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The Best Indie Folk Albums of the 2000s by User Score

Decade
Genre
2000s
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009

1.

The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
September 11th, 2001
USER SCORE
91
2,771 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

2.

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
July 5th, 2005
USER SCORE
91
2,718 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

3.

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
July 8th, 2007
USER SCORE
86
2,417 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

4.

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
January 25th, 2005
USER SCORE
85
834 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

5.

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
June 3rd, 2008
USER SCORE
85
1,572 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

6.

Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum - Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head
June 6th, 2009
USER SCORE
85
180 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

7.

Jeff Mangum - Live at Jittery Joe's
August 28th, 2001
USER SCORE
84
71 ratings
Amazon

8.

Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
July 1st, 2003
USER SCORE
84
888 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

9.

Joanna Newsom - Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band
April 9th, 2007
USER SCORE
84
76 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music

10.

Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
August 13th, 2002
USER SCORE
84
252 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

11.

Elliott Smith - Figure 8
April 18th, 2000
USER SCORE
84
531 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

12.

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
October 3rd, 2006
USER SCORE
84
235 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

13.

The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
February 19th, 2002
USER SCORE
84
219 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

14.

Right Away, Great Captain! - The Bitter End
January 14th, 2007
USER SCORE
83
28 ratings
Amazon

15.

Beirut - Lon Gisland
January 30th, 2007
USER SCORE
83
48 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

16.

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
May 26th, 2009
USER SCORE
83
789 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

17.

Mount Eerie - Dawn
November 1st, 2008
USER SCORE
82
292 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

18.

The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
November 5th, 2002
USER SCORE
82
181 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

19.

Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
April 5th, 2005
USER SCORE
82
87 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

20.

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
September 5th, 2006
USER SCORE
82
405 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

21.

The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
April 26th, 2005
USER SCORE
82
178 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

22.

The Decemberists - Picaresque
March 22nd, 2005
USER SCORE
81
174 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

23.

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
March 16th, 2004
USER SCORE
81
797 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

24.

Gregory & The Hawk - Moenie and Kitchi
October 7th, 2008
USER SCORE
81
83 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

25.

The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
March 18th, 2008
USER SCORE
81
148 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
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