"It stands tall as the best R&B album in a long while, if not the best album in a long while." The 25 best-reviewed albums of 2012 (min. Note that live albums, reissues, compilations, and the like are excluded from this chart. A total of 104 out of 875 new studio albums in our database-or nearly 12%-received universal acclaim from critics (with a Metascore of 81 or greater), an improvement over the previous year's 11%.īelow is our annual ranking of the best albums of the past year (in Metacritic's database) as determined by their Metascores-an average of all reviews by professional critics at the time of each album's original release. But Ocean's LP is actually one of five albums to meet or exceed the score of 2011's best-reviewed album (Tom Waits' Bad As Me 88), making 2012 a very good year for music, indeed. Only Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 94 stands in the way of Channel Orange being the highest-scoring album since 2006. The masterful R&B record comes from Southern California-based Frank Ocean, who was a go-to songwriter for artists ranging from John Legend to Brandy before joining L.A.'s Odd Future collective and launching a career as a solo artist. An album that has been dominating music critic top-10 lists like no other release in recent years, Channel Orange 92 is officially Metacritic's top-ranked album of the year.
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