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AOTY
2021
List Aggregate
Year End Lists
Critic Ratings
User Ratings
Overview
Best Albums
New Releases
Top Artists
Folk
Critics' Highest Rated Folk Albums of 2021
Lingua Ignota
Sinner Get Ready
87
critic score
(13)
Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi
They're Calling Me Home
87
critic score
(8)
Neil Young
Young Shakespeare
86
critic score
(10)
Lord Huron
Long Lost
83
critic score
(11)
The Felice Brothers
From Dreams to Dust
83
critic score
(9)
Shannon Lay
Geist
82
critic score
(9)
Dean Blunt
Black Metal 2
81
critic score
(12)
Julien Baker
Little Oblivions
81
critic score
(35)
Hand Habits
Fun House
81
critic score
(12)
Cory Hanson
Pale Horse Rider
81
critic score
(7)
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Users' Highest Rated Folk Albums of 2021
Lingua Ignota
Sinner Get Ready
83
user score
(1,317)
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine
A Beginner’s Mind
81
user score
(1,065)
青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba]
"Windswept Adan” Concert at Bunkamura Orchard Hall (Live)
77
user score
(31)
Isabella James
Isabella James
76
user score
(33)
Maple Glider
To Enjoy is the Only Thing
76
user score
(50)
Arooj Aftab
Vulture Prince
76
user score
(255)
Clairo
Sling
75
user score
(1,451)
Lord Huron
Long Lost
75
user score
(315)
Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall
The Marfa Tapes
75
user score
(56)
San Salvador
La Grande Folie
74
user score
(35)
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Recent Folk Albums
Mythrodak
Imperfect Muse
Céu
Um Gosto de Sol
Houndmouth
Good For You
80
critic score
(1)
Emma Ruth Rundle
Engine of Hell
79
critic score
(12)
Tasha
Tell Me What You Miss The Most
77
critic score
(4)
Aimee Mann
Queens Of The Summer Hotel
77
critic score
(9)
Mon Laferte
1940 Carmen
80
critic score
(1)
Hak Baker
Misled
80
critic score
(1)
Marissa Nadler
The Path of the Clouds
80
critic score
(13)
Billy Bragg
The Million Things That Never Happened
73
critic score
(11)
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Critics' Top Folk Artists
Nick Drake
Bob Dylan
Elliott Smith
Patty Griffin
Laura Marling
Rhiannon Giddens
Neil Young
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Hiss Golden Messenger
The Unthanks
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2
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6
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1
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2
1954
1
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1
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8
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5
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7
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4
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2
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5
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12
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13
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23
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35
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27
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35
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47
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53
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61
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54
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42
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42
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31
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36
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26
1977
24
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18
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13
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14
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9
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19
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11
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11
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13
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8
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9
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18
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9
1990
14
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15
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17
1993
17
1994
24
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26
1996
28
1997
25
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30
1999
25
2000
36
2001
46
2002
32
2003
54
2004
57
2005
69
2006
80
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95
2008
122
2009
154
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134
2011
158
2012
129
2013
154
2014
148
2015
127
2016
136
2017
161
2018
178
2019
148
2020
235
2021
255
3,705 releases
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Neofolk
Psychedelic Folk
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