Well, my favourite ones… in no particular order

1. North Atlantic Oscillation, Fog Electric
2. Anathema, Weather Systems
3. Steven Wilson, Get All You Deserve (live)
4. Scott Walker, Bish Bosch
5. Somnarium, Voices in the Dust
6. Flying Colors, Flying Colors
7. Storm Corrosion, Storm Corrosion
8. Neal Morse, Momentum
9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Allelujah! Don’t Bend, Ascend!
10. Sigur Rós, Valtari 
11. Black Country Communion, Afterglow
12. Muse, The Second Law
13. O.S.I., Fire Make Thunder
14. Adrian Benavides, Same Time Next Life
15. Lo-fi Resistance, Chalk Lines
16. It Bites, Map of the Past
17. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack
18. Crippled Black Phoenix, (Mankind) The Crafty Ape
19. King Crimson, Lark’s Tongues in Aspic (40th Anniversary reissue)
20. The Pineapple Thief, All the Wars

Honorable mentions to The Dear Hunter, The Colour Spectrum (Complete Collection); Tom Waits, Bad as Me and Bass Communion, Cenotaph which all came out in 2011 but I got in 2012. Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68 box set was another purchase this year, plus the magisterial Bitches Brew Complete Sessions. And I did get the new albums by The Mars Volta, Rush, Marillion, Peter Hammill and some other old favourites, but they didn’t really work for me as much as the ones above, or their own past glories.