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May 4
Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems
Emmylou Harris & Patty Griffin · 2007 Spin it Again - The record you filed under 'nice' a decade ago has been waiting to tell you something you're finally ready to hear.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 2
Ohio River Boat Song
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.
genre:Experimental
May 2
West of Rome
Vic Chesnutt · 2002 Spin it Again - Michael Stipe signed this man, produced him with almost nothing, and the result outlasted most of what surrounded it.
genre:Alternative Rock
May 2
Sometimes, It Snows in April
Japanese Breakfast · 2023 Spin it Again - She wrote a bestselling book about losing her mother, and now here she is playing those songs in a room full of people who read it.
genre:Alternative
May 2
Laurel Hell
Mitski · 2022 Spin it Again - Four years of near-retirement produced an album about performing okayness until the performance becomes the only thing left.
genre:Synth-Pop
May 1
Pieces of the Sky
Emmylou Harris · 1975 Spin it Again - Emmylou Harris walked into a Los Angeles studio still carrying Gram Parsons, and somehow that made the whole thing sound more honest than anything Nashville was putting out.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 1
Dreaming My Dreams
Vicki Brown · 1978 Spin it Again - Joe Brown's wife went to Munich and made a soul record that splits the difference between Dusty Springfield and Amy Winehouse, then died at 48 before anyone noticed.
decade:1970s
May 1
Bella Donna
Stevie Nicks · 1981 Spin it Again - Jimmy Iovine knew what radio needed, Stevie Nicks knew what she'd been carrying for years, and somehow neither one had to compromise.
genre:Pop
May 1
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin · 1971 Spin it Again - They didn't put their name on the cover, and it still sold fifty million copies — which tells you everything about whether the music needed the marketing.
genre:Folk Rock
Apr 30
Sometimes, the Blues Is Just a Passing Bird
Andy Shauf · 2020 Spin it Again - He played every instrument, engineered it himself, and still made it sound like a room you've been sitting in for years.
genre:Indie Folk
Apr 30
Basia's Palace
Basia Bulat · 2022 Spin it Again - You filed this one away after two casual plays, and that's exactly what it was waiting for you to stop doing.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 29
Carla Bruni
Carla Bruni · 2002 Spin it Again - Three million copies sold in France, and somehow it never crossed the channel — a spare, guitar-and-piano chanson debut that makes almost everything from 2002 sound overcrowded.
decade:2000s
Apr 29
Delius: Cello Concerto
Jacqueline du Pré, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · 1967 Spin it Again - She had nine years left to perform when she made this, and somehow the cello already knew.
decade:1960s
Apr 29
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor
Jacqueline du Pré, Berlin Philharmonic · 1968 Spin it Again - Du Pré was twenty-three years old and playing like someone who had already heard the end of the story.
decade:1960s
Apr 29
Elgar: Violin Concerto
Itzhak Perlman, London Philharmonic Orchestra · 1982 Spin it Again - Elgar dedicated this concerto to an unnamed soul and then put five dots where the name should go — Perlman is the only violinist who seems to actually live inside that silence.
decade:1980s
Apr 29
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Jacqueline du Pré · 1965 Spin it Again - She was twenty years old, Barbirolli had known Elgar personally, and somehow the tape caught something neither of them could have planned.
decade:1960s
Apr 29
Dust to Dust
Low · 2002 Spin it Again - Mimi Parker plays drums like she's trying not to wake someone, and it sounds louder than anything.
genre:Indie Rock
Apr 29
Maudlin町
Cowboy Junkies · 2004 Spin it Again - Recorded in their own Hamilton studio with no outside clock running, this is what the Junkies sound like when nobody is asking them to be anything.
genre:Indie Rock
Apr 29
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 1999 Spin it Again - Hope Sandoval and My Bloody Valentine's drummer made a record in two countries that sounds like neither of them — and somehow that's exactly right.
genre:Indie Rock
Apr 29
Bavarian Fruit Bread
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 2001 Spin it Again - Colm Ó Cíosóig left My Bloody Valentine long enough to help Hope Sandoval make a record this quiet and this heavy.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
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