Here’s my list. What’s on yours?
Helios (Unleft)
Jumpel (Samuel Jason Lies on the beach)
Near the Parenthesis (Go Out and See)
Jan Jelinek (Loop-finding-jazz-records)
Olafur Arnalds (Dyad 1909)
Olafur Arnalds (Found Songs)
Ezekiel Honig (Surfaces of a broken marching band)
Arve Henrikson (Cartography)
Four Tet (There is love in you)
Brian McBride (The effective disconnect)
And special mention to Dave Brubeck . (My family listens to his album Love Songs almost every night at dinner time.)
I put these in roughly chronological order i.e., according to when they were in heavy rotation during the year. Arrange yours any way you like.
Here’s my list.
Brian McBride : Effective Disconnect
Liabach : Laibachkunsterfuge
OMD : History of Modern
nk:e : Blux
Brian Eno & Harold Budd : A Plateau of Mirror
Brian Eno & Harold Budd : The Pearl
Assorted Vinyl Records
Spuntic : Hybrid Source
Gino Vannelli : Collective Works
Steely Dan : Collective Works
Honorable Mentions :
Bryan Ferry : Olympia
Sade : Soldier of Love