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Apr 20, 2024 · Vote up and add all of your favorite indie and folk bands out there. Latest additions: Laura Marling, Stornoway, Okkervil River. Most divisive: Basia Bulat. Over 7.9K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best Indie Folk Bands & Artists. For years, folk music was not popular.
May 20, 2020 · Here are the 100 Best Indie Folk Albums of All Time: 100. Stornoway: Beachcomber’s Windowsill (2010) With bouncy bass lines and bright vocals, British chamber-pop quartet Stornoway recalls all ...
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Jan 9, 2023 · While that list had several indie-folk albums on it, we wanted to dig a little deeper into the genre and highlight our 25 favorite indie-folk albums of 2022. 25. Laura Veirs: Found Light. Laura ...
- Fleet Foxes. 84.
- Mount Eerie. 83.
- Big Thief. 83.
- Julien Baker. 83.
- Nick Drake – Pink Moon (1972) Nick Drake’s final album is also his simplest and most grave. Describing this album as “solo acoustic” overlooks the painful extreme to which he stretched the limits of the guitar: string noise and hard plucking on tracks like “Road” and “Know” create a droning, dirge-like atmosphere.
- Daniel Johnston – Yip/Jump Music (1983) Plenty of narratives—some fair, some unbelievably cynical—have been spun about Daniel Johnston’s short life. His fifth album, recorded in a Texas garage with just a chord organ and Johnston’s lonesome voice, is the gold standard for “outsider” music, but that label now seems inaccurate.
- Robyn Hitchcock – I Often Dream of Trains (1984) Robyn Hitchcock curries a fascination with the origin of all living organisms and a few dead ones. For many of his most ardent fans, the origin of his mythology is his third, mostly acoustic solo album.
- Linda Smith – Do You Know The Way…? (1988) Last year, Captured Tracks released a compilation of rare, early self-released material from Baltimore singer/songwriter Linda Smith, bringing to the surface highlights from a scarcely heard but nonetheless stunning, mostly cassette-released catalog.
7. Neutral Milk Hotel. Formed as a garage band in 1989 and spent their longest period of activity in the 1990s, Neutral Milk Hotel has remained a seismic influence in the genre of indie folk and indie rock. Their big break came in 1994 with the single “Everything Is,” and although they languished in obscurity in the 2000s, they have sold ...
Dec 28, 2023 · Stay tuned for our hip-hop list on New Year’s Eve and, until then, here are our picks for the 30 best indie folk albums of 2023. — Matt Mitchell, Music Editor AJJ: Disposable Everything
