MOJO's Top 20 Albums of 2012

MOJO's Top 20 Albums of 2012

19.

Advance Base - A Shut-In's Prayer
May 15, 2012
Critic Score
77
7 reviews

18.

April 3, 2012
Critic Score
72
20 reviews

17.

February 6, 2012
Critic Score
78
32 reviews

... outstanding piece of work.

16.

June 12, 2012
Critic Score
78
34 reviews

The Bravest Man impresses on a steadily rising graph as Womack's soul-soaked voice humanises the machinery in ways rarely heard these days.

15.

September 4, 2012
Critic Score
79
43 reviews

14.

June 11, 2012
Critic Score
75
41 reviews

13.

September 11, 2012
Critic Score
78
46 reviews
If letting the world in has resulted in an album this beguiling, there's nothing to fear.

12.

October 5, 2012
Critic Score
86
35 reviews
It's all tinged with, real communicable melancholy. 

10.

September 10, 2012
Critic Score
84
33 reviews

Tempest is Dylan's best musical album of this century, a vibrant maximising of strict rules and the savaged-leather state of that voice.

9.

March 8, 2012
Critic Score
81
24 reviews
A work of transcendent pop beauty that finally explains the idea of "ekstasis" by leaving the listener beside themselves, in a state of rapturous joy.

8.

April 3, 2012
Critic Score
83
27 reviews
10 of the funkiest tracks Dr. John's been involved in since the '70s.

7.

January 30, 2012
Critic Score
81
26 reviews
Django Django confound because they sound gloriously, unpredictably new, but also recall past bands and sounds gone.

6.

The Black Keys - El Camino
December 6, 2011
Critic Score
79
37 reviews
It's never just meat and potatoes. It's more like eating bone marrow in a fashionable restaurant - earthy, carnivorous but still beautifully designed and knowingly conceptualized.

5.

June 4, 2012
Critic Score
78
19 reviews

Intense, painfully frank, hysterically funny, and in the end, exultant... OSIGTS isn't always an easy listen, but it does offer a fearless experience that invests pop with more theatricality than the form can usually tolerate.

4.

January 31, 2012
Critic Score
81
35 reviews

Old Ideas remain a quietly surprising album, full of grace, full of sadness, but also, most importantly, full of life.

3.

August 21, 2012
Critic Score
82
22 reviews

Life Is People is superb.

2.

July 10, 2012
Critic Score
91
42 reviews
R&B prodigy takes us on an epic journey into the self.

1.

April 24, 2012
Critic Score
82
41 reviews

While Blunderbuss appears to be definite off-loading of emotional baggage, it also feels like a move toward rebirth.

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