List of chamber pop albums

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The following is a list of chamber pop albums in release order. It may include EPs and non-studio albums.

TitleArtistRelease dateRef.
The Beach Boys Today! the Beach Boys 8 March 1965 [1]
Pet Sounds the Beach Boys16 May 1966 [2]
Odessey and Oracle the Zombies 19 April 1968 [3]
Paris 1919 John Cale 25 February 1973 [4]
Skylarking XTC 27 October 1986 [5]
Out of Time R.E.M. 12 March 1991 [6]
Automatic for the People R.E.M.5 October 1992 [7]
Tindersticks Tindersticks 11 October 1993 [8]
Promenade the Divine Comedy 28 March 1994 [9]
Cardinal Cardinal November 1994 [10]
Hawaii the High Llamas 25 March 1996 [11]
Tidal Fiona Apple 23 July 1996 [12]
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle and Sebastian 18 November 1996 [13]
Fin de Siècle the Divine Comedy31 August 1998 [14]
Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev 29 September 1998 [15]
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC2 March 1999 [16]
Nixon Lambchop 7 February 2000 [17]
Fevers and Mirrors Bright Eyes 29 May 2000 [18]
Somnambulista Brazzaville 2001 [19]
Lil' Beethoven Sparks 26 November 2002 [20]
Absent Friends the Divine Comedy29 March 2004 [21]
Funeral Arcade Fire 14 September 2004 [22]
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons 1 February 2005 [23]
Centralismo Sore 15 July 2005 [24]
Jollity Pugwash 23 September 2005 [25]
23 Blonde Redhead 10 April 2007 [26]
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend 29 January 2008 [27]
The Singer Teitur Lassen February 2008
Eleven Modern Antiquities Pugwash21 March 2008 [28]
Ports of Lima Sore24 April 2008 [29]
Veckatimest Grizzly Bear 26 May 2009 [30]
All We Grow S. Carey 24 August 2010 [31]
Bon Iver, Bon Iver Bon Iver 17 June 2011 [32]
The Olympus Sound Pugwash19 August 2011 [33]
50 Words for Snow Kate Bush 21 November 2011 [34]
Lush Mitski 31 January 2012 [35]
~ iamthemorning 27 April 2012 [36]
Modern Vampires of the City Vampire Weekend14 May 2013 [37]
Miscellany iamthemorning1 January 2014 [38]
Range of Light S. Carey1 April 2014 [39]
Belighted iamthemorning15 September 2014 [40]
Natalie Prass Natalie Prass 27 January 2015 [41]
So There Ben Folds 11 September 2015 [42]
Have You in My Wilderness Julia Holter 25 September 2015 [43]
From the House of Arts iamthemorning23 October 2015 [44]
Your Hands Bahngbek 28 December 2015 [45]
Commontime Field Music 5 February 2016 [46]
Grasque Choir of Young Believers 19 February 2016 [47]
Lighthouse iamthemorning1 April 2016 [48]
Hippopotamus Sparks8 September 2017 [49]
Open Here Field Music2 February 2018 [50]
Titanic Rising Weyes Blood 5 April 2019 [51]
The Weight of the Sun Modern Studies 8 May 2020 [52]
Folklore Taylor Swift 24 July 2020 [53]
Evermore Taylor Swift11 December 2020 [54]
OK Human Weezer 29 January 2021 [55]
Ocean to Ocean Tori Amos 29 October 2021 [56]
Madison Sloppy Jane 5 November 2021 [57]
Once Twice Melody Beach House 18 February 2022 [58]
Ugly Season Perfume Genius 17 June 2022 [59]
Long Is the Tunnel Daneshevskaya10 November 2023 [60]
The Tortured Poets Department Taylor Swift19 April 2024 [61]
Lives Outgrown Beth Gibbons 17 May 2024 [62]

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