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)
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  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)
  64. Old Time Relijun: Lost Light (K)
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. Ulrich Schnauss: On My Own
  17. Beat Circus: Mandalay Song
  18. Kanye West: The New Workout Plan
  19. Roitan: Allbacks
  20. Chad VanGaalen: J.C.'s Head on the Cross
  21. Azita: Miss Tony
  22. Wolf Eyes: Village Oblivia
  23. Ponys: Let's Kill Ourselves
  24. Secret Chiefs 3: The Exile
  25. Art Of Fighting: Along The Run
  26. Fennesz: Circassian
  27. Go Team: We Just Won't Be Defeated
  28. Ponys: Little Friends
  29. Grazhdanskaya Oborona: Bez Menya/ Without Me
  30. Telefon Tel Aviv: What It Is Without The Hand That Wields It
  31. Lydia Lunch: Trick Baby
  32. Black Lips: Super X-13
  33. Nick Cave: Nature Boy
  34. Bob Wiseman: Queen of Sheba
  35. Ponys: Trouble Trouble
  36. Dresden Dolls: Girl Anachronism
  37. Roitan: The Way Puppets Walk
  38. Rusted Shut: Disease Of The Spirit I
  39. Simon Joyner: Dreams of Saint Teresa
  40. Shitmat: Rough Babylon
  41. Dresden Dolls: The Jeep Song
  42. Dalek: Eyes To Form Shadows
  43. Black Eyes: Someone Has His Fingers Broken
  44. cLOUDDEAD: Pop Song
  45. Hannah Marcus: Canon
  46. Beat Circus: The Mack
  47. Niobe: Voodooluba TV Show
  48. Madvillain: All Caps
  49. Sufjan Stevens: Vito's Ordination Song
  50. Bjork: Ancestors
  51. Drive-by Truckers: Where the Devil Don't Stay
  52. Ayreon: Loser
  53. Bad Religion: Los Angeles Is Burning
  54. Phoenix: Rally
  55. Reigning Sound: Medication
  56. A.C. Newman: The Town Halo
  57. Walkmen: The Rat
  58. Blitzen Trapper: Leopard's Will To Live
  59. 65Daysofstatic: Hole
  60. Franz Ferdinand: The Dark of the Matinee
  61. Ayreon: Hope
  62. Skygreen Leopards: A Breeze Of Pine Blows Through Me
  63. Chad VanGaalen: 1000 Pound Eyelids
  64. Shadow Huntaz: Figure Of Speech
  65. Streets: Fit But You Know It
  66. Jens Lekman: Black Cab
  67. Deathprod: Tron
  68. 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. Old Time Relijun: Cold Water
  14. Birchville Cat Motel: Beautiful Speck Triumph
  15. Mono: 16:12
  16. Yellow Swans: Neon War
  17. Guapo: Five Suns
  18. Merzbow: Dreaming K-Dog
  19. Cat Power: Willie Deadwilder
  20. Johan Johannsson: Virthulegu Forsetar
  21. Hannah Marcus: Hairdresser in Taos
  22. Charalambides: Joy Shapes
  23. Pan American: Christo in Pilsen
  24. Lydia Lunch: Hot Tip
  25. Tarentel: A Cloud No Bigger Than a Man's Hand
  26. Einsturzende Neubauten: Perpetuum Mobile
  27. Flying Luttenbachers: Rise Of The Iridescent Behemoth
  28. Yob: Ball of Molten Lead
  29. Velvet Teen: Chimera Obscurant
  30. Cheer Accident: The Autumn Wind is a Pirate
  31. Far Corner: Fiction
  32. Isis: In Fiction
  33. Brent Gutzeit: Piano Motor Skills #2
  34. James Blackshaw: Lost Prayers And Motionless Dances
  35. Mastodon: Hearts Alive
  36. Icarus: Three False Starts
  37. Moodymann: When She Follows
  38. Mrtyu: Rites Of Death In Body Temple
  39. Sightings: Arrived In Gold Arrived in Smoke
  40. Jello Biafra: Yuppie Cadillac
  41. !!!: Hello Is This Thing On
  42. Ricardo Villalobos: Miami
  43. Oren Ambarchi: Remedios The Beauty
  44. Dalek: In Midst of Struggle
  45. Bunkur: Bludgeon
  46. Ariel Pink: The Ballad Of Bobby Pyn
  47. Ufomammut: Demontain
  48. Ruins Of Beverast: Summer Decapitation Ritual
  49. Zombi: Taurus
  50. Spektr: No Longer Human Senses
  51. Moodymann: Runaway
  52. DJ Olive: Buoy
  53. Wilco: Less Than You Think
  54. Datashock: Die Frage Ist Wann Es Absurd Wird
  55. Corea: La Muerte Fosiliza el Recuerdo el Grito Cristaliza la Agonia
  56. Black Leotard Front: Casual Friday
  57. Ocean Collective: Isla del Sol
  58. Jack Rose: Hart Crane's Old Boyfriends
  59. Japancakes: Keep Drawing Suns
  60. Ulrich Schnauss: On My Own
 		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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