This is a list of personal choices. The order is taken by the release date.
Given To The Wild – The Maccabees [January 09, 2012]
Strange Weekend – Porcelaine Raft [January 23, 2012]
Attack On Memory – Cloud Nothings [January 24, 2012]
Django Django – Django Django [January 30, 2012]
Tramp – Sharon Van Etten [February 6, 2012]
Blues Funeral – Mark Lanegan [February 6, 2012]
A Sleep & A Forgetting – Islands [February 14, 2012]
Fin – John Talabot [February 14, 2012]
Young Man In America – Anais Mitchell [February 14, 2012]
Interstellar – Frankie Rose [February 21, 2012]
Maraqopa – Damien Jurado [February 21, 2012]
Put Your Back N 2 It – Perfume Genius [February 21, 2012]
The Something Rain – Tindersticks [February 21, 2012]
Break It Yourself – Andrew Bird [March 6, 2012]
Visions – Grimes [March 12, 2012]
Kill For Love – Chromatics [March 27, 2012]
Spooky Action At a Distance – Lotus Plaza [April 3, 2012]
Boys And Girls – Alabama Shakes [April 10, 2012]
Blunderbuss – Jack White [April 24, 2012]
Adventures in Your Own Backyard – Patrick Watson [May 1, 2012]
Standing At The Sky’s Edge – Richard Hawley [May 7, 2012]
Bloom – Beach House [May 15, 2012]
Heaven – The Walkmen [May 29, 2012]
Banga – Patti Smith [June 4, 2012]
Celebration Rock – Japandroids [June 5, 2012]
There’s No Leaving Now – The Tallest Man on Earth [June 12, 2012]
The Idler Wheel… – Fiona Apple [June 18, 2012]
The House That Jack Built – Jesca Hoop [June 26, 2012]
Confess – Twin Shadow [July 10, 2012]
Yellow & Green – Baroness [July 16, 2012]
Channel Orange – Frank Ocean [July 17, 2012]
Handwritten – The Gaslight Anthem[July 23, 2012]
Gossamer – Passion Pit [July 24, 2012]
Shrines – Purity Ring [July 24, 2012]
Devotion – Jessie Ware [August 28, 2012]
Nocturne – Wild Nothing [August 28, 2012]
Sun – Cat Power [September 3, 2012]
Coexist – The XX [September 11, 2012]
An Awesome Wave – Alt-J [September 17, 2012]
Shields – Grizzly Bear [September 18, 2012]
End of Daze EP – Dum Dum Girls [September 24, 2012]
Kaleidoscope DReam – Miguel [October 2, 2012]
Transcendental Youth – The Mountain Goats [October 2, 2012]
2 – Mac DeMarco [October 2, 2012]
Lonerism – Tame Impala [October 9, 2012]
The Haunted Man – Bat For Lashes [October 22, 2012]
Koi No Yokan – Deftones [November 13, 2012]
(III) – Crystal Castles [November 13, 2012]