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The Best Indie Folk Albums of All Time by User Score
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Indie Folk
1
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The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
September 11th, 2001
Indie Folk
,
Psychedelic Folk
USER SCORE
92
5,663 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
2
.
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
July 5th, 2005
Chamber Pop
,
Singer-Songwriter
,
Indie Folk
USER SCORE
91
4,863 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
3
.
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
February 25th, 1997
Indie Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
90
3,578 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
4
.
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
February 10th, 1998
Indie Folk
,
Indie Rock
USER SCORE
89
8,670 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
5
.
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31st, 2015
Singer-Songwriter
,
Indie Folk
USER SCORE
89
5,410 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
6
.
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24th, 2017
Singer-Songwriter
,
Indie Folk
USER SCORE
89
3,457 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
7
.
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
May 3rd, 2011
Chamber Folk
,
Indie Folk
USER SCORE
88
2,702 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
.
Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
July 21st, 1995
Singer-Songwriter
,
Indie Folk
USER SCORE
87
1,943 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
9
.
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
July 8th, 2007
Indie Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
87
3,938 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
10
.
Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
October 6th, 2023
Indie Folk
,
Chamber Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
87
5,406 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
.
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
June 18th, 2020
Indie Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
86
7,815 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
12
.
Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of Love
April 21st, 2018
Singer-Songwriter
,
Ambient Pop
,
Indie Folk
USER SCORE
86
232 ratings
Amazon
13
.
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
April 18th, 2000
Singer-Songwriter
,
Indie Pop
,
Indie Folk
USER SCORE
86
1,210 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
14
.
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
January 25th, 2005
Indie Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
85
1,638 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
15
.
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
February 11th, 2022
Indie Folk
,
Folk Rock
USER SCORE
85
4,877 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
16
.
Low Roar - 0
July 8th, 2014
Indie Folk
,
Post-Rock
USER SCORE
85
279 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
17
.
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Live
April 28th, 2017
Indie Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
85
195 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
18
.
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
June 3rd, 2008
Chamber Folk
,
Indie Folk
USER SCORE
85
2,387 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
.
Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
August 13th, 2002
Indie Folk
USER SCORE
85
423 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
20
.
Jeff Mangum - Live at Jittery Joe's
August 28th, 2001
Indie Folk
,
Indie Rock
,
Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
85
111 ratings
Amazon
21
.
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
June 21st, 2011
Indie Folk
,
Art Pop
,
Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
85
2,865 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
.
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
July 1st, 2003
Indie Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
,
Chamber Folk
USER SCORE
84
1,543 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
.
The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
August 7th, 2020
Indie Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
,
Avant-Folk
USER SCORE
84
1,618 ratings
Amazon
Music
24
.
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
February 10th, 2015
Singer-Songwriter
,
Indie Folk
USER SCORE
84
2,201 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
25
.
Jordaan Mason & the Horse Museum - Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head
June 6th, 2009
Indie Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
USER SCORE
84
314 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
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