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The Tragically Hip - Now For Plan A
October 2, 2012
Score
90
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Garbage - Not Your Kind of People
May 15, 2012
Score
80
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The Stranglers - Giants
March 5, 2012
Score
80
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Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
February 7, 2012
Score
80
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The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
April 21, 2012
Score
80
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Sonic Youth - Smart Bar - Chicago 1985
November 14, 2012
Score
80
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The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
July 24, 2012
Score
80
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Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks
March 27, 2012
Score
80
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Muse - The 2nd Law
October 2, 2012
Score
70
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The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
June 18, 2012
Score
70
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Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky
September 18, 2012
Score
70
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...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs
October 23, 2012
Score
70
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The Pineapple Thief - All the Wars
September 3, 2012
Score
70
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Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour
February 14, 2012
Score
70
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The Dandy Warhols - This Machine
April 24, 2012
Score
70
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Soul Asylum - Delayed Reaction
July 17, 2012
Score
70
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Soundgarden - King Animal
November 13, 2012
Score
70
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Bob Mould - Silver Age
September 4, 2012
Score
60
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Green Day - ¡Dos!
November 13, 2012
Score
60
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat and Bone
September 18, 2012
Score
50
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This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings awarded albums throughout 2012.
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