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

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.

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.

Murray Head ·

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.

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.

Eric Clapton · 1997 Spin it Again - Clapton stripped of the band, the arena, and the expectation — it turns out that's when he's most himself.

Dire Straits · 1991 Spin it Again - Six years after Brothers in Arms sold nine million copies, Knopfler came back with something quieter, more interior, and then walked away for good.

Mark Knopfler · 1996 Spin it Again - Sixteen songs, no stadium in sight, and a guitar tone that makes you realize how much of Dire Straits was just overhead.

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.

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.

The Lemonheads · 1992 Spin it Again - Evan Dando covering Gram Parsons and Suzanne Vega in the same year he became famous — and somehow neither one feels like an accident.

The Lemonheads · 2003 Spin it Again - The kind of record you already own but haven't actually sat down with since the Clinton administration.

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.

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.