Best Indie Folk Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
71	The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones	2001	88.3	83.6	93	90.6	86.1	94.4	83	87.2
77	Illinois - Sufjan Stevens	2005	88.1	82.8	92	90.6	87.7	91.4	86	86
94	Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens	2015	87.7	81.8	91	89.1	88.2	92.2	86	85.8
110	Either/Or - Elliott Smith	1997	87.5	83.6	84	89.4	89.1	92.8	84	89.4
153	In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel	1998	86.8	81.6	87	87.7	84.2	91.8	87	88
274	A Crow Looked at Me - Mount Eerie	2017	85.6	79.8	90	89.1	86.7	93.2	80	80.6
288	Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith	1995	85.6	80.8	86	87.8	86.3	91	81	86
328	XO - Elliott Smith	1998	85.2	80.4	84	87.3	86.3	90.2	82	86
377	If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian	1996	84.9	79.4	90	84.9	82.4	90	83	84.4
425	For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver	2007	84.6	76.4	84	86.8	86.4	90.4	83	85.2
501	Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You - Big Thief	2022	84.2	79.8	86	86.4	85.5	89.4	83	79.4
521	songs - Adrianne Lenker	2020	84.1	79.2	84	86.2	88.5	94.2	78	78.8
575	Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers	2020	83.9	75.4	88	86.4	88.3	92.4	80	76.6
606	Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes	2011	83.8	78	83	86.9	85.4	88.6	82	82.4
648	Javelin - Sufjan Stevens	2023	83.6	78.8	88	86.5	83.7	88.6	81	78.6
649	Microphones in 2020 - The Microphones	2020	83.6	79	85	85.6	87	92.2	78	78.4
658	Songs About Leaving - Carissa's Wierd	2002	83.6	80	77	87.8	86.5	90.8	78	84.8
700	All Hail West Texas - The Mountain Goats	2002	83.4	77.4	85	83.2	84.9	91.4	78	83.8
752	69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields	1999	83.2	76.8	91	81.6	79.2	90.2	80	83.4
780	The Midnight Organ Fight - Frightened Rabbit	2008	83	74	80	82.2	88.1	94.4	77	85.6
919	I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes	2005	82.6	73.8	85	85.2	85	89.2	78	82.2
920	Halfway to a Threeway - Jim O'Rourke	1999	82.6	80.2	80	84.4	86.8	89.2	77	80.8
921	Lost Weekend - Phoebe Bridgers	2026	82.6	72.4	91	83.6	82.2	96.4	76	76.8
926	Dawn - Mount Eerie	2008	82.6	76.8	90	83.5	81.7	91.2	77	78
949	From a Basement on the Hill - Elliott Smith	2004	82.5	77.8	84	82.8	83.8	88.4	80	80.8
959	Michigan - Sufjan Stevens	2003	82.5	77	87	84.2	82.5	86.8	80	79.8
1004	I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty	2015	82.3	73.2	87	83.7	84.3	89.4	80	78.8
1025	New Moon - Elliott Smith	2007	82.3	77.8	83	85	85.3	87	78	80
1032	Insignificance - Jim O'Rourke	2001	82.3	78.4	79	84.2	88.5	88.8	79	78
1035	Let England Shake - PJ Harvey	2011	82.3	75.6	88	83	81.3	88.6	80	79.4
1062	The Sunset Tree - The Mountain Goats	2005	82.2	77	78	82.1	85.8	90.6	79	83
1065	Bon Iver, Bon Iver - Bon Iver	2011	82.2	72.6	85	84.9	84.2	88.6	80	80.2
1069	Things We Lost in the Fire - Low	2001	82.2	76	85	81.7	81.3	90.6	79	81.8
1074	Figure 8 - Elliott Smith	2000	82.2	79	73	86.9	86.3	88.4	80	81.6
1081	Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie	2003	82.2	74.6	80	84	83.6	91.4	79	82.6
1116	I See a Darkness - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy	1999	82.1	74.8	86	82	80.1	90.8	79	81.8
1163	Destroyer's Rubies - Destroyer	2006	82	75	85	82.2	84.2	88.8	78	80.6
1180	Curtains - John Frusciante	2005	81.9	73.6	80	79.9	86.1	93.2	78	82.6
1212	Roman Candle - Elliott Smith	1994	81.8	77.2	79	81.8	83.3	90.8	79	81.8
1236	Moon Pix - Cat Power	1998	81.8	74.8	91	82.1	79.5	86.6	79	79.6
1258	Bright Future - Adrianne Lenker	2024	81.7	75.8	87	82.9	82.4	91.4	78	74.6
1260	No Dogs Allowed - Sidney Gish	2017	81.7	75.4	89	81.7	85	91	76	74
1302	Stranger in the Alps - Phoebe Bridgers	2017	81.6	73.6	80	82.5	85.4	92.2	79	78.8
1327	Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground - Bright Eyes	2002	81.6	74.2	81	84.9	85.3	87.6	76	82.2
1427	Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse	1998	81.4	74.8	87	82.5	80.7	85.8	77	81.8
1490	folklore - Taylor Swift	2020	81.2	69.2	87	82.5	89.3	93.6	75	72
1507	Tigermilk - Belle and Sebastian	1996	81.2	75.4	86	80.2	78.7	87.4	80	80.6
1565	Sprained Ankle - Julien Baker	2015	81.1	71.6	84	79.9	83.7	91.2	77	80.2
1650	1990 - Daniel Johnston	1990	80.9	75	90	79.8	78.5	84.4	78	80.6
1651	Racing Mount Pleasant - Racing Mount Pleasant	2025	80.9	74.6	76	84.6	84.5	95.6	77	74
1710	Night Palace - Mount Eerie	2024	80.8	76.8	82	83.2	79	93.6	75	76
1793	Are We There - Sharon Van Etten	2014	80.7	72.4	84	81	82.2	88	79	78
1804	Tallahassee - The Mountain Goats	2002	80.6	77	77	82.3	82.9	88	77	80.2
1818	boygenius - boygenius	2018	80.6	71.6	83	81.6	87	92	77	72
1850	HIT ME HARD AND SOFT - Billie Eilish	2024	80.5	71.8	86	82.1	85.9	94	76	68
1884	The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We - Mitski	2023	80.5	73.8	88	82.6	82.5	90.4	76	70
1945	The Trials of Van Occupanther - Midlake	2006	80.3	73.8	78	82.3	83.7	89.6	77	78
1979	Alien Lanes - Guided by Voices	1995	80.3	76	79	78.2	76.5	89.8	79	83.4
1982	Crack-Up - Fleet Foxes	2017	80.3	73.8	81	82.3	82	86.6	78	78.2
1997	Picaresque - The Decemberists	2005	80.2	72.8	81	82.3	82.2	87.4	78	78
2021	O - Damien Rice	2002	80.2	71	78	81.1	84.9	88	77	81.4
2036	Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear	2009	80.2	71.6	86	82	77.6	87	79	78
2110	It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water - The Microphones	2000	80	74	82	81.1	78.6	89.4	79	76
2149	I Need to Start a Garden - Haley Heynderickx	2018	79.9	72.6	80	80.8	84.2	93	75	74
2160	The Crane Wife - The Decemberists	2006	79.9	73.8	79	83	80.5	87.2	78	78
2174	Electro-Shock Blues - Eels	1998	79.9	73.2	78	81.5	80.7	84.8	79	82.2
2195	Seven Swans - Sufjan Stevens	2004	79.9	75.2	78	81.1	80.6	86.2	80	78
2199	Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot - Sparklehorse	1995	79.9	74.6	80	80.6	80.6	86.6	77	79.6
2242	Turn Out the Lights - Julien Baker	2017	79.8	69.2	83	78.8	85.2	89.6	75	77.8
2245	Ocean Beach - Red House Painters	1995	79.8	73.2	87	78.4	76.1	87.8	77	79
2254	Capacity - Big Thief	2017	79.8	73.2	82	81.3	82	88.8	77	74
2296	Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine	2004	79.7	71.8	81	80.4	80.7	87.8	77	79.2
2322	Knife Man - Andrew Jackson Jihad	2011	79.6	71.6	80	81.3	79.4	88.2	77	80
2328	Submarine - Alex Turner	2011	79.6	74.6	74	81	86.2	90.6	77	74
2350	Yellow House - Grizzly Bear	2006	79.6	72.8	80	80.8	79.3	87.2	77	80
2364	HELLMODE - Jeff Rosenstock	2023	79.6	75.4	79	81.9	80.6	92	76	72
2391	Shore - Fleet Foxes	2020	79.5	71.8	82	78.8	78.1	91.4	78	76.6
2401	The Creek Drank The Cradle - Iron & Wine	2002	79.5	72.8	81	80.4	81.2	86.2	77	78
2403	When We Were Friends - The Backseat Lovers	2019	79.5	71.2	80	81.5	83.3	95.6	73	72
2418	Castaways and Cutouts - The Decemberists	2002	79.5	72	85	80.1	80.1	86.2	77	76
2432	Knock Knock - Smog	1999	79.5	73.8	82	78.2	75.6	90.6	78	78
2446	evermore - Taylor Swift	2020	79.4	68.2	84	81.2	86.6	94	74	68
2466	Fevers and Mirrors - Bright Eyes	2000	79.4	72.4	76	81.7	84.4	86.4	75	79.8
2469	five seconds flat - Lizzy McAlpine	2022	79.4	68.6	80	79.6	82.9	94	75	75.6
2495	The Shepherd's Dog - Iron & Wine	2007	79.3	72	85	81.4	75.1	86.8	77	78
2518	You Are Free - Cat Power	2003	79.3	72.8	83	79.8	77.8	86.6	79	76
2519	the record - boygenius	2023	79.3	67.4	88	78.3	82.9	92.4	76	70
2569	Historian - Lucy Dacus	2018	79.2	70.8	79	81.1	85	90.4	76	72
2613	Shields - Grizzly Bear	2012	79.1	71.2	80	81.3	78.2	85.8	79	78
2617	Masterpiece - Big Thief	2016	79.1	74.4	79	80.8	82.6	88.6	78	70
2662	Lost Wisdom - Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron & Frederick Squire	2008	79	74.6	76	79.8	78.9	87.6	78	78
2686	Sun Giant - Fleet Foxes	2008	79	73	85	79.8	77.3	83.6	78	76
2708	Women in Music Pt. III - HAIM	2020	78.9	69.4	85	78.8	81.3	91	75	72
2748	Oh, Inverted World - The Shins	2001	78.9	71.6	82	77.6	76.3	87.6	79	78
2782	Riot On An Empty Street - Kings of Convenience	2004	78.8	72.2	73	79.1	84.6	88.8	74	80
2795	All Delighted People EP - Sufjan Stevens	2010	78.8	77.2	66	83.9	85.5	82.8	78	78
2829	Two Hands - Big Thief	2019	78.7	72	83	79.8	79.6	87.6	77	72
2833	abysskiss - Adrianne Lenker	2018	78.7	73.2	81	78.9	81	87.8	75	74
2849	Ask Me Tomorrow - Mojave 3	1995	78.7	73.8	70	83.2	84.3	87.4	78	74
2850	U.F.O.F. - Big Thief	2019	78.7	71	83	78.4	77.1	88.2	77	76

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