The Blue Nile · 1989 Spin it Again - Nigel Godrich and the band spent months removing notes instead of adding them—and somehow made the most patient pop album of the 80s.

Vicki Brown · 1994

Vicki Brown · 1992 Spin it Again - A 1992 soul record so precisely composed and beautifully produced that you wonder how it disappeared almost entirely from conversation.

Fiona Apple · 2020

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.

Tom Waits · 1975 Spin it Again - A 24-year-old singer and his voice on a single night in a Los Angeles diner, with a bass player and a drummer who'd each seen the 20th century coming.

Genesis · 1974 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel made a double album concept record about a surreal New York street gang in 1974, and somehow convinced a major label to release it.

Murray Head ·

Supertramp · 1979

Marvin Gaye · 1971

Joni Mitchell · 1975 Spin it Again - Henry Lewy and Joni Mitchell built a LA session band that sounds like the future arriving inside a sprinkler's hiss.

The Kinks · 1968 Spin it Again - It sold nothing in 1968 and Ray Davies made it anyway, for reasons that took the rest of the world twenty years to catch up to.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience · 1968 Spin it Again - He was twenty-five, burning through studios in New York and London, and somehow this is still the widest-sounding record anyone has ever made.

Rufus Wainwright · 2007 Spin it Again - Rufus Wainwright released a grand, forty-piece album in 2007 and then, almost in the same breath, this — twenty-three minutes of French chanson recorded in Montreal with his mother at the piano.

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.

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.

My Bloody Valentine · 1991 Spin it Again - Half a million pounds, nineteen studios, and a guitar technique nobody has successfully stolen since.

SZA · 2017 Spin it Again - She knew the men weren't worth it while she was writing about them, and somehow that made the whole thing worse.

Brian Eno · 1978/1983 Spin it Again - Brian Eno built a record out of tape loops and Conny Plank's farmhouse ceilings, and somehow it sounds like the inside of your head at 2am.

Lodger · 1992 Spin it Again - A 1992 British pop record so far ahead of its moment that it took thirty years to find the audience it deserved.