Best Albums of 2012: An Infographic From Information is Beautiful (Plus: My 5 Favorite Albums of Last Year)

The critics did a pretty good list of the best albums of 2012.

Personally, I couldn’t really get into Tame Impala’s Lonerism or Beach House’s Bloom, but the so many people have been talking about these albums.

My favorite albums of the year had to be:

alt-j’s An Awesome Wave: This album is a masterpiece. Listen to it from Track 1 to finish.

Miguel’s Kaleidscope Dream: I listened to this again today for the thirtieth time. Miguel resembles a modern day Prince.

K. Dot’s good kid, m.A.A.d city: This album is a beautiful story of life. Kendrick Lamar tells stories about his teenage years before hip-hop creating a beautiful and complete album full of style and perfect delivery.

Ab-Soul’s Control System: Black Hippy member (along with Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, and Jay Rock) and TDE affiliate Ab-Soul created perhaps the most unique sounding hip-hop album this year. While not as popular as Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul is showing signs of being the best rapper since Eminem. Control System might be my favorite album of the entire year. Warning: This is only for hip-hop fans. And, I predict Ab-Soul is going to explode in 2013.

Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange: If you haven’t heard this yet, what are you doing with your life. Frank Ocean exploded onto the mainstream music scene this year with Channel Orange and definitely delivers a little something for all music fans.

I would also recommend checking out Cat Power. Sarah, my girlfriend, listens to her new album and I really vibe with a lot of the tracks. Flying Lotus has been around forever and continues to make great art.

I am about to check out Cloud Nothing’s Attack on Memory. 

Make sure you visit InformationIsBeautiful’s new glossy website. They really did a great job!

Let me know your favorite albums of 2012 or 2013 by leaving a comment at the top.