Tag: 2004

’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.