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Folk
Critics' Highest Rated Folk Albums of 2018
Mount Eerie
(after)
85
critic score
(6)
Mount Eerie
Now Only
84
critic score
(19)
Daniel Bachman
The Morning Star
83
critic score
(5)
Neil Young
Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live
83
critic score
(5)
boygenius
boygenius EP
83
critic score
(15)
Kathryn Joseph
From When I Wake the Want Is
82
critic score
(5)
Brandi Carlile
By the Way, I Forgive You
82
critic score
(6)
Tomberlin
At Weddings
81
critic score
(14)
Damien Jurado
The Horizon Just Laughed
80
critic score
(9)
Adrianne Lenker
abysskiss
79
critic score
(16)
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Users' Highest Rated Folk Albums of 2018
Natalia Lafourcade
Musas Vol. 2
79
user score
(113)
Mount Eerie
Now Only
77
user score
(343)
boygenius
boygenius EP
77
user score
(115)
Haley Heynderickx
I Need to Start a Garden
76
user score
(128)
Kathryn Joseph
From When I Wake the Want Is
76
user score
(33)
Damien Jurado
The Horizon Just Laughed
76
user score
(41)
Ben Howard
Noonday Dream
75
user score
(102)
Marlon Williams
Make Way for Love
75
user score
(59)
Loma
Loma
75
user score
(76)
Alela Diane
Cusp
74
user score
(46)
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Recent Folk Albums
Fleet Foxes
First Collection: 2006-2009
85
critic score
(3)
Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore
Ghost Forests
75
critic score
(2)
Doug Paisley
Starter Home
79
critic score
(2)
boygenius
boygenius EP
83
critic score
(15)
Laura Gibson
Goners
73
critic score
(3)
Ichiko Aoba
qp
Novo Amor
Birthplace
75
critic score
(2)
Will Oldham
Songs of Love and Horror
70
critic score
(4)
Current 93
The Light Is Leaving Us All
76
critic score
(2)
Anna St. Louis
If Only There Was a River
76
critic score
(4)
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Upcoming Folk Albums
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Critics' Top Folk Artists
Bob Dylan
Elliott Smith
Patty Griffin
Laura Marling
The Unthanks
Richard Thompson
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Iron & Wine
Alela Diane
Shearwater
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