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genre:Folk Rock
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Jun 14
The Garden of Jane Delawney
Forest · 1970 Spin it Again - Forest's only album sounds less like a recording and more like something that grew out of the ground overnight.
genre:Psychedelic Folk
Jun 10
Europe '72
Grateful Dead · 1972 Spin it Again - The first live double LP from a band that never thought about making records the same way again.
genre:Psychedelic Rock
May 27
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Byrds · 1968 Spin it Again - A band falling apart made their best record anyway, and nobody noticed until it was too late to ask why.
genre:Folk Rock
May 24
Untangle the Rainbow
Steeleye Span · 1969 Spin it Again - Before anyone else figured it out, Steeleye Span proved that English folk songs and electric guitars could occupy the same space without one destroying the other.
decade:1960s
May 24
Liege & Lief
Fairport Convention · 1969 Spin it Again - A 1969 record from Fairport Convention that rewards close listening.
genre:Traditional Folk
May 1
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin · 1971 Spin it Again - They didn't put their name on the cover, and it still sold fifty million copies — which tells you everything about whether the music needed the marketing.
genre:Folk Rock
Apr 28
Rumour and Sigh
Richard Thompson · 1991 Spin it Again - One acoustic guitar, one story about a motorcyclist and a redhead, and somehow five minutes later you've heard one of the best songs of the century.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 26
Chasing Shadows
Spirit of the West · 1992 Spin it Again - A Vancouver folk-rock band in peak form, making the kind of record that Gold certification in Canada quietly undersells.
genre:Alternative Rock
Apr 26
Weights & Measures
Spirit Of The West · 1994 Spin it Again - You know the party song. This is the album they made when the party was over.
decade:1990s
Apr 21
I Forget Where We Were
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.
genre:Indie Folk
Apr 20
American Beauty
Grateful Dead · 1970 Spin it Again - Six months after Workingman's Dead, they went back to the same room and got it even more right.
genre:Folk Rock
Apr 20
Chelsea Girl
Nico · 1967 Spin it Again - Nico was handed other people's songs, an arranger she resented, and somehow made the most quietly devastating record of 1967.
genre:Experimental