Emmylou Harris · 2003 Spin it Again - Harris strips it down to wood and wire and reminds you that quiet is its own kind of pressure.

Gillian Welch · 2001 Spin it Again - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in a room with two guitars, taking their time, and somehow that's enough.

Depeche Mode · 1990 Spin it Again - Gore wrote Personal Jesus on a toy guitar he bought at a flea market, and somehow that's the least interesting thing about this record.

Beck · 2002 Spin it Again - Beck made an entire album about heartbreak and somehow the pedal steel guitar did more talking than he did.

Prefab Sprout · 1985 Spin it Again - Paddy McAloon sat down in 1985 and wrote melodies so precisely sad they made Thomas Dolby's production feel like the only logical place to put them.

Henryk Górecki · 1992 Spin it Again - Górecki wrote this in 1992 and if you've ever sat alone at 3am with nothing left to argue about, you already know what it sounds like.

Arvo Pärt · 1978 Spin it Again - Pärt stripped piano and violin down to the kind of silence that makes you realize most music is just noise filling a room.

Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - There is no album called "Mute" by Anita Baker from 1986 — her 1986 record was "Rapture," and getting that wrong would embarrass us both.

Sade · 1985 Spin it Again - Sade Adu singing like she has nowhere to be and all the time in the world to get there, over jazz that never once tries to impress you.

The Microphones · 2001 Spin it Again - Phil Elverum recorded it in his bedroom in Olympia and somehow made lo-fi feel like the only honest response to being alive and overwhelmed by it.

Grouper · 2008 Spin it Again - Liz Harris recorded this in her bedroom and somehow made fog sound like grief.

Roberta Flack · 1969 Spin it Again - Roberta Flack walked into a studio in 1969 and played piano like she had thirty more years of heartbreak to account for, and it turns out she was right.

Bill Evans · 1959 Spin it Again - Bill Evans in 1959, playing piano like he was working something out privately and just forgot to close the door.

Miles Davis · 1969 Spin it Again - Miles Davis turned the volume down so low in 1969 that you had to lean in, and once you did, you couldn't hear anything else the same way again.

Judee Sill · 1973 Spin it Again - She wrote the orchestral arrangements herself while on parole, and you can hear every bit of that in the strings.

Tinariwen · 2019 Spin it Again - Saharan blues recorded in the Mauritanian desert with a handful of American and Spanish guests, and somehow the sand gets into the speakers.

The Cure · 1989 Spin it Again - Robert Smith turned thirty and decided the only honest response was eighty minutes of cathedral reverb and velvet dread.

Talk Talk · 1991 Spin it Again - Mark Hollis walked away from everything that made Talk Talk famous and came back with something that sounds like a room breathing.

Boards of Canada · 2002 Spin it Again - Boards of Canada found the frequency where childhood memory starts to curdle and stayed there for seventy-one minutes.

Broadcast · 2005 Spin it Again - Trish Keenan and James Cargill stripped the band down to just the two of them and came out the other side with something that sounds like a transmission from a frequency nobody else bothered to find.