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Sep 24
Beck
Sea Change
80
critic score
(15)
80
user score
(758)
Aug 13
Agalloch
The Mantle
90
critic score
(2)
85
user score
(564)
Aug 13
Bright Eyes
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
81
critic score
(12)
84
user score
(352)
Feb 19
The Mountain Goats
All Hail West Texas
85
critic score
(6)
84
user score
(318)
Nov 5
The Mountain Goats
Tallahassee
77
critic score
(10)
83
user score
(263)
Feb 1
Damien Rice
O
77
critic score
(14)
81
user score
(194)
Mar 5
Songs: Ohia
Didn't It Rain
88
critic score
(7)
83
user score
(182)
Oct 28
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man
Out of Season
80
critic score
(11)
81
user score
(152)
May 21
The Decemberists
Castaways and Cutouts
85
critic score
(5)
81
user score
(144)
Mar 31
Against Me!
Is Reinventing Axl Rose
92
critic score
(3)
82
user score
(138)
Sep 24
Iron & Wine
The Creek Drank The Cradle
80
critic score
(7)
81
user score
(124)
Aug 20
The Microphones
Song Islands
74
critic score
(3)
77
user score
(106)
Sep 13
The Microphones
Little Bird Flies Into a Big Black Cloud
75
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(99)
Sep 16
Jim O'Rourke
Live at Japan 2002.9.16
85
user score
(56)
May 21
Ugly Casanova
Sharpen Your Teeth
71
critic score
(3)
78
user score
(47)
Jan 1
Regina Spektor
Songs
75
user score
(46)
Nov 26
Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue
95
critic score
(2)
85
user score
(39)
Jan 22
Okkervil River
Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See
66
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(28)
2002
Joanna Newsom
Walnut Whales
77
user score
(28)
Mar 27
Woven Hand
Woven Hand
60
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(22)
Oct 28
Devendra Banhart
Oh Me Oh My... the Way the Day Goes by the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit
79
critic score
(3)
76
user score
(21)
Oct 14
Augie March
Strange Bird
88
critic score
(5)
72
user score
(17)
May 6
Bright Eyes
There Is No Beginning to the Story
81
critic score
(3)
74
user score
(15)
2002
Beck
Lost Cause
91
user score
(14)
2002
In Gowan Ring
Hazel Steps through a Weathered Home
75
user score
(13)
Mar 5
Les Cowboys Fringants
Break Syndical
82
user score
(13)
Jan 1
Dr. Dog
Toothbrush
73
user score
(12)
Oct 8
Sinéad O'Connor
Sean-Nós Nua
71
critic score
(6)
68
user score
(11)
Jan 29
The Extra Glenns
Martial Arts Weekend
79
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(7)
May 20
Joseph Arthur
Redemption's Son
74
critic score
(3)
77
user score
(7)
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Oct 29
Various Artists
Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 2: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music
72
user score
(7)
2002
Clann Zú
Rua
67
user score
(6)
Jan 28
Neil Halstead
Sleeping on Roads
66
critic score
(6)
82
user score
(6)
2002
Kaki King
Everybody Loves You
76
user score
(6)
Apr
Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου [Thanasis Papakonstantinou]
Αγρύπνια
81
user score
(6)
Oct
Tori Amos
A Sorta Fairytale
96
user score
(6)
Apr 9
Azure Ray
Burn and Shiver
74
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(6)
Sep 17
Gogol Bordello
Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony
78
user score
(5)
Aug 13
James Taylor
October Road
79
critic score
(4)
80
user score
(3)
Nov 2
Ron Sexsmith
Cobblestone Runway
82
critic score
(6)
65
user score
(3)
Dec 3
Jean Leloup
La vallée des réputations
78
user score
(3)
Aug 8
Devendra Banhart
The Charles C. Leary
70
user score
(3)
Sep 10
Doug Martsch
Now You Know
79
critic score
(3)
55
user score
(2)
2002
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Tantric Lover
69
user score
(2)
Mar 5
Billy Bragg & The Blokes
England, Half-English
64
critic score
(10)
63
user score
(2)
Sep 17
Matt Skiba & Kevin Seconds
Split
78
user score
(2)
2002
Anaïs Mitchell
The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell
52
user score
(2)
2002
Murat Yılmazyıldırım
Cennet (Düş Sokağı Sakinleri)
74
user score
(1)
Aug 28
Hazmat Modine
Bahamut
70
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Various Artists
Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
70
user score
(1)
2002
Orplid
Nächtliche Jünger
85
user score
(1)
Feb 12
Mick Moloney
Far From The Shamrock Shore
60
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(1)
Dec 14
Various Artists
Anti-folk Vol.1
70
user score
(1)
2002
Holly Near
Early Warnings
53
user score
(1)
Apr 22
Yıldız Tilbe
Haberi Olsun
94
user score
(1)
Jul 9
D'Gary
Akata Meso
85
critic score
(2)
90
user score
(1)
Sep 1
Jandek
I Threw You Away
67
user score
(1)
Dec 1
Jandek
The Humility of Pain
71
user score
(1)
2002
Manouche
Apprenti Moustachu
95
user score
(1)
Jun 24
Murat Çelik
Seyyah
82
user score
(1)
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