Shabaka and the Ancestors · 2020 Spin it Again - Shabaka Hutchings went to South Africa and let the musicians write half the album. The result is a conversation across oceans.

Sons of Kemet · 2021 Spin it Again - Shabaka Hutchings wrote a jazz album for a black future that sounds like a revolution already happening.

Moby · 2023 Spin it Again - Moby proved his melodies never needed percussion in the first place; these remixes are the proof.

Thundercat · 2013 Spin it Again - Flying Lotus and Stephen Bruner made an album where the bass could have been a lead instrument and chose not to.

Adrianne Lenker · 2022

Cory Wong · 2023 Spin it Again - Cory Wong learned restraint from watching people who'd already said everything they needed to say, and spent three decades of other people's music before he figured out what silence was worth.

Various Artists · 2020

Irreverent · 2022 Spin it Again - Portland post-punk with the discipline of new wave and the harmonic ambition to back it up.

Ambrose Akinmusire · 2021 Spin it Again - Ron Miles died in 2021, and this album is where Akinmusire sat with him before saying goodbye—chamber jazz that sounds like someone learning to breathe again.

Nérija · 2023 Spin it Again - Four songs in twenty-nine minutes, built on the understanding that repetition and restraint are the same thing as depth.

Wolf Alice · 2021 Spin it Again - Wolf Alice finally stopped fighting their own restraint and made an album about how to say something without saying everything.

Fiona Apple · 2020

Cate Le Bon · 2023 Spin it Again - If you heard Murray Head's Voices this morning, spend the evening here—sparse, deliberately arranged, and just as unsettling in its restraint.

Drake · 2021 Spin it Again - Noah '40' Shebib mixed the loneliness of having everything until it sounded like a room you actually want to sit in.

Chris Brown · 2019 Spin it Again - Thirty-two tracks of late-night R&B from a man who still hasn't decided whether he wants to be a pop star or a soul singer, and somehow that indecision is the whole point.

Chris Brown · 2024 Spin it Again - You owned this for a year and never actually heard the bass.

Big Thief · 2022 Spin it Again - Sixty-eight minutes of dry, unromanticized folk-rock recorded at Studio G Brooklyn — two albums in one year, and this is the one that sticks.

Matilda Mann · 2022 Spin it Again - You've already got this one somewhere in the pile — tonight is the night you actually listen to it.

The Chicks · 2020 Spin it Again - They didn't come back to be forgiven — they came back with better material than the people who punished them ever made.

Beyoncé · 2022 Spin it Again - Seventy-plus collaborators, one vision, and a low end that will tell you exactly what your speakers are worth.