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Highest Rated Indie Folk Albums of All Time
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The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
September 25, 2001
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100
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Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
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100
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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
February 10, 1998
Score
100
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Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10, 2015
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100
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
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100
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Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
June 3, 2008
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100
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Iron & Wine - Woman King
February 22, 2005
Score
90
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Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
May 29, 2000
Score
90
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
January 19, 1999
Score
90
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The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
April 26, 2005
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90
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James Blackshaw - Summoning Suns
March 17, 2015
Score
90
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Field Medic - Fade Into the Dawn
April 19, 2019
Score
90
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Breathe Owl Breathe - Passage of Pegasus
October 15, 2013
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90
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Little Scream - The Golden Record
April 12, 2011
Score
90
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Cat Power - You Are Free
February 18, 2003
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90
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Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
September 5, 2006
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90
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Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
June 18, 2020
Score
90
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Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
July 21, 1995
Score
90
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Califone - Quicksand / Cradlesnakes
March 18, 2003
Score
90
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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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Califone - Roots & Crowns
October 10, 2006
Score
90
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Luluc - Passerby
July 15, 2014
Score
90
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Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
March 23, 2004
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90
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Damien Jurado - The Horizon Just Laughed
May 4, 2018
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90
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Julia Jacklin - Crushing
February 22, 2019
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90
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