2004 Top 10 List

1. The Arcade Fire - "Funeral" (Merge)
   
2. The Elected - "Me First" (Sub Pop)
   
3. Man Man - "The Man In A Blue Turban With A Face" (Ace Fu)
   
4. Modest Mouse - "Good News For People Who Love Bad News" (Sony)
   
5. Camera Obscura - "Underachievers Please Try Harder" (Merge)
   
6. These Arms Are Snakes - "Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home" (Jade Tree)
   
7. Ted Leo/Rx - "Shake The Sheets" (Lookout)
   
8. Sonic Youth - "Sonic Nurse" (Geffen)
   
9. Matt Pond PA - "Emblems" (Altitude)
   
10. Detachment Kit - "...Of This Blood" (Frenchkiss)
    

#11s:
Say Hi To Your Mom - Numbers & Mumbles
Pinback - Summer In Abaddon
The Blood Brothers - Crimes
Piebald - All Ears, All Eyes, All The Time

Most Disappointing Albums:
Maritime - Glass Floor
Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill

Watch in 2005:
Asobi Seksu, Evening, The Plastic Constellations, Despistado, Bagheera, MeWithoutYou

Why I Still Love Green Day: American Idiot

Best Re-issue:
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins