Animal Collective · 2009 Spin it Again - The only album that sounds like a church service on a psychedelic carnival ride, and it's also an audiophile benchmark.

Laurens Dommett · 2008 Spin it Again - A man alone with his guitar and a voice that sounds like it's breaking mid-sentence, building minor-key songs that refuse to grow beyond their own loneliness.

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.

Keren Ann · 2002 Spin it Again - She sang in two languages with equal authority and Paris barely exported her — the rest of the world mostly missed this entirely.

Tom Odell · 2013 Spin it Again - He was twenty-two, playing piano in a Bermondsey studio, and somehow the grief in his voice sounds earned.

Lorde · 2013 Spin it Again - Joel Little cleared the room of everything that didn't need to be there, and what was left was a teenager who knew exactly what she wanted to say.

Låpsley · 2016 Spin it Again - You played this twice in 2016 and then life moved on — tonight is the first time you'll actually hear it.

Matilda Mann · 2022 Spin it Again - You've already got this one somewhere in the pile — tonight is the night you actually listen to it.

The Magic Numbers · 2003 Spin it Again - A self-circulated CDR from 2003 that sounds more finished than most albums with actual budgets.

Japanese Breakfast · 2023 Spin it Again - She wrote a bestselling book about losing her mother, and now here she is playing those songs in a room full of people who read it.

Miya Folick · 2023 Spin it Again - You've played this one before, but not like this — Justin Raisen buried the real architecture where casual listening doesn't reach.

Japanese Breakfast · 2021 Spin it Again - Three albums in, Michelle Zauner stopped writing about grief and started writing about wanting things — turns out that's harder, and she's better at it.

Alvvays · 2017 Spin it Again - Molly Rankin wrote 'Archie, Marry Me' almost as a joke, and it's still the most perfectly constructed three minutes of Canadian indie pop this decade.

Various Artists · 2012 Spin it Again - A Christmas compilation that was actually sequenced by someone who owns records.

Feist · 2007 Spin it Again - Leslie Feist made a record about wanting things you can't quite name, and she did it without once raising her voice.