Culture and Living | Iceland Monitor | Wed 3 Dec 2014 | 15.26 GMT

Kraumur selects best albums of 2014

The Pink Street Boys, here pictured at Iceland Airwaves, are one of the twenty on the Kraumur list of best Icelandic albums of the year. mbl.is/Eggert Jóhannesson

Kraumur Music Fund has released its list of the 20 best Icelandic albums of the year. The Kraumur list, released annually, was selected by a twenty-person committee of Icelandic music experts.

AdHd - AdHd 5
Anna Þorvaldsdóttir – Aerial
Ben Frost – Aurora
Börn – Börn
Grísalappalísa - Rökrétt framhald
Hekla Magnúsdóttir – Hekla
Kippi Kaninus – Temperaments
Low Roar – O
M-Band – Haust
Oyama – Coolboy
Óbó – Innhverfi
Ólöf Arnalds – Palme
Pink Street Boys - Trash From the Boys
Russian Girls - Old Stories 2
Sindri Eldon - Bitter & Resentful
Singapore Sling - The Tower of Foronicity
Skakkamanage - Sounds of Merry Making
Skúli Sverris, Anthony Burr & Yungchen Lhamo - They Hold it For Certain
Úlfur Kolka - Borgaraleg óhlýðni
Þórir Georg - Ræfill

Established in 2008 by the Board of Aurora Charity Fund, Kraumur works to support Icelandic music, and in particular new and up-and-coming talent. The Kraumur award will take place in late December when the committee selects six out of these albums.