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About 200 of you guys participated in our annual readers poll, and the results were tight. You had the chance to vote for 5 albums, and I gave each album a point value, decreasing with each vote. So first place got 5 points, second place got 4, etc…

The race was very close between Frank Ocean & Tame Impala, but in the end, Frank Ocean took home the Orange gold. All in all, the taste of you faithful bunch alligns quite well with mine, minus Mumford & Sons. In total, 252!! albums were voted for, which is insane. That pretty much sums up how much music we digest. Which makes these top 25 albums that much more impressive.

See the results below with the points earned. Well done guys, and here is to a happy 2013! Here is my favorite albums of 2012 as well as my favorite songs.

25. Django Django – Django Django – 17 pts
24. David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant – 18 pts
23. Father John Misty – Fear Fun – 19 pts
22. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (III) – 20 pts
21. Chromatics – Kill For Love – 22 pts
20. Purity Ring – Shrines – 22 pts, 1 1st place vote
19. Twin Shadow – Confess – 23 pts
18. Mumford & Sons – Babel – 25 pts
17. Cloud Nothings – Attack On Memory – 26 pts, 3 1st place votes, 8 votes total
16. Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon – 26 pts, 3 1st place votes, 9 votes total
15. The Walkmen – Heaven – 28 pts
14. DIIV – Oshin – 30 pts
13. Wild Nothing – Nocturne – 35 pts, 1 1st place vote
12. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel – 35 pts 4 1st place votes
11. Grimes – Vision – 36 pts
10. Japandroids – Celebration Rock – 38 pts, 2 1st place votes
9. Kendrick Lamar – good kid MAAD city – 38 pts, 3 1st place votes
8. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellin – 38 pts, 5 1st place votes
7. Jack White – Blunderbuss – 39 pts
6. The xx – Coexist – 46 pts
5. Beach House- Bloom – 64 pts, 4 1st place votes
4. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave – 64 pts, 6 1st place votes
3. Grizzly Bear – Shields – 84 pts
2. Tame Impala – Lonerism – 117 pts
1. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange – 121 pts


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