’tis the season, and since I’m not used to doing these things yet, and I can never give an album a numeric ranking, here are my Ten Best Music Albums of 2004, in alphabetical order:
- The Animal Collective — Sung Tongs
- The Arcade Fire — Funeral
- Robyn Hitchcock — Spooked
- Jolie Holland — Escondida
- Joanna Newsom — The Milkeyed Mender
- Of Montreal — Satanic Panic In The Attic
- The Polyphonic Spree — Together We’re Heavy
- Sterling Roswell — The Psychedelic Ubik
- Jim White — Dig A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
- Brian Wilson — Smile
There are a lot of new artists that I hadn’t heard before this year.
Music that discovered me this year, although not necessarily released this year, includes:
- Devendra Banhart
- Calvin, Don’t Jump
- The Decemberists
- Dressy Bessy
- The Fountains Of Wayne
- The Handsome Family
- Kristin Hersh
- The High Water Marks
- Bob Log III
- Kate Rusby
- The Sadies
- Elliott Smith
- Carl Stephenson
With my monstrous commute, I do listen to a lot of music now. And I like it.