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.

Susanne Sundfør · 2015 Spin it Again - The record Sundfør made before everyone found her — colder, stranger, and more honest about what she was reaching for.

The Human League · 1982 Spin it Again - A remix album that has no right being this good — Rushent went back into the Dare tapes and found rooms no one knew were there.

Depeche Mode · 1981 Spin it Again - The principal songwriter left before the second album, and somehow that's when Depeche Mode actually started.

Eurogliders · 1984 Spin it Again - Grace Knight sang jazz standards later in life, and once you hear this record properly you understand exactly why that was always inevitable.

Kate Bush · 1985 Spin it Again - Side two is a drowning woman surviving the night, and she produced every second of it herself in 1985.

Duran Duran · 1981 Spin it Again - Colin Thurston had just come off Bowie's Berlin trilogy and then produced this — which tells you it was never just a pretty-boy record.

Scritti Politti · 1985 Spin it Again - Green Gartside spent years in a Welsh breakdown, then came back and made the most philosophically loaded pop record of 1985 — with Marcus Miller on bass.

The Human League · 1981 Spin it Again - Martin Rushent almost left 'Don't You Want Me' off the album entirely.

Bronski Beat · 1996 Spin it Again - The one Bronski Beat album nobody talks about is quietly doing more interesting things than the one everybody talks about.

Kraftwerk · 1977 Spin it Again - Four Germans in suits built the skeleton that every DJ, hip-hop producer, and synth band has been draping flesh on ever since, and most of them still haven't caught up.

Depeche Mode · 1990 Spin it Again - Gore wrote Personal Jesus on a toy guitar he bought at a flea market, and somehow that's the least interesting thing about this record.