Let’s get the ball rolling :

Taxi Taxi – Maps and Legends : NY indie rockers Taxi Taxi have presented a solid album with lots of good songs, I even have second thoughts about how it may have deserved a higher spot.

Odd Nosdam – Level level wires (Anticon) : Released on California’s Anticon, this album blends minimalist electronics with soundscapes and beats.

Arve Henriksen – Strjon (Rune Grammofon) : Trumpetist Arve Henriksen’s glacial trumpet drones on our fave Scandinavian label. Past review on undomondo

The Focus Group – We’re all Pan’s people (Ghost Box) : The lovely UK label Ghost Box, which gave us another topnotch Focus Group album and the fantasticBelbury Poly album last year, strikes once again. I totally love everything The Focus Group produces. Very disoriented short BBC Radiophonics type of retro non-music.

Elegi – Sistereis (Miasmah) : Released on Miasmah, one of the foremost netlabels, Sistereis is a dark & haunting atmospheric ambient album with minimal strings and drones. Sale on Boomkat, don’t miss it.

Roam the Hello Clouds – Near Misses (~scape) : Dreamlike ambient electronic jazz from Triosk & Prefuse 73 drummer Lawrence Pike, trumpetist Phil Slater and laptop-man Dave Miller from Pivot.

Eric Malmberg – Verklighet och beat (Häpna) : Ex member of Sagor & Swing on Häpna, with a terrific album. I haven’t had enough time to listen to this one, else it would have rated higher I guess. Bittersweet, instrumental moog synth stuff with a vast array of influences like 70’s psychedelia.

Vikter Duplaix – Bold and Beautiful (BBE) : Urban neo-soul from Philadelphia’s Vikter Duplaix. past review on undomondo

Taxi Taxi – Maps and Legends
Odd Nosdam – Up in Flames
Arve Henriksen – Leaf and Rock
The Focus Group – The New Activity
The Focus Group – Salty Sun Tales
Elegi – Despotiets Vesen
Roam the Hello Clouds – Phases
Eric Malmberg – Slutet på en epok
Vikter Duplaix – Nothing like your Touch