Top 25 Albums of 2012 | Alex Schreiber

Bat for Lashes, Beach House, Best Coast, and…John Mayer?

 

1. Beach House | Bloom (Sub Pop)
2. Japandroids | Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl)
3. Tame Impala | Lonerism (Modular)
4. Santigold | Master of My Make-Believe (Atlantic)
5. Grimes | Visions (4ad)
6. Fiona Apple | The Idler Wheel… (Epic)
7. Jack White | Blunderbuss (Third Man/Columbia)
8. Low Cut Connie | Call Me Sylvia (s/r)
9. Metric | Synthetica (Mom & Dad)
10. David Byrne & St. Vincent | Love this Giant (4ad/Todo Mundo)
11. Bat for Lashes | The Haunted Man (Capitol)
12. Leonard Cohen | Old Ideas (Columbia)
13. Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Psychedelic Pill (Reprise)
14. Lord Huron | Lonesome Dreams (Iamsound)
15. Ke$ha | Warrior (RCA)
16. Regina Spektor | What We Saw from the Cheap Seats (Sire/WEA)
17. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti | Mature Themes (4ad)
18. Passion Pit | Gossamer (Columbia)
19. Sharon Van Etten | Tramp (Jagjaguwar)
20. Ty Segall Band | Slaughterhouse (In the Red)
21. Kendrick Lamar | m.A.A.d city (Aftermath)
22. Chairlift | Something (Columbia/DMZ)
23. Best Coast | The Only Place (Mexican Summer)
24. Stars | The North (Young God)
25. John Mayer | Born and Raised (Columbia)