Bill Laurance · 2019 Spin it Again - The Snarky Puppy keyboard player walks out alone at Montreux and turns out to have been the interesting one all along.

Nils Frahm · 2011 Spin it Again - A Berlin apartment, two in the morning, felt threaded through the piano hammers so nobody would complain — and somehow that's the whole record.

Chilly Gonzales · 2010 Spin it Again - Gonzales has spent his whole career hiding how good he actually is behind how clever he is — this is the record where the hiding slips.

Various Artists · 2018 Spin it Again - ABBA songs don't need a sequel, and somehow this one earns its place anyway.

Blues Pills · 2014 Spin it Again - Elin Larsson was twenty-two and somehow already the most convincing blues-rock vocalist to come out of Scandinavia since forever.

Stornoway · 2011 Spin it Again - The guy finishing his bird-counting doctorate wrote every song, and somehow that explains everything about why this record sounds the way it does.

Sam Amidon · 2010 Spin it Again - Old murder ballads and fiddle tunes, run through an Icelandic studio and returned barely recognizable — in the best way.

Ben Howard · 2014 Spin it Again - Ben Howard walked away from the sound that made him famous and built something stranger — most people heard the first ten minutes and called it a day.

Father John Misty · 2017 Spin it Again - Seventy-four minutes, a seventy-four-piece orchestra, and one guy who really needed you to sit still for a while.

Sufjan Stevens · 2015 Spin it Again - Made at home, in the dark, about a mother he barely knew — and it sounds exactly like that.

Father John Misty · 2015 Spin it Again - Josh Tillman made a record so committed to sincerity that he had to bury it under three layers of irony just to get it out the door.

Vulfpeck · 2014 Spin it Again - They funded a free tour by uploading silence to Spotify, then dropped this like it was nothing.

IDLES · 2018 Spin it Again - Joe Talbot named a song after his stillborn daughter and then put it in the middle of a punk record, and somehow that's the right move.

Broken Social Scene · 2010 Spin it Again - An EP that outweighs most full albums by a band that never really knew how to be small.

Sufjan Stevens · 2010 Spin it Again - Sufjan Stevens spent a decade secretly making Christmas records for his family, and this is what happened when he finally let everyone else in.

Low Anthem · 2011 Spin it Again - Four people in a room in Rhode Island, playing holiday songs like they mean the sad part.

Various Artists · 2012 Spin it Again - A Christmas compilation that was actually sequenced by someone who owns records.

Meaghan Smith · 2011 Spin it Again - You already own this one — the question is whether you've ever actually listened to it.

Natacha Atlas · 2010 Spin it Again - Atlas spent the nineties building a sound loud enough to fill clubs; here she proves she never needed the volume.

Neil Young · 2012 Spin it Again - Neil Young kept the tape running between albums and the outtakes turned out to be the whole point.