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The Best Indie Folk Albums of All Time by User Score
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Indie Folk
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The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
September 11th, 2001
USER SCORE
91
2,805 ratings
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2
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Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
July 5th, 2005
USER SCORE
91
2,736 ratings
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3
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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
February 10th, 1998
USER SCORE
90
4,958 ratings
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4
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Elliott Smith - Either/Or
February 25th, 1997
USER SCORE
89
1,742 ratings
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5
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31st, 2015
USER SCORE
89
3,592 ratings
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Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24th, 2017
USER SCORE
88
2,169 ratings
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7
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Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
May 3rd, 2011
USER SCORE
87
1,849 ratings
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8
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Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
July 21st, 1995
USER SCORE
87
944 ratings
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Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
July 8th, 2007
USER SCORE
86
2,441 ratings
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10
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Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
June 18th, 2020
USER SCORE
85
5,017 ratings
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Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of Love
April 21st, 2018
USER SCORE
85
139 ratings
Amazon
12
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Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
January 25th, 2005
USER SCORE
85
843 ratings
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13
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Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
June 3rd, 2008
USER SCORE
85
1,582 ratings
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14
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Live
April 28th, 2017
USER SCORE
85
144 ratings
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15
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Bon Iver - Bon Iver
June 21st, 2011
USER SCORE
85
2,054 ratings
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16
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Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum - Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head
June 6th, 2009
USER SCORE
85
183 ratings
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17
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Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
February 11th, 2022
USER SCORE
84
3,342 ratings
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18
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Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10th, 2015
USER SCORE
84
1,794 ratings
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Joanna Newsom - Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band
April 9th, 2007
USER SCORE
84
77 ratings
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20
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Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
August 13th, 2002
USER SCORE
84
252 ratings
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21
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Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
July 1st, 2003
USER SCORE
84
892 ratings
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22
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Elliott Smith - Figure 8
April 18th, 2000
USER SCORE
84
539 ratings
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23
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
October 3rd, 2006
USER SCORE
84
237 ratings
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24
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The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
February 19th, 2002
USER SCORE
84
221 ratings
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25
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The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
August 7th, 2020
USER SCORE
83
1,196 ratings
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