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.
 

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