To rejoice 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 document 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 yr.

Chris Sikich, contributing photographer
1) R.E.M. New Adventures In Hello-Fi (Warner Bros.), 1996
2) Wilco Yankee Lodge Foxtrot (Nonesuch), 2002
3) Hans Zimmer The Skinny Crimson Line (Authentic Movement Image Soundtrack) RCA Victor, 1999
4) The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love (Capitol), 2009
5) Robyn Hitchcock Jewels For Sophia (Warner Bros.), 1999
6) Moby All the pieces Is Unsuitable (Elektra), 1995
7) The Cranberries Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (Island), 1993
8) Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre), 2004
9) Le Butcherettes Sin Sin Sin (Rodriguez Lopez Productions), 2011
10) PJ Harvey Let England Shake (Vagrant/Island), 2011
11) Ryuichi Sakamoto Little Buddha (Music From The Authentic Movement Image Soundtrack) (Milan), 1993
12) Radiohead In Rainbows (XL), 2007
13) Previous 97’s Too Far To Care (Elektra), 1997
14) Los Lobos Colossal Head (Warner Bros.), 1996
15) Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars), 1997
16) The Nationwide Boxer (Beggars Banquet), 2007
17) Tori Amos Boys For Pele (Atlantic), 1996
18) Anaïs Mitchell Younger Man In America (Wilderland/Thirty Tigers), 2012
19) Michael Nyman Gattaca (Authentic Movement Image Soundtrack) (Jersey/Virgin), 1997
20) Drive-By Truckers American Band (ATO), 2016
21) Nirvana MTV Unplugged In New York (DGC), 1994
22) Drained Pony The Place We Ran From (Mother + Pop), 2010
23) Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar), 2005
24) Gap Reside By means of This (DGC), 1994
25) Mary Gauthier Rifles & Rosary Beads (In The Black), 2018
26) Wild Flag Wild Flag (Merge), 2011
27) Our Native Daughters Songs Of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways), 2019
28) Irreversible Entanglements Who Despatched You? (Worldwide Anthem/Don Giovanni), 2020
29) case/lang/veirs case/lang/veirs (Anti-), 2016
30) Screaming Females All At As soon as (Don Giovanni), 2018