Clash's Top 40 Albums of 2012

Clash's Top 40 Albums of 2012

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39.

March 20, 2012
Critic Score
69
41 reviews
A gigantic album.

38.

August 21, 2012
Critic Score
69
40 reviews
Right from the off it’s more accessible than 2010’s good, but tricksy, ‘Odd Blood’. That’s not to say it’s a step-backwards – instead, it’s a further evolution of the band’s interests in Eighties electro and contemporary R&B.

35.

September 4, 2012
Critic Score
65
21 reviews

34.

Marconi Union - Different Colours
June 18, 2012
Critic Score
80
3 reviews

33.

October 15, 2012
Critic Score
78
12 reviews

32.

September 11, 2012
Critic Score
76
8 reviews

31.

April 24, 2012
Critic Score
81
20 reviews

28.

August 28, 2012
Critic Score
79
28 reviews

25.

July 17, 2012
Critic Score
80
13 reviews

23.

June 5, 2012
Critic Score
81
33 reviews

22.

August 28, 2012
Critic Score
86
34 reviews
It’s a bold and stark opus worthy of attention, if your attention span is long enough.

21.

September 4, 2012
Critic Score
74
43 reviews

‘Centepede Hz’ is somehow both futuristically innovative and welcomingly accessible. Amid the obscurantism caused by white noise and radio interference are strong choruses likely to get any form of life dancing.

20.

September 25, 2012
Critic Score
75
22 reviews

19.

January 9, 2012
Critic Score
73
17 reviews

18.

November 13, 2012
Critic Score
82
20 reviews

17.

September 11, 2012
Critic Score
78
46 reviews

While the lyrics are a little lacking, the sonics remain impressive enough to divert attention.

13.

October 5, 2012
Critic Score
86
35 reviews

Jinking together the familiar, hallucinogen-fuelled guitar strums and splashed-out lyrics of debut first album, ‘Lonerism’, hits a more dejected nerve.

12.

Gang Colours - Keychain Collection
March 27, 2012
Critic Score
73
12 reviews

11.

April 24, 2012
Critic Score
82
41 reviews
A turbulent insight into one man’s wrath.

10.

September 18, 2012
Critic Score
79
38 reviews

‘Shields’ is an engrossing, beautiful work which could only come from Grizzly Bear, and only at this point in their career. Stunning.

7.

October 2, 2012
Critic Score
83
34 reviews

5.

February 21, 2012
Critic Score
80
41 reviews
With 4AD’s renewed vigor in all affairs electonique and Boucher’s coherent elevation in both song quality and hook there’ll be no stopping this creative, sensual explosion of humanity called Grimes.

4.

April 21, 2012
Critic Score
83
26 reviews

‘The Money Store’ is a modern, breathing nightmare. It’s hyper real hip-hop made just in time for the end of the world.

3.

July 10, 2012
Critic Score
91
42 reviews

Frank Ocean belongs to a tiny sub-genre of artists who possess the ability to sing in falsetto about a girl smoking crack and still sound like a fucking angel. 

1.

June 12, 2012
Critic Score
78
34 reviews
An album that's completely beguiling.
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