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Highest Rated Indie Folk Albums of All Time
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Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
May 22, 2012
Score
100
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Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
January 25, 2005
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100
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Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
February 10, 2017
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100
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Joanna Newsom - Ys
November 14, 2006
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100
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Cat Power - You Are Free
February 18, 2003
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100
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Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10, 2015
Score
90
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Emmy the Great - First Love
February 9, 2009
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Mount Eerie - Now Only
March 16, 2018
Score
90
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Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
May 26, 2009
Score
90
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Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
February 7, 2012
Score
90
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Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me
May 28, 2007
Score
90
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Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
July 8, 2007
Score
90
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Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
February 23, 2010
Score
90
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Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss
October 5, 2018
Score
90
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Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
August 18, 2009
Score
90
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Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
May 9, 2006
Score
90
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A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Cervantine
February 18, 2011
Score
90
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Le Loup - The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly
September 11, 2007
Score
90
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This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze
July 7, 2017
Score
90
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Sparrow & the Workshop - Crystals Fall
April 11, 2010
Score
90
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Oliver Wilde - A Brief Introduction to Unnatural Light Years
July 22, 2013
Score
90
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Score
90
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The Mountain Goats - Goths
May 19, 2017
Score
90
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Withered Hand - New Gods
March 10, 2014
Score
80
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Beirut - No No No
September 11, 2015
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80
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