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This is an ordered list of NME's highest rated albums of 2012. Check out
NME's Year End List
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Human Don't Be Angry - Human Don't Be Angry
April 24, 2012
Indie Rock
Score
80
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Music
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27
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Shrag - Canines
July 2, 2012
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
28
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Mike Wexler - Dispossession
March 6, 2012
Psychedelic Folk
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
29
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Jimmy Edgar - Majenta
December 4, 2012
Score
80
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Amazon
Music
Spotify
30
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Ren Harvieu - Through the Night
April 2, 2012
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
31
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Lovelock - Burning Feeling
April 30, 2012
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
32
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Ital Tek - Nebula Dance
October 22, 2012
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
33
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Shed - The Killer
July 27, 2012
Techno
Score
80
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Amazon
Music
Spotify
34
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Two Wounded Birds - Two Wounded Birds
June 26, 2012
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
35
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HAIM - Forever
July 2, 2012
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
36
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Mission of Burma - Unsound
July 9, 2012
Post-Punk
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
37
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Light Asylum - Light Asylum
May 1, 2012
Synthpop
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Spotify
38
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
October 30, 2012
Psychedelic Rock
,
Country Rock
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
39
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The D.O.T - And That
October 22, 2012
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
40
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The Jim Jones Revue - The Savage Heart
October 15, 2012
Garage Rock
,
Rock & Roll
,
Punk Blues
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
41
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Clark - Fantasm Planes
September 11, 2012
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
42
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Fist City - It's 1983 Grow Up!
June 1, 2012
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Spotify
43
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Bed Rugs - 8th Cloud
January 23, 2012
Psychedelic Pop
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
44
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Maxïmo Park - The National Health
June 11, 2012
Indie Rock
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
45
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Willy Mason - Carry On
December 3, 2012
Singer-Songwriter
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
46
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Miike Snow - Happy to You
March 27, 2012
Electropop
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
47
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JBM - Stray Ashes
May 22, 2012
Indie Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
48
.
Matthew E. White - Big Inner
August 21, 2012
Singer-Songwriter
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
49
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I Like Trains - The Shallows
May 15, 2012
Post-Rock
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
50
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Katy B - Danger EP
December 7, 2012
House
,
Dance-Pop
,
UK Funky
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
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This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings NME awarded albums throughout 2012.
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