A. V CLUB BEST 25 ALBUMS OF 2012

1. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
2. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
3. Cloud Nothings – Attack On Memory
4. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
5. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do.
6. Jack White – Blunderbuss
7. Swans – The Seer
8. Bob Mould – Silver Age
8. [tie] Titus Andronicus – Local Business
9. P.O.S. – We Don’t Even Live Here
10. Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
11. Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
12. Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
13. Grizzly Bear – Shields
14. Rush – Clockwork Angels
15. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
16. The Men – Open Your Heart
17. Field Music – Plumb
18. Future Of The Left – The Plot Against Common Sense
18.  The Walkmen – Heaven
19. Sun Kil Moon – Among The Leaves
20. Cat Power – Sun
21. Bob Dylan – Tempest
22. Dion – Tank Full Of Blues
24. Pilot To Gunner – Guilty Guilty