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The Best Indie Folk Albums of the 2010s by User Score

Decade
Genre
2010s
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

1.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31st, 2015
Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
89
3,795 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

2.

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24th, 2017
Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk
USER SCORE
88
2,338 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

3.

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
May 3rd, 2011
Indie Folk, Chamber Folk, Progressive Folk
USER SCORE
87
1,973 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

4.

Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of Love
April 21st, 2018
Ambient Pop, Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk
USER SCORE
85
150 ratings
Amazon

5.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Live
April 28th, 2017
Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
85
149 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

6.

Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
June 21st, 2011
Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
85
2,161 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

7.

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10th, 2015
Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk
USER SCORE
84
1,859 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

8.

Low Roar - 0
July 8th, 2014
Indie Folk, Dream Pop, Folktronica
USER SCORE
83
149 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

9.

Cícero - Canções de Apartamento
MPB, Indie Pop, Indie Folk, Art Pop
USER SCORE
83
66 ratings
Amazon

10.

Mount Eerie - (after)
September 21st, 2018
Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk
USER SCORE
82
52 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

11.

Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were
October 21st, 2014
Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
82
219 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

12.

Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man
September 20th, 2011
Folk Punk, Indie Rock, Indie Folk, Folk Rock
USER SCORE
82
436 ratings
Amazon
Spotify

13.

Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
September 22nd, 2017
Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Folk, Indie Rock
USER SCORE
82
2,136 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

14.

Grizzly Bear - Shields
September 18th, 2012
Indie Folk, Indie Rock
USER SCORE
82
694 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

15.

Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People
August 20th, 2010
Indie Folk, Chamber Pop, Singer-Songwriter, Progressive Folk
USER SCORE
81
260 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

16.

boygenius - boygenius EP
October 26th, 2018
Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Indie Rock
USER SCORE
81
1,006 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

17.

Mutual Benefit - Love's Crushing Diamond
October 25th, 2013
Indie Folk, Folk, Chamber Folk
USER SCORE
80
147 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

18.

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
October 23rd, 2015
Singer-Songwriter, Slowcore, Indie Folk
USER SCORE
80
439 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

19.

Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
February 18th, 2014
Singer-Songwriter, Indie Rock, Indie Folk
USER SCORE
80
715 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

20.

Alex Turner - Submarine
March 15th, 2011
Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk
USER SCORE
80
315 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

21.

Alex G - Race
January 1st, 2010
Bedroom Pop, Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk, Lo-Fi
USER SCORE
80
279 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music

22.

Low Roar - Low Roar
November 1st, 2011
Dream Pop, Indie Folk, Folktronica
USER SCORE
80
78 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

23.

Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek - A-Sides
May 1st, 2014
Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
80
87 ratings
Amazon

24.

Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden
March 2nd, 2018
Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk
USER SCORE
79
420 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

25.

King Creosote - Astronaut Meets Appleman
September 2nd, 2016
Indie Folk
USER SCORE
79
50 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
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