Parallax View Albums Of The Year 2012

The usual disclaimers apply: we can't pretend to have listened to every single new record released in the UK during the calendar year of 2012 but of those we did, these were the best, and in this precise order -


1. CHANNEL ORANGE - FRANK OCEAN

2. Lonerism - Tame Impala
3. Attack On Memory - Cloud Nothings
4. Heaven - The Walkmen
5. Good Kid M.A.A.D. City - Kendrick Lamar
6. Celebration Rock - Japandroids
7. Tramp - Sharon Van Etten
8. Transcendental Youth - The Mountain Goats
9. Love This Giant - David Byrne & St. Vincent
10. Holograms - Holograms
11. Shields - Grizzly Bear
12. Wonky - Orbital
13. Swing Lo Magellan - Dirty Projectors
14. One Day I'm Going To Soar - Dexys
15. All We Love We Leave Behind - Converge
16. R.A.P. Music - Killer Mike
17. Spooky Action At A Distance - Lotus Plaza
18. The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do - Fiona Apple
19. The Bravest Man In The Universe - Bobby Womack
20. Old Ideas - Leonard Cohen
21. Temple Beautiful - Chuck Prophet
22. Europe - Allo Darlin'
23. Jack Sells The Cow - Robert Pollard
24. Port Of Morrow - The Shins
25. Sun - Cat Power
26. Confess - Twin Shadow
27. A & E - Graham Coxon
28. Put Your Back N 2 It - Perfume Genius
29. Sonik Kicks - Paul Weller
30. Harmonicraft - Torche
31. Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen
32. All Hell - Daughn Gibson
33. Interstellar - Frankie Rose
34. Gossamer - Passion Pit
35. Born To Die - Lana del Rey
36. Master Of My Make-Believe - Santigold
37. Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything - The School
38. Zoo - Ceremony
39. Isle Of Dogs - Tigercats
40. Acousmatic Sorcery - Willis Earl Beal