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.
Eric Bensel, contributing writer
1) Nirvana In Utero (DGC), 1993
2) My Bloody Valentine m b v (m b v), 2013
3) (The London) Suede Suede (Nude), 1993
4) Dirty Three Horse Stories (Touch And Go), 1996
5) Moon Duo Occult Architecture Vol. I (Sacred Bones), 2017
6) Carlton Melton Mind Minerals (Agitated), 2018
7) Sebadoh Bakesale (Sub Pop), 1994
8) Blonde Redhead La Mia Vita Violenta (Smells Like), 1995
9) Zen Guerrilla Trance States In Tongues (Sub Pop), 1999
10) Mike Watt Hyphenated-Man (clenchedwrench), 2010
11) Acid King III (Small Stone), 2005
12) La Jungle Past // Middle Age // Future (Black Basset), 2019
13) Lorelle Meets The Obsolete Balance (Captcha), 2016
14) Whores Gold (eOne), 2016
15) Melvins Houdini (Atlantic), 1993
16) Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Viscerals (Rocket), 2020
17) Unsane Scattered, Smothered & Covered (Amphetamine Reptile), 1995
18) Slift Ummon (Vicious Circle/Stolen Body), 2020
19) Mclusky Mclusky Do Dallas (Too Pure), 2002
20) PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love (Island), 1995
21) Varnaline Sweet Life (Zero Hour), 1998
22) Cocaine Piss Passionate And Tragic (Hypertension), 2019
23) Cows Sexy Pee Story (Amphetamine Reptile), 1993
24) Idles Joy As An Act Of Resistance (Partisan), 2018
25) Surfbort Friendship Music (Cult), 2018
26) Earth Tongue Floating Being (Stolen Body), 2019
27) The Holydrug Couple Moonlust (Sacred Bones), 2015
28) Psychic Ills Inner Journey Out (Sacred Bones), 2016
29) Föllakzoid I (Sacred Bones), 2019
30) Grace Vonderkuhn Reveries (EggHunt), 2018
