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”)