Kayah · 1990 Spin it Again - Poland's debut electronic pop record, and it sounds like no one told them it was supposed to be rough around the edges.

Thundercat · 2013 Spin it Again - Flying Lotus and Stephen Bruner made an album where the bass could have been a lead instrument and chose not to.

Boz Scaggs · 1976 Spin it Again - This album proved that soul-pop didn't need to scream, and that the session musicians of Los Angeles understood taste better than anyone else in 1976.

Nérija · 2023 Spin it Again - Four songs in twenty-nine minutes, built on the understanding that repetition and restraint are the same thing as depth.

Straight No Chaser · 2013 Spin it Again - They made a Christmas album without treating it like a side gig or a joke.

Pentatonix · 2013 Spin it Again - Fresh off winning The Sing Off, Pentatonix made a Christmas album that respects the songs instead of drowning them in arrangement.

Pentatonix · 2014 Spin it Again - Ben Folds produces five singers into something you forgot a cappella could be: urgent, specific, alive.

Diana Krall · 2006 Spin it Again - Cole Porter and Gershwin sound like they were written for someone with her particular refusal to overdrive the melody.

Diana Krall · 2001

En Vogue · 1992 Spin it Again - En Vogue understood that New Jack Swing needed space, and they filled it with four voices that made the genre feel like it had just been invented.

Mariah Carey · 1991 Spin it Again - She made the debut at twenty-two and everyone thought that was the story. Emotions is what happens when she stops performing her own voice and starts directing it.

Boyz II Men · 1992 Spin it Again - Four voices, three hit producers, and the exact moment a boy band proved they could actually sing.

Haircut 100 · 1981 Spin it Again - A band with one chance to make the record right, working with an engineer who understood that layering four instruments doesn't muddy a song if you know where to place each one.

Wolf Alice · 2021 Spin it Again - Wolf Alice finally stopped fighting their own restraint and made an album about how to say something without saying everything.

Juice Newton · 1981 Spin it Again - Rod Argent produced this like he understood that Juice Newton's restraint was the whole point.

Eagles · 1972 Spin it Again - Four kids from the Midwest learned to harmonize in Los Angeles and made the first genuinely inevitable pop-country record of the seventies.

New Kids on the Block · 1989

LeVert · 1988 Spin it Again - Gerald Levert's voice wrapped in silk arrangements and synth-age luxury—stop treating this as background music and hear what the sequencing and production actually meant.

Pukka Orchestra · Mid-1970s Spin it Again - Session players in Toronto making pop music with no intention of being remembered, which is precisely why you should.

Otis Redding · 1967 Spin it Again - He died twelve weeks after this came out, which means every track on it was recorded by a man who had no idea he was making a legacy.