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Q Magazine's Top 50 Albums of 2012

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Q Magazine put out their Top 50 albums of 2012 list, choosing to do so in no particular order this year, making it more a pile than a list. Check out Q’s picks in alphabetical order below.


Q Magazine – Top 50 Albums of 2012
The 2 Bears – Be Strong
Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
Paul Banks – Banks
Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man
Beach House – Bloom
Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant
Cat Power – Sun
Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
Daphni – Jiaolong
Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
Django Django – Django Django
Bob Dylan – Tempest
EL-P – Cancer4Cure
Field Music – Plumb
Go-Kart Mozart – On The Hot Dog Streets
Grimes – Visions
Grizzly Bear – Shields
Ren Harvieu – Through The Night
Richard Hawley – Standing At The Sky’s Edge
Here We Go Magic – A Different Ship
Hot Chip – In Our Heads
Elton John Vs. Pnau – Good Morning To The Night
Josephine – Portrait
The Killers – Battle Born
Kindness – World, You Need A Change of Mind
Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral
The Maccabees – Given to the Wild
Mala in Cuba – Mala in Cuba
Mumford & Sons – Babel
Muse – The 2nd Law
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
Orbital – Wonky
Peaking Lights – Lucifer
Plan B – Ill Manors
Emeli Sande – Our Version of Events
Saint Etienne – Words And Music By Saint Etienne
School Of Seven Bells – Ghostory
Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
Tame Impala – Lonerism
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Trouble
The Vaccines – Come Of Age
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
The Walkmen – Heaven
Jessie Ware – Devotion
Paul Weller – Sonik Kicks
Jack White – Blunderbuss
Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In The Universe