2004 Top 10 List

• Devendra Banhart - "Nino Rojo/Rejoicing in the Hands" (Young God)
  
• Little Wings - "Magic Wand" (K records)
  
• n. Lannon - "Chemical Friends" (Badman records)
  
• Animal Collective - "Sung Tongs" (Fat Cat)
  
• Castanets - "Cathedral" (Asthmatic Kitty)
  
• Camera Obscura - "Underachievers Please Try Harder" (Merge)
  
• Espers - "S/T" (Locust)
  
• Tarentel - "We Move Through Weather" (Temporary Residence)
  
• Joanna Newsom - "The Milk-Eyed Mender" (Drag City)
  
• Bill Santen - "In the Night Kitchen" (Sweatin Betty)
  

Also Loved:

The Kings of Convenience: Riot on an Empty Street (Astralwerks)
The Hidden Cameras: Mississauga Goddam (Rough Trade)
Boomclick: Halfway Between Tomorrow and Today
Papa M.: Hole of Burning Alms (Drag City)
Vetiver: S/T (DiCristina)
Ulysses: 010 (Eenie Meenie)
...

Reissued:
Vashti Bunyan: Just Another Diamond Day (DiCristina)

Greatest disappointment of 2004:

Wilco: A Ghost is Born (Nonesuch)