Here is my attempt to distill a years worth of music down to a reasonable list. I was planning to do a top 10 but 25 was the smallest I could whittle it down to.

• Amiina – Puzzle
• Arms & Sleepers – Matador Remixed
• Baths – Cerulean
• Beach House – Teen Dream
• Blackbird Blackbird – Summer Heart
• Caribou – Swim
• Cherry Ghost – Beneath this burning shoreline
• Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
• Efterklang – Magic Chairs
• Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
• Foals – Total Life Forever
• Four Tet – There Is Love In You
• Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner
• Halves – It Goes, It Goes (Forever & Forever)
• Her Name Is Calla – The Quiet Lamb
• Hidden Orchestra – Night Walks
• Jonsi – Go
• Lemongrass – The 5th Dimension
• Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
• Mad Rad – The Youth Die Young
• Massive Attack – Heligoland
• Perfume Genius – Learning
• Seabear – We Built a Fire
• Sleep Party People – Sleep Party People
• Toro Y Moi – Causers Of This