To rejoice our thirtieth anniversary and all the good music that made the previous three a long time particular, MAGNET contributors previous and current selected their 30 favourite albums launched between 1993 and 2022. The one guidelines have been that every file must be a full-length and that no artist could possibly be represented greater than as soon as in the identical incarnation. We’re posting these lists all through the remainder of the 12 months.

Corey duBrowa, contributing author
1) Radiohead Child A (Capitol), 2000
2) Elliott Smith Both/Or (Kill Rock Stars), 1997
3) Frank Ocean Blonde (Boys Don’t Cry), 2016
4) Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador), 1994
5) Wilco Yankee Resort Foxtrot (Nonesuch), 2002
6) Liz Phair Exile In Guyville (Matador), 1993
7) PJ Harvey Tales From The Metropolis, Tales From The Sea (Island), 2000
8) Kendrick Lamar Good Child, M.A.A.D. Metropolis (High Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope), 2012
9) Impartial Milk Resort In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge), 1998
10) Nas Illmatic (Columbia), 1994
11) Björk Debut (Elektra), 1993
12) Portishead Dummy (Go! Beat/London), 1994
13) Deerhunter Halcyon Digest (4AD), 2010
14) Wu-Tang Clan Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (Loud/RCA), 1993
15) Jeff Buckley Grace (Columbia), 1994
16) Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell (Polydor/Interscope), 2019
17) Large Assault Mezzanine (Virgin), 1998
18) Interpol Flip On The Brilliant Lights (Matador), 2002
19) Beth Orton Trailer Park (Heavenly/Devoted), 1996
20) Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West (Up), 1997
21) Amy Winehouse Again To Black (Island), 2006
22) Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge), 2007
23) A Tribe Referred to as Quest Midnight Marauders (Jive), 1993
24) OutKast Stankonia (LaFace/Arista), 2000
25) Blur Parklife (Meals/EMI), 1994
26) The Libertines Up The Bracket (Tough Commerce), 2002
27) The Spinanes Manos (Sub Pop), 1993
28) The Avalanches Since I Left You (Modular), 2000
29) Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti-), 2006
30) Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain (Sound-Ink), 2003