The Best Albums of 2004

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    7.5/10
  1. Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City)
  2. Pan Sonic: Kesto (Mute)
  3. Charalambides: Joy Shapes (Kranky)
  4. Merzbow: Sha Mo 3000 (Essence)
  5. Arcade Fire: Funeral (Merge)
  6. Kanye West: The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
  7. Man Man: Man in a Blue Turban with a Face (Ace Fu)
  8. Lydia Lunch: Smoke In The Shadows (Breakin' Beats)
  9. Chad VanGaalen: Infiniheart (Flemish Eye)
    7/10
  10. TV On The Radio: Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go)
  11. Isis: Panopticon (Ipecac)
  12. Black Dice: Creature Comforts (DFA)
  13. Shit And Shine: You're Lucky To Have Friends Like Us (Riot Season)
  14. Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
  15. Hannah Marcus: Desert Farmers (Bar None)
  16. Solex: Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock (Arena Rock)
  17. Paik: Satin Black (Strange Attractors)
  18. Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
  19. Dalek: Absence (Ipecac)
  20. Flotation Toy Warning: Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck (Pointy)
  21. Guapo: Five Suns (Cuneiform)
  22. Califone: Heron King Blves (Thill Jockey)
  23. cLOUDDEAD: Ten (Mush)
  24. Boris: At Last - Feedbacker (DIW Phalanx)
  25. Architecture In Helsinki: Fingers Crossed (Bar None)
  26. Smoke & Mirrors: Deities (Aural Fixation)
  27. Art Of Fighting: Second Storey (Trifekta)
  28. Madvillain: Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
  29. Comets On Fire: Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)
  30. Castanets: Cathedral (Ashtmatic Kitty)
  31. Mastodon: Leviathan (Reprise)
  32. Birchville Cat Motel: Beautiful Speck Triumph (Last Visible Dog)
  33. Icarus: I Tweet the Birdy Electric (Leaf)
  34. Boredoms: Seadrum/ House Of Sun (Warner)
  35. Niobe: Voodooluba (Sonig)
  36. Go Team: Thunder Lightning Strike (Memphis Industries)
  37. Dresden Dolls: Dresden Dolls (8ft)
  38. Coastal: Halfway To You (Words On Music)
  39. Velvet Teen: Elysium (Slowdance)
  40. Pan American: Quiet City (Kranky)
  41. Janek Schaefer: Cold Storage (DSP)
  42. Johann Johannsson: Virthulegu Forsetar (Touch)
  43. Warhammer 48K: Uber Ohm (Emergency Umbrella)
  44. N.E.R.D.: Fly or Die (Star Trak)
  45. Tycho: Sunrise Projector (Gammaphone)
  46. Dead Meadow: Feathers (Matador)
  47. Triosk: Moment Returns (Leaf)
  48. Jade Vincent: Vincent & Mr Green (Ipecac)
  49. Mrtyu: The Burning Ground (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
  50. Zombi: Cosmos (Relapse)
  51. Iron & Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days (Subpop)
  52. Shitmat: Killababylonkutz (Planet Mu)
  53. Fursaxa: Amulet (Last Visible Dog)
  54. Spektr: Et Fugit Intera Fugit Irreparabile Tempus (Candlelight)
  55. Ponys: Laced With Romance ()
  56. Moodymann: Black Mahogani (Peacefrog)
  57. Corea: Los Peores 7 km de mi Vida (Error)
  58. Behemoth: Demigod (Nuclear Blast)
  59. Rusted Shut: Rehab (Emperor Jones)
  60. Max Richter : The Blue Notebooks (130701)
  61. Black Eyes: Cough Cough (Dischord)
  62. Jack Rose: Raag Manifestos (VHF)
  63. Japancakes: Waking Hours (Warm)
Songs
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  1. Architecture In Helsinki: The Owls Go
  2. Pan Sonic: Diminisher
  3. Man Man: Sarsparillsa
  4. Coastal: Leaves
  5. Arcade Fire: Neighborhood #3 - Power Out
  6. Kanye West: Jesus Walks
  7. Blood Brothers: Trash Flavored Trash
  8. !!!: Hello? Is This Thing On?
  9. Juana Molina: Salvese Quien Pueda
  10. Pan Sonic: Distance
  11. Kanye West: Never Let Me Down
  12. Blood Brothers: Beautiful Horses
  13. Black Eyes: Eternal Life
  14. Pan Sonic: Gravity
  15. Earlies: The Devil's Country
  16. Beat Circus: Mandalay Song
  17. Kanye West: The New Workout Plan
  18. Roitan: Allbacks
  19. Chad VanGaalen: J.C.'s Head on the Cross
  20. Azita: Miss Tony
  21. Wolf Eyes: Village Oblivia
  22. Ponys: Let's Kill Ourselves
  23. Secret Chiefs 3: The Exile
  24. Art Of Fighting: Along The Run
  25. Fennesz: Circassian
  26. Go Team: We Just Won't Be Defeated
  27. Ponys: Little Friends
  28. Grazhdanskaya Oborona: Bez Menya/ Without Me
  29. Telefon Tel Aviv: What It Is Without The Hand That Wields It
  30. Lydia Lunch: Trick Baby
  31. Black Lips: Super X-13
  32. Nick Cave: Nature Boy
  33. Bob Wiseman: Queen of Sheba
  34. Ponys: Trouble Trouble
  35. Dresden Dolls: Girl Anachronism
  36. Roitan: The Way Puppets Walk
  37. Rusted Shut: Disease Of The Spirit I
  38. Simon Joyner: Dreams of Saint Teresa
  39. Shitmat: Rough Babylon
  40. Dresden Dolls: The Jeep Song
  41. Dalek: Eyes To Form Shadows
  42. Black Eyes: Someone Has His Fingers Broken
  43. cLOUDDEAD: Pop Song
  44. Hannah Marcus: Canon
  45. Beat Circus: The Mack
  46. Niobe: Voodooluba TV Show
  47. Madvillain: All Caps
  48. Sufjan Stevens: Vito's Ordination Song
  49. Bjork: Ancestors
  50. Drive-by Truckers: Where the Devil Don't Stay
  51. Ayreon: Loser
  52. Bad Religion: Los Angeles Is Burning
  53. Phoenix: Rally
  54. Reigning Sound: Medication
  55. A.C. Newman: The Town Halo
  56. Walkmen: The Rat
  57. Blitzen Trapper: Leopard's Will To Live
  58. 65Daysofstatic: Hole
  59. Franz Ferdinand: The Dark of the Matinee
  60. Ayreon: Hope
  61. Skygreen Leopards: A Breeze Of Pine Blows Through Me
  62. Chad VanGaalen: 1000 Pound Eyelids
  63. Shadow Huntaz: Figure Of Speech
  64. Jens Lekman: Black Cab
  65. Deathprod: Tron
  66. Hunches: This Human Propeller
Extended compositions
  1. Fucked Up: Looking for Gold
  2. Pan Sonic: Radiation
  3. Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld
  4. Paik: Satin Black
  5. Merzbow: Sha Mo 3000
  6. Black Dice: Skeleton
  7. Meshuggah: I
  8. Boredoms: Seadrum
  9. James Blackshaw: Celeste
  10. Charalambides: Here Not Here
  11. Califone: Heron King Blues
  12. Decemberists: The Tain
  13. Birchville Cat Motel: Beautiful Speck Triumph
  14. Mono: 16:12
  15. Yellow Swans: Neon War
  16. Guapo: Five Suns
  17. Merzbow: Dreaming K-Dog
  18. Cat Power: Willie Deadwilder
  19. Johan Johannsson: Virthulegu Forsetar
  20. Hannah Marcus: Hairdresser in Taos
  21. Charalambides: Joy Shapes
  22. Pan American: Christo in Pilsen
  23. Lydia Lunch: Hot Tip
  24. Tarentel: A Cloud No Bigger Than a Man's Hand
  25. Einsturzende Neubauten: Perpetuum Mobile
  26. Flying Luttenbachers: Rise Of The Iridescent Behemoth
  27. Yob: Ball of Molten Lead
  28. Velvet Teen: Chimera Obscurant
  29. Cheer Accident: The Autumn Wind is a Pirate
  30. Far Corner: Fiction
  31. Isis: In Fiction
  32. Brent Gutzeit: Piano Motor Skills #2
  33. James Blackshaw: Lost Prayers And Motionless Dances
  34. Mastodon: Hearts Alive
  35. Icarus: Three False Starts
  36. Moodymann: When She Follows
  37. Mrtyu: Rites Of Death In Body Temple
  38. Sightings: Arrived In Gold Arrived in Smoke
  39. Jello Biafra: Yuppie Cadillac
  40. !!!: Hello Is This Thing On
  41. Ricardo Villalobos: Miami
  42. Oren Ambarchi: Remedios The Beauty
  43. Dalek: In Midst of Struggle
  44. Bunkur: Bludgeon
  45. Ariel Pink: The Ballad Of Bobby Pyn
  46. Ufomammut: Demontain
  47. Ruins Of Beverast: Summer Decapitation Ritual
  48. Zombi: Taurus
  49. Spektr: No Longer Human Senses
  50. Moodymann: Runaway
  51. DJ Olive: Buoy
  52. Wilco: Less Than You Think
  53. Datashock: Die Frage Ist Wann Es Absurd Wird
  54. Corea: La Muerte Fosiliza el Recuerdo el Grito Cristaliza la Agonia
  55. Black Leotard Front: Casual Friday
  56. Ocean Collective: Isla del Sol
  57. Jack Rose: Hart Crane's Old Boyfriends
  58. Japancakes: Keep Drawing Suns
 		Jazz

    7.5/10
    7/10
  1. Paul Dunmall: I Wish You Peace (Cuneiform)
  2. Triosk: Moment Returns (Leaf)
  3. Yeah No: Swell Henry (Squealer)
  4. Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver Like Song (2004)
  5. Black Earth Ensemble: Hope Future And Destiny (2004)
  6. Jan Garbarek: In Praise of Dreams (ECM)
  7. Django Bates: You Live and Learn (Lost Marble)
  8. Don Byron: Ivey-Divey (Blue Note)
  9. Evan Parker: The Eleventh Hour (2004)
  10. Geri Allen: The Life of a Song (Telarc)
  11. Dave Douglas: Strange Liberation (Bluebird)
  12. Diana Krall: The Girl in the Other Room (Verve)
  13. New Orchestra: Entropy (2004)
  14. Branford Marsalis: Eternal (Marsalis)
  15. Craig Taborn: Junk Magic
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