Frank Ocean · 2016 Spin it Again - Frank Ocean waited four years, fired his label in a single move, and handed in something that still hasn't been fully explained.

Solange · 2016 Spin it Again - Eight years of patience went into one song, and then she built a whole album to hold it.

Sampha · 2017 Spin it Again - Sampha spent years writing for Drake and Kanye, then went home to London and made the record none of them could have made.

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 · 2014 Spin it Again - An eighteen-year-old made this in her Southport bedroom and XL Recordings signed it before she'd played a single show.

Bon Iver · 2007 Spin it Again - He had mono, a broken relationship, and a TASCAM 8-track — and nothing about those circumstances explains why this sounds so good.

Lianne La Havas · 2012 Spin it Again - She plays her own guitar, sings behind the beat, and leaves more air in the room than anyone asked for — and somehow that's the whole trick.

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.

Alela Diane · 2010 Spin it Again - She moved to France, made a record about leaving, and somehow it sounds like staying.

Tears for Fears · 1983 Spin it Again - They were twenty years old, they had read the primal therapy guy, and somehow that produced one of the coldest-sounding warm records the eighties ever made.

Greg Keelor · 1997 Spin it Again - The kind of record that sat in your collection for years being background music until the night you finally stopped moving.

Patty Griffin · 1994 Spin it Again - She was tending bar in Boston when she made this, and A&M sat on it for two years because they didn't know what to do with a voice that honest.

Emmylou Harris · 1995 Spin it Again - Daniel Lanois put Emmylou Harris in a Victorian house in New Orleans and made the most ambient country record anyone had heard — and somehow her voice was still the loudest thing in the room.

Diamanda Galás · 1994 Spin it Again - She trained as a concert pianist and then decided the voice was the more dangerous instrument.

Half Japanese · 1980 Spin it Again - The lo-fi kids of the nineties all owe a debt here, and none of them paid it back in full.

Shlump · 2013 Spin it Again - Before the festival circuit caught up, a kid with a DAW and too many late nights quietly mapped out what psychedelic bass music was going to become.

Wooden Shjips · 2009 Spin it Again - Four people in a Richmond warehouse figuring out how little they needed to play before it became a religion.

Moon Duo · 2014 Spin it Again - You already own this record, which is exactly why you stopped hearing it.

Wovenhand · 2001 Spin it Again - The guy who made post-punk sound like a revival tent stripped it all back to one guitar and meant every word.