorite Tracks: Slick, Holiday, and Nothing |
| 9 |  | Mac DeMarco
2
4 | Favorite Tracks: The Stars Keep on Calling My Name, My Kind of Woman, and Still Together |
| 8 |  | En
Already Gone
4 | Favorite Tracks: Lodi, The Sea Saw Swell, and Already Gone |
| 7 | | YYU
TIMETIMETIME&TIME
4 | Favorite Tracks: yyyy, (((*~*~ under that, and i haven't left |
| 6 |  | Lil Ugly Mane
Mista Thug Isolation
4 | Favorite Tracks: Serious Shit, Twistin' (feat. Denzel Curry), and No Slack in My Mack |
| 5 |  | Bersarin Quartett
II
4.5 | Favorite Tracks: Im Lichte Des Anderen, Der Mond, Der Schnee Und Du, Rot Und Schwartz, Hier Und Jetzt, and Jedem
Zauber Wohnt Ein Ende
Inne |
| 4 |  | Weird Dreams
Choreography
4.5 | Favorite Tracks: Vague Hotel, Holding Nails, Little Girl, River of the Damned, and Summer Black |
| 3 |  | Death Grips
The Money Store
4.5 | Favorite Tracks: The Fever (Aye Aye), I've Seen Footage, Double Helix, System Blower, and Hacker |
| 2 |  | Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city
4.5 | Favorite Tracks: Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe, Backseat Freestyle, Poetic Justice, Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst, and Real |
| 1 |  | Laurel Halo
Quarantine
4.5 | Favorite Tracks: Airsick, Thaw, Tumor, Morcom, and Light + Space |
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