To celebrate our 30th anniversary and all the great music that made the past three decades special, MAGNET contributors past and present chose their 30 favorite albums released between 1993 and 2022. The only rules were that each record has to be a full-length and that no artist could be represented more than once in the same incarnation. We’re posting these lists throughout the rest of the year.
Gene Smirnov, contributing photographer
1) Grails Take Refuge In Clean Living (Important), 2008
2) Beach House Depression Cherry (Sub Pop), 2015
3) Beastie Boys The Mix-Up (Capitol), 2007
4) Tame Impala Currents (Interscope), 2015
5) Radiohead In Rainbows (XL), 2007
6) Vessels Dilate (Bias), 2015
7) Wand Golem (In The Red), 2015
8) Darkside Psychic (Other People/Matador), 2013
9) Massive Attack Mezzanine (Virgin), 1998
10) The War On Drugs Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian), 2014
11) The National Boxer (Beggars Banquet), 2007
12) Lower Dens Nootropics (Ribbon), 2012
13) Rival Consoles Persona (Erased Tapes), 2018
14) Midlake Antiphon (ATO), 2013
15) Russian Circles Memorial (Sargent House), 2013
16) Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction (Profound Lore), 2012
17) Goat World Music (Rocket), 2012
18) Jaga Jazzist Pyramid (Brainfeeder), 2020
19) Mark Guiliana Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music! (Motéma), 2019
20) Orbital Monsters Exist (ACP), 2018
21) Portico Quartet Portico Quartet (Real World), 2012
22) Sohn Tremors (4AD), 2014
23) Unknown Mortal Orchestra II (Jagjaguwar), 2013
24) Portishead Portishead (Go! Beat/London), 1997
25) Moderat More D4ta (Monkeytown), 2022
26) Röyksopp Junior (Wall Of Sound/Astralwerks), 2009
27) Tycho Dive (Ghostly International), 2011
28) Ecstatic Vision Sonic Praise (Relapse), 2015
29) True Widow Circumambulation (Relapse), 2013
30) Khemmis Hunted (20 Buck Spin), 2016
