Caroline Polachek · 2019 Spin it Again - She spent a year in the studio with Danny L Harle, left every crack and artifact in, and somehow made the most vulnerable record of the decade.

Weyes Blood · 2019 Spin it Again - John Congleton and Jonathan Rado spent months chasing the ghost of analog tape on this one, and it paid off in every single breath.

Roxy Music · 1982 Spin it Again - Bryan Ferry took the band to the Caribbean to make a record that sounds like a lifetime of nights in one hour.

Scott Walker · 1969 Spin it Again - The last orchestral pop record from a man who would spend the rest of his life moving away from beauty.

Cate Le Bon · 2012 Spin it Again - A Welsh guitarist discovers that architecture and silence say things melody never could—recorded alone in Wales and built from the refusal to fill space.

Kate Bush · 1980 Spin it Again - Kate Bush was nineteen when she made this, and she had already heard every classical composer and every pop song worth hearing.

Antony and the Johnsons · 2005 Spin it Again - A voice so specific it shouldn't work on paper, over orchestrations so perfectly restrained they make the grief land harder.

Rufus Wainwright · 2007 Spin it Again - Rufus Wainwright released a grand, forty-piece album in 2007 and then, almost in the same breath, this — twenty-three minutes of French chanson recorded in Montreal with his mother at the piano.

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.

Julia Holter · 2015 Spin it Again - Julia Holter put strings and horns in a room in Los Angeles and made something that sounds like longing with a floor plan.

Kate Bush · 1985 Spin it Again - Side two is a drowning woman surviving the night, and she produced every second of it herself in 1985.

Kate Bush · 1982 Spin it Again - She locked herself in a London studio for eighteen months, fired the management, and came out with something that still has no genre.

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.

Talk Talk · 1988 Spin it Again - Mark Hollis walked into the studio, told everyone to play as little as possible, and somehow ended up with something that sounds like light coming through dirty glass at four in the morning.

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