To have fun our thirtieth anniversary and all the nice music that made the previous three many years particular, MAGNET contributors previous and current selected their 30 favourite albums launched between 1993 and 2022. The one guidelines have been that every report must 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 12 months.

Noah Bonaparte Pais, contributing author
1) Radiohead OK Laptop (Capitol), 1997
2) Impartial Milk Resort In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge), 1998
3) Solange A Seat At The Desk (Saint/Columbia), 2016 
4) Joanna Newsom Have One On Me (Drag Metropolis), 2010
5) OutKast Aquemini (LaFace), 1998
6) Constructed To Spill Good From Now On (Warner Bros.), 1997
7) Sufjan Stevens Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty), 2005
8) Songs: Ohia The Magnolia Electrical Co. (Secretly Canadian), 2003
9) Nas Illmatic (Columbia), 1994
10) Weezer Weezer (Blue Album) (Geffen), 1994
11) Beck Odelay (Bong Load/DGC), 1996
12) Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti-), 2006
13) Yo La Tengo I Can Hear The Coronary heart Beating As One (Matador), 1997
14) Elliott Smith Both/Or (Kill Rock Stars), 1997
15) Lauryn Hill The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia), 1998
16) Spoon Kill The Moonlight (Merge), 2002
17) Guided By Voices Bee Thousand (Scat), 1994
18) Black Star Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (Rawkus), 1998
19) The Shins Chutes Too Slender (Sub Pop), 2003
20) Cat Energy You Are Free (Matador), 2003
21) Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador), 1994
22) Interpol Flip On The Shiny Lights (Matador), 2002
23) Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West (Up), 1997
24) Wilco Yankee Resort Foxtrot (Nonesuch), 2002
25) Damaged Social Scene You Forgot It In Individuals (Arts & Crafts), 2002
26) The Flaming Lips The Comfortable Bulletin (Warner Bros.), 1999
27) Wolf Parade Apologies To The Queen Mary (Sub Pop), 2005
28) Phoenix It’s By no means Been Like That (Astralwerks), 2006
29) The Strokes Is This It (RCA), 2001
30) Arcade Hearth Funeral (Merge), 2004