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2004 Singer-Songwriter Album Releases
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Mar 16
Sufjan Stevens
Seven Swans
78
critic score
(14)
81
user score
(1,164)
Mar 23
Joanna Newsom
The Milk-Eyed Mender
84
critic score
(9)
83
user score
(577)
Aug 17
Regina Spektor
Soviet Kitsch
72
critic score
(9)
84
user score
(576)
Oct 19
Elliott Smith
From a Basement on the Hill
84
critic score
(22)
82
user score
(546)
Jun 8
PJ Harvey
Uh Huh Her
71
critic score
(20)
75
user score
(286)
Mar 23
Iron & Wine
Our Endless Numbered Days
81
critic score
(12)
81
user score
(273)
May 18
Feist
Let It Die
81
critic score
(12)
80
user score
(194)
May 4
Devendra Banhart
Rejoicing In The Hands
82
critic score
(18)
77
user score
(116)
Oct 11
James Blunt
Back to Bedlam
65
critic score
(7)
60
user score
(100)
Aug 23
Jeff Buckley
Forget Her
96
user score
(76)
Oct 26
Leonard Cohen
Dear Heather
70
critic score
(11)
58
user score
(71)
Jun 1
Mount Eerie
Seven New Songs of Mount Eerie
78
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(67)
Nov 16
Rufus Wainwright
Want Two
76
critic score
(17)
75
user score
(61)
Jun 22
John Frusciante
The Will To Death
75
critic score
(3)
76
user score
(57)
Dec 13
KT Tunstall
Eye to the Telescope
71
critic score
(10)
76
user score
(56)
Nov 3
Regina Spektor
Us
97
user score
(50)
Aug 10
Mark Lanegan Band
Bubblegum
79
critic score
(11)
79
user score
(45)
Sep 14
Ray LaMontagne
Trouble
70
critic score
(9)
79
user score
(37)
Jan 31
Marissa Nadler
Ballads of Living and Dying
75
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(33)
Jul 19
Sufjan Stevens
A Sun Came [Reissue]
60
critic score
(2)
64
user score
(32)
Sep 14
John Frusciante
DC EP
60
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(22)
Aug 3
Sufjan Stevens
The Dress Looks Nice on You
90
user score
(21)
Jun 14
Rachel Goswell
Waves Are Universal
64
critic score
(8)
80
user score
(19)
May 4
Juana Molina
Tres Cosas
82
critic score
(6)
80
user score
(19)
Sep 6
Nick Drake
River Man
97
user score
(19)
Mar 30
Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall
93
critic score
(7)
85
user score
(18)
Sep 21
Elvis Costello & The Imposters
The Delivery Man
75
critic score
(13)
75
user score
(16)
Jan 20
Jason Molina
Pyramid Electric Co.
70
critic score
(5)
78
user score
(15)
Sep 1
Shugo Tokumaru
Night Piece
83
critic score
(3)
80
user score
(15)
Nov 2
Joanna Newsom
The Sprout and the Bean
78
user score
(14)
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Nov 9
Vanessa Carlton
Harmonium
60
critic score
(5)
66
user score
(14)
Mar 1
Diane Cluck
Oh Vanille/Ova Nil
66
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(14)
Sep 21
Seu Jorge
Cru
75
critic score
(5)
78
user score
(13)
Oct 11
Stina Nordenstam
The World Is Saved
76
critic score
(6)
82
user score
(12)
Jan 20
Sara Bareilles
Careful Confessions
70
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(10)
Jun 8
Rachael Yamagata
Happenstance
69
critic score
(10)
79
user score
(10)
Feb 10
Nellie McKay
Get Away From Me
78
critic score
(9)
80
user score
(9)
Nov 14
The Innocence Mission
Now the Day Is Over
70
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(8)
Jun 22
Jonathan Richman
Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love
70
critic score
(6)
77
user score
(8)
Sep 6
Missy Higgins
The Sound of White
64
critic score
(3)
86
user score
(8)
Aug 3
Damien Rice
B-Sides
75
critic score
(4)
80
user score
(7)
Sep 14
Citizen Cope
The Clarence Greenwood Recordings
30
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(6)
Sep 21
Anaïs Mitchell
Hymns for the Exiled
60
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(6)
Jan 20
Chad VanGaalen
Infiniheart
78
critic score
(13)
79
user score
(6)
Mar 9
Sondre Lerche
Two Way Monologue
75
critic score
(13)
83
user score
(6)
May 11
Donavon Frankenreiter
Donavon Frankenreiter
80
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(6)
Dec 21
Keren Ann
Nolita
65
critic score
(7)
76
user score
(6)
Jul 13
Howie Day
Collide
69
user score
(5)
Dec 28
Jack Johnson
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
94
user score
(5)
Aug 24
The Finn Brothers
Everyone Is Here
56
critic score
(6)
66
user score
(4)
Nov 9
Neko Case
The Tigers Have Spoken
75
critic score
(13)
80
user score
(4)
Mar 23
Sarah Harmer
All of Our Names
74
critic score
(4)
74
user score
(4)
Sep 7
Paul Westerberg
Folker
69
critic score
(8)
67
user score
(4)
Oct 12
Chris Thile
Deceiver
70
critic score
(1)
87
user score
(3)
Feb 24
Vienna Teng
Warm Strangers
80
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(3)
2004
Stephen Fretwell
Magpie
68
user score
(3)
May 24
Arno
French Bazaar
69
user score
(2)
Oct 5
Robyn Hitchcock
Spooked
69
critic score
(8)
68
user score
(2)
Nov 23
Feist
Mushaboom
86
user score
(2)
2004
Mar-Tie
The Avant-Garde Grandpa
65
user score
(2)
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