PopMatters' 20 Best Folk Albums of 2018

As Cecil Sharp once inferred, folk music tends to swell in times of social and political turbulence.

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# 1

See You Around by I'm With Her

Album • Feb 16 / 2018 Indie Folk

# 2

All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do by The Milk Carton Kids

Album • Jun 29 / 2018 Indie Folk Contemporary Folk

# 3

Seed & Silo by Rebekah Rolland

Album • Jul 20 / 2018 Alt-Country Chamber Folk

# 4

Boygenius by boygenius

EP • Oct 26 / 2018 Indie Rock Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 5

abysskiss by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 6

The Art of Forgetting by Kyle Carey

Album • Jan 26 / 2018

# 7

(after) by Mount Eerie

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 8

I Need to Start a Garden by Haley Heynderickx

Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 9

Shape of Silence by Saint Sister

Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Folktronica Dream Pop

# 10

Desert Sounds by Jacob Acosta

Album • May 26 / 2018 Alt-Country

# 11

The Lost Cause by Dhruv Visvanath

Album • Apr 19 / 2018

# 12

Dead Reckoning by The Jellyman's Daughter

Album • May 14 / 2018

# 13

This Too Shall Light by Amy Helm

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Blue-Eyed Soul

# 14

Shadow of a Stone by Geoff Gibbons

EP • Nov 06 / 2018

# 15

Next Time by Greg Laswell

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter

# 17

Ruins by First Aid Kit

Album • Jan 19 / 2018 Americana Indie Folk

# 18

So Below by Banjolectric

Album • Nov 16 / 2018

# 19

Some People I Know by The Brother Brothers

Album • Oct 19 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 20

Magic Ship by Mountain Man

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Contemporary Folk A cappella