Best Midwest Emo Albums of All Time

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58 albums

RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
150	The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse	1997	86.8	82	88	87.8	85.9	92	84	87.8
267	just got back from the discomfort—we're alright - The Brave Little Abacus	2010	85.7	78.4	100	85	84	94	76	82.4
269	Perfect from Now On - Built to Spill	1997	85.7	81.4	86	86.2	84.5	91.2	84	86.4
440	Building Nothing Out of Something - Modest Mouse	2000	84.5	82.2	90	86	81	88.6	80	84
588	The Moon & Antarctica - Modest Mouse	2000	83.8	79.2	81	85.5	81.5	90	83	86.6
781	What It Takes to Move Forward - Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)	2009	83	72.2	100	81.6	79.3	88.8	76	83.4
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
898	American Football - American Football	1999	82.7	77.6	78	84	82.6	91.8	80	84.8
1006	Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home - The Newfound Interest in Connecticut	2005	82.3	77.6	80	84.6	82.3	94.2	77	80.6
1064	The Meadowlands - The Wrens	2003	82.2	74.6	86	81.2	80.7	90.6	79	83.4
1081	Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie	2003	82.2	74.6	80	84	83.6	91.4	79	82.6
1084	The Power of Failing - Mineral	1997	82.2	76.2	83	82.2	82.9	91.8	76	83
1105	For Cameron - Merchant Ships	2010	82.1	75.6	100	81.2	76.9	88	73	80
1112	Home, Like Noplace Is There - The Hotelier	2014	82.1	75	83	81.7	83.1	92.8	75	84
1123	Diary - Sunny Day Real Estate	1994	82.1	76.8	80	83.1	81.5	91.2	78	83.8
1151	Peripheral Vision - Turnover	2015	82	73.8	75	81.7	86.3	95.4	79	82.8
1191	Clarity - Jimmy Eat World	1999	81.9	76.2	82	84	83.4	91	73	83.6
1203	Analphabetapolothology - Cap'n Jazz	1998	81.9	76.8	83	83	82.9	90.4	75	82
1422	There's Nothing Wrong with Love - Built to Spill	1994	81.4	75.8	81	82	79.5	91	79	81.4
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
1613	Do You Know Who You Are? - Texas Is The Reason	1996	81	72	90	78.5	78	92	75	81.4
1900	Somewhere City - Origami Angel	2019	80.4	75.6	75	83.8	83	91.8	74	79.8
2092	Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor	2011	80.1	73.2	85	79	79.4	88.2	74	81.6
2099	Blue Screen Life - Pinback	2001	80	77.2	68	81.4	84.1	92.4	77	80.2
2148	Forward - First Day Back	2025	79.9	73.6	81	78.7	83.7	97.6	73	72
2351	Cardinal - Pinegrove	2016	79.6	71.8	78	78.6	82.5	91.2	76	79
2386	The Hot Rock - Sleater-Kinney	1999	79.5	74.8	81	79.7	82	84.2	77	78
2403	When We Were Friends - The Backseat Lovers	2019	79.5	71.2	80	81.5	83.3	95.6	73	72
2466	Fevers and Mirrors - Bright Eyes	2000	79.4	72.4	76	81.7	84.4	86.4	75	79.8
2494	Painted Shut - Hop Along	2015	79.3	71.6	82	78.4	80.9	90.2	74	78.2
2587	Some Kind of Cadwallader - Algernon Cadwallader	2008	79.1	72.4	83	79	76.4	92.2	75	76
2589	Nothing Feels Good - The Promise Ring	1997	79.1	72	83	78	77.6	92.4	73	78
2840	Never Hungover Again - Joyce Manor	2014	78.7	73.2	76	78.4	81	90.2	74	78
2845	Colourmeinkindness - Basement	2012	78.7	70.2	80	79	77.8	92.8	73	78
2937	Interstate 8 - Modest Mouse	1996	78.5	78.8	67	83.1	78.5	89	75	78
2941	Something to Write Home About - The Get Up Kids	1999	78.5	72.4	72	80.4	78.4	90.6	73	82.6
2990	EndSerenading - Mineral	1998	78.4	74.6	63	80.2	82.3	91.2	75	82.4
2996	Attack on Memory - Cloud Nothings	2012	78.4	73	79	80.8	78.4	85.4	76	76
3073	Come in - Weatherday	2019	78.2	75	70	82.1	80.7	92.8	73	74
3130	We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes - Death Cab for Cutie	2000	78.1	73.2	77	81	81	85.6	75	74
3164	Harmlessness - The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die	2015	78	68.4	79	79.4	80	87.8	74	77.6
3167	the first glass beach album - glass beach	2019	78	70.8	71	79.2	79.7	94.4	77	74
3309	You're Gonna Miss It All - Modern Baseball	2014	77.7	71.2	70	81.6	84.4	91.6	75	70
3446	Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World	2001	77.4	71.8	73	76.8	77.2	89.8	75	78
3536	Holy Ghost - Modern Baseball	2016	77.2	69.6	80	79.5	78.2	89	72	72
3537	American Football - American Football	2019	77.2	68.4	79	76.7	76.6	89.4	74	76.2
3558	The Photo Album - Death Cab for Cutie	2001	77.1	71.2	72	78.9	78	87.8	76	76
3605	Futures - Jimmy Eat World	2004	77	73	66	80.4	81.6	89.2	71	78
3627	Rooms of the House - La Dispute	2014	77	70.4	78	78	82.3	89.2	69	72
3630	Talon of the Hawk - The Front Bottoms	2013	77	67.2	75	76.3	81	89.4	76	74
3649	the whaler - Home Is Where	2023	76.9	71	77	77.3	77.7	89.4	74	72
3669	hypochondriac - brakence	2022	76.9	71.2	62	80.4	82.6	98.8	71	72
3677	Greatest Hits - Remo Drive	2017	76.8	69.6	70	77	81.5	89.8	76	74
3801	Hornet Disaster - Weatherday	2025	76.5	72.6	70	79.5	77.6	94.8	71	70
3894	fawn - foxtails	2022	76.3	70.8	80	76.1	75.3	88.6	71	72
4288	Honeymoon - Beach Bunny	2020	75.1	67.4	77	72.6	76.3	88.6	74	70
4861	Acrobatic Tenement - At the Drive-In	1996	72.5	64.8	77	69.8	71	82	71	72
4904	All We Know Is Falling - Paramore	2005	72.3	65	68	71.9	75.1	90.8	67	68

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