Vashti Bunyan · 1970 Spin it Again - A woman walked from London to the Isle of Skye with a horse and cart, and this album fell out of her head along the way.

Nina Simone · 1965 Spin it Again - After a decade of classical training at Juilliard, Nina Simone finally let the devil into her piano.

Nina Simone · 1965 Spin it Again - A singer who understood that a spell is not a performance but a transformation, and she damn well meant every word.

Mahmoud Ahmed · 1975 Spin it Again - Mahmoud Ahmed proved in 1975 that the greatest jazz was being made three thousand miles east of where anyone was looking.

Scott Walker · 1967 Spin it Again - Abbey Road orchestrations and a voice that sounds like a man who's lived too long, deployed with enough restraint to break your heart.

Scott Walker · 1969 Spin it Again - The last orchestral pop record from a man who would spend the rest of his life moving away from beauty.

Various Artists · 1968 Spin it Again - The moment Brazilian music decided it didn't have to choose between bossa nova and chaos.

Kraftwerk · 1974 Spin it Again - Twenty-two minutes of driving forward at exactly one speed, Conny Plank's studio rendering German engineering into an almost human hypnosis.

Jobim & Desafinado · 1985 Spin it Again - By 1985 Jobim had given enough immortal melodies to fill three lifetimes, so he spent this session proving how much a song needs to be taken away before it becomes perfect.

Elis Regina & Tom Jobim · 1974 Spin it Again - A 1974 record from Elis Regina & Tom Jobim that rewards close listening.

João Gilberto · 1971 Spin it Again - A 1971 record from João Gilberto that rewards close listening.

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.

Kraftwerk · 1974 Spin it Again - Kraftwerk in 1974, still half-human, building the machines that would eventually replace them.

Kraftwerk · 1974 Spin it Again - Four Germans in 1974 deciding that machines were more honest than guitars, and they weren't wrong.