December 9, 2012

Best Albums of 2012

As is the annual tradition here at Sentient Developments, I have put together a list of my favorite albums from the past year. Here are the best albums of 2012.

1. Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory

2. Father John Misty: Fear Fun

3. Death Grips: The Money Store

4. Ty Segall & White Fence: Hair

5. Pallbearer: Sorrow And Extinction

6. Laurel Halo: Quarantine

7. El-P Cancer for Cure

8. Beach House: Bloom

9. Grimes: Visions

10. Blut Aus Nord: Cosmosophy

11. Tame Impala: Lonerism

12. Ty Segall Band: Slaughterhouse

13. Japandroids: Celebration Rock

14. Frankie Rose: Interstellar

15. DIIV: Oshin

16. iamamiwhoami: Kin

17. Django Django: Django Django

18. Grizzly Bear: Shields

19. The Men: Open Your Heart

20. Swans: The Seer

Here's the entire list:

  1. Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory
  2. Father John Misty: Fear Fun
  3. Death Grips: The Money Store
  4. Ty Segall & White Fence: Hair
  5. Pallbearer: Sorrow And Extinction
  6. Laurel Halo: Quarantine
  7. El-P Cancer for Cure
  8. Beach House: Bloom
  9. Grimes: Visions
  10. Blut Aus Nord: Cosmosophy
  11. Tame Impala: Lonerism
  12. Ty Segall Band: Slaughterhouse
  13. Japandroids: Celebration Rock
  14. Frankie Rose: Interstellar
  15. DIIV: Oshin
  16. iamamiwhoami: Kin
  17. Django Django: Django Django
  18. Grizzly Bear: Shields
  19. The Men: Open Your Heart
  20. Swans: The Seer
  21. Purity Ring: Shrines
  22. Thee Oh Sees: Putrifiers II
  23. White Fence: Family Perfume
  24. Perfume Genius: Put Your Back N 2 It
  25. Chromatics: Kill for Love
  26. Baroness: Yellow & Green
  27. Shins: Port of Morrow
  28. Burial: Street Halo/Kindred
  29. Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard
  30. Ty Segall: Twins
  31. Bear in Heaven: I Love You, It’s Cool
  32. Chairlift: Something
  33. Wild Nothing: Nocturne
  34. Converge: All We Love We Leave Behind
  35. Andy Stott: Luxury Problems
  36. Modeselektor: Monkeytown
  37. Frank Ocean: channel ORANGE
  38. Four Tet: Pink
  39. Lower Dens: Nootropics
  40. Sharon Van Etten: Tramp
  41. Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light
  42. Nas: Life is Good
  43. The Walkmen: Heaven
  44. Orbital: Wonky
  45. School of Seven Bells: Ghostory
  46. Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan
  47. Jessie Ware: Devotion
  48. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead: Lost Songs
  49. High on Fire: De Vermis Mysteriis
  50. Hot Chip: In Our Heads
  51. Bat For Lashes: The Haunted Man
  52. Deftones: Koi No Yokan
  53. Lotus Plaza: Spooky Action at a Distance
  54. Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music
  55. Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin: Instrumental Tourist
  56. Twin Shadow: Confess
  57. Ramona Falls: Prophet
  58. Woods: Bend Beyond
  59. Dr. John: Locked Down
  60. Alcest: Les Voyages De L’Ame
  61. Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid, m.A.A.d city
  62. Porcelain Raft: Strange Weekend
  63. Actress: R.I.P.
  64. Torche: Harmonicraft
  65. Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes
  66. Now, Now: Threads
  67. Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
  68. Conan: Monnos
  69. Tallest Man on Earth: There’s No Leaving Now
  70. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs: Trouble
  71. Squarepusher: Ufabulum
  72. Violens: True
  73. First Aid Kit: Lion’s Roar
  74. The Soft Moon: Zeros
  75. Lambchop: Mr. M

1 comment:

DocMartn said...

I wish thinking about this list today while tooling down the highway. Thanks for posting. Can't wait to dig in to the one's I have heard yet.