Andy Shauf · 2020 Spin it Again - He played every instrument, engineered it himself, and still made it sound like a room you've been sitting in for years.

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.

Mumford & Sons · 2009 Spin it Again - The backlash came so fast you might have missed that the record itself is actually good.

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.

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

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.

The Decemberists · 2005 Spin it Again - Colin Meloy spent five years learning every word in the English language and then made an album about pirates and murderers that somehow feels more like your hometown than anything you grew up with.