Father John Misty · 2012 Spin it Again - Josh Tillman walked away from Fleet Foxes to make an album that reads like a letter from a friend you're not sure you should still be talking to.

Bon Iver · 2011 Spin it Again - He built a studio in a vet clinic and turned winter into a sound.

Fleet Foxes · 2011 Spin it Again - Robin Pecknold spent years rewriting these songs because he couldn't settle on what he meant to say — and that struggle is the whole point.

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.

Sufjan Stevens · 2005 Spin it Again - An album of orchestrated folk so ambitious it makes most indie rock from the era sound like a sketch by comparison.

Bon Iver · 2007 Spin it Again - He had mono, a broken relationship, and a TASCAM 8-track — and nothing about those circumstances explains why this sounds so good.

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.