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 had been that every file needs to be a full-length and that no artist might be represented greater than as soon as in the identical incarnation. We’re posting these lists all through the remainder of the yr.

1) Invoice Callahan Apocalypse (Drag Metropolis), 2011
2) Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 2 (Mass Enchantment), 2014
3) Antony And The Johnsons I Am A Chicken Now (Secretly Canadian), 2005
4) Lucinda Williams Automotive Wheels On A Gravel Highway (Mercury), 1998
5) OutKast Aquemini (LaFace), 1998
6) Nas Illmatic (Columbia), 1994
7) Guided By Voices Bee Thousand (Scat), 1994
8) Tinariwen Aman Iman: Water Is Life (World Village), 2007
9) Spiritualized Girls And Gents We Are Floating In Area (Devoted/Arista), 1997
10) Dungen Ta Det Lugnt (Kemado), 2005
11) V-3 {Photograph} Burns (Onion/American), 1996
12) Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator) (Acony), 2001
13) Kendrick Lamar Rattling (High Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope), 2017
14) Silver Jews Tanglewood Numbers (Drag Metropolis), 2005
15) Low I May Reside In Hope (Vernon Yard), 1994
16) Portishead Dummy (Go! Beat/London), 1994
17) The Shins Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop), 2001
18) Animal Collective Strawberry Jam (Domino), 2007
19) Frank Ocean Channel Orange (Def Jam), 2012
20) Rosali Bones (No Medium), 2021
21) Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Elektra), 1996
22) Califone Roomsound (Perishable), 2001
23) M.I.A. Kala (XL/Interscope), 2007
24) The Roots Issues Fall Aside (MCA), 1999
25) Royal Trux Cats And Canine (Drag Metropolis), 1993
26) Bettie Serveert Palomine (Matador), 1993
27) Kamasi Washington Heaven And Earth (Younger Turks), 2018
28) Nicolai Dunger Soul Rush (Lakeshore), 2002
29) Washed Out Inside And With out (Sub Pop), 2011
30) Reigning Sound Time Bomb Excessive Faculty (In The Purple), 2002