In about a month, all the end of year lists will begin to pour forth (weirdly, some friends who work on monthly magazines have already done theirs and are onto their January issue!), so I thought now would be an opportune time to flag up some records that people might not have investigated and to create some kind of long list of albums - in fact, I've already started throwing together a playlist for myself to work through.

Some possibly quite obvious ones off the top of my head with nonsense descriptions to kick off this thread:

New Look - chrome-cold sigh-fi minimalism
EMA - nu gwunge
Austra - space-pop
Antlers - break-heart
St Vincent - elegant
Mark McGuire - swoaring
Sleep ? Over - below-wave
SBTRKT - pi-step
When Saints Go Machine - Antony & The Filthy 80s Love Affair
Selebrities - Cure-gaze
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - piano-drunk
Tim Hecker - piano-fi
John Maus - ni-fi
Nicolas Jaar - y?-fi
Jeniferever - post-DiS
I Break Horses - imakeupgenres
Moonface - ga-gaze
Explosions in the Sky - post-rock