An ongoing list of this years best music recommended by IHRTN’s collaborators and friends.

Following on a tip from Andreas Guettel, one of the most dedicated and loyal IHRTN readers throughout years, here’s a list of best noise-rock albums of 2012 as selected by Popmatters.

1. Swans – The Seer (Young God)

2. Cloud Nothings – Attack On Memory (Carpark)

3. METZ – METZ (Sub Pop)

4. White Suns – Sinews (Load)

5. The Men – Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)

6. Odonis Odonis – Hollandaze (FatCat)

7. A Place To Bury Strangers – Worship (Dead Oceans)

8. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Meat And Bone (Bronzerat/Shove)

9. Oren Ambarchi / Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke – Imikuzushi (Black Truffle / Medama)

1o. Lightning Bolt – Oblivion Hunter (Load)

Over to you – what were the best noise rock albums of 2012? Feel free to sign off in comment section.

Ilya