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.

Cocteau Twins · 1984 Spin it Again - Robin Guthrie turned reverb into an instrument, Elizabeth Fraser into a voice beyond language, and the '80s into something that didn't have to choose between coldness and feeling.

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.

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.

Antony and the Johnsons · 2005 Spin it Again - A voice so specific it shouldn't work on paper, over orchestrations so perfectly restrained they make the grief land harder.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Låpsley · 2016 Spin it Again - You played this twice in 2016 and then life moved on — tonight is the first time you'll actually hear it.

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.

Matilda Mann · 2022 Spin it Again - You've already got this one somewhere in the pile — tonight is the night you actually listen to it.

Alela Diane · 2007 Spin it Again - She made this in Nevada City on a tape machine her dad gave her, and it sounds exactly like that.