Названы 50 лучших альбомов 2012 года

Известное американское музыкальное онлайн-издание Pitchfork опубликовало список «50 лучших альбомов 2012 года». 

В топ-50 попал в том числе отмеченный другими авторитетными ресурсами альбом Фрэнка Оушена, расхваленный диск Фионы Эппл, а также Swans, Tame Impala, Grimes, Burial, Hot Chip и многие другие.

С полным списком (с 1-го по 50-е место) лучших записей уходящего года по мнению инди-критиков Pitchfork можно ознакомиться ниже:

Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope/Top Dawg)

Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (Def Jam)

Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel ... (Epic)

Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular)

Swans – The Seer (Young God)

Grimes – Visions (4AD / Arbutus)

Beach House – Bloom (Sub Pop)

Chromatics – Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better)

Death Grips – The Money Store (Epic)

Grizzly Bear – Shields (Warp)

Japandroids – Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (Constellation)

Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music (Williams Street)

Andy Stott – Luxury Problems (Modern Love)

Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan (Domino)

Burial – Kindred EP (Hyperdub)

Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man (Parlophone)

Ty Segall Band/Ty Segall & White Fence – Slaughterhouse/Hair (In the Red / Drag City)

Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory (Carpark)

Jessie Ware – Devotion (PMR)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes (4AD)

Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes (Warp)

Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream (RCA)

Purity Ring – Shrines (4AD)

Schoolboy Q – Habits & Contradictions (Top Dawg)

Julia Holter – Ekstasis (Rvng Intl.)

John Talabot – ƒIN (Permanent Vacation)

How to Dress Well – Total Loss (Acéphale / Weird World)

Cat Power – Sun (Matador)

The Men – Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)

Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Fat Possum)

Action Bronson/Party Supplies – Blue Chips (Fool's Gold / Reebok Classics)

Actress – R.I.P. (Honest Jon's)

Chairlift – Something (Columbia)

TNGHT – TNGHT (Warp / Luckyme)

Sharon Van Etten – Tramp (Jagjaguwar)

Future – Pluto (Epic / A1 / Free Bandz)

Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance (Kranky)

Hot Chip – In Our Heads (Domino)

DIIV – Oshin (Captured Tracks)

Dum Dum Girls – End of Daze EP (Sub Pop)

Rick Ross – Rich Forever (Maybach)

Mac DeMarco – 2 (Captured Tracks)

METZ – METZ (Sub Pop)

El-P – Cancer for Cure (Fat Possum)

Rustie – Essential Mix (BBC)

Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction (Profound Lore)

Peaking Lights – Lucifer (Mexican Summer / Weird World)

Crystal Castles – (III) (Fiction / Casablanca / Universal Republic)

Lambchop – Mr. M (Merge / City Slang)