2012's Finest 100
This list is my Top 100 Albums & EPs of 2012. It's limited to 1 entry per
artist. Call Me Maybe is obviously Song of the Year. Recommendations are
more than welcome. I'll listen to pretty much anything as long as I can find
it on the internet. |
| 100 |  | Beau Navire Lumens
Screamo / Hardcore |
| 99 |  | Vessel Order Of Noise
(Dub) Techno / Leftfield |
| 98 |  | Christian Loeffler A Forest
Deep House |
| 97 |  | Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke, Keiji Haino Imikuzushi
Noise Rock |
| 96 |  | Chapelier Fou Invisible
Neo-Classical |
| 95 |  | El-P Cancer 4 Cure
Hip-Hop |
| 94 |  | Nina Kraviz Nina Kraviz
(Deep) House |
| 93 |  | Misser Every Day I Tell Myself...
Pop Punk |
| 92 |  | Clipping Untitled
Hip-Hop / Noise |
| 91 |  | Young Legionnaire Wreckonomics
Indie Rock / Post-Hardcore |
| 90 |  | Puer Aeternus Puer Aeternus
Screamo |
| 89 |  | Entropy Four Minds, Fourteen Perspectives
Faux Progressive Post-Avantgarde Abstract Free Math Jazzcore |
| 88 |  | Terrence Dixon From The Far Future - Part 2
Minimal Techno |
| 87 |  | Raime Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
Dark Ambient / Industrial |
| 86 |  | The Hirsch Effekt Holon: Anamnesis
Post-Hardcore |
| 85 |  | Shifted Crossed Paths
Dub Techno |
| 84 |  | Shackleton Music For The Quiet Hour
Techno / Dubstep / Abstract / Tribal |
| 83 |  | Flying Lotus Until The Quiet Comes
IDM / Hip-Hop / Jazz |
| 82 |  | Swans The Seer
Post- Rock / Punk |
| 81 |  | Analogue Monsta Boom
Hip-Hop / Electronica |
| 80 |  | Hypogeo Tree Of Lies
Progressive Trance |
| 79 |  | Sorrow (UK) Art Is Dead
UK Garage |
| 78 |  | Cathedraal Voix Blanches
Screamo / Black Metal |
| 77 |  | mhva Scend
Glitch / Field Recordings / Ambient |
| 76 |  | We Had A Deal Dialectics
Post-Hardcore |
| 75 |  | Mount Eerie Clear Moon
Eerie Folk |
| 74 |  | Chymera Death By Misadventure
Deep House |
| 73 |  | Black Everest/Captain, Your Ship is Sink Split
(Post-) Hardcore / Screamo |
| 72 | | The Most Sad .?.?.?And We Spoke of Disorder
Screamo |
| 71 |  | LV Sebenza
Grime / UK Garage / Okmalumkoolkore |
| 70 |  | Giorgio Gigli | Obtane A Sad Wandering Dreamer ...
Dark Ambient / Drone / Techno |
| 69 |  | City of Ghosts Daylight
Post-Hardcore |
| 68 |  | Scott Kid White Noise
Trip-Hop |
| 67 |  | Zelienople The World Is A House On Fire
Drone |
| 66 |  | Ricardo Villalobos Dependent And Happy
Minimal Techno |
| 65 |  | Emptyset Medium
Abstract / Leftfield / Techno |
| 64 |  | Summer Fades Away We Meet the Last Time, Then Departure
Post-Rock |
| 63 |  | Malon Reverie
Emo |
| 62 |  | Coyote Clean Up Frozen Solid
Deep House |
| 61 |  | Joey Bada$$ 1999
Hip-Hop |
| 60 |  | Kaydin Project Berlin
Minimal Techno / Deep House |
| 59 |  | Frozen Border Minutes In Ice
Techno / Label Sampler |
| 58 |  | Coma Regalia/Vowel Split
Post-Hardcore / Screamo |
| 57 |  | mewithoutYou Ten Stories
Indie Rock / Folk |
| 56 |  | Alaska (Las Vegas) palcaptain
Post-Hardcore |
| 55 |  | Beneath Illusions
UK Garage |
| 54 |  | Caravels/Gifts From Enola Well Worn
Hardcore / Post-Rock |
| 53 | | Asclepio Pił Luce
Math-Rock / Hardcore |
| 52 |  | Aussitot Mort Nagykanizsa
Post-Hardcore |
| 51 |  | First Place Science Project Really Experiment
Hip-Hop |
| 50 |  | The Mars Volta Noctourniquet
Psychedelic- / Progressive-Rock |
| 49 |  | World's End Girlfriend Starry Starry Night
OST / Glitch / Post-Rock / Modern Classical |
| 48 |  | Ghost Cat Cave Sounds
Post-Hardcore |
| 47 |  | Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Revolution
J-Pop |
| 46 |  | Tempa 50 Tracks Of Tempa
Dubstep |
| 45 |  | Darling Farah Body
Dub Techno |
| 44 |  | Esazlesa/Five Seconds To Leave Split
Screamo / Post-Rock |
| 43 |  | Hail The Sun Elephantitis
Post-Hardcore |
| 42 |  | Circa Survive Violent Waves
Alt-Rock |
| 41 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Post-Ascension |
| 40 |  | Fanu Coffee Crazy
DnB |
| 39 |  | Prose Salty Sea (Polaroid Evening)
IDM / Ambient / (Post-Rock) |
| 38 |  | Nocow Like Apart
UK Garage |
| 37 |  | TK From ?????? Flowering
Progressive- / Art-Rock |
| 36 |  | Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
Mathcore |
| 35 |  | Foxes Five-Track 2012
Post-Hardcore |
| 34 |  | Bersarin Quartett II
Ambient / Glitch / Modern Classical |
| 33 |  | underwaters Once in June
Trip-Hop |
| 32 |  | Wife Stoic
Leftfield |
| 31 |  | Disclosure The Face
UK Garage |
| 30 |  | Christoph Berg Paraphrases
Modern Classical |
| 29 |  | Natural Snow Buildings Beyond the Veil
Psychedelic Folk / Drone |
| 28 |  | Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues
Post-Hardcore |
| 27 |  | Silkie and Quest Dubstep Allstars Vol. 09
Dubstep |
| 26 |  | Matryoshka Laideronnette
Post-Rock / IDM / Ambient |
| 25 |  | Archive With Us Until You're Dead
Alt-Rock / Downtempo |
| 24 |  | Thriftworks Hydromancy
Dubstep |
| 23 |  | Cloud Nothings Attack On Memory
Lo-Fi / Indie Rock |
| 22 |  | A Whisper in the Noise To Forget
Post-Rock |
| 21 |  | Birds In Row You, Me, and the Violence
(Melodic) Hardcore |
| 20 |  | Voices From The Lake Voices From The Lake
Ambient Techno |
| 19 |  | Nazoranai Nazoranai
Noise Rock / Drone |
| 18 |  | LHF Keepers Of The Light
Dubstep |
| 17 |  | Jizue Novel
Post-Rock / Jazz |
| 16 |  | Solomon Solomon Lent, or, ink on
Post-Hardcore / Screamo |
| 15 |  | Vowel All The Sad Songs
Post-Hardcore |
| 14 |  | Captain Planet Treibeis
Punk |
| 13 |  | Circle Takes The Square Decompositions: Volume Number One
Screamo, Post-Hardcore, Experimental Rock, Progressive Metal, Indie Folk, Hardcore
Punk, Sludge Metal, Emoviolence, Post Rock |
| 12 |  | Clubroot III - MMXII
Dubstep / (Dark Ambient) |
| 11 |  | Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper
Burial |
| 10 |  | Mala Mala In Cuba
Dubstep |
| 9 |  | Dark Time Sunshine ANX
Hip-Hop |
| 8 |  | Kashiwa Daisuke Re:
Glitch / Breakbeat / Ambient / Experimental |
| 7 |  | From The Mouth Of The Sun Woven Tide
Ambient / Modern Classical |
| 6 |  | Perfect Future Old Wounds: Warmth In The Winter Of 1914-1915
Emo / Post-Hardcore |
| 5 |  | Phon.o Black Boulder
Dubstep / UK Garage / (Techno) |
| 4 |  | Francis Harris Leland
Deep House |
| 3 |  | Vales Clarity
Melodic Hardcore |
| 2 |  | Nhato Etude
Trance |
| 1 | | Continents. .?.?.?and silence anchored our feet in granite
(Melodic) Hardcore / Screamo / Emoviolence / Post-Hardcore |
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