OpenAir’s Top 100 Albums of 2012

1. Lumineers - The Lumineers

2. Father John Misty - Fear Fun

3. Jack White - Blunderbuss

4. Alabama Shakes - Boys And Girls

5. Tame Impala - Lonerism

6. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill

7. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...

8. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

9. Esme Patterson - All Princes, I

10. Mumford And Sons - Babel

11. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky

12. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant

13. Cat Power - Sun

14. Of Monsters & Men - My Head Is An Animal

15. Bob Dylan - Tempest

16. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits

17. DeVotchka - Live with the Colorado Symphony

18. Avett Brothers - The Carpenter

19. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself

20. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

21. Dr. Dog - Be The Void

22. First Aid Kit - Lion's Roar

23. Kishi Bashi - 151a

24. M. WARD - A Wasteland Companion

25. Dr. John - Locked Down

26. Patrick Watson - Adventures In Your Own Backyard

27. Tennis - Young & Old

28. Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

29. Grizzly Bear - Shields

30. Damien Jurado - Maraqopa

31. Yawpers - Capon Crusade

32. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes

33. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

34. Islands - A Sleep and a Forgetting

35. The Swayback - Double Four Time

36. Lost in the Trees - A Church That Fits Our Needs

37. Emily Wells - Mama

38. Django Django - Django Django

39. Chairlift - Something

40. Joe Sampson - Kill Our Friends

41. Mynabirds - Generals

42. Nick Waterhouse - Time's All Gone

43. The Knew - Man Monster

44. Ty Segall - Twins

45. Diamond Rugs - Diamond Rugs

46. Bad Weather California - Sunkissed

47. Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre Is Evil

48. Best Coast - The Only Place

49. Gary Clark Jr. - Blak And Blu

50. Flobots - The Circle Between The Square

51. Ravonettes - Observator

52. Passion Pit - Gossamer

53. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II

54. The XX - Coexist

55. Mosey West - Merica

56. Langhorne Slim - The Way We Move

57. Guided By Voices - Let's Go Eat The Factory

58. Santigold - Master Of My Make Believe

59. Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now

60. Patrick Dethlefs - Fall & Rise

61. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man

62. Hacienda - Shakedown

63. The Shins - Port of Morrow

64. Two Gallants - The Bloom And The Blight

65. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Here

66. Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams

67. Metric - Synthetica

68. Heartless Bastards - Arrow

69. Science Partner - Rocky Mountain News

70. Deerhoof - Breakup Song

71. Benjamin Gibbard - Former Lives

72. Chimney Choir - Ladder

73. Japandroids - Celebration Rock

74. Achille Lauro - Fight or Fight

75. Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth

76. Paul McCartney - Kisses on the Bottom

77. Faceman - Feeding Time

78. Danielle Ate The Sandwich - Like A King

79. Delicate Steve - Positive Force

80. Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror

81. John Singer Sergeant - John Singer Sergeant

82. Landlines - Landlines

83. Flashbulb Fires - Gasconader

84. Y La Bamba - Court The Storm

85. A Place To Bury Strangers - Worship

86. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp

87. A.C Newman - Shut Down The Streets

88. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

89. Husky - Forever So

90. Pinback - Information Retrieved

91. Sean Hayes - Before We Turn To Dust

92. Purity Ring - Shrines

93. Stars - The North

94. Walkmen - Heaven

95. Imperial Teen - Feel The Sound

96. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't

97. Poor Moon - Poor Moon

98. SHEL - SHEL

99. Bob Mould - Silver Age

100. Matt And Kim - Lightning