Best Albums of 2012

As is the annual tradition here at Sentient Developments, I have put together a list of my favorite albums from the past year. Here are the best albums of 2012.

1. Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory

2. Father John Misty: Fear Fun

3. Death Grips: The Money Store

4. Ty Segall & White Fence: Hair

5. Pallbearer: Sorrow And Extinction

6. Laurel Halo: Quarantine

7. El-P Cancer for Cure

8. Beach House: Bloom

9. Grimes: Visions

10. Blut Aus Nord: Cosmosophy

11. Tame Impala: Lonerism

12. Ty Segall Band: Slaughterhouse

13. Japandroids: Celebration Rock

14. Frankie Rose: Interstellar

15. DIIV: Oshin

16. iamamiwhoami: Kin

17. Django Django: Django Django

18. Grizzly Bear: Shields

19. The Men: Open Your Heart

20. Swans: The Seer

Here's the entire list:

1. Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory
2. Father John Misty: Fear Fun
3. Death Grips: The Money Store
4. Ty Segall & White Fence: Hair
5. Pallbearer: Sorrow And Extinction
6. Laurel Halo: Quarantine
7. El-P Cancer for Cure
8. Beach House: Bloom
9. Grimes: Visions
10. Blut Aus Nord: Cosmosophy
11. Tame Impala: Lonerism
12. Ty Segall Band: Slaughterhouse
13. Japandroids: Celebration Rock
14. Frankie Rose: Interstellar
15. DIIV: Oshin
16. iamamiwhoami: Kin
17. Django Django: Django Django
18. Grizzly Bear: Shields
19. The Men: Open Your Heart
20. Swans: The Seer
21. Purity Ring: Shrines
22. Thee Oh Sees: Putrifiers II
23. White Fence: Family Perfume
24. Perfume Genius: Put Your Back N 2 It
25. Chromatics: Kill for Love
26. Baroness: Yellow & Green
27. Shins: Port of Morrow
28. Burial: Street Halo/Kindred
29. Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard
30. Ty Segall: Twins
31. Bear in Heaven: I Love You, It’s Cool
32. Chairlift: Something
33. Wild Nothing: Nocturne
34. Converge: All We Love We Leave Behind
35. Andy Stott: Luxury Problems
36. Modeselektor: Monkeytown
37. Frank Ocean: channel ORANGE
38. Four Tet: Pink
39. Lower Dens: Nootropics
40. Sharon Van Etten: Tramp
41. Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light
42. Nas: Life is Good
43. The Walkmen: Heaven
44. Orbital: Wonky
45. School of Seven Bells: Ghostory
46. Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan
47. Jessie Ware: Devotion
48. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead: Lost Songs
49. High on Fire: De Vermis Mysteriis
50. Hot Chip: In Our Heads
51. Bat For Lashes: The Haunted Man
52. Deftones: Koi No Yokan
53. Lotus Plaza: Spooky Action at a Distance
54. Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music
55. Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin: Instrumental Tourist
56. Twin Shadow: Confess
57. Ramona Falls: Prophet
58. Woods: Bend Beyond
59. Dr. John: Locked Down
60. Alcest: Les Voyages De L’Ame
61. Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid, m.A.A.d city
62. Porcelain Raft: Strange Weekend
63. Actress: R.I.P.
64. Torche: Harmonicraft
65. Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes
66. Now, Now: Threads
67. Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
68. Conan: Monnos
69. Tallest Man on Earth: There’s No Leaving Now
70. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs: Trouble
71. Squarepusher: Ufabulum
72. Violens: True
73. First Aid Kit: Lion’s Roar
74. The Soft Moon: Zeros
75. Lambchop: Mr. M