FILTER Magazine’s Top 25 Reviewed Records (and Reissues) of 2012
By Staff on December 3, 2012
December is upon us, which can only mean one thing here at FILTER: it’s time again for us (and everybody else) to reflect upon our favorite albums of the year. As much music comes across our desks in a whole year, it’s remarkable (and exhausting!) to stand back and look at it all at the end of it. We've taken on the challenge of sifting through the massive amount of quality tunes from the years’ new releases to find the good, the better and the best, to proudly announce not one, but two end-of-year lists. Below, you will find the magazine's Top 25 Reviewed Records of 2012. In addition, we also collected the FILTER staff's picks of the Top 10 Albums of 2012, as well as members' individual picks that contributed to the final 10.
It's been yet another great year in music and below, you'll find just a small collection of that: debut records, solo releases, English alt-folk and Canadian art-rock standing next to Swedish synth-pop and American hip-hop…it's been quite a 2012.
So, without further ado...
FILTER Magazine's Top 25 Reviewed Records of 2012
Frank Ocean
Channel Orange
DEF JAM
95%
from Good Music Guide 40
Air
Le Voyage Dans La Lune
ASTRALWERKS
91%
from FILTER 47
Andrew Bird
Break It Yourself
MOM + POP
90%
from FILTER 47
Flying Lotus
Until the Quiet Comes
WARP
90%
from Good Music Guide 41
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
’Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
CONSTELLATION
90%
from FILTER 50
Jack White
Blunderbuss
THIRD MAN/COLUMBIA
90%
from Good Music Guide 39
Diamond Rugs
Diamond Rugs
PARTISAN
89%
from Good Music Guide 39
Dirty Three
Toward the Low Sun
DRAG CITY
89%
from FILTER 47
El-P
Cancer for Cure
FAT POSSUM
89%
from FILTER 48
Tame Impala
Lonerism
MODULAR
89%
Beach House
Bloom
SUB POP
88%
from Good Music Guide 39
Bear In Heaven
I Love You, It’s Cool
DEAD OCEANS/HOMETAPES
88%
from Good Music Guide 38
Dead Can Dance
Anastasis
PIAS
88%
from Good Music Guide 40
Grizzly Bear
Shields
WARP
88%
Patti Smith
Banga
COLUMBIA
88%
from FILTER 48
Antony and the Johnsons
Cut the World [live]
SECRETLY CANADIAN
87%
from Good Music Guide 40
Band of Horses
Mirage Rock
BROWN/COLUMBIA
87%
from FILTER 49
Chairlift
Something
COLUMBIA
87%
from FILTER 47
Dirty Projectors
Swing Lo Magellan
DOMINO
87%
from Good Music Guide 40
A Place to Bury Strangers
Worship
DEAD OCEANS
87%
from FILTER 48
P.O.S.
We Don't Even Live Here
RHYMESAYERS
87%
from Good Music Guide 41
Sleigh Bells
Reign of Terror
MOM + POP
87%
from FILTER 47
Sun Kil Moon
Among The Leaves
CALDO VERDE
87%
from Good Music Guide 39
The Walkmen
Heaven
FAT POSSUM
87%
from FILTER 48
Wild Nothing
Nocturne
CAPTURED TRACKS
87%
from Good Music Guide 40
FILTER Magazine's Top Reissues of 2012
Pink Floyd
The Wall [Immersion box set]
EMI
92%
from FILTER 47
CAN
The Lost Tapes: 1968-1977
SPOON/MUTE
90%
from FILTER 48
Smashing Pumpkins
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [deluxe edition]
EMI
88%
from FILTER 50
Peter Gabriel
So [25th anniversary edition]
REAL WORLD/EMI
87%
from Good Music Guide 41
Swell Maps
Jane from Occupied Europe [reissue]
SECRETLY CANADIAN
85%
from FILTER 47