I posted this on the front page of chromedecay, but thought I’d also capture it here, too.

No year-end recap would be complete without some top 10 lists, and mine is no exception. The records here were mostly released in 2004 (though not all) and serve more as a way of recording what I was listening to, not what I thought the best 10 records or tracks were that got released in 2004 – this is an entirely personal, subjective listing.

Full recordings:

• Ben Gibbard – live on KEXP (unreleased)
• New Breed – Nine (uprok)
• Dert – Fledgling (isolated music)
• Deadbeat – Something Borrowed, Something Blue (~scape)
• Flynn – In Like Flynn (illect)
• Mars ILL – Pirate Radio (self-released)
• Braille – Shades of Grey (hip-hop is music)
• Telefon Tel Aviv – Map of what is effortless (hefty)
• Ohmega Watts – Ubiquity 12″ (ubiquity)
• illtripp – Dialog of the Downtrodden (illect)

Tracks:

• Fat Freddy’s Drop – hope
• Frou Frou – let go
• Gaelle – give it back
• Bebel Gilberto – all around (telefon tel aviv mix)
• Ratatat – cherry
• BT – the great escape
• Enter the Worship Circle – beloved
• Mars ILL – sunstep
• Underground Rise – southern brutality
• Procussions – freestyle from mass reality mixtape
• manCHILD – freestyle from mass reality mixtape
• Mat Kearney – bullet
• Sara Groves – Jesus, you’re beautiful
• Fred Hammond & Radical for Christ – You are the living Word
• manCHILD & Adan Genesis – how it is (beatmart “best of the submissions
  vol. 1”)