10 (tie): The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
- Essential Tracks: "Holographic Sight," "Faust," "Digital Veil," "Elegiac"
10 (tie): Tesseract - One
- Essential Tracks: "Concealing Fate" (Parts 1-6), "Lament," "Sunrise," "Eden"
9: Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
- Essential Tracks: "Codex," "Lotus Flower," "Bloom," "Give Up The Ghost"
8: Wilco - The Whole Love
- Essential Tracks: "Art Of Almost," "Dawned On Me," "One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)," "Black Moon"
7: Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
- Essential Tracks: "Index," "Raider II," "No Part Of Me," "Deform To Form A Star"
6: Bon Iver - Bon Iver
- Essential Tracks: "Perth," "Calgary," "Holocene," "Beth/Rest"
5: Animals As Leaders - Weightless
- Essential Tracks: "Somnarium," "An Infinite Regression," "To Lead You To An Overwhelming Question," "Do Not Go Gently"
4: The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
- Essential Tracks: "Don't Carry It All," "June Hymn," "This Is Why We Fight," "Rox In The Box"
3: Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
- Essential Tracks: "Rope," "White Limo," "Arlandria," "Bridge Burning"
2: Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
- Essential Tracks: "Bridges In The Sky," "Breaking All Illusions," "This Is The Life," "Outcry"
1: Thrice - Major/Minor
- Essential Tracks: "Anthology," "Words In The Water," "Yellow Belly," "Blinded"
Alright, there you have it. It's definitely been a good year for music. I encourage you to YouTube any one of the tracks listed above and hear a sample of some of the best (I would have linked to them myself, but it's late, I'm two glasses of wine in, and this was behind schedule already, so you'll have to do a bit of the work yourself). Here's to 2012 and whatever great music is to come.
