With Merge Records celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2009, Prefix Mag has picked their 20 favorite albums from the label. The list is an eclectic mix from the last two decades of Merge going as far back Polvo's 1993 album Today's Active Lifestyles.Check out the list below and go to Prefix feature to see their reasons for each pick.
20. East River Pipe - The Gasoline Age
19. The Rosebuds - Birds Make Good Neighbors
18. Spaceheads - Low Pressure
17. Caribou - Andorra
16. Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
15. American Music Club - Love Songs for Patriots
14. Ladybug Transistor - The Albermarle Sound
13. Pram - The Museum of Imaginary Animals
12. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
11. Crooked Fingers - Red Devil Dawn
10. Portastatic - I Hope Your Heart's Not Brittle
9. Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking
8. The Clientele - The Violet Hour
7. Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
6. M. Ward - The Transfiguration of Vincent
5. Superchunk - Foolish
4. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
3. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
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