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The Best Indie Folk Albums of All Time

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1.

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
Critic Score
91
18 reviews
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2.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Critic Score
90
43 reviews
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3.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Live
April 28, 2017
Critic Score
89
5 reviews
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4.

Elliott Smith - Either/Or
February 25, 1997
Critic Score
88
6 reviews
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5.

Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
March 23, 2004
Critic Score
88
7 reviews
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6.

Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
June 18, 2020
Critic Score
87
39 reviews
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7.

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10, 2015
Critic Score
87
40 reviews
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8.

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
June 3, 2008
Critic Score
86
23 reviews
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9.

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
February 10, 1998
Critic Score
86
9 reviews
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10.

Cat Power - You Are Free
February 18, 2003
Critic Score
86
11 reviews
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11.

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
May 26, 2009
Critic Score
86
33 reviews
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12.

Joanna Newsom - Ys
November 14, 2006
Critic Score
86
25 reviews
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13.

Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
August 18, 2009
Critic Score
86
9 reviews
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14.

Big Thief - Two Hands
October 11, 2019
Critic Score
85
22 reviews
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15.

Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
April 8, 2008
Critic Score
85
9 reviews
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16.

Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
July 1, 2003
Critic Score
85
9 reviews
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17.

The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
August 7, 2020
Critic Score
85
13 reviews
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18.

Mount Eerie - (after)
September 21, 2018
Critic Score
85
6 reviews
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19.

The Decemberists - Picaresque
March 22, 2005
Critic Score
85
15 reviews
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20.

Julia Jacklin - Crushing
February 22, 2019
Critic Score
84
30 reviews
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21.

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
July 8, 2007
Critic Score
84
20 reviews
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22.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
January 19, 1999
Critic Score
84
5 reviews
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23.

Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
June 21, 2011
Critic Score
84
35 reviews
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24.

Fleet Foxes - First Collection: 2006-2009
November 9, 2018
Critic Score
84
6 reviews
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25.

Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
February 23, 2010
Critic Score
84
28 reviews
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