best album of 2004 so far??? (3 Viewers)

[Goodbye]

Sonic youth for sure...
Medulla by Bjork also

those two are so good that I can't think of anything else I have got this year...

 

[ITalkShite]

Northstation, Sonic Youth, Sunn 0))), Nina Nastasia, Boombip, !!!,, 90 Day Men, Electrelane, lots more...

 

[Anthony]

Marillion - Marbles
Slipknot - v3
Sonic Youth - sonic nurse just gets better and better

and others

 

[P. Littbarski]

The Sufjan Stevens 'Michigan' album is excellent. I think he's playing the Douglas Hyde gallery at the end of the month.

The best release methinks so far is 10 by clouddead. It's Amazing.

Honourable mentions :

Soulwax
Redneck Manifesto
The Killers
Trans Am

 

[gugai]

Yeah, I Am Brazil a definite contender...
Catering for Headphones was released this year, wasn't it? Fantastic stuff.
And I still love You are the Quarry....
Can't remember what else came out off the top of my head....

 

[moc]

the best album i bought this year was transatlanticism by death cab but i reckon that was released last year. still love it.


mentions to rest, and waiting room, by december i reckon the rednecks will be there too, hasnt left my cd player.

also lali puna - faking the books... also one of my favourite gigs of the year.

 

[Richie]

The new Nick Cave double-album is my favourite of the year so far.

 

[nEiLo]

for me it's Sung Tongs by Animal Collective

then maybe Quiet City by Pan American

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

for me it's Sung Tongs by Animal Collective

yes!
that or 'a ghost is born' - wilco

tom waits real gone and nick cave double also

also even though he hasn't released any albums this year (due to being dead) john fahey has been on my stereo constantly since i first heard him earlier this year

 

[abbe]

tom waits - real gone. i can't even listen to the whole of Hoist That Rag cause i keep wanting to vomit with excitement. brilliant

 

[mackle]

sonic youth-sonic nurse
mission of burma-onoffon
black eyes-cough

 

[mangler]

Was Why? - Oaklandazuasylum only out this year? Seems like I've had it for years... If so, then that + Old Man Gloom.

 

[krystal]

mission of burma-onoffon

the travesty that is nicotine bong instantly bars onoffon from winning any 'record of the year' awards.

 

[photon]

Dopplereffekt - Linear Accelerator

I'd probably go with Stephen on this as well.

Although it's the best of a pretty poor year, so maybe that's faint praise.

Others which may not be the best of 2004, but which didn't totally suck (which is saying something this year):

"Quiet City", Pan American
"The Power Out", Electrelane
"Margarine Eclipse", Stereolab
"Creature Comforts", Black Dice
"The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire", McLusky
"Neurofibro", Claro Intelecto
"Ten", cLOUDDEAD
"Derbe Respect, Alder", Faust vs Dalek
"Louden Up Now", !!!
"76/77", Cobra Killer
"Isol", Modul
"Venice", Fennesz
"From the Double Gone Chapel", Two Lone Swordsmen

I'm sure I'd think of more if I put my mind to it.

Paul

 

[guy of the tiger]

didn't buy many albums this year

squarepusher - ultravisitor is rad though


dont tell anyone but I bought that new greenday album
they sound like feckin Weezer or somethin
lost their raw sound completley, back in day day, i.e. Dookie ,they were cool man cool

 

[mackle]

forgot about the new black dice album creature comforts. its a killer.

the converge one is shit hot as well. one nation by yakuza is really good but i dont know if that counts since it was recorded early last year.

the david grubbs one is good as well.

 

[Ed]

not out yet, surely?

I heard a couple songs off it, so so good.

It's out on the 22nd

 

[nEiLo]

didn't buy many albums this year

squarepusher - ultravisitor is rad though

oh yeah: squarepusher makes the grade too

 

[veryslowey]

oh yeah: squarepusher makes the grade too

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Most of my favourites of the year have been reissues.
Mentally Ill-Gacys place
Zolar X-Timeless
Raw Power-you are the Victim
have been amongst the best.
New records by Witchcraft, Mission Of Burma and the Solution have been getting multiple playsbut the record I've probably listened to most this year is Vicious Circle by the Zero Boys,released in 1982.