Best of 2004: My Picks
Submitted by Nathaniel on Wed, 12/22/2004 - 09:09
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- 01 Prince Po: The Slickness
- 02 Madvillain: Madvillainy
- 03 Max Richter: The Blue Notebooks
- 04 De La Soul: The Grind Date
- 05 Mirah: C'mon Miracle
- 06 Dizzee Rascal: Showtime
- 07 Jóhann Jóhannsson: Virðulegu Forsetar
- 08 Architecture in Helsinki: Fingers Crossed
- 09 Streets: A Grand Don't Come For Free
- 10 Go! Team: Thunder, Lightning, Strike
- 11 Yesterday's New Quintet: Stevie
- 12 Arcade Fire: Funeral
- 13 A.C. Newman: Slow Wonder
- 14 Terrestre: Secondary Inspection
- 15 DJ Signify: Sleep No More
- 16 Foreign Exchange: Connected
- 17 Panda Bear: Young Prayer
- 18 Junior Boys: Last Exit
- 19 Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse
- 20 Wiley: Treddin' On Thin Ice
- 21 Kanye West: The College Dropout
- 22 Dios: Dios
- 23 Charalambides: Joy Shapes
- 24 Superpitcher: Here Comes Love
- 25 Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
- 26 Concretes: The Concretes
- 27 Xiu Xiu: Fabulous Muscles
- 28 Tim Hecker: Mirages
- 29 FemBots: Small Town Murder Scene
- 30 Ghostface: The Pretty Toney Album
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Sorry, I just 'didn't get' Panda Bear.
I feel so inadequate not getting "Madvillainy". I think it's just a bunch of fragments in search of a whole -- interesting fragments, yes, but still fragments. Is it something wrong with me maybe?
I never find MF Doom's stuff very cohesive, so I guess I didn't really concern myself with that. I do think that the whole is less than the sum of its parts, but some of the songs on Madvillainy are so good and so compelling, that the album could hardly match their quality all the way through.