Top 77 Albums of 2004

  ARTIST ALBUM LABEL
1 TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes Touch and Go
2 Interpol Antics Matador
3 Air Talkie Walkie Astralwerks
4 Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News Epic
5 The Arcade Fire Funeral Merge
6 Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand Domino
7 Kid Dakota The West is the Future Chair-Kickers
8 The Faint Wet From Birth Saddle Creek
9 Rilo Kiley More Adventurous Brute/Beaute
10 Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse DGC
11 The Magnetic Fields I Nonesuch
12 Bjork Medulla Elektra
13 Heiruspecs A Tiger Dancing Razor & Tie
14 Dosh Pure Trash Anticon
15 Spaghetti Western Do Right by People Adonis
16 Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill Anti
17 Mark Mallman Mr. Serious Badman
18 Tegan & Sara So Jealous Vapor
19 Komeda Kokomemedada Sonet
20 Eleni Mandell Afternoon Zedtone
21 The Streets A Grand Don't Come for Free Vice
22 William Shatner Has Been Shout! Factory
23 The Soviettes LP II Adeline
24 The Black Keys Rubber Factory Epitaph
25 !!! Louden Up Now Touch and Go
26 Ted Leo + the Pharmacists Shake the Sheets Lookout!
27 RJD2 Since We Last Spoke Definitive Jux
28 Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands / Nino Rojo Young God
29 The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me Frenchkiss
30 Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans Sounds Familyre
31 The Polyphonic Spree Together We're Heavy Good
32 Olympic Hopefuls The Fuses Refuse to Burn 2024
33 Neko Case The Tigers Have Spoken Anti
34 Bebel Gilberto Bebel Gilberto Six Degrees
35 PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her Island
36 Tom Waits Real Gone Anti
37 The Walkmen Bows + Arrows Record Collection
38 Kings of Convenience Riot on an Empty Street Astralwerks
39 Antibalas Who is This America? RopeADope
40 Cocorosie La Maison de Mon Reve Touch and Go
41 Paul Westerberg Folker Vagrant
42 Cloud Cult Aurora Borealis Earthology
43 The Owls Our Hopes and Dreams Magic Marker
44 Brian Wilson SMiLE Nonesuch
45 Le Tigre This Island Universal
46 Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days Sub Pop
47 Ratatat Ratatat XL
48 Stereolab Margerine Eclipse Elektra
49 The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives Interscope
50 Traditional Methods Falling Forward Interlock
51 Haley Bonar Lure the Fox EP Self-Released
52 The Delgados Universal Audio Chemikal Underground
53 Animal Collective Sung Tongs Fatcat
54 Devotchka How it Ends Cicero
55 Wilco A Ghost is Born Nonesuch
56 Deerhoof Milk Man Kill Rock Stars
57 Har Mar Superstar The Handler Record Collection
58 The Fiery Furnaces Bluberry Boat Rough Trade
59 Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly 4AD
60 Elvis Costello & the Impostors The Delivery Man Lost Highway
61 Camera Obscura Under Achievers Please Try Harder Merge
62 Mates of State All Day Polyvinyl
63 Of Montreal Satanic Panic in the Attic Polyvinyl
64 Luna Rendezvous Jetset
65 Katastrophy Wife Money Shot / Blue Valient b/w Emit Time Integrity
66 Pinback Summer in Abaddon Touch and Go
67 Coachwhips Bangers vs. F'ers Narnack
68 Eagles of Death Metal Peace, Love, Death Metal Ant Acid Audio
69 Eyedea & Abilities E & A Rhymesayers
70 Cinerama It's Not You, it's Me b/w Erinner Dich Go Metric!
71 Morrissey You are the Quarry Attack
72 I am the World Trade Center The Cover Up Gammon
73 Visqueen Sunset on Dateland BlueDisguise
74 Mouse on Mars Radical Connector Thrill Jockey
75 The Libertines The Libertines Rough Trade
76 Low A Lifetime of Temporary Relief Chair-Kickers
77 A.C. Newman The Slow Wonder Matador