The CL Music Team Presents: Best Albums of 2012
From Father John Misty to Django Django to Big Boi and more.
By Julie Garisto, Leilani Polk, Evan Tokarz, elawgrrl, Gabe Echazabal, Deborah Ramos and Shae Krispinsky
Tags: Music News, You Blew It!, Women & Work, Wildlife, why>, We Are the Tide, Wax Tailor, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, valtari, Two Gallants, Tralala, torche, Too Small to Fail, Tim Barry, the xx, The Sparrow, the lumineers, the idler wheel, the front bottoms, The Fresh and Onlys, The Bloom and the Blight, The Blanket Rule EP, the album leaf, Sweet Valley, Sunglasses, Stay Calm, spectators, Something About April, some nights, sod in the seed, skelethon, Sigur Ros, Sigur rós, Riverhood, Redd Kross, Rebekah Pulley and the Reluctant Prophets, rap music, pinback, paul weller, Patti Smith, Patrick Watson, Other Peoples Problems, Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, Mutt, Music Plumb, mumps etc, monophonics, miike snow, miguel, Michael Kiwanuka, Mama, m. ward, lucero, Long Slow Dance, Leonard Cohen, Lawrence Arabia, kishi bashi, killer mike, kill for love, Kaleidoscope Dreams, Justin Townes Earle, Junior Violence, Joe Jackson, Jessie Ware, japandroids, jack white, Information Retrieved, In Your Brain, Home Again, Holobody, Here We Go Magic, Harmonicraft, Happy To You, Half Way Home, Grow Up Dude, fun, frank orange, forward return, forgetters, fiona apple, Field, fear fun, father john misty, Emily Wells, electrician, el-p, Dusty Rainbow from the Dark, Django Django, Dikembe, Devotion, cory branan, Coexist, Cloud Nothings, Chromatics, channel orange, Celebration Rock, Cat Power, cancer for cure, bruce springsteen, Broad Shoulders, breton, Boys and Girls, Bob Dylan, blunderbuss, blind pilot, big boi, best of 2012, Barry Adamson, attack on memory, Ape School, Angel Olsen, an awesome wave, amelia curran, alt-j, albums of 2012, alabama shakes, Aesop Rock, Adventures in Your Own Backyard, adrian younge, a wasteland companion, A Different Ship, 40 Miler, 32, 151a