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The Best Rock Albums of 2012

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Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan
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    NOTE: I'm still reviewing hundreds of 2012 albums so the list below is wildly incomplete.
    8/10
    7.5/10
  1. Abu Lahab: Humid Limbs of the Torn Beadsman (self)
  2. Andy Stott: Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
  3. King Tears Bat Trip: King Tears Bat Trip (Hanged Man)
    7/10
  4. Julia Holter: Ekstasis (RVNG)
  5. Godspeed You Black Emperor: Allelujah Don't Bend Ascend (Constellation)
  6. Tea Rockers Quintet: Ceremony (EnT-T)
  7. Beach House: Bloom (Subpop)
  8. Zammuto: Zammuto (Temporary Residence)
  9. Demdike Stare: Elemental (Modern Love)
  10. Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel (Epic)
  11. Raime: Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
  12. Cloud Nothings: Attack On Memory (Carpark)
  13. Perfume Genius: Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)
  14. Ty Segall: Slaughterhouse (In The Red)
  15. Frank Ocean: Channel Orange (Def Jam)

EPs and minis:

  1. Abu Lahab: We Beheld the Last Contraction of the Seraph (2012) (mini) 7.5/10
  2. Burial: Kindred (Hyperdub) (EP) 7/10
  3. Lapalux: When You're Gone (Brainfeeder) (EP) 7/10
Playlist
  1. Fiona Apple: Every Single Night
  2. Abu Lahab: And No Health Was Left in Us
  3. Julia Holter: Marienbad
  4. Zammuto: Yaj
  5. Eyesores: Fire Shuffle
  6. Fiona Apple: Hot Knife
  7. Julia Holter: Fur Felix
  8. Lapalux: Gutter Glitter
  9. Necro Deathmort: Imperial
  10. Beach House: The Hours
  11. Tame Impala: Apocalypse Dreams,
  12. Perfume Genius: AWOL Marine
  13. Lambchop: Gone Tomorrow
  14. Death Grips: I've Seen Footage
  15. Mark Lanegan: The Gravedigger's Song
  16. M Ward: Primitive Girl
  17. Beach House: Wild
  18. Actress: Caves Of Paradise

Extended tracks
  1. Godspeed You Black Emperor: Mladic
  2. King Tears Bat Trip: Stolen Police Car
  3. Cloud Nothings: Wasted Days
  4. Tea Rockers Quintet: Three
  5. Demdike Stare: Kommunion
  6. Frances White: The Ocean Inside
  7. Richard Garet: Areal
  8. Burial: Kindred
  9. Kristin Norderval: Nightcall
  10. Man Forever: Ur Eternity
  11. Dodecahedron: View From Hverfell
Jazz
  1. Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  2. Fire Orchestra: Exit
  3. Phantom Orchard: Trouble In Paradise (Tzadik)
  4. Matt Ulery: By A Little Light
  5. Mary Halvorson Quintet: Bending Bridges
  6. Vijay Iyer: Accelerando
  7. Darius Jones Quartet: Book of Mae'bul
  8. Christian Scott: Christian aTunde Adjuah
  9. Jonah Parzen-Johnson: Michiana
  10. Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio
  11. Geri Allen: A Child Is Born
  12. David Virelles: Continuum
  13. Brad Mehldau Trio: Ode
  14. Masabumi Kikuchi: Sunrise
  15. Henry Threadgill: Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry
  16. Rob Mazurek Septet: Skull Sessions
  17. Scott Dubois: Landscape Scripture
  18. Miles Okazaki: Figurations

By genre:

Songwriters

Post-rock
Psychedelia

Electronica

Progressive

Punk/hardcore

Dance
Heavy rock

Instrumental

By country:

Britain

Germany
Japan

Rest of Europe
Australia

Canada

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