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This Year
Top Artists
Folk
Critics' Highest Rated Folk Albums of 2026
My New Band Believe
My New Band Believe
84
critic score
(17)
Aldous Harding
Train on the Island
83
critic score
(20)
Wendy Eisenberg
Wendy Eisenberg
85
critic score
(6)
Marisa Anderson
The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music
83
critic score
(7)
Angelo De Augustine
Angel in Plainclothes
81
critic score
(9)
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Critics' Highest Rated Folk Albums of All Time
Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen
100
critic score
(6)
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
91
critic score
(48)
Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
97
critic score
(7)
Joni Mitchell
Court and Spark
99
critic score
(6)
Joni Mitchell
Blue
100
critic score
(5)
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Users' Highest Rated Folk Albums of 2026
My New Band Believe
My New Band Believe
78
user score
(4,515)
Anthony Gamazo
Hollow
84
user score
(69)
Mydreamfever
4. Mountain Still Breathing
79
user score
(191)
Searows
Death in the Business of Whaling
76
user score
(2,227)
many tiny boxes
Moon Touches Earth
79
user score
(138)
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Users' Highest Rated Folk Albums of All Time
The Microphones
The Glow Pt. 2
91
user score
(13.7K)
Elliott Smith
Either/Or
90
user score
(9,943)
Mount Eerie
A Crow Looked at Me
89
user score
(7,526)
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
89
user score
(11.1K)
Joanna Newsom
Ys
89
user score
(4,740)
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Recent Folk Albums
Widowspeak
Roses
75
critic score
(7)
Fink
The City Is Coming To Erase It All
70
critic score
(1)
Holly Humberstone
it’s a real Cruel World
Greg Mendez
Beauty Land
80
critic score
(9)
sun is poison
Angel Coil Up
Ted Lucas
Images of Life
88
critic score
(2)
Marisa Anderson
The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music
83
critic score
(7)
Magic Tuber Stringband
Heavy Water
79
critic score
(3)
Alela Diane
Who's Keeping Time?
75
critic score
(2)
Maisie Peters
Florescence
74
critic score
(6)
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Critics' Top Folk Artists
Nick Drake
The Microphones
Lankum
Joni Mitchell
Anaïs Mitchell
Joanna Newsom
Sam Lee
Vashti Bunyan
Fleet Foxes
Adrianne Lenker
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Users' Top Folk Artists
Nick Drake
Joanna Newsom
Elliott Smith
Milton Nascimento
青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba]
Natalia Lafourcade
The Microphones
Phoebe Bridgers
Fleet Foxes
Low Roar
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68
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75
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106
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84
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89
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91
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91
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105
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126
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115
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139
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179
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189
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197
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225
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276
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262
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268
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301
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291
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275
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276
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251
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260
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313
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346
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358
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475
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