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.

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.

Amy Winehouse · 2003 Spin it Again - Before the tabloids, before the beehive became a costume, there was this — a teenager from Southgate cutting a hip-hop jazz record that most forty-year-olds couldn't have pulled off.

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.

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

Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - Nathan East on bass, Ricky Lawson on drums, and a singer who never once oversells it — this is what sophisticated looked like before that word got ruined.

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.

Nirvana · 1994 Spin it Again - They stripped the cymbals off Grohl's kit and asked Cobain to play folk songs in a candlelit room, and somehow that became the most honest document of the nineties.

U2 · 1987 Spin it Again - Bono was writing about America from Ireland, and that distance is what made it hurt.

Neil Young · 1992 Spin it Again - Neil Young found Kenny Buttrey working outside of music, drove out to get him, and made the most unhurried album of 1992.

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.

The Chicks · 2020 Spin it Again - They didn't come back to be forgiven — they came back with better material than the people who punished them ever made.