To rejoice 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 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.

Steve Klinge, contributing author
1) The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs (Merge), 1999
2) Belle And Sebastian If You’re Feeling Sinister (Jeepster/The Enclave), 1997
3) Yo La Tengo Painful (Matador), 1993
4) Sigur Rós Ágætis Byrjun (PIAS), 2001
5) PJ Harvey To Carry You My Love (Island), 1995
6) Nick Cave And The Unhealthy Seeds Push The Sky Away (Unhealthy Seed), 2013
7) Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera (Misplaced Freeway), 2002
8) Lucinda Williams Automotive Wheels On A Gravel Highway (Mercury), 1998
9) Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars), 1997
10) Pulp Totally different Class (Island), 1995 
11) M.I.A. Arular (XL), 2005
12) Bob Dylan Time Out Of Thoughts (Columbia), 1997
13) Huge Thief Dragon New Heat Mountain I Imagine In You (4AD), 2022
14) Ali Farka Touré With Ry Cooder Speaking Timbuktu (Hannibal), 1994
15) Marah Youngsters In Philly (Artemis), 2000
16) The Notwist Neon Golden (Domino), 2023
17) The xx The xx (XL/Younger Turks), 2009
18) Purple Mountains Purple Mountains (Drag Metropolis), 2019
19) Tom Waits Mule Variations (Anti-), 1999
20) TV On The Radio Expensive Science (DGC/Interscope), 2008
21) Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Elevating Sand (Rounder), 2007
22) The Roots How I Received Over (Def Jam), 2010
23) Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti-), 2006
24) LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem (DFA/Capitol), 2005
25) The Walkmen Heaven (Fats Possum), 2012
26) Arcade Fireplace Funeral (Merge), 2004
27) Destroyer Kaputt (Merge), 2011
28) The New Pornographers Mass Romantic (Mint), 2000
29) Allo Darlin’ We Come From The Similar Place (Slumberland), 2014
30) Sturgill Simpson A Sailor’s Information To Earth (Atlantic), 2016