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Highest Rated Indie Folk Albums of All Time
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Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
May 3, 2011
Score
100
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Score
100
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Daniel Rossen - Silent Hour / Golden Mile
March 20, 2012
Score
100
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Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
June 21, 2011
Score
91
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Grizzly Bear - Shields
September 18, 2012
Score
91
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Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
February 7, 2012
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91
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Volcano Choir - Repave
September 3, 2013
Score
91
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The Mountain Goats - Goths
May 19, 2017
Score
91
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Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
May 26, 2009
Score
89
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Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People
August 20, 2010
Score
87
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Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP
January 20, 2009
Score
86
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Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
February 23, 2010
Score
84
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The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ
April 7, 2015
Score
83
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Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
Score
83
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Iron & Wine - Ghost on Ghost
April 16, 2013
Score
83
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Mount Eerie - Now Only
March 16, 2018
Score
83
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Laura Marling - Short Movie
March 23, 2015
Score
83
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Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10, 2015
Score
83
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Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
October 27, 2017
Score
83
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Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
July 23, 2013
Score
75
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First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
January 24, 2012
Score
75
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22
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Bowerbirds - The Clearing
March 6, 2012
Score
75
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Whitney - Light Upon The Lake
June 3, 2016
Score
75
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Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Here
May 29, 2012
Score
75
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Beirut - The Rip Tide
August 30, 2011
Score
75
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