| Artist | Album | Title | Label | New |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daughn Gibson | All Hell | Lookin' Back On '99 | White Denim | No |
| Violens | True | Der Microarc | Slumberland | No |
| Lightships | Electric Cables | Sweetness In Her Spark | Domino | No |
| Cousins | First Cousins | I'm a Yellow Bag | National Elf | No |
| Air | Le Voyage Dans La Lune | Moon Fever | EMI | No |
| Moonface | With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery | Faraway Lightning | Jagjaguwar | No |
| Dent May | Do Things | Tell Her | Paw Tracks | No |
| Wild Nothing | Nocturne | Nocturne | Captured Tracks | No |
| Grimes | Visions | Oblivion | 4 AD | No |
| Young Magic | Melt | You With Air | Carpark | No |
| Ty Segall & White Fence | Hair | I Am Not a Game | Drag City | No |
| Magnetic Fields | Love at the Bottom of the Sea | God Wants Us To Wait | Merge | No |
| DIIV | Oshin | Doused | Captured Tracks | No |
| Cate Le Bon | Cyrk | Ploughing Out Part 2 | The Control Group | No |
| Father John Misty | Fear Fun | Hollywood Forever Cemetary Sings | Sub Pop | No |
| Liars | WIXIW | WIXIW | Mute | No |
| Chromatics | Kill For Love | Lady | Italians Do It Better | No |
| Damien Jurado | Maraqopa | Life Away From the Garden | Secretly Canadian | No |
| A Place To Bury Strangers | Onwards To the Wall EP | So Far Away | Dead Oceans | No |
| Deerhoof | Breakup Song | Flower | Polyvinyl | No |
| Radar Eyes | s/t | Accident | Hozac | No |
| Raveonettes | Observator | She Owns the Streets | Vice | No |
| TEEN | In Limbo | Electric | Carpark | No |
| Woods | Bend Beyond | Size Meets the Sound | Woodsist | No |
| Quilt | s/t | Penobska Oakwalk | Mexican Summer | No |
| Pond | Beard, Wives, Denim | Sorry I Was Under the Sky | Universal | No |
| Melody's Echo Chamber | s/t | Some Time Alone, Alone | Fat Possum | No |
| Lower Dens | Nootropics | Candy | Ribbon Music | No |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti | Mature Themes | Only In My Dreams | 4 AD | No |
| Tame Impala | Lonerism | Feels Like We Only Go Backwards | Modular | No |
| Six Organs of Admittance | Ascent | Close To the Sky | 101 Distribution | No |
| Mmoss | Only Children | Another Day | Trouble In Mind | No |
*****My Favorite Releases of 2012!