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'The Fly' magazine's Top 50 LPs of 2012 (Sharon Van Etten #1)

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The Fly is the “UK’s most popular new music magazine,” but if you haven’t heard of it, its because it’s a free monthly that doesn’t really get international distribution. You can however read it online. The mag just released it’s year-end issue and topping their Best Albums of 2012 is Sharon Van Etten’s Tramp (which was just released in a Deluxe edition, a fine Xmas gift don’t you know). Sharon narrowly beat out Grimes, whose Visions came in at #2. The whole list, in ascending order, is below and you can read what The Fly said about each album here.

By the way you can still get tickets for the December 15 show at Cameo that Sharon curated with She Keeps Bees and Speck Mountain and “Special Guest.”

A list of the Fly’s Top 50 Albums of 2012 is below.

The Fly’s Top 50 LPs of 2012
50 Trailer Trash Tracys – Ester
49 Lucy Rose – Like I Used To
48 Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action At A Distance
47 2:54 – 2:54
46 Egyptian Hip Hop – Good Don’t Sleep
45 Errors – Have Some Faith In Magic’
44 Stealing Sheep – Into The Diamond Sun
43 Pulled Apart by Horses – Tough Love
42 Trash Talk – 119
41 Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon
40 Allah-Las – Allah-Las
39 Mystery Jets – Radlands
38 Best Coast – The Only Place
37 The Invisible – Rispah
36 Liars – WIXIW
35 Howler – America Give Up
34 David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant
33 Animal Collective – Centipede Hz
32 Beach House – Bloom
31 Here We Go Magic – A Different Ship
30 Graham Coxon – A+E
29 Poliça – Give You The Ghost
28 TOY – TOY
27 Chairlift – Something
26 Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man
25 Melody’s Echo Chamber – Melody’s Echo Chamber
24 Daughn Gibson – All Hell
23 Twin Shadow – Confess
22 Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
21 The Cribs – In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull
20 King Tuff – King Tuff
19 Diiv – Oshin
18 Pond – Beard Wives Denim
17 The xx – Coexist
16 The Vaccines – The Vaccines Come Of Age
15 Purity Ring – Shrines
14 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
13 Grizzly Bear – Shields
12 Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
11 Lana del Rey – Born To Die
10 Tame Impala – Lonerism
9 The Maccabees – Given To The Wild
8 Kindness – World You Need A Change Of Mind
7 Field Music – Plumb
6 Django Django – Django Django
5 Jessie Ware – Devotion
4 Cat Power – Sun
3 Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
2 Grimes – Visions
1 Sharon Van Etten – Tramp