2004 Top 10 List

• A Is Jump - "My Ice-Fingered Ghost" (Future Apple Tree)
  
• AqPop - "Beautifully Smart" (Happy Happy Birthday To Me/35g)
  
• The Bevis Frond - "Hit Squad" (Woronzow/Rubric)
  
• John Frankovic - "Space Zombie" (Brainticket)
  
• Guided by Voices - "Half Smiles of the Decomposed" (Matador)
  
• Moon Trotskij - "I Fell But Andromeda Rose To The Stars" (Goddamn I'm A Countryman)
  
• Octopus Syng - "Beyond The Karmadelic Coldness, There's The Lovadelic Warmth" (SoundHawk)
  
• Robert Pollard - "Fiction Man" (Luna/Fading Capt. Series)
  
• The Sand Pebbles - "Ghost Transmissions" (Raoul)
  
• Tungsten 74 - "Aleatory Element" (Technical Echo)
  

Comeback of the year: Camper Van Beethoven - New Roman Times (Pitch-A-Tent)

Reissue: Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador)