To have a good time our thirtieth anniversary and all the nice 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 had been that every report must be a full-length and that no artist may very well be represented greater than as soon as in the identical incarnation. We’re posting these lists all through the remainder of the 12 months.

A.D. Amorosi, contributing author
1) David Bowie Blackstar (ISO/Columbia/Sony), 2016
2) The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs (Merge), 1999
3) Beyoncé Lemonade (Parkwood/Columbia), 2016
4) A Tribe Known as Quest Midnight Marauders (Jive), 1993
5) David Sylvian & Robert Fripp The First Day (Virgin), 1993
6) Daft Punk Random Entry Reminiscences (Columbia), 2013
7) Joni Mitchell Each Sides Now (Reprise), 2000
8) Jay-Z The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam), 2001
9) Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly (High Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope), 2015
10) Nick Cave And The Unhealthy Seeds Push The Sky Away (Unhealthy Seed), 2013
11) Björk Submit (Elektra), 1995
12) Leonard Cohen Fashionable Issues (Columbia), 2014
13) Queens Of The Stone Age Rated R (Interscope), 2000
14) Lauryn Hill The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia), 1998
15) Blur Parklife (Meals/EMI), 1994
16) TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD/Interscope), 2006
17) The Cramps Flamejob (Drugs), 1994
18) LCD Soundsystem This Is Taking place (DFA), 2010
19) Grinderman Grinderman (Anti-), 2007
20) Frank Ocean Channel Orange (Def Jam), 2012
21) The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Warner Bros.), 2002
22) Morrissey You Are The Quarry (Assault), 2004
23) Unhealthy Bunny Un Verano Sin Ti (Rimas), 2022
24) Sonic Youth The Everlasting (Matador), 2009
25) Ryuichi Sakamoto Async (Milan), 2017
26) Tom Waits Unhealthy As Me (Anti-), 2011
27) SZA SOS (High Dawg/RCA), 2022
28) David Byrne American Utopia (Todo Mundo/Nonesuch), 2018
29) Iggy Pop Submit Pop Despair (Loma Vista), 2019
30) Bob Dylan Tempest (Columbia), 2012