2004 Top 10 List

• Oneida - "Secret Wars" (Jagjaguwar)
  
• Sonic Youth - "Sonic Nurse" (Geffen)
  
• Ghost - "Hypnotic Underworld" (Drag City)
  
• Daniel Dale Johnston - "Rejected Unknown" (Gammon)
  
• The Black Heart Procession + Solbakken - "In the Fishtank 11" (Konkurrent)
  
• Ratatat - "s/t" (XL)
  
• P. G. Six - "The Well of Memory" (Amish)
  
• The Magnetic Fields - "i" (Nonesuch)
  
• Hayden - "Elk-Lake Serenade" (Badman)
  
• The Shins - "Chutes Too Narrow" (Subpop)