Best Indie Pop Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
40	The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths	1986	89.1	82.6	100	87.3	85.8	91.6	88	88.6
92	Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths	1984	87.8	82.2	95	88	85.2	91	85	88
110	Either/Or - Elliott Smith	1997	87.5	83.6	84	89.4	89.1	92.8	84	89.4
236	Louder than Bombs - The Smiths	1987	85.9	82.8	89	86	85.4	91.4	83	84
328	XO - Elliott Smith	1998	85.2	80.4	84	87.3	86.3	90.2	82	86
511	Ram - Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney	1971	84.2	81	80	86.8	86.4	89	82	84
541	You Will Never Know Why - Sweet Trip	2009	84	81.2	80	86.4	85.2	91.6	81	82.6
602	Bona Drag - Morrissey	1990	83.8	79.6	87	85.1	81.5	90.2	79	84
619	The Smiths - The Smiths	1984	83.7	76.8	89	82.5	82.6	90	83	82
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
844	VOLCANIC BIRD ENEMY AND THE VOICED CONCERN - Lil Ugly Mane	2021	82.8	78.8	79	86.4	82.7	97.8	78	77.2
854	Kaputt - Destroyer	2011	82.8	75.2	85	84.6	84.8	90.6	79	80.6
886	Bloom - Beach House	2012	82.7	77.8	76	87.3	85.4	92	82	78.6
897	The Suburbs - Arcade Fire	2010	82.7	73.6	88	83.8	82.3	89.2	84	78
915	Teen Dream - Beach House	2010	82.6	76.2	82	85.2	82.7	90.4	83	79
965	Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - The Sundays	1990	82.5	77.2	84	83.3	84.1	91.2	77	80.4
1027	Bury Me at Makeout Creek - Mitski	2014	82.3	77.2	78	84.9	87.5	92.4	78	78
1061	Give Up - The Postal Service	2003	82.2	76.4	80	84.8	84.1	90.8	79	80.4
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
1179	The Sophtware Slump - Grandaddy	2000	81.9	74.2	87	80.9	82.7	89.4	78	81.2
1302	Stranger in the Alps - Phoebe Bridgers	2017	81.6	73.6	80	82.5	85.4	92.2	79	78.8
1395	Strange Mercy - St. Vincent	2011	81.5	73.4	86	83.2	82.1	87.6	78	80
1422	There's Nothing Wrong with Love - Built to Spill	1994	81.4	75.8	81	82	79.5	91	79	81.4
1424	Beats and Breaks from the Flower Patch - Kitty Craft	1998	81.4	74.4	90	81.7	80.4	95.2	76	72
1446	It's a Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse	2001	81.3	76.2	80	82.8	83.9	86.2	78	82.2
1462	The World Won't Listen - The Smiths	1987	81.3	80.2	77	81.3	81.1	89.4	80	80
1507	Tigermilk - Belle and Sebastian	1996	81.2	75.4	86	80.2	78.7	87.4	80	80.6
1521	Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon	2007	81.2	73	82	80.9	82.1	89.2	81	80
1532	Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast	2021	81.1	74.2	86	81.7	81.7	91	78	75.4
1540	Apologies to the Queen Mary - Wolf Parade	2005	81.1	72.8	81	81.2	82.4	90	79	81.6
1672	Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? - The Unicorns	2003	80.9	73.8	79	81.3	83.6	91.4	79	78
1692	Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants	1980	80.8	73.6	92	76.5	79.2	91.6	77	76
1727	The Execution of All Things - Rilo Kiley	2002	80.8	74.6	80	81.7	82.9	91	76	79.2
1739	Modern Vampires of the City - Vampire Weekend	2013	80.7	73.6	81	82.8	82.4	87.4	82	76
1741	Darklands - The Jesus and Mary Chain	1987	80.7	73.4	85	79.4	80	88.4	79	80
1765	Lesser Matters - The Radio Dept.	2003	80.7	75.8	77	82.1	83.1	90.8	78	78
1776	Time 'n' Place - Kero Kero Bonito	2018	80.7	76.8	74	84.7	83.4	91.8	78	76
1778	Blue Rev - Alvvays	2022	80.7	76.4	80	81.9	80.6	89	78	78.8
1793	Are We There - Sharon Van Etten	2014	80.7	72.4	84	81	82.2	88	79	78
1848	Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman	2007	80.5	74.2	80	81.7	83.7	87.2	79	78
1888	Neon Golden - The Notwist	2002	80.5	72.2	82	80.3	80	89.2	79	80.6
1897	Actor - St. Vincent	2009	80.4	73.6	79	82.5	83	86	79	80
1902	Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - of Montreal	2007	80.4	74.6	76	81.5	83.5	88.2	79	80.2
1920	Thunder, Lightning, Strike - The Go! Team	2004	80.4	75.4	82	81.6	80.3	86.2	77	80.2
1946	Z - My Morning Jacket	2005	80.3	72.6	84	80.4	79.4	87.6	78	80.4
2003	Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins	2003	80.2	72.6	86	79.4	78	87.6	80	78
2076	Be the Cowboy - Mitski	2018	80.1	71.8	85	80.6	84.4	89.8	77	72
2080	Chronic Town - R.E.M.	1982	80.1	78.2	73	81.1	79.2	89	78	82
2099	Blue Screen Life - Pinback	2001	80	77.2	68	81.4	84.1	92.4	77	80.2
2102	Depression Cherry - Beach House	2015	80	74.2	79	82.7	82.7	89.6	78	74
2125	Vauxhall and I - Morrissey	1994	80	73.6	83	77.3	79.8	88.6	78	79.6
2133	After Laughter - Paramore	2017	80	72.4	84	80.9	82.5	92	76	72
2147	Lincoln - They Might Be Giants	1988	79.9	75.2	80	79.6	82.8	88	76	78
2160	The Crane Wife - The Decemberists	2006	79.9	73.8	79	83	80.5	87.2	78	78
2163	Mars Audiac Quintet - Stereolab	1994	79.9	73.8	83	78.9	78	88.8	79	78
2167	Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths	1987	79.9	74	81	78.6	78	88.8	81	78
2174	Electro-Shock Blues - Eels	1998	79.9	73.2	78	81.5	80.7	84.8	79	82.2
2251	Antisocialites - Alvvays	2017	79.8	75	75	81.8	81.1	89.4	80	76
2261	Meat Is Murder - The Smiths	1985	79.7	75.6	73	80.1	80.3	89.2	82	78
2323	Songs of Her's - Her's	2017	79.6	71	80	79.3	80.8	95.4	75	76
2328	Submarine - Alex Turner	2011	79.6	74.6	74	81	86.2	90.6	77	74
2344	Today - Galaxie 500	1988	79.6	73.4	80	79.3	75.9	89.6	79	80
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
2422	Submarine - The Marías	2024	79.5	72	77	81	83.5	95.8	73	74
2445	Bark Your Head Off, Dog - Hop Along	2018	79.4	71.8	79	77.8	81.6	90.6	75	80.2
2449	Invitation to Her's - Her's	2018	79.4	73.4	75	80.8	82.9	94.8	75	74
2458	EURO-COUNTRY - CMAT	2025	79.4	71.8	89	77.7	79.7	94.6	73	70
2469	five seconds flat - Lizzy McAlpine	2022	79.4	68.6	80	79.6	82.9	94	75	75.6
2475	Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene	2005	79.4	74	77	83.1	80.1	85.4	78	78
2494	Painted Shut - Hop Along	2015	79.3	71.6	82	78.4	80.9	90.2	74	78.2
2500	Trench - twenty one pilots	2018	79.3	70.6	79	83.5	82.1	93	75	72
2517	Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers	2005	79.3	72.4	81	78.9	79.7	84	79	80
2563	Alvvays - Alvvays	2014	79.2	74	79	80.4	80.1	87.8	79	74
2579	Details - Frou Frou	2002	79.1	77.8	59	85.9	85.1	91.8	74	80.4
2586	Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend	2008	79.1	71	82	79.8	79.6	86.6	81	74
2593	Split - Lush	1994	79.1	72.4	79	80.3	81	87.2	78	76
2598	Alopecia - WHY?	2008	79.1	70.8	78	77.7	82.9	90	74	80.4
2609	Flood - They Might Be Giants	1990	79.1	74.6	73	79.3	80.4	88.2	77	81
2631	They Want My Soul - Spoon	2014	79	71.4	78	79.7	79.2	88	79	78
2656	Gimme Fiction - Spoon	2005	79	72	81	79.1	75.5	88.4	79	78
2667	Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse	2004	79	71.8	80	80.6	77.1	87.4	80	76
2696	16 Lovers Lane - The Go-Betweens	1988	78.9	74	80	76.5	72.5	90.6	79	80
2697	This Old Dog - Mac DeMarco	2017	78.9	71.6	78	81.2	82.8	91	76	72
2702	Beyond the Fleeting Gales - Crying	2016	78.9	74.2	78	81.1	80.2	91	72	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
2809	Clinging to a Scheme - The Radio Dept.	2010	78.7	71.8	77	80.8	79.8	90.8	77	74
2846	Hozier - Hozier	2014	78.7	68.8	79	79.5	85.3	91.2	73	74
2872	An Awesome Wave - alt-J	2012	78.6	68.2	78	79.3	80.9	90	78	76
2876	Begin to Hope - Regina Spektor	2006	78.6	71.4	76	79.2	82.7	86	77	78
2897	Holiday - The Magnetic Fields	1994	78.6	74.6	79	78.1	75.5	87.8	76	79
2930	Father, Son, Holy Ghost - Girls	2011	78.5	69.6	80	79.9	81.7	86.4	76	76
2939	Satanic Panic in the Attic - of Montreal	2004	78.5	73.2	79	79.4	79	86.8	76	76
2943	Home Video - Lucy Dacus	2021	78.5	70.4	81	78.6	83.4	90	74	72
2992	Expert In A Dying Field - The Beths	2022	78.4	72.6	81	78.1	77.6	89.8	73	76.6
3001	Juno - Remi Wolf	2021	78.4	71.8	82	77.2	78.6	93	72	74

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