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New Weird America is a folk-influenced indie movement from the early 2000s that blends traditional acoustic instruments with experimental, lo-fi production and unconventional song structures. The genre emerged as a countercultural response to mainstream music, drawing on American folk traditions while incorporating psychedelic, avant-garde, and DIY aesthetic sensibilities. Its sound is characterized by intimate vocals, eclectic instrumentation, and a deliberately rough or homemade quality that emphasizes authenticity over polish.
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1970 | Vashti Bunyan | Just Another Diamond Day |
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| 65 | 1990-01 | Sun City Girls | Torch of the Mystics |
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| 17 | 1992 | Mark Heard | Satellite Sky |
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| 94 | 1996-09-10 | Cat Power | What Would the Community Think |
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2000-02-21 | Jackie-O Motherfucker | Fig. 5 |
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| 10 | 2000-04-17 | Elliott Smith | Figure 8 |
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2001 | Pope John Paul III | pope john paul the third | ||
| 81 | 2002 | Joanna Newsom | Walnut Whales |
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2002-02-19 | Six Organs of Admittance | Dark Noontide |
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| 71 | 2002-08-21 | Devendra Banhart | The Charles C. Leary |
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2003 | Christina Antipa | Goodbye Different Oceans |
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| 63 | 2003 | Pelt | Pearls from the River |
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2003-01-01 | Sore Eros | beko_10 |
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| 60 |
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2003-03-04 | Entrance | The Kingdom of Heaven Must Be Taken By Storm! |
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| 70 | 2003-03-04 | Entrance | The Kingdom of Heaven Must Be Taken by Storm |
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| 78 | 2003-06-17 | Animal Collective | Here Comes the Indian |
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2004 | Tara Jane O'Neil | Bones |
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| 50 |
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2004-02-24 | Faun Fables | Family Album |
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| 67 | 2004-03-08 | Jack Rose | Two Originals Of... |
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| 90 | 2004-03-09 | CocoRosie | La maison de mon rĂªve |
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| 38 | 2004-04-01 | Devendra Banhart | The Golden Apples of The Sun |
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2004-05-03 | Animal Collective | Sung Tongs |
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| 91 |
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2004-05-04 | Mirah | C'mon Miracle |
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2004-05-10 | Vetiver | Vetiver |
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2004-05-17 | Adem | These Are Your Friends |
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| 92 |
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2004-05-18 | White Magic | Through The Sun Door |
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2004-08-09 | Ella Guru | The First Album |
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2004-08-17 | Little Wings | Magic Wand |
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| 68 | 2004-09-07 | Julie Doiron | Goodnight Nobody |
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| 99 | 2004-09-28 | Panda Bear | Young Prayer |
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2004-11 | Gang Gang Dance | Hillulah |
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| 85 | 2005 | Vetiver | Between |
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2005 | Devendra Banhart | Crippled Crow |
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2005 | Nick Castro | Further From Grace |
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| 88 | 2005-01-24 | Six Organs of Admittance | School of the Flower |
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| 83 |
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2005-02-01 | The Skygreen Leopards | Life & Love in Sparrow's Meadow |
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2005-07-28 | Raccoo-oo-oon | Is Night People |
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2005-09-01 | Giant Skyflower Band | Blood Of The Sunworm |
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2005-09-13 | CocoRosie | Noah's Ark |
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| 75 |
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2005-09-13 | Devendra Banhart | Cripple Crow |
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| 40 | 2005-10-14 | Animal Collective | Feels |
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| 73 | 2005-10-25 | Jana Hunter | Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom |
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| 6 | 2006 | USAISAMONSTER | Sunset At the End of the Industrial Age |
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2006-04-04 | Travel by Sea | Shadows Rise |
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2006-04-19 | Flowers From the Man Who Shot Your Cousin | Hapless |
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| 72 | 2006-04-21 | Josephine Foster | A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing |
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2006-05-23 | Vetiver | To Find Me Gone |
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2006-06-13 | Regina Spektor | Begin to Hope |
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2006-06-20 | Brightblack Morning Light | Brightblack Morning Light |
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| 22 | 2006-08-09 | e.p. hall | The Edge the Middle |
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2006-09-25 | Akron/Family | Meek Warrior |
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2006-10-24 | Norfolk & Western | The Unsung Colony |
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| 53 | 2006-11-14 | White Magic | Dat Rosa Mel Apibus |
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| 42 | 2006-11-30 | John Most | Persephone |
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2007 | Tinyfolk | Bill |
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2007 | CocoRosie | Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn |
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2007-02-05 | Rio En Medio | Perfect As Cats: A Tribute to The Cure |
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2007-02-05 | Rio En Medio | Bride of Dynamite |
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2007-02-13 | Rio En Medio | The Bride of Dynamite |
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| 61 | 2007-04-23 | Feist | The Reminder |
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2007-06-17 | June Madrona | A Long And Ugly Road (European edition) |
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| 7 | 2007-09-03 | Animal Collective | Strawberry Jam |
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2008 | M. Ward | Transfiguration of Vincent |
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| 45 |
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2008 | June Madrona | The Winged Life (European edition) |
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2008 | Megapuss | Megapuss |
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| 58 | 2008 | Pocahaunted | Beast That You Are |
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| 29 | 2008-07-01 | John Most | Atelier |
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| 100 | 2008-07-21 | Sun Araw | Beach Head |
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| 93 | 2008-09-09 | Megapuss | Surfing |
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2008-10-20 | Our Brother the Native | Parting Marrows EP |
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2009 | Totally Nebular | Boat Boat |
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2009 | Jackie-O Motherfucker | Ballads Of The Revolution |
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2009 | MV & EE | Root/Void |
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2009 | Various Artists | The Late, Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered |
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| 74 | 2009-11-03 | Jookabox | Dead Zone Boys |
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2010 | Velvet Davenport | Happy Ending - CD [SHDWPLY] |
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2010 | Erutan | Tarts |
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2010 | MV & EE | Country Stash |
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| 33 | 2010-04-30 | Yuni in Taxco | Yuni In Taxco EP |
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2010-06-24 | Eric Copeland | Strange Days |
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| 23 | 2010-11-09 | Tree Hopping | The Beat Band |
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| 87 | 2011-04-26 | Javelin | Canyon Candy |
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| 66 | 2011-05-30 | Orion Rigel Dommisse | Chickens |
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| 49 | 2011-06-03 | George Ellias | EP |
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| 19 | 2011-11-15 | Goldmund | All Will Prosper |
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| 27 | 2012-03-05 | Julia Holter | Ekstasis |
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| 37 | 2012-03-26 | Soan | Sous les yeux de Sophie |
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2013 | Larkin Grimm | Soul Retrieval |
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2013-06-11 | Cough Cool | beko_21 |
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2013-09-17 | Alligator Indian | More Songs About Animals and TV |
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2014-02-18 | Alexz Johnson | Weight |
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| 56 | 2014-11-17 | Ariel Pink | pom pom |
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2016 | Devendra Banhart | New Unreleased Songs |
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2018-11-02 | Dead Can Dance | Dionysus |
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2023 | Various Artists | The Golden Apples of the Sun |
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2023-04-28 | Bill Orcutt | Bill Orcutt |
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| 3 | Mike Garlington | Pope Culture! |
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| 14 | the Traveling Misanthrope Circus of Lunacy | this is bad for the children. (better dead than red) | ||||
| 15 | The Gomorran Social Aid and Pleasure Club | outtakes and oddities |
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| 62 | The Pink Mountaintops | Axis Of Evil |
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