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Highest Rated Indie Folk Albums of All Time
Decade
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Genre

1.

Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
February 23, 2010
Score
90
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2.

John K. Samson - Winter Wheat
October 21, 2016
Score
90
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3.

The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
August 7, 2020
Score
90
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4.

The Welcome Wagon - Welcome to the Welcome Wagon
December 9, 2008
Score
90
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5.

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
May 26, 2009
Score
90
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6.

Various Artists - Dark Was The Night
February 17, 2009
Score
90
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7.

The Mountain Goats - Songs For Pierre Chuvin
April 10, 2020
Score
85
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8.

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10, 2015
Score
85
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9.

Fleet Foxes - Shore
September 22, 2020
Score
85
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10.

Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was
August 21, 2020
Score
85
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11.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Best Troubador
May 5, 2017
Score
85
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12.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Score
85
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13.

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
Score
85
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14.

Villagers - Becoming a Jackal
June 8, 2010
Score
80
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15.

Laura Stevenson - The Big Freeze
March 29, 2019
Score
80
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16.

Lomelda - Hannah
September 4, 2020
Score
80
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17.

Lady Lamb - After
March 3, 2015
Score
80
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18.

Iron & Wine - Beast Epic
August 25, 2017
Score
80
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19.

Villagers - Where Have You Been All My Life?
January 8, 2016
Score
80
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20.

Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
August 18, 2009
Score
80
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21.

Damien Jurado - The Horizon Just Laughed
May 4, 2018
Score
80
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22.

Beirut - March of the Zapotec/Holland EP
February 17, 2009
Score
80
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23.

Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold
September 9, 2014
Score
80
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24.

A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Cervantine
February 18, 2011
Score
80
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25.

Mutual Benefit - Skip a Sinking Stone
May 20, 2016
Score
80
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