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Highest Rated Indie Folk Albums of All Time
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1.

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
Score
100
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2.

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
February 10, 1998
Score
100
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3.

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
June 3, 2008
Score
100
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4.

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10, 2015
Score
100
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5.

The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
September 25, 2001
Score
100
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6.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Score
100
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7.

Elliott Smith - Either/Or
February 25, 1997
Score
90
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8.

Field Medic - Fade Into the Dawn
April 19, 2019
Score
90
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9.

José González - Vestiges & Claws
February 17, 2015
Score
90
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10.

Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
May 29, 2000
Score
90
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11.

Julia Jacklin - Crushing
February 22, 2019
Score
90
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12.

Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
August 13, 2002
Score
90
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13.

Califone - Roots & Crowns
October 10, 2006
Score
90
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14.

Tunng - Comments of the Inner Chorus
May 22, 2006
Score
90
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15.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
January 19, 1999
Score
90
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16.

The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
April 26, 2005
Score
90
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17.

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
September 5, 2006
Score
90
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18.

Wooden Wand - Farmer's Corner
May 5, 2014
Score
90
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19.

The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
November 5, 2002
Score
90
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20.

James Blackshaw - Summoning Suns
March 17, 2015
Score
90
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21.

Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
May 3, 2019
Score
90
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22.

Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
March 23, 2004
Score
90
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23.

Damien Jurado - The Horizon Just Laughed
May 4, 2018
Score
90
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24.

Andrew Bird - Weather Systems
April 1, 2003
Score
90
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25.

Califone - Quicksand / Cradlesnakes
March 18, 2003
Score
90
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