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The Best Indie Folk Albums of All Time
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Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
Critic Score
91
18
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2
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Critic Score
90
43
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3
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Live
April 28, 2017
Critic Score
89
5
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4
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Elliott Smith - Either/Or
February 25, 1997
Critic Score
88
6
reviews
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5
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Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
March 23, 2004
Critic Score
88
7
reviews
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iTunes
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6
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Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
June 18, 2020
Critic Score
88
40
reviews
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7
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Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10, 2015
Critic Score
87
40
reviews
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8
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Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
June 3, 2008
Critic Score
86
23
reviews
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9
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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
February 10, 1998
Critic Score
86
9
reviews
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10
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Sparrow & the Workshop - Crystals Fall
April 11, 2010
Critic Score
86
5
reviews
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11
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Cat Power - You Are Free
February 18, 2003
Critic Score
86
11
reviews
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12
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Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
May 26, 2009
Critic Score
86
33
reviews
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13
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Joanna Newsom - Ys
November 14, 2006
Critic Score
86
25
reviews
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iTunes
Music
14
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Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
August 18, 2009
Critic Score
86
9
reviews
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15
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Big Thief - Two Hands
October 11, 2019
Critic Score
85
22
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify
16
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Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
April 8, 2008
Critic Score
85
9
reviews
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17
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Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
July 1, 2003
Critic Score
85
9
reviews
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iTunes
Music
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18
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The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
August 7, 2020
Critic Score
85
13
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
19
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Mount Eerie - (after)
September 21, 2018
Critic Score
85
6
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
20
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Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
February 23, 2010
Critic Score
85
29
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
21
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The Decemberists - Picaresque
March 22, 2005
Critic Score
85
15
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify
22
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Julia Jacklin - Crushing
February 22, 2019
Critic Score
84
30
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify
23
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Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
July 8, 2007
Critic Score
84
20
reviews
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iTunes
Music
Spotify
24
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
January 19, 1999
Critic Score
84
5
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
25
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Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
June 21, 2011
Critic Score
84
35
reviews
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iTunes
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