To have fun 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 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.

Thomas Reimel, contributing editor
1) Guided By Voices Alien Lanes (Matador), 1995
2) Sebadoh Bakesale (Sub Pop), 1994
3) Constructed To Spill Maintain It Like A Secret (Warner Bros.), 1999
4) The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs (Merge), 1999
5) Arcade Fireplace The Suburbs (Merge), 2010
6) Interpol Flip On The Vivid Lights (Matador), 2002
7) The Decemberists Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars), 2005
8) Dying Cab For Cutie Transatlanticism (Barsuk), 2003
9) Radiohead OK Pc (Capitol), 1997
10) Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand (Domino), 2004
11) The White Stripes Elephant (Third Man/V2), 2003
12) Wilco Yankee Lodge Foxtrot (Nonesuch), 2002
13) Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador), 2000
14) Foo Fighters The Colour And The Form (Roswell/Capitol), 1997
15) The Shins Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop), 2001
16) Vampire Weekend Trendy Vampires Of The Metropolis (XL), 2013
17) The Wrens The Meadowlands (Completely Kosher), 2003
18) Impartial Milk Lodge In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge), 1998
19) The New Pornographers Electrical Model (Matador), 2003
20) Blur Parklife (Meals/EMI), 1994
21) Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular), 2012
22) Johnny Money American IV: The Man Comes Round (American/Misplaced Freeway), 2002
23) The Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop), 2003
24) Daft Punk Discovery (Virgin), 2001
25) Moby Play (V2), 1999
26) Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters (Clear Slate/Epic), 2020
27) Girl Gaga Born This Method (Streamline/KonLive/Interscope), 2011
28) OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Beneath (Arista), 2003
29) Tortoise Tens of millions Now Residing Will By no means Die (Thrill Jockey), 1996
30) The Strokes Is This It (RCA), 2001