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Albums of the Year 2004

Todd Rundgren - Liars Velvet Revolver - Contraband Steve Earle - Revolution Starts Now Brian Wilson - Smile The Ordinary Boys - Over the Counter Culture Morrissey - You are the Quarry Kings of Convenience - Riot on a Quiet Street REM - Around the Sun Jesse Malin - The Heat Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow

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MARTY HUGHLEY of The Oregonian (19 December) has Liars as on of his albums of the year: - "Todd Rundgren, "Liars" (Sanctuary): "The truth is like chasing a phantom," Rundgren sings in the opening of this thematic song cycle. But with the veteran pop visionary delivering his most tuneful and cohesive album in years, even phantoms might find themselves drawn to this. Dishonesty -- emotional, political, intellectual, theological -- is his subject here, and he is by turns idealistic, righteously indignant and ruminative. The tracks update his Beatles- esque sound with techno, drum 'n' bass and R&B elements. But he's at his most affecting when he keeps the melodies at the fore and his judgmental eye turned inward". Thad Brown has written a very useful article in Electronic Musician (Volume 20; Number 13) on how to use the internet to promote your music. the article concentrates on telling the reader "how audio is compressed, how to choos...