2004 Top 10 List

Best New Releases of 2004
1. Tom Waits – Real Gone (Anti)
2. Nick Cave - Abbatoir Blues (Anti)
3. Leonard Cohen – Dear Heather (Sony)
4. Joanna Newsom – Milk Eyed Mender (Drag City)
5. Mission of Burma – onOFFon (Matador)
6. Jolie Holland – Escondida (Anti)
7. Devendra Banhart – Rejoicing in the Hands (Young God)
8. Deerhoof – Milkman (Kill Rock Stars)
9. Divine Comedy – Absent Friends (Nettwerk)

Best Reissues of 2004
1. VA - Guitar Evangelists box (JSP)
2. VA – Where Will You Be Christmas Day? (Dust To Digital)
3. Elizabeth Cotton – Shake Sugaree (Smithsonian Folkways)4. Nic Jones – Unearthed (Mollie Music)
5. Lo Borges – Lo Borges (Odeon Brazil)