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1996 Indie Rock Album Releases
1995
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1996
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Mar 26
Neutral Milk Hotel
On Avery Island
71
critic score
(7)
78
user score
(1,015)
Apr 16
Modest Mouse
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
81
critic score
(4)
84
user score
(865)
Apr 9
Stereolab
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
89
critic score
(4)
83
user score
(480)
Nov 12
Bowery Electric
Beat
80
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(259)
Aug 6
The Olivia Tremor Control
Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle
88
critic score
(5)
83
user score
(207)
Oct 1
Silver Jews
The Natural Bridge
65
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(200)
Mar 25
Sleater-Kinney
Call The Doctor
84
critic score
(4)
79
user score
(167)
Aug 13
Eels
Beautiful Freak
71
critic score
(6)
80
user score
(138)
Aug 6
Modest Mouse
Interstate 8
80
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(138)
Aug 13
Low
The Curtain Hits the Cast
75
critic score
(5)
81
user score
(134)
Apr 1
Swirlies
They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In the Glittering World of the Salons
70
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(134)
Jan 14
12 RODS
Gay?
80
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(133)
Oct 29
Heatmiser
Mic City Sons
83
critic score
(4)
77
user score
(110)
Apr 23
Spoon
Telephono
62
critic score
(3)
68
user score
(95)
Sep 10
Cat Power
What Would the Community Think
84
critic score
(5)
75
user score
(87)
Jul 23
Red House Painters
Songs for a Blue Guitar
72
critic score
(6)
79
user score
(86)
May 20
Super Furry Animals
Fuzzy Logic
82
critic score
(7)
76
user score
(75)
Jan 1
Polvo
Exploded Drawing
78
critic score
(5)
79
user score
(69)
Mar 4
Cat Power
Myra Lee
70
critic score
(4)
71
user score
(58)
Jun 11
Team Dresch
Captain My Captain
81
critic score
(4)
80
user score
(57)
Mar 26
Guided by Voices
Under the Bushes Under the Stars
69
critic score
(5)
77
user score
(54)
Feb 13
Rocketship
A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness
100
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(51)
Sep 10
Smog
The Doctor Came at Dawn
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(50)
Oct 1
Fountains of Wayne
Fountains of Wayne
71
critic score
(8)
78
user score
(46)
Oct 24
Bedhead
Beheaded
81
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(37)
Aug 20
Sebadoh
Harmacy
76
critic score
(6)
79
user score
(36)
1996
P.E.E.
Now, More Charm and More Tender
78
user score
(35)
Jan 13
Disco Inferno
Technicolour
65
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(34)
Jun 10
Stina Nordenstam
Dynamite
77
user score
(32)
1996
Duster
Christmas Dust
71
user score
(29)
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Jan 1
Destroyer
We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge
65
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(29)
Feb 27
The Wrens
Secaucus
83
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(25)
Nov 5
Chavez
Ride the Fader
92
critic score
(4)
74
user score
(25)
Nov 25
Arab Strap
The Week Never Starts Round Here
58
critic score
(2)
69
user score
(23)
Mar 14
Motorpsycho
Blissard
84
user score
(22)
Apr 18
Longpigs
The Sun Is Often Out
80
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(20)
1996
Duster
On the Dodge
76
user score
(18)
Sep 9
Lisa Germano
Excerpts From A Love Circus
80
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(18)
Sep 24
Archers of Loaf
All the Nations Airports
75
critic score
(5)
74
user score
(16)
Jul 9
Long Fin Killie
Valentino
80
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(15)
Oct 22
A Minor Forest
Flemish Altruism (Constituent Parts 1993-1996)
78
user score
(15)
Mar 1
The Auteurs
After Murder Park
76
critic score
(5)
76
user score
(14)
Nov 11
Lowercase
All Destructive Urges... Seem So Perfect
67
user score
(12)
Jan 23
Low
Transmission
76
user score
(12)
Apr 1
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
I Hope It Lands
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(11)
Jan 1
Urusei Yatsura
We Are Urusei Yatsura
84
critic score
(3)
77
user score
(11)
Aug 30
Bob Hund
Omslag: Martin Kann
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(11)
1996
All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors
All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors
70
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(10)
Feb 2
Rex
C
90
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(9)
Jun 1
Grant Lee Buffalo
Copperopolis
69
critic score
(6)
66
user score
(9)
Apr 9
Various Artists
Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
82
critic score
(2)
85
user score
(8)
Nov 4
Sophia
Fixed Water
78
user score
(7)
Apr 23
Jonathan Fire*Eater
Tremble Under Boom Lights
80
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(6)
Mar 12
The For Carnation
Marshmallows
60
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(6)
Jul 29
Suede
Trash
89
user score
(6)
Jan 1
The Wedding Present
Saturnalia
69
critic score
(5)
70
user score
(5)
Apr 29
Smog
Kicking a Couple Around
80
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(5)
May 14
The Raincoats
Looking in the Shadows
79
critic score
(4)
79
user score
(4)
Oct 29
Comet
Chandelier Musings
72
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(2)
1996
Souled American
Notes Campfire
53
user score
(2)
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