Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
61	Doolittle - Pixies	1989	88.5	81.6	100	84.4	84	92.8	88	88.6
107	Leaves Turn Inside You - Unwound	2001	87.5	82.2	93	87.6	85.2	94	82	88.6
150	The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse	1997	86.8	82	88	87.8	85.9	92	84	87.8
153	In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel	1998	86.8	81.6	87	87.7	84.2	91.8	87	88
193	Ants From Up There - Black Country, New Road	2022	86.3	80.8	88	90.2	88	94.2	85	78.2
220	The Magnolia Electric Co. - Songs: Ohia	2003	86.1	82.4	83	88.6	87.9	92.2	82	86.4
238	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco	2001	85.9	79	91	86.2	83.2	92	85	85
247	Funeral - Arcade Fire	2004	85.9	78.4	91	86.4	82	89.4	88	85.8
265	Is This It - The Strokes	2001	85.7	80	86	87.3	86.4	91.2	86	83
269	Perfect from Now On - Built to Spill	1997	85.7	81.4	86	86.2	84.5	91.2	84	86.4
279	Pink Flag - Wire	1977	85.6	78.4	97	83.2	80.6	92	82	86
328	XO - Elliott Smith	1998	85.2	80.4	84	87.3	86.3	90.2	82	86
331	Emergency & I - The Dismemberment Plan	1999	85.1	78.6	91	84.8	81.8	93.2	81	85.6
346	Surfer Rosa - Pixies	1988	85.1	77.6	99	80.8	78	91	84	85.2
404	Ghosts of the Great Highway - Sun Kil Moon	2003	84.7	81	82	86.9	84.7	91.6	82	84.8
417	Chairs Missing - Wire	1978	84.6	78.4	95	82.8	79.5	91.8	81	84
423	The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me - Brand New	2006	84.6	77.2	79	87	85.9	93.2	81	89
440	Building Nothing Out of Something - Modest Mouse	2000	84.5	82.2	90	86	81	88.6	80	84
499	You Forgot It in People - Broken Social Scene	2002	84.2	78.4	87	85.9	83.4	90	82	83
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
524	Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement	1994	84.1	79.2	86	84.3	80.7	90	83	85.6
541	You Will Never Know Why - Sweet Trip	2009	84	81.2	80	86.4	85.2	91.6	81	82.6
564	Diamond Jubilee - Cindy Lee	2024	83.9	78	86	83.6	86.6	95.4	80	77.8
575	Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers	2020	83.9	75.4	88	86.4	88.3	92.4	80	76.6
588	The Moon & Antarctica - Modest Mouse	2000	83.8	79.2	81	85.5	81.5	90	83	86.6
594	Vacation - Bomb the Music Industry!	2011	83.8	76.6	86	84.6	87.4	93.6	77	81.4
602	Bona Drag - Morrissey	1990	83.8	79.6	87	85.1	81.5	90.2	79	84
609	summerteeth - wilco	1999	83.7	76.2	90	83.9	82.9	89.6	82	81.6
622	Teens of Denial - Car Seat Headrest	2016	83.7	78.4	82	87.4	84.6	90.8	83	79.6
623	The Argument - Fugazi	2001	83.7	79.2	85	83.9	82.9	90	80	84.8
633	WORRY. - Jeff Rosenstock	2016	83.7	78.2	80	84.9	86	93	79	84.6
662	I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One - Yo La Tengo	1997	83.5	78	88	82.6	80.2	91.2	81	83.8
689	Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains	2019	83.4	78.6	86	83	84.7	93	79	79.8
764	Brother, Sister - mewithoutYou	2006	83.1	74.8	78	81.7	88.6	93.6	78	87
776	Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement	1992	83	75.8	93	80.2	76.9	90	82	83.4
778	Split Personalities - 12 RODS	1998	83	76.4	89	82.9	83.2	93	77	79.8
780	The Midnight Organ Fight - Frightened Rabbit	2008	83	74	80	82.2	88.1	94.4	77	85.6
784	Boxer - The National	2007	83	74.8	84	82.2	82.4	89.2	82	86.6
813	The Woods - Sleater-Kinney	2005	82.9	77.4	85	83.8	83.4	89.2	79	82.8
817	Bee Thousand - Guided by Voices	1994	82.9	76.6	88	80	80.3	92.2	79	84.4
820	Signals, Calls and Marches - Mission of Burma	1981	82.9	77	94	82	78.5	90	77	82
823	How It Feels to Be Something On - Sunny Day Real Estate	1998	82.9	77	91	84.9	79.3	89.2	77	82
833	Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab	1996	82.9	77.6	88	82.7	81.5	90.4	80	80
859	Eureka - Kinoko Teikoku	2013	82.8	75.6	90	84	82.6	92.4	77	78
861	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys	2006	82.8	74.2	83	84.6	84.7	90.4	83	79.6
863	High Violet - The National	2010	82.8	74.2	84	82.3	82	90	82	85
871	Getting Killed - Geese	2025	82.8	76.8	88	84.5	82.4	93.6	80	74
894	American Water - Silver Jews	1998	82.7	77.8	84	83.1	82.4	91.4	78	82.2
897	The Suburbs - Arcade Fire	2010	82.7	73.6	88	83.8	82.3	89.2	84	78
921	Lost Weekend - Phoebe Bridgers	2026	82.6	72.4	91	83.6	82.2	96.4	76	76.8
933	Frengers - Mew	2003	82.6	74.6	83	82.7	86.1	90.4	77	84.2
942	Keep It Like a Secret - Built to Spill	1999	82.5	79.2	74	84.8	82.3	91	82	84.4
949	From a Basement on the Hill - Elliott Smith	2004	82.5	77.8	84	82.8	83.8	88.4	80	80.8
992	And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out - Yo La Tengo	2000	82.4	77.8	84	82.6	82.3	89.8	79	81.2
993	Puberty 2 - Mitski	2016	82.4	75.4	85	84.3	87.8	91.2	77	76
1027	Bury Me at Makeout Creek - Mitski	2014	82.3	77.2	78	84.9	87.5	92.4	78	78
1030	Science Fiction - Brand New	2017	82.3	72.4	85	82.7	83.7	91.4	79	81.8
1032	Insignificance - Jim O'Rourke	2001	82.3	78.4	79	84.2	88.5	88.8	79	78
1058	Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - PJ Harvey	2000	82.2	77.6	77	84.8	84.5	89.6	81	81
1064	The Meadowlands - The Wrens	2003	82.2	74.6	86	81.2	80.7	90.6	79	83.4
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
1134	Lost in the Dream - The War on Drugs	2014	82	72.4	85	82.3	81.4	90.2	82	81
1151	Peripheral Vision - Turnover	2015	82	73.8	75	81.7	86.3	95.4	79	82.8
1163	Destroyer's Rubies - Destroyer	2006	82	75	85	82.2	84.2	88.8	78	80.6
1179	The Sophtware Slump - Grandaddy	2000	81.9	74.2	87	80.9	82.7	89.4	78	81.2
1189	The New Abnormal - The Strokes	2020	81.9	77.2	75	86	85.4	92.6	83	74
1193	Catch for Us the Foxes - mewithoutYou	2004	81.9	75.2	80	81.4	84	94	74	84.6
1205	Room on Fire - The Strokes	2003	81.9	75.6	86	83.8	83.2	88.4	80	76
1226	Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter	2010	81.8	74.8	83	82.7	80.2	89	81	82
1263	Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party - Hayley Williams	2025	81.7	71.2	92	81.1	82.2	97.6	74	74
1269	Get To Heaven - Everything Everything	2015	81.7	73.8	81	82.7	83.9	92	77	81.6
1271	SCHOOL GIRL DISTORTIONAL ADDICT - Number Girl	1999	81.7	74.2	91	81.1	80.9	91.8	75	78
1296	3D Country - Geese	2023	81.6	77	81	84.5	84	94	77	74
1302	Stranger in the Alps - Phoebe Bridgers	2017	81.6	73.6	80	82.5	85.4	92.2	79	78.8
1318	Painful - Yo La Tengo	1993	81.6	77.4	83	81.7	80.8	88	80	80.4
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
1351	The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads - Lift to Experience	2001	81.5	79	69	87.3	86.8	89.4	78	81.2
1395	Strange Mercy - St. Vincent	2011	81.5	73.4	86	83.2	82.1	87.6	78	80
1401	Only God Was Above Us - Vampire Weekend	2024	81.4	74.8	86	82.1	79.4	91	81	75.8
1402	Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney	1997	81.4	75.4	86	81.1	77.8	88	80	81.8
1419	Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair	1993	81.4	73.8	90	80.8	78.2	88.6	77	81.4
1422	There's Nothing Wrong with Love - Built to Spill	1994	81.4	75.8	81	82	79.5	91	79	81.4
1427	Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse	1998	81.4	74.8	87	82.5	80.7	85.8	77	81.8
1441	Wide Awake! - Parquet Courts	2018	81.3	74.8	84	82.3	82.1	88.8	80	77.4
1446	It's a Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse	2001	81.3	76.2	80	82.8	83.9	86.2	78	82.2
1453	Change - The Dismemberment Plan	2001	81.3	75.8	82	82.4	80.2	89.2	78	81.6
1471	This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About - Modest Mouse	1996	81.3	76.8	81	82.9	78.9	89.8	77	82.4
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
1542	To See the Next Part of the Dream - Parannoul	2021	81.1	76.2	82	84.4	82.9	92.4	78	72
1548	MY WOMAN - Angel Olsen	2016	81.1	72.8	86	82.5	83.6	88	79	76
1553	Trouble Will Find Me - The National	2013	81.1	71	84	80.4	83.4	89.2	79	80.8
1554	Bakesale - Sebadoh	1994	81.1	73.8	84	79.6	83	89.2	78	80.2
1594	The Natural Bridge - Silver Jews	1996	81	78.4	76	82.7	81.8	89.2	76	83
1602	Goo - Sonic Youth	1990	81	76.6	78	82.9	81.7	89.8	80	78
1609	Skinty Fia - Fontaines D.C.	2022	81	73.4	87	80.6	81.8	92.2	76	76
1651	Racing Mount Pleasant - Racing Mount Pleasant	2025	80.9	74.6	76	84.6	84.5	95.6	77	74
1652	Strangers from the Universe - Thinking Fellers Union Local 282	1994	80.9	74.8	91	78.9	78	89	76	78.6

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