My favourites from 2004 are:
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Go Team - Thunder Lightening Strike
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing the Hands
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
The Good Life - Album OF The Year
Inteprol - Antics
Wilco - Ghost is Born
AC Newman - SLow
Castanets - Cathedral
The Liars - They were wrong so they drowned
Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere
The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
Architecture in Helsinki - fingers crossed (yay, they're Australian as well
)
hmmm...