We'll be holding off on publishing our big-deal local lists (Top 10 Athens Albums and Top 5 Athens Concerts of 2012) until early January, but below, behold a selection of Flagpole writers' individual year-end selections, featuring national faves, local tunes and everything in between.

Dan Mistich:

1. The Demon Beat: Less is Less (Funny/Not Funny)

2. Bob Mould: Silver Age (Merge)

3. The Mastersons: Birds Fly South (New West)

4. The Mountain Goats: Transcendental Youth (Merge)

5. Diamond Rugs: Diamond Rugs (Partisan)

6. Franz Nicolay: Do The Struggle (Xtra Mile/Sabot)

7. Dinosaur Jr.: I Bet on Sky (Jagjaguwar)

8. Titus Andronicus: Local Business (XL)

9. Fistful of Beard: Until We Know Better (Self-released)

10. Kathleen Edwards: Voyageur (MapleMusic)

Bobby Power:

Loscil: Sketches from New Brighton
Loops of Your Heart: Loops of Your Heart
Frank Ocean: Channel Orange
Thought Broadcast: Thought Broadcast & Emergency Stairway
Liars: WIXIW
Julia Holter: Ekstasis
Swans: The Seer
Andy Stott: Luxury Problems
High Aura'd: Sanguine Futures
Decimus: Decimus #11

Runners Up
Windy & Carl: We Will Always Be
Aimee Mann: Charmer
Forward Strategy Group: Labour Division
Container: LP
Mark Fell: Sentielle Objectif Actualité
Ricardo Villalobos: Dependent and Happy
Emptyset: Collapsed EP
Silent Servant: Negative Fascination
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Aaron Dilloway & Jason Lescallett: Grapes And Snakes
Villages: Theories of Ageing

Gabe Vodicka:

1. Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music

2. Mount Eerie: Clear Moon

3. Mount Eerie: Ocean Roar

4. Motion Sickness of Time Travel: Motion Sickness of Time Travel

5. The Caretaker: Patience (After Sebald)

6. Damien Jurado: Maraqopa

7. Mac DeMarco: 2

8. Father John Misty: Fear Fun

9. Beachwood Sparks: The Tarnished Gold

10. Angel Olsen: Half Way Home

11. Grouper: Violet Replacement

12. Tim Hecker/Daniel Lopatin: Instrumental Tourist

13. Muuy Biien: This is What Your Mind Imagines

14. Daughn Gibson: All Hell

15. Villages: Theories of Ageing

Alex Dimitropoulos:

1. Frank Ocean: channel ORANGE

2. Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheeler is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do

3. Grimes: Visions

4. Mac DeMarco: 2

5. Peaking Lights: Lucifer

6. Cat Power: Sun

7. Frankie Rose: Interstellar

8. Hospitality: Hospitality

9. Com Truise: In Decay

10. Kindness: World, You Need a Change of Mind

David Fitzgerald:

1. Black Dice: Mr. Impossible

2. Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin: Instrumental Tourist

3. Coin Locker Kid: The Ghost Sonata

4. Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes

5. Pepe Deluxe: Queen of the Wave

6. Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan

7. Crystal Castles: III 8. D'eon: LP

9. Liars: WIXIW

10. Swans: The Seer

Rachel Bailey:

1. Wild Nothing: Nocturne

2. Beach House: Bloom

3. Kishi Bashi: 151a

4. Shovels & Rope: O' Be Joyful

5. TEEN: In Limbo

6. David Byrne & St. Vincent: Love This Giant

7. Ariel Pink: Mature Themes

8. Pearl & the Beard: Killing the Darlings

9. Kaki King: Glow

10. Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan

Ernie LoBue:

1. Dersu Uzala: Dumptruck of Wisdom

2. The Zoltars: Should I Try Once More

3. Deep Time: Deep Time

4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!

5. Technicolor Teeth: Teenage Pagans

6. The Canoes: Slim Century

7. Teenage Mysticism: Dead Channels

8. The Motes: Feel the Summer’s Heat

9. Japandroids: Celebration Rock

10. Lonesome Sisters and Riley Baugus: Lonesome Scenes

Sydney Slotkin:

Beach House: Bloom
Of Monsters and Men: My Head is an Animal
Alabama Shakes:
First Aid Kit: The Lion's Roar
Jack White: Blunderbuss

T. Ballard Lesemann:

Johnny Cash: Bootleg Vol. IV: The Soul Of Truth
Mission of Burma: The Sound the Speed the Light
Kelly Hogan: I Like To Keep Myself In Pain
Bailter Space: Strobosphere
Mountain Goats: Transcendental Youth
The Hives: Lex Hives
Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Psychedelic Pill
Band of Horses: Mirage Rock
John Hiatt: Mystical Pinball
Elim Bolt: New South
Renaud Garcia-Fons: Solo: The Marcevol Concert
Archers of Loaf: Vee Vee (rerelease)
fIREHOSE: lowFLOWs: The Columbia Anthology ('91-'93) (rerelease)
The Beat (The English Beat): I Just Can't Stop It (Remastered)

Jeff Tobias:

1. Hot Chip: In Our Heads

2. Man Forever: Pansophical Cataract

3. Ed Schrader's Music Beat: Mind Jazz

4. Himanshu: Nehru Jackets

5. Chris Cohen: Overgrown Path