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Highest Rated Folk Albums of 2012
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Alternative Rock
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Folk
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Indie Folk
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1
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Rodriguez - Searching for Sugar Man [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
July 24, 2012
Singer-Songwriter
,
Folk Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
2
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Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny - Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose
February 28, 2012
Indie Folk
,
Chamber Pop
,
Art Pop
,
Folk Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
3
.
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
January 24, 2012
Folk Pop
,
Indie Folk
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
4
.
Gravenhurst - The Ghost in Daylight
May 1, 2012
Contemporary Folk
,
Slowcore
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
5
.
The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now
June 12, 2012
Contemporary Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
6
.
Mumford & Sons - Babel
September 25, 2012
Folk Pop
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
7
.
Meursault - Something for the Weakened
July 16, 2012
Indie Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
.
Lucy Rose - Like I Used To
September 24, 2012
Indie Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
9
.
Grizzly Bear - Shields
September 18, 2012
Indie Rock
,
Indie Folk
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
10
.
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Here
May 29, 2012
Indie Folk
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
.
Anaïs Mitchell - Young Man in America
February 28, 2012
Folk
,
Americana
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
12
.
Half Moon Run - Dark Eyes
March 27, 2012
Indie Rock
,
Folk Rock
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
13
.
Mystery Jets - Radlands
April 30, 2012
Folk Rock
,
Indie Rock
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
14
.
Dark Dark Dark - Who Needs Who
October 2, 2012
Folk
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
15
.
Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game
May 1, 2012
Folk
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
16
.
Bowerbirds - The Clearing
March 6, 2012
Indie Folk
Score
70
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
17
.
James Yorkston - I Was a Cat from a Book
August 13, 2012
Folk
Score
70
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
18
.
Eugene McGuinness - The Invitation to the Voyage
August 6, 2012
Folk
Score
70
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
.
Choir of Young Believers - Rhine Gold
April 10, 2012
Indie Folk
Score
60
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
NOTE:
This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings awarded albums throughout 2012.
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