Las listas en los medios: Pitchfork

Según la prestigiosa web, este es su Top 50 albums 2012:

1. 'good kid, m.A.A.d city' - Kendrick Lamar
2. 'Channel Orange' - Frank Ocean
3. 'The Idler Wheel ...' - Fiona Apple
4. 'Lonerism' - Tame Impala
5. 'The Seer' - Swans
6. 'Visions' - Grimes
7. 'Bloom' - Beach House
8. 'Kill For Love' - Chromatics
9. 'The Money Store' - Death Grips
10. 'Shields' - Grizzly Bear

11. 'Celebration Rock' - Japandroids
12. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend' - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
13. 'R.A.P. Music' - Killer Mike
14. 'Luxury Problems' - Andy Stott
15. 'Swing Lo Magellan' - Dirty Projectors
16. 'Kindred' - Burial
17. 'The Haunted Man' - Bat For Lashes
18. 'Slaughterhouse/Hair' - Ty Segall Band/Ty Segall & White Fence
19. 'Attack on Memory' - Cloud Nothings
20. 'Devotion' - Jessie Ware
21. 'Mature Themes' - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
22. 'Until The Quiet Comes' - Flying Lotus
23. 'Kaleidoscope Dream' - Miguel
24. 'Shrines' - Purity Ring
25. 'Habits & Contradictions' - Schoolboy Q
26. 'Ekstasis' - Julia Holter
27. 'ƒIN' - John Talabot
28. 'Total Loss' - How to Dress Well
29. 'Sun' - Cat Power
30. 'Open Your Heart' - The Men
31. 'Sweet Heart Sweet Light' - Spiritualized
32. 'Blue Chips' - Action Bronson/Party Supplies
33. 'R.I.P.' - Actress
34. 'Something ' - Chairlift
35. S/T - TNGHT
36. 'Tramp' - Sharon Van Etten
37. 'Pluto' - Future
38. 'Spooky Action at a Distance' - Lotus Plaza
39. 'In Our Heads' - Hot Chip
40. 'Oshin' - Diiv
41. 'End of Daze' - Dum Dum Girls
42. 'Rich Forever' - Rick Ross
43. '2' - Mac de Marco
44. 'Metz' - Metz
45. 'Cancer for Cure' - el-P
46. 'Essential Mix' - Rustie
47. 'Sorrow and Extinction' - Pallbearer
48. 'Lucifer' - Peaking Lights
49. 'III' - Crystal Castles
50. 'Mr. M' - Lambchop