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Jun 13
Shields
Grizzly Bear · 2012 Spin it Again - This is the record you put on when the house is quiet and you want to hear the air between the instruments.
genre:Baroque Pop
Jun 11
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco · 2002 Spin it Again - Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett built a cathedral of tape hiss and broken radio — and the label panicked.
genre:Indie Rock
May 31
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel · 1998 Spin it Again - A 1998 record from Neutral Milk Hotel that rewards close listening.
genre:Lo-Fi
May 31
Oblivion
The Vessels · 2013 Spin it Again - Two people in a room with a tape machine, deciding that less everything sounds more like the truth.
genre:Alternative
May 30
On Fire
Galaxie 500 · 1989 Spin it Again - A 1989 record from Galaxie 500 that rewards close listening.
decade:1980s
May 16
Jamboree
Guadalcanal Diary · 1988 Spin it Again - A record that gets quieter the more closely you listen, and that's exactly the point.
genre:Alternative Rock
May 15
Blue Weekend
Wolf Alice · 2021 Spin it Again - Wolf Alice finally stopped fighting their own restraint and made an album about how to say something without saying everything.
genre:Alternative Rock
May 15
Mutable Hand
Cate Le Bon · 2023 Spin it Again - If you heard Murray Head's Voices this morning, spend the evening here—sparse, deliberately arranged, and just as unsettling in its restraint.
genre:Experimental
May 9
Morphine
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 2012 Spin it Again - The My Bloody Valentine drummer and the woman from Mazzy Star made an album this quiet and this heavy, and most people still haven't found it.
genre:Alternative
May 9
Bee Thousand
Guided by Voices · 1994 Spin it Again - Twenty-eight songs in under forty minutes, recorded on leftover tape in a Dayton basement by a third-grade teacher who had to be at school Monday morning.
genre:Power Pop
May 9
Mouthfeel
The Lemonheads · 1992 Spin it Again - Evan Dando covering Gram Parsons and Suzanne Vega in the same year he became famous — and somehow neither one feels like an accident.
genre:Indie Rock
May 9
The Best of The Lemonheads (The Atlantic Years)
The Lemonheads · 2003 Spin it Again - The kind of record you already own but haven't actually sat down with since the Clinton administration.
genre:Indie Rock
May 7
Sometimes, Forever
Big Thief · 2022 Spin it Again - Sixty-eight minutes of dry, unromanticized folk-rock recorded at Studio G Brooklyn — two albums in one year, and this is the one that sticks.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 2
Laurel Hell
Mitski · 2022 Spin it Again - Four years of near-retirement produced an album about performing okayness until the performance becomes the only thing left.
genre:Synth-Pop
Apr 30
Basia's Palace
Basia Bulat · 2022 Spin it Again - You filed this one away after two casual plays, and that's exactly what it was waiting for you to stop doing.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 29
Dust to Dust
Low · 2002 Spin it Again - Mimi Parker plays drums like she's trying not to wake someone, and it sounds louder than anything.
genre:Indie Rock
Apr 29
Maudlin町
Cowboy Junkies · 2004 Spin it Again - Recorded in their own Hamilton studio with no outside clock running, this is what the Junkies sound like when nobody is asking them to be anything.
genre:Indie Rock
Apr 29
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 1999 Spin it Again - Hope Sandoval and My Bloody Valentine's drummer made a record in two countries that sounds like neither of them — and somehow that's exactly right.
genre:Indie Rock
Apr 28
Skin
Rilo Kiley · 2004 Spin it Again - The EP Rilo Kiley released the same year as their best album, which is exactly why nobody talks about it enough.
genre:Alternative
Apr 28
Visions of a Life
Wolf Alice · 2017 Spin it Again - There are bands that grow into their second album and bands that detonate it — Wolf Alice did the second thing.
genre:Indie Rock
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