List of 2012 albums

The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2012. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.

For additional information for deaths of musicians and for links to other music lists, see 2012 in music.

First quarter January + List of albums released in January 2012 Release date Artist Album Genre Label January1 Irène Schweizer To Whom It May Concern: Piano Solo Tonhalle Zürich Free improvisation Intakt Raekwon Unexpected Victory Raekwon January6 Alcest Les Voyages de l'âme Blackgaze, post-rock Prophecy The Little Willies For the Good Times Country Milking Bull, Parlophone Rick Ross Rich Forever Hip-hop Maybach, Def Jam, Warner Bros. January9 The Maccabees Given to the Wild Indie rock Fiction, Polydor Todd Terje It's the Arps Olsen Records Trailer Trash Tracys Ester Domino, Double Six January10 The Babies Cry Along with the Babies Indie rock New Images Rae Spoon I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets Saved by Radio January11 The Big Pink Future This Electronic rock, indie rock, shoegaze 4AD January12 Waxahatchee American Weekend Indie folk, alternative country Don Giovanni January14 Schoolboy Q Habits & Contradictions West Coast hip-hop, gangsta rap Top Dawg January16 Diagrams Black Light Full Time Hobby Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour Electronicore, post-hardcore Ambush Reality Karol Gwóźdź Tamte Czasy Ambient Psychonavigation Records Pinch FabricLive.61 Electronic Fabric Tribes Baby Island January17 Ani DiFranco ¿Which Side Are You On? Indie rock, folk rock Righteous Babe Attack Attack! This Means War Metalcore, hardcore punk Rise Kathleen Edwards Voyageur Country, folk, rock MapleMusic January18 Nada Surf The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy Alternative rock Barsuk, City Slang January20 Aborted Global Flatline Death metal Century Media Biohazard Reborn in Defiance Hardcore punk, rapcore Nuclear Blast January23 Deichkind Befehl von ganz unten Universal Music Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline Alternative metal, gothic metal Century Media January24 Chairlift Something Indie rock Columbia Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory Post-hardcore, noise rock, emo Carpark, Wichita Craig Finn Clear Heart Full Eyes Indie rock, country Full Time Hobby Elizaveta Beatrix Runs Pop Universal Republic Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll Hard rock, glam rock I.R.S. Gangrene Vodka & Ayahuasca Underground hip-hop Decon Gonjasufi MU.ZZ.LE Alternative hip-hop Warp Ingrid Michaelson Human Again Indie pop Cabin 24 Records, Mom + Pop John K. Samson Provincial Folk, indie Anti- Kellie Pickler 100 Proof Country BNA, 19, XIX Lamb of God Resolution Groove metal, thrash metal, metalcore Epic, Roadrunner mind.in.a.box Revelations Dreamweb Music, Metropolis Sean Paul Tomahawk Technique Dancehall pop, electropop Atlantic Tim McGraw Emotional Traffic Country Curb Various artists Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International Rock, pop, folk Amnesty International distributed by Fontana January27 John Williamson The Big Red Warner Music Australasia Lana Del Rey Born to Die Alternative pop, orchestral pop, baroque pop Interscope, Polydor Tord Gustavsen Quartet The Well Jazz ECM January29 Die Antwoord Ten$ion Zef Recordz January30 Pepe Deluxé Queen of the Wave Psychedelic rock, baroque pop, surf Asthmatic Kitty, Catskills Ringo Starr Ringo 2012 Rock Hip-O, UMe January31 Aranda Stop the World Hard rock, post-grunge Wind-up The Asteroids Galaxy Tour Out of Frequency Psychedelic pop BMG Grimes Visions Synth-pop, dream pop, art pop 4AD, Arbutus Hit the Lights Invicta Pop-punk, indie rock, alternative rock Razor & Tie, Sony Music, 3Wise Records Imperial Teen Feel the Sound Pop rock, alternative rock Merge K'naan More Beautiful Than Silence Alternative hip-hop A&M Octone Leonard Cohen Old Ideas Folk Columbia Lincoln Durham The Shovel vs. the Howling Bones Roots rock, blues Lincoln Durham, Rayburn Publishing Shigeto Lineage Ghostly International

February + List of albums released in February 2012 Release date Artist Album Genre Label February1 Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird Death-doom, melodic death metal, progressive metal Spinefarm February3 The Chemical Brothers Don't Think Hermitude HyperParadise Australian hip-hop, electronica Elefant Traks Young Guns Bones Alternative rock, hard rock, alternative metal Live Forever, Wind-up, PIAS February6 Air Le voyage dans la lune Space rock Virgin James Levy and the Blood Red Rose Pray to Be Free Heavenly Mark Lanegan Band Blues Funeral Alternative rock, blues rock 4AD Paul McCartney Kisses on the Bottom Jazz, traditional pop Hear Music Therapy? A Brief Crack of Light Alternative rock, alternative metal Blast Records February7 Dierks Bentley Home Country Capitol Nashville Dr. Dog Be the Void Indie rock, blues rock, neo-psychedelia Anti- The Fray Scars & Stories Alternative rock, pop rock Epic of Montreal Paralytic Stalks Psychedelic pop, progressive rock, experimental pop Polyvinyl Sharon Van Etten Tramp Indie folk Jagjaguwar Silverstein Short Songs Emo, hardcore punk Hopeless Van Halen A Different Kind of Truth Hard rock, heavy metal Interscope February10 Eluveitie Helvetios Folk metal, melodic death metal Nuclear Blast Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken The Death Defying Unicorn Progressive rock Stickman Records, Rune Grammofon Soap&Skin Narrow Experimental PIAS February13 Burial Kindred Dubstep, 2-step garage Hyperdub Emeli Sandé Our Version of Events R&B, soul, pop Virgin, EMI Goatwhore Blood for the Master Blackened death metal Metal Blade February14 Beneath the Massacre Incongruous Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II Experimental rock, post-rock Southern Lord Records Edyta Górniak My R&B, pop Anaconda Productions John Talabot Fin House Permanent Vacation Poliça Give You the Ghost Art pop, indie pop Totally Gross National Product February15 Soen Cognitive Progressive metal, Progressive rock Spinefarm February20 Band of Skulls Sweet Sour Alternative rock, blues rock, hard rock Electric Blues Recordings, PIAS, Vagrant Sinéad O'Connor How About I Be Me (and You Be You)? Alternative rock Shamrock Solutions, One Little Indian Tindersticks The Something Rain Art rock, chamber pop Lucky Dog Recordings, City Slang, Constellation February21 Apparatjik Square Peg in a Round Hole Experimental, alternative, electronic rock Meta Merge Un Chiddy Bang Breakfast Hip-hop Virgin, I.R.S., Regal The Cranberries Roses Alternative rock Cooking Vinyl Dustin Wong Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads Thrill Jockey Fun Some Nights Indie pop, pop rock Fueled by Ramen Lambchop Mr. M Alternative country Merge The Menzingers On the Impossible Past Punk rock, melodic hardcore Epitaph Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror Noise pop Mom + Pop Tyga Careless World: Rise of the Last King Hip-hop Cash Money, Universal Republic, Young Money February22 Ai Independent Dance-pop, R&B EMI Music February24 The Black Sorrows Crooked Little Thoughts Soul, blues Head Records Dirty Three Toward the Low Sun Post-rock Bella Union, Drag City The Ting Tings Sounds from Nowheresville Art pop Columbia February25 Halloween Terrortory Heavy metal Motor City Metal Records, Pure Steel February27 Napalm Death Utilitarian Grindcore, death metal Century Media Primal Rock Rebellion Awoken Broken Heavy metal, progressive metal, alternative metal Spinefarm The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean Progressive metal Inside Out February28 Corrosion of Conformity Corrosion of Conformity Stoner rock, sludge metal Candlelight For King & Country Crave Contemporary Christian Fervent, Curb Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, and Yim Yames New Multitudes Folk rock Rounder Kutless Believer Christian rock, Christian alternative rock BEC Memoryhouse The Slideshow Effect Dream pop Sub Pop Mouse on Mars Parastrophics IDM, wonky Monkeytown Plants and Animals The End of That Indie rock Secret City Robert Glasper Experiment Black Radio Blue Note Sent by Ravens Mean What You Say Tooth & Nail Shearwater Animal Joy Indie rock Sub Pop Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds Pound of Dirt Garage rock Modern Vintage Recordings Veil of Maya Eclipse Deathcore Sumerian The Wooden Sky Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun Xiu Xiu Always Art rock Polyvinyl, Bella Union

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