Ya vamos cerrando el 2012 y como es costumbre en el Persi Music hacemos nuestra propia selección de los mejores discos del año. A partir de mañana día a día podrás disfrutar de las revisiones de los 10 álbumes que a nuestra consideración fueron los más destacados del 2012.

Y para arrancar les dejamos la selección de las revistas y sitios más importantes de rock:

Rolling Stone

1. Bruce Springsteen, ‘Wrecking Ball’
2. FrankOcean, ‘Channel Orange’
3. Jack White, ‘Blunderbuss’
4. Bob Dylan, ‘Tempest’
5. Fiona Apple, ‘The Idler Wheel Is Wiser . . .’
6. Kendrick Lamar, ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’
7. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, ‘Here’
8. Green Day, ‘¡Uno!’
9. Japandroids, ‘Celebration Rock’
10. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, ‘Psychedelic Pill’

50 Best Albums of 2012

NME

1. Tame Impala, ‘Lonerism’
2. Grimes, ‘Visions’
3. FrankOcean, ‘Channel Orange’
4. Crystal Castles, ‘(III)’
5. Alt-J, ‘An Asewomen Wave’
6. The Maccabees, ‘Given to the Wild’
7. Pond, ‘Beard Wives Denim’
8. The Cribs, ‘In the Belly of the Brazen Bull’
9. Jake Bugg, ‘Jake Bugg’
10. Django Django, ‘Django Django’

50 Best Albums of 2012

Q Magazine

1. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In The Universe
2. Jack White – Blunderbuss
3. Paul Weller – Sonik Kicks
4. Jessie Ware – Devotion
5. The Walkmen – Heaven
6. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
7. The Vaccines – Come Of Age
8. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Trouble
9. Tame Impala – Lonerism
10. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball

Q Magazine’s Top 50 Albums of 2012

SPIN Magazine

1. FrankOcean, ‘Channel Orange’
2. Kendrick Lamar, ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’
3. Japandroids, ‘Celebration Rock’
4. DJ Rashad, ‘Teklife Vol. 1 – Welcome to the Chi’
5. Miguel, ‘Kaleidoscope Dream’
6. Bat for Lashes, ‘The Hounted Man’
7. Swans, ‘The Seer’
8. Killer Mike, ‘Rap Music’
9. Ty Segall, ‘Twins’
10. Santigold, ‘Master of My Make-Believe’

SPIN’s 50 Best Albums

Stereogum

1. Fiona Apple, ‘The Idler Wheel Is Wiser . . .’
2. FrankOcean, ‘Channel Orange’
3. Kendrick Lamar, ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’
4. Swans, ‘The Seer’
5. Jessie Ware, ‘Devotion’
6. Cloud Nothings, ‘Attack on Memory’
7. Japandroids, ‘Celebration Rock’
8. The Walkmen, ‘Heaven’
9. Chairlift, ‘Something’
10. Dirty Projectors, ‘Swing Lo Magellan’

Stereogum’s Top 50 Albums of 2012

Uncut

1. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
2. Bob Dylan – Tempest
3. Jack White – Blunderbuss
4. Dr John – Locked Down
5. FrankOcean – Channel Orange
6. Bill Fay – Life is People
7. Ty Segall & White Fence – Hair
8. Grizzly Bear – Shields
9. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
10. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball

Uncut’s Top 75 Albums of 2012

MOJO

1. Jack White – Blunderbuss
2. FrankOcean – Channel Orange
3.  Bill Fay – Life Is People
4. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
5. Dexys Midnight Runners – One Day I’m Going To Soar
6. Black Keys – El Camino
7. Django Django – Django Django
8. Dr. John – Locked Down
9. Julia Holter – Ekstasis
10. Bob Dylan – Tempest

MOJO’s Top 20 Albums of 2012

Pitchfork

1. Kendrick Lamar, ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’
2. FrankOcean, ‘Channel Orange’
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!’
4. Grizzly Bear, ‘Shields’
5. Beach House, ‘Bloom’
6. Tame Impala, ‘Lonerism’
7. Swans, ‘The Seer’
8. Fiona Apple, ‘The Idler Wheel Is Wiser . . .’
9. Dirty Projectors, ‘Swing Lo Magellan’
10. Japandroids, ‘Celebration Rock’

Pitchfork’s Best Albums of 2012