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May 26
Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest
86
critic score
(38)
83
user score
(1,038)
Jan 20
Bon Iver
Blood Bank EP
74
critic score
(16)
79
user score
(636)
Aug 18
Mount Eerie
Wind's Poem
84
critic score
(11)
81
user score
(383)
Oct 2
Mumford & Sons
Sigh No More
72
critic score
(19)
67
user score
(362)
Jun 6
Jordaan Mason & the Horse Museum
Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head
84
user score
(314)
Jan 27
Natural Snow Buildings
Daughter of Darkness
86
user score
(282)
Oct 13
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Can't Maintain
70
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(202)
Oct 6
Dead Man's Bones
Dead Man's Bones
74
critic score
(13)
80
user score
(192)
May 13
Gregory Alan Isakov
This Empty Northern Hemisphere
100
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(172)
Aug 11
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
31
user score
(133)
Mar 24
The Decemberists
The Hazards of Love
72
critic score
(33)
77
user score
(127)
Oct 6
The Mountain Goats
The Life of the World to Come
77
critic score
(22)
78
user score
(91)
May 26
Sharon Van Etten
Because I Was in Love
77
critic score
(4)
72
user score
(89)
May 5
Mount Eerie
White Stag
62
user score
(80)
Sep
Natural Snow Buildings
Shadow Kingdom
87
user score
(76)
Mar 19
Tune-Yards
BiRd-BrAiNs
76
critic score
(9)
73
user score
(68)
May 19
mewithoutYou
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright
70
critic score
(4)
76
user score
(67)
Jun 2
Paolo Nutini
Sunny Side Up
66
critic score
(10)
74
user score
(60)
Jun 2
Eels
Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire
72
critic score
(27)
70
user score
(57)
Sep 13
Coldplay
Strawberry Swing
89
user score
(57)
Jul 14
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Up From Below
65
critic score
(10)
71
user score
(54)
Feb 17
Various Artists
Dark Was The Night
75
critic score
(20)
80
user score
(48)
Mar 3
Kurt Vile
God Is Saying This to You
76
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(47)
Sep
Flatsound
Scotland, I Wish You Had Stayed.
71
user score
(44)
Oct 6
Noah and The Whale
The First Days Of Spring
64
critic score
(22)
78
user score
(43)
Jul 7
Rome
Flowers From Exile
77
user score
(41)
Feb 17
Beirut
March of the Zapotec/Holland
68
critic score
(22)
75
user score
(40)
Dec 2
B Fachada
B Fachada
82
user score
(39)
Oct 27
Devendra Banhart
What Will We Be
66
critic score
(28)
74
user score
(38)
Sep 22
Monsters of Folk
Monsters of Folk
75
critic score
(31)
75
user score
(37)
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Jan 19
Wardruna
Runaljod – Gap Var Ginnunga
76
user score
(34)
Mar 23
Bryant Oden
The Duck Song (The Duck And The Lemonade Stand)
85
user score
(32)
Oct 27
The Middle East
The Recordings of the Middle East
78
user score
(32)
Mar 3
Marissa Nadler
Little Hells
78
critic score
(14)
75
user score
(31)
Jan 27
Fleet Foxes
Mykonos
93
user score
(31)
Mar 10
Balmorhea
All Is Wild, All Is Silent
74
critic score
(4)
78
user score
(29)
Sep 15
The Dodos
Time To Die
61
critic score
(15)
74
user score
(26)
Nov 9
Various Artists
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack)
76
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(26)
Aug 25
Colbie Caillat
Breakthrough
54
critic score
(8)
73
user score
(26)
Dec 25
Meghan Trainor
Meghan Trainor
20
user score
(22)
Sep 29
Karen O and the Kids
Where The Wild Things Are OST
73
critic score
(9)
78
user score
(22)
Feb 3
Lisa Hannigan
Sea Sew
74
critic score
(9)
80
user score
(21)
Mar 17
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Beware
74
critic score
(29)
74
user score
(20)
Nov 6
Mars Argo
Technology is a Dead Bird
75
user score
(20)
Oct 13
Fanfarlo
Reservoir
75
critic score
(8)
79
user score
(19)
Oct 27
Cate Le Bon
Me Oh My
68
critic score
(12)
75
user score
(18)
Nov 20
Passenger
Wide Eyes Blind Love
73
user score
(18)
Oct 14
戸張大輔 [Daisuke Tobari]
ドラム (Drum)
83
user score
(17)
Aug 11
Dan Mangan
Nice, Nice, Very Nice
66
critic score
(8)
82
user score
(16)
Jan 1
Fleet Foxes
Your Protector
88
user score
(15)
Apr 14
Yoñlu
A Society in Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre
78
critic score
(4)
82
user score
(15)
Oct 6
Califone
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
78
critic score
(9)
78
user score
(15)
Aug 4
Fruit Bats
The Ruminant Band
71
critic score
(11)
78
user score
(14)
Jan 27
Cotton Jones
Paranoid Cocoon
68
critic score
(7)
71
user score
(13)
Jul 7
Bowerbirds
Upper Air
74
critic score
(21)
73
user score
(13)
Mar 31
Other Lives
Other Lives
70
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(13)
Mar 31
Great Lake Swimmers
Lost Channels
70
critic score
(7)
73
user score
(12)
Dec 24
La Dispute
Here, Hear III.
73
user score
(12)
Apr 28
Kevin Devine
Brothers Blood
77
critic score
(4)
79
user score
(12)
Nov 16
Jesca Hoop
Hunting My Dress
75
critic score
(8)
85
user score
(12)
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