2004 Top 10 List

1. The Arcade Fire - "Funeral" (Merge)
   
2. Madvillain - "Madvillainy" (Stones Throw)
   
3. Animal Collective - "Sung Tongs" (Fat Cat)
   
4. Xiu Xiu - "Fabulous Muscles" (5RC)
   
5. Wilco - "A Ghost Is Born" (Nonesuch)
   
6. M83 - "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts" (Mute)
   
7. A.C. Newman - "The Slow Wonder" (Matador)
   
8. Liars - "They Were Wrong, So We Drowned" (Mute)
   
9. Dungen - "Ta Det Lugnt" (Subliminal Sounds)
   
10. Sonic Youth - "Sonic Nurse" (DGC)
    

Other Great Records Of 2005: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Bjork, Iron & Wine, Devendra Banhart, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Junior Boys, Fiery Furnaces, TV On The Radio, Mission Of Burma, Elliott Smith, Magnetic Fields, Deerhoof, Modest Mouse, Q And Not U, Wolf Eyes
Best Movie: Sideways
Best Concert and Best Reunion: Pixies
Best Reunion Album: Mission Of Burma - OnOffOn
Best Concert That Never Happened: Lollapalooza 2004
Weirdest Crossover: Modest Mouse
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