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Highest Rated Indie Folk Albums of All Time
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Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
March 23, 2004
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100
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Iron & Wine - Woman King
February 22, 2005
Score
91
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Califone - Quicksand / Cradlesnakes
March 18, 2003
Score
91
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Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
March 16, 2004
Score
91
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Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
January 25, 2005
Score
91
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Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10, 2015
Score
90
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Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
May 3, 2011
Score
90
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Joanna Newsom - Ys
November 14, 2006
Score
90
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Ani DiFranco - Revelling/Reckoning
April 10, 2001
Score
90
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Lou Barlow - Emoh
January 24, 2005
Score
83
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The Decemberists - Picaresque
March 22, 2005
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83
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The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
April 26, 2005
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83
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Grizzly Bear - Horn of Plenty
November 9, 2004
Score
83
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Grizzly Bear - Shields
September 18, 2012
Score
80
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Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
June 21, 2011
Score
80
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The Dodos - Visiter
March 18, 2008
Score
80
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The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ
April 7, 2015
Score
80
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Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
May 22, 2012
Score
80
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Score
80
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S. Carey - Range of Light
April 1, 2014
Score
80
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Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
August 13, 2002
Score
80
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22
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
October 3, 2006
Score
80
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23
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Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle
February 17, 1998
Score
80
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First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
June 10, 2014
Score
80
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The Swell Season - Strict Joy
October 27, 2009
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80
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