List of 2012 albums

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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.

Contents

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First quarter

January

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
January
1		 Raekwon Unexpected VictoryRaekwon [1]
January
6		 Alcest Les Voyages de l'âme Blackgaze, post-rock Prophecy
The Little Willies For the Good Times Country Milking Bull, Parlophone [2]
Rick Ross Rich Forever Hip-hop Maybach, Def Jam, Warner Bros.
January
9		 The Maccabees Given to the Wild Indie rock Fiction, Polydor
Todd Terje It's the ArpsOlsen Records [3]
Trailer Trash Tracys Ester Domino, Double Six [4]
January
10		 The Babies Cry Along with the Babies Indie rock New Images
Rae Spoon I Can't Keep All of Our SecretsSaved by Radio [5]
January
11		 The Big Pink Future This Electronic rock, indie rock, shoegaze 4AD
January
12		 Waxahatchee American Weekend Indie folk, alternative country Don Giovanni [6]
January
14		 Schoolboy Q Habits & Contradictions West Coast hip-hop, gangsta rap Top Dawg
January
16		 Diagrams Black LightFull Time Hobby [7]
Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour Electronicore, post-hardcore Ambush Reality
Karol Gwóźdź Tamte Czasy Ambient Psychonavigation Records [8]
Pinch FabricLive.61 Electronic Fabric [9]
Tribes Baby Island [10]
January
17		 Attack Attack! This Means War Metalcore, hardcore punk Rise
Kathleen Edwards Voyageur Country, folk, rock MapleMusic
January
18		 Nada Surf The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy Alternative rock Barsuk, City Slang
January
20		 Aborted Global Flatline Death metal Century Media [11]
Biohazard Reborn in Defiance Hardcore punk, rapcore Nuclear Blast [12]
January
23		 Deichkind Befehl von ganz unten Universal Music [13]
Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline Alternative metal, gothic metal Century Media
January
24		 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 [14]
Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll Hard rock, glam rock I.R.S.
John K. Samson Provincial Folk, indie Anti-
Lamb of God Resolution Groove metal, thrash metal, metalcore Epic, Roadrunner
mind.in.a.box RevelationsDreamweb Music, Metropolis [15]
Sean Paul Tomahawk Technique Dancehall pop, electropop Atlantic
Various artists Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International Rock, pop, folk Amnesty International distributed by Fontana [16]
January
27		 John Williamson The Big Red Warner Music Australasia [17]
Lana Del Rey Born to Die Alternative pop, orchestral pop, baroque pop Interscope, Polydor
Tord Gustavsen Quartet The Well Jazz ECM [18]
January
29		 Die Antwoord Ten$ion Zef Recordz
January
30		 Pepe Deluxé Queen of the Wave Psychedelic rock, baroque pop, surf Asthmatic Kitty, Catskills
Ringo Starr Ringo 2012 Rock Hip-O, UMe
January
31		 Aranda Stop the World Hard rock, post-grunge Wind-up
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour Out of Frequency Psychedelic pop BMG [19]
Grimes Visions Synth-pop, dream pop, art pop 4AD, Arbutus
Imperial Teen Feel the Sound Pop rock, alternative rock Merge
K'naan More Beautiful Than Silence Alternative hip-hop A&M Octone [20]
Leonard Cohen Old Ideas Folk Columbia
Lincoln Durham The Shovel vs. the Howling Bones Roots rock, blues Lincoln Durham, Rayburn Publishing

February

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
February
1		 Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird Death-doom, melodic death metal, progressive metal Spinefarm [21]
February
3		 Hermitude HyperParadise Australian hip-hop, electronica Elefant Traks [22]
Young Guns Bones Alternative rock, hard rock, alternative metal Live Forever, Wind-up, PIAS
February
6		 Air Le voyage dans la lune Space rock Virgin
James Levy and the Blood Red Rose Pray to Be Free Heavenly [23]
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
February
7		 Dierks Bentley Home Country Capitol Nashville [24]
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
February
10		 Eluveitie Helvetios Folk metal, melodic death metal Nuclear Blast
Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken The Death Defying Unicorn Progressive rock Stickman Records, Rune Grammofon [25]
Soap&Skin Narrow Experimental PIAS [26]
February
13		 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
February
14		 Beneath the Massacre Incongruous [27]
Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II Experimental rock, post-rock Southern Lord Records
Edyta Górniak MyAnaconda Productions [28]
John Talabot Fin House Permanent Vacation
Poliça Give You the Ghost Art pop, indie pop Totally Gross National Product
February
15		 Soen Cognitive Progressive metal, Progressive rock Spinefarm [29]
February
20		 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
February
21		 Apparatjik Square Peg in a Round Hole Experimental, alternative, electronic rock Meta Merge Un [30]
Chiddy Bang Breakfast Hip-hop Virgin, I.R.S., Regal
The Cranberries Roses Alternative rock Cooking Vinyl
Dustin Wong Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow LeadsThrill Jockey [31]
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
February
22		 Ai Independent Dance-pop, R&B EMI Music
February
24		 The Black Sorrows Crooked Little Thoughts Soul, blues Head Records [32]
Dirty Three Toward the Low Sun Post-rock Bella Union, Drag City
The Ting Tings Sounds from Nowheresville Art pop Columbia
February
25		 Halloween Terrortory Heavy metal Motor City Metal Records, Pure Steel [33]
February
27		 Napalm Death Utilitarian Grindcore, death metal Century Media
Primal Rock Rebellion Awoken Broken Heavy metal, progressive metal, alternative metal Spinefarm [34]
February
28		 Corrosion of Conformity Corrosion of Conformity Stoner rock, sludge metal Candlelight
For King & Country Crave Contemporary Christian Fervent, Curb
Kutless Believer Christian rock, Christian alternative rock BEC
Memoryhouse The Slideshow Effect Dream pop Sub Pop [35]
Mouse on Mars Parastrophics IDM, wonky Monkeytown
Plants and Animals The End of That Indie rock Secret City [36]
Sent by Ravens Mean What You Say Tooth & Nail [37]
Shearwater Animal Joy Indie rock Sub Pop [38]
Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds Pound of Dirt Garage rock Modern Vintage Recordings [39]
Veil of Maya Eclipse Deathcore Sumerian [40]
The Wooden Sky Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun [41]
Xiu Xiu Always Art rock Polyvinyl, Bella Union

March

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
March
2		 BOL / Westerhus / Snah Numb, Number Jazz Gigafon [42]
March
5		 Andrew Bird Break It Yourself Indie folk, baroque pop Bella Union, Mom+Pop
Big K.R.I.T. 4eva N a Day Hip-hop, Southern hip-hop Cinematic
Caravan Palace Panic Electro swing Wagram [43]
Katie Melua Secret Symphony Acoustic, blues, jazz Dramatico
Lionel Richie Tuskegee Country, R&B, pop Mercury
The Magnetic Fields Love at the Bottom of the Sea Indie pop, synth-pop Merge, Domino
The Stranglers Giants Punk rock, post-punk earMUSIC
March
6		 Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball Heartland rock, folk rock Columbia
Every Time I Die Ex Lives Metalcore, Southern rock Epitaph
March
8		 Blaze Bayley The King of Metal Heavy metal Blaze Bayley Recordings [44]
Nine Muses Sweet Rendezvous K-pop, dance-pop Star Empire, LOEN
March
9		 Hilltop Hoods Drinking from the Sun Australian hip-hop Golden Era [45]
March
12		 Michael Kiwanuka Home Again Soul, folk London, Polydor, Interscope
March
13		 Cannibal Corpse Torture Death metal Metal Blade
I See Stars Digital Renegade Metalcore, electronicore Sumerian
Mac DeMarco Rock and Roll Night Club Indie rock, soft rock Captured Tracks
Miike Snow Happy to You Indie pop, electropop Downtown, Universal Republic
Ruben Studdard Letters from Birmingham R&B Shanachie [46]
Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear Pop punk, emo Equal Vision
Spawn of Possession Incurso Technical death metal Relapse [47]
March
16		 Susanna Wild Dog Pop, jazz Rune Grammofon [48]
March
19		 Apologies, I Have None London Folk punk, punk rock Household Name [49]
Mirrorring Foreign Body Ambient, psychedelic folk Kranky
The Shins Port of Morrow Alternative rock Aural Apothecary, Columbia
March
20		 Anti-Flag The General Strike Punk rock SideOneDummy [50]
Diggy Simmons Unexpected Arrival Hip-hop, R&B Atlantic
Esperanza Spalding Radio Music Society Jazz Heads Up International
Odd Future The OF Tape Vol. 2 Alternative hip-hop Odd Future
March
23		 Madonna MDNA Pop, EDM Interscope
Meshuggah Koloss Extreme metal, progressive metal Nuclear Blast
March
26		 The All-American Rejects Kids in the Street Alternative rock, power pop Interscope, DGC
Blood Red Shoes In Time to Voices Alternative rock V2
Iron Maiden En Vivo! Heavy metal EMI
Justin Townes Earle Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now Country, folk Bloodshot [51]
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet Progressive rock, experimental rock Warner Bros., Sargent House, Rodriguez-Lopez Productions
My Darkest Days Sick and Twisted Affair Hard rock, post-grunge 604 [52]
Rocket Juice & the Moon Rocket Juice & the Moon Afrobeat, psychedelic funk Honest Jon's
The Used Vulnerable Emo, post-hardcore, alternative rock Hopeless
March
27		 Before Their Eyes Redemption inVogue [53]
Clay Aiken Steadfast Decca [54]
Cowboy Junkies The Wilderness Alternative country Latent [55]
Janus Nox Aeris Alternative metal, nu metal REALID Records [56]
Jay Brannan Rob Me Blind Folk, acoustic Great Depression, Nettwerk [57]
Joan Osborne Bring It On Home Blues, R&B Saguaro Road
Joel Plaskett Emergency Scrappy Happiness Indie rock MapleMusic [58]
OSI Fire Make Thunder Progressive rock, progressive metal Metal Blade
Overkill The Electric Age Thrash metal Nuclear Blast
Shinedown Amaryllis Hard rock, post-grunge Atlantic, Roadrunner
Stick to Your Guns Diamond Melodic hardcore, metalcore Sumerian [59]
UFO Seven Deadly Hard rock, heavy metal SPV/Steamhammer [60]
Wretched Son of Perdition Victory [61]

Second quarter

April

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
April
2		 Evans the Death Evans the Death Fortuna Pop! [62]
The Futureheads Rant A cappella Nul
Graham Coxon A+E Indie rock, alternative rock Parlophone
Ian Anderson Thick as a Brick 2 Progressive rock Chrysalis, EMI
Killing Joke MMXII Post-punk, industrial metal Spinefarm, Universal
Labrinth Electronic Earth Hip-hop, electronica, dubstep Syco
Lostprophets Weapons Hard rock Epic, Fearless
Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Hip-hop, dance-pop Young Money, Cash Money, Universal Republic
Willis Earl Beal Acousmatic Sorcery Outsider, soul, blues Hot Charity, XL
April
3		 Great Lake Swimmers New Wild Everywhere Folk rock Nettwerk [63]
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real WastedTone Tide Records [64]
Obie Trice Bottoms Up Hardcore hip-hop Black Market Entertainment
Our Lady Peace Curve Alternative rock, art rock Warner Music
Paul van Dyk Evolution Trance music, house music, progressive house Vandit
Zammuto Zammuto Experimental, electronic Temporary Residence Limited
April
6		 M. Ward A Wasteland Companion Pop, rock Merge, Bella Union
Monica New Life RCA
April
10		 Cavo Thick as Thieves Hard rock, post-grunge Eleven Seven Music [65]
Counting Crows Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation) Alternative rock, country rock Cooking Vinyl
Demon Hunter True Defiance Groove metal, metalcore Solid State [66]
Halestorm The Strange Case Of... Hard rock, alternative metal, heavy metal Atlantic
Kishi Bashi 151a Indie pop Joyful Noise [67]
Manafest Fighter Christian rock BEC
Municipal Waste The Fatal Feast Thrash metal, crossover thrash Nuclear Blast
Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green. Metalcore Sumerian
April
13		 Future Pluto Hip-hop A1, Freebandz, Epic
Jason Mraz Love Is a Four Letter Word folk-pop, guitar pop Atlantic
Train California 37 Rock, pop rock Columbia, Sony Music
April
15		 DragonForce The Power Within Power metal Essential Music, Roadrunner, JVC Victor
April
16		 Anathema Weather Systems Progressive rock, art rock Kscope, The End [68]
Cancer Bats Dead Set on Living Hardcore punk, sludge metal Distort
The Gaddabouts Look Out Now! Jazz pop, folk rock, Americana RacecarLOTTA Records [69]
Spiritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light Art rock, neo-psychedelia Double Six
April
17		 Evans Blue Graveyard of Empires Alternative metal Sounds+Sights [70]
Full of Hell / Code Orange Kids Full of Hell / Code Orange Kids Hardcore punk Topshelf
Maps & Atlases Beware and Be Grateful Barsuk
Neon Trees Picture Show Alternative rock, new wave Mercury
Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin Hard rock, nu metal, alternative metal Fuel Music
William Beckett Walk the Talk EPYike Records [71]
April
18		 Europe Bag of Bones Hard rock, blues rock earMUSIC
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol Doom metal, gothic metal Century Media
April
20		 Rufus Wainwright Out of the Game Baroque pop Decca, Polydor
April
23		 Feeder Generation Freakshow Alternative rock, post-grunge Big Teeth Records
Jack White Blunderbuss Blues rock Third Man, XL, Columbia
April
24		 Alexz Johnson Skipping StoneLaydee Spencer Music Inc. [72]
The Dandy Warhols This Machine Beat the World, The End
Death by Stereo Black Sheep of the American Dream Hardcore punk Viking Funeral Records [73]
Deuce Nine Lives Rap rock Five Seven Music
Eve 6 Speak in Code Alternative rock Fearless
Kip Moore Up All Night Country MCA Nashville
Santigold Master of My Make-Believe New wave, reggae fusion, electronic Atlantic
Torche Harmonicraft Sludge metal Volcom
April
25		 Kent Jag är inte rädd för mörkret Alternative rock, pop rock Sonet, Universal
Marilyn Manson Born Villain Industrial rock Cooking Vinyl, Hell, etc.
Norah Jones Little Broken Hearts Indie pop Blue Note
April
27		 Marina and the Diamonds Electra Heart Pop, electropop, dance-pop 679, Atlantic
Moonspell Alpha Noir/Omega White Melodic death metal, symphonic metal, gothic metal Napalm
Saint Vitus Lillie: F-65 Doom metal Season of Mist
April
29		 Brendon Small Brendon Small's Galaktikon Heavy metal BS Records
April
30		 Father John Misty Fear Fun Indie rock Sub Pop

May

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
May
1		 B.o.B Strange Clouds Alternative hip-hop, pop-rap Grand Hustle, Rebel Rock, Atlantic
Carrie Underwood Blown Away Country pop Arista Nashville, 19
Lone Galaxy Garden House, bass R&S
Pennywise All or Nothing Punk rock, melodic hardcore, skate punk Epitaph [74]
Various artists Avengers Assemble (Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture) Hollywood, Marvel Music [75]
May
4		 Keane Strangeland Alternative rock Island
May
7		 The Brian Jonestown Massacre Aufheben Neo-psychedelia A Records
The Cribs In the Belly of the Brazen Bull Indie rock, punk rock, alternative rock Wichita
Cover Drive Bajan Style Pop, R&B, hip-hop Polydor
Meek Mill Dreamchasers 2 Hip-hop MMG
May
8		 Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity Deathgrind, technical death metal Metal Blade
Infected Mushroom Army of Mushrooms Psychedelic trance, dubstep Dim Mak [76]
Pixel Reminder Jazz Cuneiform [77]
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods Alternative rock, indie rock, shoegaze Dangerbird
May
9		 Iggy Pop Après Thousand Mile Inc [78]
May
11		 Garbage Not Your Kind of People Alternative rock, electronic rock Stunvolume
Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix Comedy rock, hard rock, heavy metal Columbia
Zowie Love Demolition Pop, electro, punk Sony BMG [79]
May
14		 Adam Lambert Trespassing Pop, electropop, dance-pop 19, RCA
May
15		 Beach House Bloom Dream pop Sub Pop
Best Coast The Only Place Pop rock, jangle pop Wichita
Hot Water Music Exister Punk rock, post-hardcore Rise [80]
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music Southern hip-hop Williams Street
Krizz Kaliko Kickin' and Screamin' Alternative hip-hop, dubstep Strange Music [81]
Lisa Marie Presley Storm & Grace Roots rock Universal Republic, XIX Recordings
Meiko The Bright Side Indie folk, indie pop Fantasy [82]
mewithoutYou Ten Stories Indie rock Pine Street
May
18		 The Cult Choice of Weapon Hard rock Cooking Vinyl
Kris Allen Thank You Camellia Pop rock RCA, 19
The Temper Trap The Temper Trap Indie rock Liberation
May
21		 Burzum Umskiptar Viking metal Byelobog Productions [83]
Paul Buchanan Mid Air Newsroom Records
Tom Jones Spirit in the Room Americana, blues Island
May
22		 The Bunny the Bear The Stomach for It Metalcore, post-hardcore, synth-pop Victory [84]
Chris Price Homesick Indie pop, garage rock Price the Band LLC [85]
El-P Cancer 4 Cure Hip-hop Fat Possum
Haley Reinhart Listen Up! Pop 19, Interscope
John Mayer Born and Raised Folk rock, country rock, Americana Columbia, Sony Music
MercyMe The Hurt & The Healer Contemporary Christian music Fair Trade, Columbia
Mount Eerie Clear Moon Indie rock, experimental P. W. Elverum & Sun
The Riverboat Gamblers The Wolf You Feed Volcom [86]
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators Apocalyptic Love Hard rock, heavy metal Dik Hayd International
Smile Empty Soul 3's Alternative metal, post-grunge eOne Music [87]
Sonny Landreth Elemental JourneyLandfall Records [88] [89]
May
23		 Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Revolution J-pop, bubblegum pop, electropop Warner Music Japan
Sigur Rós Valtari Post-rock, ambient, dream pop Parlophone
May
25		 Alt-J An Awesome Wave Indie rock, folktronica Infectious Music
Ladyhawke Anxiety Pop rock Modular
Scissor Sisters Magic Hour Dance-pop, nu-disco Polydor
Ultravox Brilliant Synth-pop, new wave EMI [90]
May
28		 Architects Daybreaker Metalcore, progressive metalcore, post-hardcore Century Media
Jam City Classical Curves Electronic, UK bass Night Slugs
Paloma Faith Fall to Grace RCA
Public Image Ltd This Is PiL Experimental rock, post-punk PiL Official Ltd
Ulver Childhood's End Art rock Kscope
May
29		 Japandroids Celebration Rock Garage rock Polyvinyl
Melody Gardot The Absence Jazz, blues, bossa nova Verve
Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats Anti-folk, baroque pop, indie rock Sire
Sun Kil Moon Among the Leaves Indie folk Caldo Verde

June

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
June
1		 Alexandra Burke Heartbreak on Hold RCA
Delain We Are the Others Symphonic metal CNR Music [91]
The Hives Lex Hives Garage rock, garage punk Disque Hives
Kreator Phantom Antichrist Thrash metal Nuclear Blast
Swearin' Swearin' Indie rock, pop-punk Salinas [92]
June
4		 Disclosure The Face Balearic beat, UK garage, dubstep Greco-Roman Records
Liars WIXIW Experimental rock Mute
June
5		 The Beach Boys That's Why God Made the Radio Soft rock Capitol
Big K.R.I.T. Live from the Underground Hip-hop Cinematic, Def Jam
Chris Robinson Brotherhood Big Moon Ritual Blues rock Silver Arrow Records
Fear Factory The Industrialist Candlelight, AFM, Bodog
Jukebox the Ghost Safe Travels Power pop Yep Roc
Melvins Freak Puke Alternative rock Ipecac [93]
The Mynabirds Generals Indie rock Saddle Creek
The Rocket Summer Life Will Write the Words Pop rock Aviate Records [94]
A Silent Film Sand & Snow Alternative rock Creative Media Investments [95]
June
8		 Rush Clockwork Angels Progressive rock, hard rock Roadrunner
Usher Looking 4 Myself R&B, dance-pop RCA
June
10		 f(x) Electric Shock K-pop, electropop, EDM SM
June
11		 Amy Macdonald Life in a Beautiful Light Pop rock, soft rock Melodramatic, Mercury
iamamiwhoami Kin Electropop, synth-pop, experimental pop To whom it may concern., Cooperative Music
June
12		 Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense Post-hardcore Xtra Mile
Josh Turner Punching Bag Country MCA Nashville [96]
Metric Synthetica Indie rock, new wave Metric Music International
Miss May I At Heart Metalcore Rise [97]
Motion City Soundtrack Go Alternative rock Epitaph
June
15		 Cheryl A Million Lights Pop, dance, R&B Fascination
Justin Bieber Believe Pop, R&B Island, RBMG, Schoolboy
June
16		 Manowar The Lord of Steel Power metal Magic Circle Music [98]
June
18		 Joey Cape and Tony Sly Acoustic Volume 2 Fat Wreck Chords [99]
June
19		 Blood on the Dance Floor Evolution Dance-pop, electropop Dark Fantasy Records [100]
Bobby Womack The Bravest Man in the Universe R&B, soul, neo soul XL
Broadway Gentlemen's Brawl Uprising [101] [102]
Dirty Heads Cabin by the Sea Five Seven Music [103]
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... Art pop Epic
For All Those Sleeping Outspoken Fearless [104]
The Ghost Inside Get What You Give Epitaph [105]
Kenny Chesney Welcome to the Fishbowl Country Blue Chair Records, Columbia Nashville
Lit The View from the Bottom Alternative rock Megaforce
The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania Alternative rock, psychedelic rock, progressive rock Martha's Music
Whitechapel Whitechapel Deathcore Metal Blade
June
20		 Linkin Park Living Things Alternative rock, electronic rock Warner Bros.
Maroon 5 Overexposed Pop, pop rock A&M Octone
June
25		 R. Kelly Write Me Back RCA
June
26		 Chris Cagle Back in the Saddle Country Bigger Picture Music [106]
DIIV Oshin Dream pop Captured Tracks
Everclear Invisible Stars Alternative rock eOne
Gojira L'Enfant sauvage Progressive metal, technical death metal, groove metal Roadrunner
Little Feat Rooster Rag Hot Tomato Records [107]
Memphis May Fire Challenger Metalcore, post-hardcore Rise
The Offspring Days Go By Punk rock Columbia
A Place to Bury Strangers Worship Noise rock Dead Oceans
Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse Garage rock, noise rock In the Red

Third quarter

July

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
July
2		 My Tiger My Timing Celeste New wave, pop, indie rock Snakes & Ladders
July
3		 Abandon All Ships Infamous Metalcore, electronicore Universal Music Canada, Rise
Flo Rida Wild Ones Pop-rap, dance Atlantic, Poe Boy
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal Progressive metal Sumerian, Century Media
July
6		 50 Cent 5 (Murder by Numbers) Hip-hop G-Unit
July
10		 Aesop Rock Skelethon Hip-hop Rhymesayers
Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan Indie rock, art pop, experimental Domino
The Early November In Currents Alternative rock, indie rock Rise
Frank Ocean Channel Orange Alternative R&B, progressive soul, neo soul Def Jam
P.O.D. Murdered Love Alternative metal Razor & Tie
Saint Motel Voyeur Indie rock, power pop OnThe Records [108]
Serj Tankian Harakiri Alternative rock Reprise, Serjical Strike
July
13		 Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns Melodic metalcore Nuclear Blast
Nas Life Is Good Hip-hop Def Jam
July
15		 Psy Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1 YG Entertainment, Universal Music, YGEX
July
17		 Baroness Yellow & Green Sludge metal Relapse
The Contortionist Intrinsic Progressive metal Good Fight
KB Weight & Glory Christian hip-hop Reach
Matisyahu Spark Seeker Reggae, hip-hop, electronic Fallen Sparks Records [109]
Milo Greene Milo Greene Indie folk, folk rock Chop Shop, Atlantic
Soul Asylum Delayed Reaction Alternative rock 429
Tremonti All I Was Hard rock, speed metal Fret12
William Beckett Winds Will Change Pop rock Yike Records [110]
July
20		 Joss Stone The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 Soul, R&B S-Curve, Stone'd
Passion Pit Gossamer Electropop, dance-rock Columbia
Purity Ring Shrines Electropop 4AD
July
23		 The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten Punk rock, hard rock, heartland rock Mercury
July
24		 Emilie Autumn Fight Like a Girl Dark cabaret, electro-industrial The Asylum Emporium
July
27		 Testament Dark Roots of Earth Thrash metal Nuclear Blast
July
30		 Rick Ross God Forgives, I Don't Hip-hop Slip-n-Slide, Def Jam, Maybach

August

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
August
1		 Farrah Abraham My Teenage Dream Ended Pop, outsider music
August
7		 Sixpence None the Richer Lost in Transition Alternative rock, pop rock Tyger Jim
August
10		 Mystery The World Is a Game Progressive rock Unicorn Digital [111]
August
13		 Black Light Burns The Moment You Realize You're Going to Fall Industrial rock, alternative rock, alternative metal Rocket Science Ventures, RED Distribution [112]
While She Sleeps This Is the Six Metalcore Search and Destroy
Why? Sod in the Seed Indie rock City Slang
August
14		 2 Chainz Based on a T.R.U. Story Hip-hop, trap Def Jam
In This Moment Blood Metalcore, alternative metal, nu metal Century Media
Insane Clown Posse The Mighty Death Pop! Horrorcore, Detroit techno, dark ambient Psychopathic
Yellowcard Southern Air Pop-punk Hopeless
August
17		 Owl City The Midsummer Station Synth-pop, dance-pop, electropop Universal Republic
August
18		 Parquet Courts Light Up Gold Indie rock Dull Tools, What's Your Rupture?
August
20		 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Mature Themes 4AD
Bloc Party Four Alternative rock, art punk Frenchkiss
British Theatre Dyed in the Wool Ghost [113]
The Darkness Hot Cakes Glam metal, hard rock Wind-up
August
21		 DJ Khaled Kiss the Ring Hip-hop We the Best, Cash Money, Universal Republic
Ivy Queen Musa Latin Siente
Lynyrd Skynyrd Last of a Dyin' Breed Southern rock, hard rock Roadrunner
Trey Songz Chapter V R&B Songbook, Atlantic
Yeasayer Fragrant World Experimental rock, psychedelic pop Secretly Canadian
August
22		 Alanis Morissette Havoc and Bright Lights Soft rock Collective Sounds, Columbia, SevenOneMusic
August
24		 Rita Ora Ora Pop Roc Nation
August
25		 Krallice Years Past Matter Black metal, progressive metal Krallice [114]
August
27		 Archive With Us Until You're Dead Trip hop, alternative rock Dangervisit Records [115]
Dan Deacon America Electronic Domino
Ensiferum Unsung Heroes Folk metal, melodic death metal, power metal Spinefarm [116]
Katatonia Dead End Kings Progressive metal Peaceville
Marius Neset and Daniel Herskedal Neck of the Woods Jazz Edition
August
28		 The Chariot One Wing Metalcore, mathcore Good Fight, eOne Music
Circa Survive Violent Waves Indie rock, post-hardcore, progressive rock Circa Survive, Sumerian
Dwele Greater Than One R&B RT Music Group, eOne
Matchbox Twenty North Alternative rock, pop rock Atlantic
Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead Math rock Dangerbird
Morning Glory Poets Were My Heroes Punk rock Fat Wreck [117]
The Orb featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry The Orbserver in the Star House Electronica, dub, IDM Cooking Vinyl, The End
Robert Cray Nothin but Love Blues Provogue
Slaughterhouse Welcome to: Our House Hip-hop Shady, Interscope
Swans The Seer Post-rock, experimental, noise rock Young God
Tamia Beautiful Surprise Plus 1 Music Group
TobyMac Eye on It Contemporary Christian music ForeFront
August
29		 Mount Eerie Ocean Roar Indie rock, noise rock P.W. Elverum & Sun
August
31		 Two Door Cinema Club Beacon Indie rock Maison Kitsuné

September

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
September
3		 Charlotte Church One Indie pop, alternative rock, folk rock Alligator Wine [118]
The Pineapple Thief All the Wars Progressive rock, alternative rock Kscope [119]
The Vaccines Come of Age Indie rock, post-punk revival Columbia
September
4		 Animal Collective Centipede Hz Neo-psychedelia, experimental rock Domino
Imagine Dragons Night Visions Pop rock Kidinakorner, Interscope
Lecrae Gravity Christian hip-hop Reach
Propagandhi Failed States Melodic hardcore Epitaph [120]
The Sheepdogs The Sheepdogs Southern rock, boogie rock, rock Atlantic [121]
Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight Indie rock ATO
September
5		 Agnes Veritas Electro, disco Roxy, Universal
Pet Shop Boys Elysium Synth-pop Parlophone
The xx Coexist Indie pop Young Turks
September
7		 Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra Theatre Is Evil 8 Ft. Records
The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts Metalcore, post-hardcore UNFD, Roadrunner
Elephant9 with Reine Fiske Atlantis Rune Grammofon [122]
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson Wreck & Ruin Country Liberation Music [123]
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard 12 Bar Bruise Garage rock, garage punk, acid rock Flightless
Lacrimosa Revolution Gothic metal, gothic rock Hall of Sermon [124]
The Presets Pacifica House, synth-pop, EDM Modular
The Script #3 Pop rock, Hip-hop Phonogenic
September
10		 Bob Dylan Tempest Columbia
David Byrne and St. Vincent Love This Giant Art pop 4AD, Todo Mundo
Gallows Gallows Hardcore punk Venn Records
Joe McElderry Here's What I Believe Pop Decca
September
11		 The Avett Brothers The Carpenter Americana American
Billy Talent Dead Silence Punk rock, post-hardcore Warner Music Canada, Last Gang
Bucky Covington Good Guys Country eOne [125]
Chris Robinson Brotherhood The Magic Door Blues rock Silver Arrow Records [126]
Dave Matthews Band Away from the World Alternative rock RCA
Hoobastank Fight or Flight Post-grunge, alternative rock Open E Entertainment [127]
Little Big Town Tornado Country Capitol Nashville
NOFX Self Entitled Punk rock Fat Wreck Chords
September
12		 John Frusciante PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone Art pop, electronica, experimental rock Record Collection [128]
Richie Sambora Aftermath of the Lowdown Dangerbird [129]
September
14		 Carly Rae Jepsen Kiss Dance-pop 604, Schoolboy, Interscope
Kreayshawn Somethin' 'Bout Kreay Alternative hip-hop Columbia
Nelly Furtado The Spirit Indestructible Dance-pop, electronic, alternative pop Interscope, Mosley
Pink The Truth About Love Pop, pop rock RCA Records
Various artists Cruel Summer Hip-hop GOOD, Def Jam
September
17		 Aimee Mann Charmer Pop rock SuperEgo Records
The Killers Battle Born Alternative rock Island
Mika The Origin of Love Pop Casablanca, Barclay
Rival Sons Head Down Blues rock Earache
We Are the Ocean Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow Alternative rock, melodic hardcore Hassle
September
18		 Ben Folds Five The Sound of the Life of the Mind Alternative rock ImaVeePee Records
Brother Ali Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color Hip-hop Rhymesayers
Devin Townsend Project Epicloud Alternative metal, hard rock, progressive metal HevyDevy [130]
Down Down IV – Part I Stoner metal, sludge metal Roadrunner
Go Radio Close the Distance Pop rock Fearless
Grizzly Bear Shields Indie rock, neo-psychedelia, baroque pop Warp
Local H Hallelujah! I'm a Bum Alternative rock SlimStyle Records
September
19		 Superfly Force Pop rock, blues Warner Music Japan
September
21		 Deadmau5 Album Title Goes Here Progressive house, electro house, glitch Mau5trap, Ultra, Parlophone
Green Day ¡Uno! Punk rock, pop-punk, power pop Reprise
Mumford & Sons Babel Indie folk, pop Island, Gentlemen of the Road
No Doubt Push and Shove Ska, pop Interscope
September
22		 Dragonette Bodyparts Electropop Dragonette, Inc.
September
25		 As I Lay Dying Awakened Melodic metalcore Metal Blade
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 Conscious hip-hop Atlantic
Wanderlust Record Time Sony Music, Zip Records [131]
Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon, and Thurston Moore Yokokimthurston Rock, experimental rock Chimera Music [132]
September
28		 Angband Saved from the Truth Power metal, progressive metal Pure Steel [133]
Enslaved RIITIIR Progressive metal, black metal, Viking metal Indie Recordings, Nuclear Blast
Muse The 2nd Law Alternative rock, art rock, progressive rock Helium 3, Warner Bros.

Fourth quarter

October

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
October
1		 AxeWound Vultures Metalcore Search and Destroy Records
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! Post-rock Constellation
John Cale Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood Art rock Double Six
Lower Than Atlantis Changing Tune Arena rock Island
October
2		 Cody Simpson Paradise Atlantic [134]
Diana Krall Glad Rag Doll Jazz Verve
DJ Drama Quality Street Music Hip-hop eOne, Aphilliates, Powerhouse Productions
Hammock Departure Songs Ambient, post-rock Hammock Music [135]
Jackie Evancho Songs from the Silver Screen Classical crossover Syco, Columbia
Matt and Kim Lightning Indie pop Fader, Universal
The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth Indie rock Merge
Papa Roach The Connection Nu metal, hard rock, electronic rock Eleven Seven Music
Three Days Grace Transit of Venus Alternative metal RCA
Tristan Prettyman Cedar + Gold Pop Capitol
Van Morrison Born to Sing: No Plan B Jazz, blues, pop Blue Note
October
5		 Ellie Goulding Halcyon Electropop Polydor
Peter Buck Peter Buck Alternative rock Mississippi [136]
Tame Impala Lonerism Psychedelic rock Modular
October
8		 All Time Low Don't Panic Pop-punk, alternative rock Hopeless
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind Mathcore, post-hardcore, hardcore punk Epitaph
Paws Cokefloat! FatCat
October
9		 A. C. Newman Shut Down the Streets Indie rock Matador
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence Progressive metal Metal Blade
The Birthday Massacre Hide and Seek Gothic rock Metropolis
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension Progressive rock, progressive metal Hundred Handed, Everything Evil
A Fine Frenzy Pines indie rock Virgin
Kiss Monster Hard rock, heavy metal UMe
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist West Coast hip-hop, alternative hip-hop, pop rap Macklemore LLC, ADA
MellowHype Numbers Alternative hip-hop Odd Future, RED, Sony Music
The Wallflowers Glad All Over Alternative rock Columbia
Why? Mumps, Etc. Indie rock Anticon, City Slang
October
12		 Brandy Two Eleven R&B RCA, Chameleon Entertainment
Leona Lewis Glassheart Syco, RCA
Urthboy Smokey's Haunt Australian hip-hop Elefant Traks [137]
October
15		 Jake Bugg Jake Bugg Indie folk, indie rock Mercury
My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures Doom metal Peaceville
October
16		 Anberlin Vital Alternative rock Universal Republic
Donald Fagen Sunken Condos Yacht rock, R&B Reprise
Jason Aldean Night Train Country pop, arena rock, Southern rock Broken Bow
Mac DeMarco 2 Soft rock Captured Tracks
ZZ Ward Til the Casket Drops Blues rock, hip-hop, R&B Hollywood
October
22		 Bridgit Mendler Hello My Name Is... Pop, soul Hollywood
Kendrick Lamar Good Kid, M.A.A.D City West Coast hip-hop, gangsta rap Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope
Stone Sour House of Gold & Bones – Part 1 Alternative metal, hard rock, nu metal Roadrunner
Taylor Swift Red Pop, country Big Machine
Killbot Sound Surgery Dubstep, electronic Dim Mak [138]
October
23		 Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas Black metal, grindcore, death metal Candlelight
P.O.S We Don't Even Live Here Hip-hop Rhymesayers
The Sword Apocryphon Heavy metal, doom metal Razor & Tie
October
24		 Kylie Minogue The Abbey Road Sessions Orchestral pop Parlophone
October
26		 Calvin Harris 18 Months EDM Deconstruction, Fly Eye, Columbia
October
29		 Cee Lo Green Cee Lo's Magic Moment Christmas, R&B Elektra, Warner Bros.
Madness Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da Da Ska, pop, 2-tone Lucky 7, Cooking Vinyl
Tracey Thorn Tinsel and Lights Christmas Strange Feeling, Merge
October
30		 Cody Chesnutt Landing on a Hundred Soul Vibration Vineyard, One Little Indian
The Coup Sorry to Bother You Alternative hip-hop Anti-
Esthero Everything Is Expensive Pop, jazz, folk Esthero [139]
Flyleaf New Horizons Post-grunge, hard rock A&M Octone [140]
Meek Mill Dreams and Nightmares Hip-hop Maybach
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Psychedelic Pill Psychedelic rock, hard rock, folk rock Reprise
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay Post-metal Neurot, Relapse
Thrice Anthology Alternative, post-hardcore Staple Records [141]
Toby Keith Hope on the Rocks Country Show Dog-Universal Music
October
31		 Ne-Yo R.E.D. Pop, dance-pop, R&B Motown

November

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
November
2		 Kerser No Rest for the Sickest Obese [142]
Jesse Kaikuranta Vie mut kotiin Universal Music Finland [143]
November
5		 Focus Focus X Progressive rock Eastworld Recordings [144]
Robbie Williams Take the Crown Pop rock Island
Rolo Tomassi Astraea Mathcore, progressive rock Destination Moon
Thee Faction Singing Down the Government, or, The War of Position and How We're Winning ItSoviet Beret [145]
November
6		 Aerosmith Music from Another Dimension! Rock Columbia
E-40 and Too Short History: Function Music Hip-hop Heavy on the Grind Entertainment, EMI
E-40 and Too Short History: Mob Music Hip-hop Heavy on the Grind Entertainment, EMI
November
7		 Boom Boom Satellites Remixed Electronica, rock Gr8! [146]
Crystal Castles III Electronica, witch house Fiction, Polydor
November
9		 Anastacia It's a Man's World Rock, pop rock BMG
Christina Aguilera Lotus Pop RCA
Green Day ¡Dos! Punk rock, pop-punk, garage rock Reprise
Lana Del Rey Paradise Baroque pop, trip hop Interscope
Lorentz & Sakarias Himlen är som mörkast när stjärnorna lyser starkastBaseline Music [147]
One Direction Take Me Home Pop Syco, Columbia
November
12		 Deftones Koi No Yokan Alternative metal Reprise
Eivind Aarset Dream Logic Jazz ECM [148]
November
13		 Aaron Lewis The Road Country rock, alternative country Blaster Records [149]
The Babies Our House on the Hill Indie rock Woodsist
Motionless in White Infamous Industrial metal, gothic metal, metalcore Fearless
Soundgarden King Animal Alternative metal, grunge Universal Republic, Loma Vista, Vertigo
Travis Barker and Yelawolf Psycho White Rap rock, alternative hip-hop, horrorcore LaSalle, Killer Distribution [150]
November
16		 Pitbull Global Warming EDM, dance-pop RCA, Mr. 305
November
19		 AC/DC Live at River Plate Hard rock Columbia
Example The Evolution of Man Hip-hop, rock, pop Ministry of Sound
Keyshia Cole Woman to Woman R&B Geffen, Interscope
Kid Rock Rebel Soul Rock and roll, blue-eyed soul Top Dog, Atlantic
Little Mix DNA Pop, dance-pop, R&B Syco
Phillip Phillips The World from the Side of the Moon Pop rock Interscope, 19
Rihanna Unapologetic Pop, synth-pop, R&B Def Jam, SRP Records
November
20		 Code Orange Kids Love Is Love/Return to Dust Hardcore punk, metalcore Deathwish
Woe, Is Me Genesi[s] Metalcore, post-hardcore Rise, Velocity
November
23		 Olly Murs Right Place Right Time Pop Syco, Epic
November
30		 Kesha Deconstructed Pop RCA, Kemosabe [151]
Kesha Warrior Electropop, rock RCA, Kemosabe
Tulisa The Female Boss Grime, hip hop, R&B Island, All Around the World

December

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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
December
3		 Mylène Farmer Monkey Me Dance-pop, synth-pop, pop rock Polydor
December
4		 Wiz Khalifa O.N.I.F.C. Hip-hop Atlantic
December
7		 Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox Pop, R&B, rock Atlantic
Green Day ¡Tré! Pop-punk, alternative rock, power pop Reprise
December
11		 The Game Jesus Piece West Coast hip-hop, gangsta rap DGC, Interscope
JK Flesh and Prurient Worship Is the Cleansing of the Imagination Industrial, noise Hydra Head
Lifehouse Almería Southern rock, country rock Geffen
December
18		 T.I. Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head Hip-hop, trap Grand Hustle, Atlantic
December
21		 Flotsam and Jetsam Ugly Noise Thrash metal, progressive metal [152]
Minuit Last Night You Saw This Band Electronic Dollhouse Records [153]
December
24		 Wale Folarin Hip-hop

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