Best Albums

The Guardian

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Highest Rated Albums of 2012

Year

2012
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  - 2012
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  - All Time

Genre

All
- - All
  - Alternative Rock
  - Art Pop
  - Chamber Pop
  - Dance Pop
  - Dream Pop
  - Electronic
  - Electropop
  - Experimental
  - Folk
  - Garage Rock
  - Hip Hop
  - Indie Pop
- - Indie Rock
  - Jazz
  - Metal
  - Pop
  - Pop Rock
  - Post-Rock
  - Psychedelic
  - Punk
  - R&B
  - Rock
  - Singer-Songwriter
  - Soul
  - Synthpop

This is an ordered list of The Guardian's highest rated albums of 2012. Check out The Guardian's Year End List.

1. X-TG - Desertshore / The Final Report

December 11, 2012

Electronic

Score

100

2. Har Mar Superstar - You Can Feel Me

October 22, 2012

Score

100

3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

October 16, 2012

Post-Rock

Score

100

4. Tame Impala - Lonerism

October 9, 2012

Psychedelic Rock

Score

100

5. Lau - Race the Loser

September 0, 2012

Score

100

6. Matthew E. White - Big Inner

August 21, 2012

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

7. Goat - World Music

August 20, 2012

Psychedelic Rock

Score

100

8. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold

August 18, 2012

Garage Rock

Score

100

9. Nelson Freire - Brasileiro: Villa-Lobos & Friends

August 6, 2012

Score

100

10. R. Stevie Moore - Lo Fi Hi Fives

August 6, 2012

Score

100

Source →

Amazon

11. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

July 17, 2012

Alternative R&B

Score

100

12. The Very Best - MTMTMK

July 17, 2012

Electronic

Score

100

13. Various Artists - Bass Culture Volume One: This Town Is Too Hot! - Ska & Rocksteady Original 1960s Recordings

July 16, 2012

Score

100

Source →

Amazon

14. John Murry - The Graceless Age

July 2, 2012

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

15. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

June 26, 2012

Death Metal

Score

100

16. Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge

May 7, 2012

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

17. Jack White - Blunderbuss

April 24, 2012

Blues Rock

Score

100

18. Dr. John - Locked Down

April 3, 2012

Blues

Score

100

19. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself

March 6, 2012

Chamber Pop

Score

100

20. John Talabot - ƒIN

February 14, 2012

Deep House

Score

100

21. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II

February 14, 2012

Post-Rock

Score

100

22. Django Django - Django Django

January 30, 2012

Psychedelic

Score

100

23. The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock - The Brutal Here And Now

December 11, 2012

Score

24. Hacker Farm - UHF

December 10, 2012

Score

25. Ian Skelly - Cut from a Star

December 10, 2012

Score

Source →

Amazon

NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings The Guardian awarded albums throughout 2012.

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