Top 10 punk:
Good year for some punk rock ragers. From garage rock to straight up hardcore; this was what was going on:
1. Shipwrecked – The Last Pagans LP
2. Crazy Spirit – Crazy Spirit LP
3. Creem - Creem LP
4. Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II LP
5. Hank Wood & The Hammerheads – Go Home! LP
6. Ty Segall – Slaughterhouse 2×10″
7. Cross Stitched Eyes – Decomposition LP
8. Protomartyr – No Passion All Technique LP
9. Boston Strangler - Boston Strangler LP
10. Dishonorable Discharge - Nightmare Visions 12"
2012 was a somewhat weak year for heavy rock it seemed. It was hard to compile a solid top ten, but there were a few releases that were shining really bright also. Namely the following:

Top 10 heavy:
1. Nekromatheon – Rise, Vulcan Spectre LP
2. Furze – Psych Minus Space Control LP
3. Satan’s Satyrs – Wild Beyond Belief LP
4. High On Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis LP
5. Swans – The Seer LPx3
6. Witschsorrow – God Curse US LPx2
7. Deathhammer - Onward To the Pits LP
8. Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped the Serpent's Scale LPx2
9. Naam - Starchild LP
10. Pallbearer - Sorrow & Extinction LPx2
Pop music, on the other hand, had a bunch of killer albums this year. Yeah, we listened to a bunch of pop so we wouldn't go completely nuts. Shameless, as it should be.
Top 10 pop:
1. Nils Bech – Look Inside LP
2. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die LPx2
3. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes LP
4. Grimes - Visions LP
5. Soft Moon - Zeroes LP
6. Lee Ranaldo – Between the Times and the Tides LP
7. Merchandise – Children of Desire LP
8. JJ Doom – Key to The Kuffs LPx2
9. Nude Beach – II LP
10. Brian Jonestown Massacre – Aufheben LP
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