Madeleine Peyroux · 2009 Spin it Again - Marc Ribot plays guitar on your late-night jazz record and somehow still doesn't steal it.

Herbie Hancock · 2007 Spin it Again - The man who produced it was married to Joni Mitchell for eight years — that alone should tell you this is not a tribute album.

Norah Jones · 2002 - Spin it Again - Don't forget to spin her newer stuff too. This is one artist that gets better with age.

William Basinski · 2002–2003 Spin it Again - Magnetic tape eating itself alive on September 11th, 2001, and Basinski just let the recorder run.

Yo-Yo Ma · 2006 Spin it Again - Yo-Yo Ma spent years living inside the Bach Cello Suites and then handed you the receipts.

The Decemberists · 2005 Spin it Again - Colin Meloy spent five years learning every word in the English language and then made an album about pirates and murderers that somehow feels more like your hometown than anything you grew up with.

Joanna Newsom · 2006 Spin it Again - Five songs, forty minutes, Van Dyke Parks arranging strings like he had something to prove, and Newsom singing like time wasn't a real concern.

Portishead · 2008 Spin it Again - Eleven years away and they came back sounding like a band that had decided warmth was no longer an option.

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 2003 Spin it Again - Sandoval sounds like she's singing from the bottom of a well and somehow that's the only place you want to be at 2am.

Jesu · 2006 Spin it Again - Justin Broadrick took the weight of Godflesh and buried it under so much gauze and melody that you almost forget how heavy it still is.

Feist · 2007 Spin it Again - Leslie Feist made a record about wanting things you can't quite name, and she did it without once raising her voice.

Emmylou Harris · 2003 Spin it Again - Harris strips it down to wood and wire and reminds you that quiet is its own kind of pressure.

Gillian Welch · 2001 Spin it Again - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in a room with two guitars, taking their time, and somehow that's enough.

Beck · 2002 Spin it Again - Beck made an entire album about heartbreak and somehow the pedal steel guitar did more talking than he did.

The Microphones · 2001 Spin it Again - Phil Elverum recorded it in his bedroom in Olympia and somehow made lo-fi feel like the only honest response to being alive and overwhelmed by it.

Grouper · 2008 Spin it Again - Liz Harris recorded this in her bedroom and somehow made fog sound like grief.

Autechre · 2001 Spin it Again - Sean Booth and Rob Brown in 2001, just after they'd decided grids were for other people.

Fennesz · 2001 Spin it Again - Fennesz ran Beach Boys records through a laptop until the guitars turned to static and the static turned back into something that almost felt like a summer you can't quite remember.

Julia Holter · 2008 Spin it Again - Julia Holter at nineteen, before anyone was paying attention, which is usually when the interesting thing happens.

Boards of Canada · 2002 Spin it Again - Boards of Canada found the frequency where childhood memory starts to curdle and stayed there for seventy-one minutes.