Best of Rock 2004
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7.5/10
- Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City)
- Pan Sonic: Kesto (Mute)
- Charalambides: Joy Shapes (Kranky)
- Arcade Fire: Funeral (Merge)
- Kanye West: The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
- Man Man: Man in a Blue Turban with a Face (Ace Fu)
- Lydia Lunch: Smoke In The Shadows (Breakin' Beats)
7/10
- TV On The Radio: Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go)
- Isis: Panopticon (Ipecac)
- Black Dice: Creature Comforts (DFA)
- Shit And Shine: You're Lucky To Have Friends Like Us (Riot Season)
- Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
- Hannah Marcus: Desert Farmers (Bar None)
- Solex: Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock (Arena Rock)
- Paik: Satin Black (Strange Attractors)
- Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
- Dalek: Absence (Ipecac)
- Guapo: Five Suns (Cuneiform)
- Califone: Heron King Blves (Thill Jockey)
- cLOUDDEAD: Ten (Mush)
- Boris: At Last - Feedbacker (DIW Phalanx)
- Architecture In Helsinki: Fingers Crossed (Bar None)
- Smoke & Mirrors: Deities (Aural Fixation)
- Art Of Fighting: Second Storey (Trifekta)
- Madvillain: Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
- Comets On Fire: Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)
- Mastodon: Leviathan (Reprise)
- Birchville Cat Motel: Beautiful Speck Triumph (Last Visible Dog)
- Icarus: I Tweet the Birdy Electric (Leaf)
- Chad VanGaalen: Infiniheart (Flemish Eye)
- Velvet Cacoon: Genevieve (Southern Lord)
- Go Team: Thunder Lightning Strike (Memphis Industries)
- Dresden Dolls: Dresden Dolls (8ft)
- Coastal: Halfway To You (Words On Music)
- Velvet Teen: Elysium (Slowdance)
- Pan American: Quiet City (Kranky)
- Janek Schaefer: Cold Storage (DSP)
- Johann Johannsson: Virthulegu Forsetar (Touch)
- Warhammer 48K: Uber Ohm (Emergency Umbrella)
- N.E.R.D.: Fly or Die (Star Trak)
- Tycho: Sunrise Projector (Gammaphone)
- Dead Meadow: Feathers (Matador)
- Triosk: Moment Returns (Leaf)
- Jade Vincent: Vincent & Mr Green (Ipecac)
- Iron & Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days (Subpop)
- Shitmat: Killababylonkutz (Planet Mu)
- Ufomammut: Snailking (Supernatural Cat)
- Fursaxa: Amulet (Last Visible Dog)
- Spektr: Et Fugit Intera Fugit Irreparabile Tempus (Candlelight)
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Playlist
- Architecture In Helsinki: The Owls Go
- Pan Sonic: Diminisher
- Man Man: Sarsparillsa
- Coastal: Leaves
- Arcade Fire: Neighborhood #3 - Power Out
- Kanye West: Jesus Walks
- Blood Brothers: Trash Flavored Trash
- !!!: Hello? Is This Thing On?
- Juana Molina: Salvese Quien Pueda
- Pan Sonic: Distance
- Kanye West: Never Let Me Down
- Blood Brothers: Beautiful Horses
- Pan Sonic: Gravity
- Earlies: The Devil's Country
- Kanye West: The New Workout Plan
- Roitan: Allbacks
- Azita: Miss Tony
- Wolf Eyes: Village Oblivia
- Ponys: Let's Kill Ourselves
- Secret Chiefs 3: The Exile
- Art Of Fighting: Along The Run
- Fennesz: Circassian
- Go Team: We Just Won't Be Defeated
- Ponys: Little Friends
- Telefon Tel Aviv: What It Is Without The Hand That Wields It
- Lydia Lunch: Trick Baby
- Black Lips: Super X-13
- Nick Cave: Nature Boy
- Bob Wiseman: Queen of Sheba
- Ponys: Trouble Trouble
- Dresden Dolls: Girl Anachronism
- Roitan: The Way Puppets Walk
- Simon Joyner: Dreams of Saint Teresa
- Dresden Dolls: The Jeep Song
- Dalek: Eyes To Form Shadows
- Bjork: Ancestors
- Drive-by Truckers: Where the Devil Don't Stay
- Bad Religion: Los Angeles Is Burning
- Phoenix: Rally
- Reigning Sound: Medication
- A.C. Newman: The Town Halo
- Walkmen: The Rat
Extended tracks
- Fucked Up: Looking for Gold
- Pan Sonic: Radiation
- Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld
- Paik: Satin Black
- Black Dice: Skeleton
- Meshuggah: I
- James Blackshaw: Celeste
- Charalambides: Here Not Here
- Califone: Heron King Blues
- Decemberists: The Tain
- Birchville Cat Motel: Beautiful Speck Triumph
- Mono: 16:12
- Yellow Swans: Neon War
- Guapo: Five Suns
- Cat Power: Willie Deadwilder
- Johan Johannsson: Virthulegu Forsetar
- Hannah Marcus: Hairdresser in Taos
- Charalambides: Joy Shapes
- Pan American: Christo in Pilsen
- Lydia Lunch: Hot Tip
- Einsturzende Neubauten: Perpetuum Mobile
- Flying Luttenbachers: Rise Of The Iridescent Behemoth
- Velvet Teen: Chimera Obscurant
- Cheer Accident: The Autumn Wind is a Pirate
- Far Corner: Fiction
- Isis: In Fiction
- Brent Gutzeit: Piano Motor Skills #2
- James Blackshaw: Lost Prayers And Motionless Dances
- Mastodon: Hearts Alive
- Icarus: Three False Starts
- Jello Biafra: Yuppie Cadillac
- !!!: Hello Is This Thing On
- Ricardo Villalobos: Miami
- Dalek: In Midst of Struggle
- Bunkur: Bludgeon
- Ariel Pink: The Ballad Of Bobby Pyn
- Ufomammut: Demontain
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Jazz
- Paul Dunmall: I Wish You Peace (Cuneiform)
- Triosk: Moment Returns (Leaf)
- Yeah No: Swell Henry (Squealer)
- Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver Like Song (2004)
- Ken Vandermark Territory Band: Company Switch (2004)
- Jan Garbarek: In Praise of Dreams (ECM)
- Django Bates: You Live and Learn (Lost Marble)
- Don Byron: Ivey-Divey (Blue Note)
- Evan Parker: The Eleventh Hour (2004)
- Geri Allen: The Life of a Song (Telarc)
- Dave Douglas: Strange Liberation (Bluebird)
- Diana Krall: The Girl in the Other Room (Verve)
- New Orchestra: Entropy (2004)
- Branford Marsalis: Eternal (Marsalis)
- Wynton Marsalis: The Magic Hour (Blue Note)
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