Merge Records' Silver Age: 25 Essential Albums Over 25 Years
Polvo
Today’s Active Lifestyles (1993)
Superchunk
Foolish (1994)
Lambchop
I Hope You’re Sitting Down (1994)
East River Pipe
Poor Fricky (1995)
Butterglory
Are You Building a Temple in Heaven? (1996)
Spent
A Seat Beneath the Chairs (1997)
Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
The Ladybug Transistor
The Albemarle Sound (1999)
The Rock*A*Teens
Golden Time (1999)
The Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs (1999)
Radar Brothers
And the Surrounding Mountains (2002)
The Clean
Anthology (2003)
M. Ward
Transfiguration of Vincent (2003)
Arcade Fire
Funeral (2004)
Teenage Fanclub
Man-Made (2005)
The Rosebuds
Birds Make Good Neighbors (2005)
Robert Pollard
From a Compound Eye (2006)
Destroyer
Destroyer’s Rubies (2006)
Camera Obscura
Let’s Get Out of This Country (2006)
Spoon
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
American Music Club
The Golden Age (2008)
The Clientele
Bonfires on the Heath (2009)
Wild Flag
Wild Flag (2011)
The Mountain Goats
Transcendental Youth (2012)
Mikal Cronin
MCII (2013)