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The Best Contemporary Folk Albums of All Time
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Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
January 17, 1974
Critic Score
100
5
reviews
2
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Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
July 3, 1969
Critic Score
99
5
reviews
3
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The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
July 10, 1964
Critic Score
98
5
reviews
4
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Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
December 27, 1967
Critic Score
95
5
reviews
5
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Nick Drake - Pink Moon
February 25, 1972
Critic Score
95
6
reviews
6
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Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
July 5, 2005
Critic Score
93
22
reviews
7
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Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown
March 9, 2010
Critic Score
92
5
reviews
8
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Critic Score
91
45
reviews
9
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Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
Critic Score
91
18
reviews
10
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The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
September 7, 1999
Critic Score
91
10
reviews
11
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Sam Lee & Friends - The Fade In Time
June 16, 2015
Critic Score
89
8
reviews
12
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Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
October 21, 2016
Critic Score
89
31
reviews
13
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Live
April 28, 2017
Critic Score
89
5
reviews
14
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Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
June 18, 2020
Critic Score
88
43
reviews
15
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Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
March 23, 2004
Critic Score
88
7
reviews
16
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Joanna Newsom - Divers
October 23, 2015
Critic Score
88
40
reviews
17
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Augie March - Strange Bird
October 14, 2002
Critic Score
88
5
reviews
18
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Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10, 2015
Critic Score
87
41
reviews
19
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Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
April 10, 2020
Critic Score
87
31
reviews
20
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Taylor Swift - folklore
July 24, 2020
Critic Score
87
38
reviews
21
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Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home
April 9, 2021
Critic Score
87
8
reviews
22
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Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
May 26, 2009
Critic Score
86
34
reviews
23
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Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
June 3, 2008
Critic Score
86
23
reviews
24
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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
February 10, 1998
Critic Score
86
9
reviews
25
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Sparrow & the Workshop - Crystals Fall
April 11, 2010
Critic Score
86
5
reviews
1
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