My standby album over the year was Emerald Eyes, by Fight Bite from Denton, Texas.  Self released but widely distributed, this album managed to be all things for all seasons for me.  Me thinks you could classify this under the ‘glo-fi’ label stuck to a ton of bedroom produced backward gazing electronic music, but with music this beautiful, labels are so beside the point.  Full and layered, suffused with gauzy reverb and drum machines mixed into trebly mono channels, Emerald Eyes builds a scaffold out of primitive drum patterns and keyboards.  What they hang from it is synthetic and pastoral (think Enya for the low fi electronic set).  Their music is melancholic, drained of everything except beauty, and it stays with you long after listening.

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_{Btw you can preorder Mark Gluth's novella The Late Works of Margaret Kroftis here.}