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genre:Alternative Rock
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May 28
OK Computer (2017 Remaster)
Radiohead · 1997 (2017 Remaster) Spin it Again - Thom Yorke made this album convinced the world was ending, and the precision of his panic still sounds true.
genre:Experimental Rock
May 21
Psychocandy
The Jesus and Mary Chain · 1985 Spin it Again - Nineteen minutes of feedback thick enough to bury the hooks, and somehow it made them matter more.
genre:Noise Pop
May 21
Glasgow Eyes
The Jesus and Mary Chain · 1989 Spin it Again - The album where The Jesus and Mary Chain learned that feedback could serve a song instead of replace it.
genre:Noise Pop
May 18
An Angel Fled
Irreverent · 2022 Spin it Again - Portland post-punk with the discipline of new wave and the harmonic ambition to back it up.
decade:2020s
May 16
Jamboree
Guadalcanal Diary · 1988 Spin it Again - A record that gets quieter the more closely you listen, and that's exactly the point.
genre:Alternative Rock
May 15
Blue Weekend
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.
genre:Alternative Rock
May 15
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple · 2020
genre:Experimental Pop
May 9
Mouthfeel
The Lemonheads · 1992 Spin it Again - Evan Dando covering Gram Parsons and Suzanne Vega in the same year he became famous — and somehow neither one feels like an accident.
genre:Indie Rock
May 9
The Best of The Lemonheads (The Atlantic Years)
The Lemonheads · 2003 Spin it Again - The kind of record you already own but haven't actually sat down with since the Clinton administration.
genre:Indie Rock
May 8
Nightmusic
Lodger · 1992 Spin it Again - A 1992 British pop record so far ahead of its moment that it took thirty years to find the audience it deserved.
decade:1990s
May 5
Unplugged in New York
Nirvana · 1994 Spin it Again - They stripped the cymbals off Grohl's kit and asked Cobain to play folk songs in a candlelit room, and somehow that became the most honest document of the nineties.
genre:Alternative Rock
May 5
The Joshua Tree
U2 · 1987 Spin it Again - Bono was writing about America from Ireland, and that distance is what made it hurt.
genre:Synth-Rock
May 2
Wig Out at Denko's
Vic Chesnutt · 1996 Spin it Again - Vic Chesnutt made fifteen albums and this is the one that gets more interior the longer you leave it alone.
decade:1990s
May 2
West of Rome
Vic Chesnutt · 2002 Spin it Again - Michael Stipe signed this man, produced him with almost nothing, and the result outlasted most of what surrounded it.
genre:Alternative Rock
May 2
Pearl Jam Twenty Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Pearl Jam · 2011 Spin it Again - Two and a half hours of archival Pearl Jam that rewards the second listen far more than the first.
decade:2010s
Apr 29
From the Choirgirl Hotel
Tori Amos · 1998 Spin it Again - The album she made after losing a pregnancy — with Matt Chamberlain on drums and Tchad Blake behind the glass — sounds like nothing else she recorded before or since.
genre:Art Pop
Apr 29
Bavarian Fruit Bread
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 2001 Spin it Again - Colm Ó Cíosóig left My Bloody Valentine long enough to help Hope Sandoval make a record this quiet and this heavy.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 29
Temple of the Dog
Temple of the Dog · 1991 Spin it Again - A grief record made in a few weeks by people who didn't know they were about to become famous, and it shows — in the best possible way.
genre:Alternative Rock
Apr 29
Sweet Oblivion
Screaming Trees · 1992 Spin it Again - The record that proved the Screaming Trees were never really a grunge band — they just had the bad luck to live there.
genre:Alternative Rock
Apr 29
Singles - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists · 1992 Spin it Again - Everyone owns this for the Pearl Jam track and forgets there are nine other songs worth their time.
genre:Alternative Rock
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