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The Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time
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Pixies - Doolittle
April 18, 1989
Critic Score
100
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The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
October 26, 1999
Critic Score
92
8
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3
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Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
April 22, 1997
Critic Score
91
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Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
April 23, 2002
Critic Score
91
16
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Pixies - Surfer Rosa
March 21, 1988
Critic Score
91
5
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Arcade Fire - Funeral
September 14, 2004
Critic Score
91
22
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7
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Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
June 21, 1994
Critic Score
91
6
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8
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Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
April 20, 1992
Critic Score
90
5
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Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
June 22, 1993
Critic Score
90
7
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10
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Guided By Voices - The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
October 4, 2003
Critic Score
90
5
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Wilco - Summerteeth
March 9, 1999
Critic Score
90
8
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12
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The Strokes - Is This It
July 30, 2001
Critic Score
89
13
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13
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Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
January 20, 2015
Critic Score
89
43
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Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
February 2, 1994
Critic Score
89
5
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15
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Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
June 18, 2020
Critic Score
88
43
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16
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Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
June 13, 2000
Critic Score
88
6
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17
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Pillow Queens - In Waiting
September 25, 2020
Critic Score
88
5
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18
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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
August 3, 2010
Critic Score
88
43
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19
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Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
May 24, 2005
Critic Score
88
16
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20
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Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
April 12, 2019
Critic Score
88
25
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21
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TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
September 12, 2006
Critic Score
88
24
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22
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Les Savy Fav - Inches
April 20, 2004
Critic Score
87
6
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23
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The Icarus Line - All Things Under Heaven
October 2, 2015
Critic Score
87
5
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24
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Elastica - Elastica
March 13, 1995
Critic Score
87
7
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25
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The Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle
August 6, 1996
Critic Score
87
6
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