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Highest Rated Indie Folk Albums of All Time
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The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
August 7, 2020
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90
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The Welcome Wagon - Welcome to the Welcome Wagon
December 9, 2008
Score
90
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Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
February 23, 2010
Score
90
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Various Artists - Dark Was The Night
February 17, 2009
Score
90
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John K. Samson - Winter Wheat
October 21, 2016
Score
90
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Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
May 26, 2009
Score
90
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Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10, 2015
Score
85
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Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
Score
85
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The Mountain Goats - Songs For Pierre Chuvin
April 10, 2020
Score
85
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Best Troubador
May 5, 2017
Score
85
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Fleet Foxes - Shore
September 22, 2020
Score
85
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Score
85
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Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was
August 21, 2020
Score
85
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The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives
October 23, 2020
Score
81
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Iron & Wine - Beast Epic
August 25, 2017
Score
80
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boygenius - boygenius EP
October 26, 2018
Score
80
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Villagers - Where Have You Been All My Life?
January 8, 2016
Score
80
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Stella Donnelly - Beware of the Dogs
March 8, 2019
Score
80
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Mutual Benefit - Skip a Sinking Stone
May 20, 2016
Score
80
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Florist - Emily Alone
July 26, 2019
Score
80
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First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
June 10, 2014
Score
80
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Lady Lamb - After
March 3, 2015
Score
80
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The Head and The Heart - Let's Be Still
October 15, 2013
Score
80
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Six Organs of Admittance - Companion Rises
February 21, 2020
Score
80
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Lomelda - Hannah
September 4, 2020
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80
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