Paste Magazine just punished a very interesting list of the best 100 Folk albums of all time.

Folk in a very loose sense as it's mostly singer/songwriters

and some odd inclusion like The Sundays

Very biased towards US artists as per usual, but it has some EU artists like Damien Rice or First Aid Kit

 

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best/in...dD1-rX-MoSzEz3U

Favourites from the list:

1 Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise

4 Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps

7 Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago

17 Boygenius - Boygenius EP

21 Damien Rice - O

35 The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt

36 Laura Marling - I Speak because I Can

50 Mumford & Sons - Sigh no more

65 Iron & Wine - Our endless numbered days

66 The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow

79 First Aid Kit - The lion's roar

91 Julien Baker - Sprained ankle

 

 

Good to see Johnny Flynn, First Aid Kit, Mumford and Sons, Sufjan Stevens, Damien Rice (20 places too low!)

Yay Nick Drake.

 

Boo no Mount Eerie though, surely he’s a load more influential and boundary pushing than half of this list? :(