Down to the wire, but here is my run down for 2012, rated based on average song ratings of each album (maximum score of 5). Not really a Top 140, since it's nearly every album I listened to this year in its entirety.
Comments/Observations:
-It was another great year, maybe just a notch below 2010 and 2011.
-Lots of mellow, more folk-leaning artists breaking my Top 20 (Husky, Crybaby, First Aid Kit, Jessie Baylin, Lord Huron)
-Keane surprised me -- was expecting a decline in interest akin to Coldplay
-The Fixx put out an incredible album this year that made my Top 25.
-Critic/hipster darlings of the year like Dirty Projectors, Sleigh Bells and Cloud Nothings failed to impress me, even if they weren't necessarily awful.
1) Scars on 45 - Scars on 45 (4.7)
2) Beach House - Bloom (4.64)
3) The Raveonettes - Observator (4.61)
4) Keane - Strangeland (4.54)
5) Husky - Forever So (4.54)
6) Barcelona - Not Quite Yours (4.5)
7) Crybaby - Crybaby (4.5)
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar (4.5)
9) Jessie Baylin - Little Spark (4.5)
10) The Frank and Walters - Greenwich Mean Time (4.5)
11) Metric - Synthetica (4.45)
12) The Helio Sequence - Negotiations (4.45)
13) Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon (4.45)
14) Human Tetris - Happy Way in the Maze of Rebirth (4.45)
15) Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams (4.45)
16) Sea Wolf - Old World Romance (4.45)
17) Sugar & The Hi Lows - Sugar & The Hi Lows (4.44)
18) Gary Clark Jr. - Blak And Blu (4.42)
19) Groove Armada - No Ejector Seat EP (4.42)
20) Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man (4.41)
21) Best Coast - The Only Place (4.41)
22) Deacon Blue - The Hipsters (4.41)
23) Hot Chip - In Our Heads (4.41)
24) The Fixx - Beautiful Friction (4.41)
25) Van She - Idea of Happiness (4.41)
26) Wild Nothing - Nocturne (4.41)
27) AC Newman - Shut Down The Streets (4.4)
28) Foy Vance - Melrose EP (4.4)
29) Grant-Lee Phillips - Walking in the Green Corn (4.4)
30) Ladyhawke - Anxiety (4.4)
31) The Temper Trap - The Temper Trap (4.4)
32) Saint Etienne - Words And Music By Saint Etienne (4.38)
33) Tennis - Young & Old (4.38)
34) Maxïmo Park - The National Health (Deluxe Edition) (4.38)
35) Allah-Las - Allah-Las (4.38)
36) Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (4.38)
37) Dexys - One Day I'm Going to Soar (4.36)
38) Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits (4.36)
39) Jeff Lynne - Long Wave (4.36)
40) Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again (4.36)
41) Sun Airway - Soft Fall (4.36)
42) Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy (4.35)
43) Pinback - Information Retrieved (4.35)
44) Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls (4.35)
45) Shiny Toy Guns - III (4.35)
46) The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Throw it to the Universe (4.35)
47) Fanfarlo - Rooms Filled With Light (4.33)
48) Lindstrom - Smalhans (4.33)
49) Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio (4.33)
50) School of Seven Bells - Ghostory (4.33)
51) The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know (4.33)
52) Chairlift - Something (4.32)
53) King Charles - LoveBlood (4.32)
54) Ravi Coltrane - Spirit Fiction (4.32)
55) The Crookes - Hold Fast (4.32)
56) The Shins - Port of Morrow (4.32)
57) Andrew Bird - Hands of Glory (4.31)
58) Stars - The North (4.31)
59) Dead Can Dance - Live Happenings - Part V (4.3)
60) Electric Guest - Mondo (4.3)
61) The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now (4.3)
62) thenewno2 - thefearofmissingout (4.3)
63) Passion Pit - Gossamer (4.29)
64) Twang - 10:20 (4.29)
65) Emeli Sandé - Our Version of Events (4.29)
66) Quantic & Alice Russell - Look Around the Corner (with The Combo Barbaro) (4.29)
67) Tindersticks - The Something Rain (4.28)
68) Aimee Mann - Charmer (4.27)
69) Melody Gardot - The Absence (4.27)
70) Django Django - Django Django (4.27)
71) The Walkmen - Heaven (4.27)
72) Lana Del Rey - Born to Die (4.27)
73) Mumford & Sons - Babel (4.27)
74) Guillemots - Hello Land! (4.25)
75) HAL - The Time the Hour (4.25)
76) Imagine Dragons - Continued Silence EP (4.25)
77) Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance (4.25)
78) Madness - Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da (4.25)
79) Miike Snow - Happy to You (4.25)
80) Pet Shop Boys - Elysium (4.25)
81) Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires (4.25)
82) Stan Ridgway - Mr. Trouble (4.25)
83) Tame Impala - Lonerism (4.25)
84) The Cult - Choice of Weapon (4.25)
85) The Ting Tings - Sounds From Nowheresville (4.25)
86) Ultravox - Brilliant (4.25)
87) Chromatics - Kill for Love (4.24)
88) Asia - XXX (4.23)
89) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy (4.23)
90) Mystery Jets - Radlands (4.23)
91) Lawrence Arabia - The Sparrow (4.22)
92) Benjamin Gibbard - Former Lives (4.21)
93) Bill Laswell - Means of Deliverance (4.2)
94) Shoes - Ignition (4.2)
95) The Presets - Pacifica (4.2)
96) The Stranglers - Giants (4.2)
97) Santigold - Master of My Make-Believe (4.18)
98) The xx - Coexist (4.18)
99) Amadou & Mariam - Folila (4.17)
100) Photek - KU:Palm (4.17)
101) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes (4.15)
102) Ian McCulloch - Pro Patria Mori (4.15)
103) Morten Harket - Out Of My Hands (4.15)
104) Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself (4.14)
105) Steven Wilson - Catalogue / Preserve / Amass - Live in Europe Oct 2011 (4.14)
106) Fun. - Some Nights (4.14)
107) Nits - Malpensa (4.14)
108) Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (4.14)
109) The Dandy Warhols - This Machine (4.14)
110) David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant (4.12)
111) Madonna - Mdna (4.12)
112) Sigur Ros - Valtari (4.12)
113) A Fine Frenzy - Pines (4.12)
114) Jack White - Blunderbuss (4.12)
115) Hue and Cry - Hot Wire (4.1)
116) Hugh Cornwell - Totem and Taboo (4.1)
117) Chairlift - Chairlift at 6:15 (4.08)
118) Tom Tom Club - Downtown Rockers (4.08)
119) The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania (4.08)
120) Men Without Hats - Love in the Age of War (4.07)
121) Steve Roach - Back to Life (4.07)
122) Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Here (4.06)
123) The Futureheads - Rant (4.05)
124) Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks (4.04)
125) Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (4)
126) Dalis Car - InGladAloneness EP (4)
127) Field Music - Plumb (4)
128) Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... (4)
129) Sounds From The Ground - Widerworld (4)
130) The Orb featuring Lee Scratch Perry - The Orbserver in the Star House (4)
131) Air - Le voyage dans la lune (3.95)
132) Yann Tiersen - Skyline (3.94)
133) Zombie Zombie - Rituels d'un nouveau monde (3.94)
134) L A N D - Night Within (3.93)
135) Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (3.92)
136) Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror (3.91)
137) John Foxx and The Maths - The Shape of Things to Come (3.91)
138) Toro Y Moi - June 2009 (3.9)
139) Momus - Bibliotek (3.86)
140) Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory (3.75)