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Lemonade - Diver
May 29, 2012
Electronic
Score
68
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Music
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577
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Yellow Ostrich - Strange Land
March 6, 2012
Indie Rock
Score
68
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
578
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Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game
May 1, 2012
Folk
Score
68
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
579
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Big K.R.I.T. - 4eva N a Day
March 5, 2012
Conscious Hip Hop
,
Southern Hip Hop
Score
68
Source →
Amazon
580
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Dirty Three - Toward the Low Sun
February 28, 2012
Post-Rock
Score
68
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
581
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Imbogodom - And They Turned Not When They Went
January 24, 2012
Folktronica
Score
68
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
582
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Young Magic - Melt
February 14, 2012
Experimental
Score
68
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
583
.
Matthew Dear - Headcage
January 17, 2012
Electronic
Score
68
Source →
Amazon
Spotify
584
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Mi Ami - Decade
March 20, 2012
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
585
.
Magic Trick - Ruler of the Night
June 12, 2012
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
586
.
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Occlusions; Real Time Music for Hybrid Digital-Analogue Modular Synthesizer
June 6, 2012
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
587
.
Forma - Off/On
November 20, 2012
Progressive Electronic
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
588
.
Colleen Green - Milo Goes to Compton
February 21, 2012
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
589
.
XXL - Düde
July 2, 2012
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
590
.
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury - Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One
April 19, 2012
Electronic
,
Progressive Electronic
,
Minimal Synth
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
591
.
Waka Flocka Flame - Salute Me or Shoot Me 4 (Banned from America)
September 13, 2012
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
592
.
Deathspell Omega - Drought
June 22, 2012
Black Metal
,
Avant-Garde Metal
,
Progressive Metal
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
593
.
Mux Mool - Planet High School
February 7, 2012
Hip Hop
,
Instrumental Hip Hop
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
594
.
Dawn Richard - Whiteout
December 1, 2012
Contemporary R&B
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Spotify
595
.
Phèdre - Phèdre
February 14, 2012
Indie Pop
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Spotify
596
.
Dexys - One Day I'm Going to Soar
June 4, 2012
Soul
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
597
.
Night Moves - Colored Emotions
October 16, 2012
Synthpop
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
598
.
MellowHype - Numbers
October 9, 2012
Hip Hop
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Spotify
599
.
Stars - The North
September 4, 2012
Indie Pop
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
600
.
The Melvins Lite - Freak Puke
June 5, 2012
Sludge Metal
Score
67
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
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This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Pitchfork awarded albums throughout 2012.
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