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May 16
Composition
Vicki Brown · 1992 Spin it Again - A 1992 soul record so precisely composed and beautifully produced that you wonder how it disappeared almost entirely from conversation.
decade:1990s
May 14
The Eagles
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.
genre:Country Rock
May 9
Trouble in Mind
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.
genre:Rock
May 9
On Every Street
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.
genre:Blues Rock
May 9
Golden Heart
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.
genre:Rock
May 8
Music for Films
Brian Eno · 1978/1983 Spin it Again - Brian Eno built a record out of tape loops and Conny Plank's farmhouse ceilings, and somehow it sounds like the inside of your head at 2am.
decade:1980s
May 7
Never Too Late
Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - Anita Baker made this after escaping a bad label deal, and you can hear the relief in every unhurried note.
genre:Jazz
May 7
Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Bailey Rae · 2006 Spin it Again - Four million people bought this record, and it never once raised its voice to earn any of them.
genre:R&B
May 6
Midnight Love
Lionel Richie · 1983 Spin it Again - Eighty million dollars in sales later, critics still can't figure out why this one hurts.
decade:1980s
May 6
Rapture
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.
genre:Soul
May 5
Harvest Moon
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 3
Dreamlands
Wooden Shjips · 2009 Spin it Again - Four people in a Richmond warehouse figuring out how little they needed to play before it became a religion.
genre:Acid Rock
May 1
In the Mood
Bonnie Raitt · 1977 Spin it Again - She learned slide guitar from Mississippi Fred McDowell in person, and by 1977 she was making records this quietly confident while Warner Bros. looked the other way.
genre:Rock
May 1
Luxury Cohassan
Vicki Brown · 1979 Spin it Again - One of the best voices in British pop spent twenty years making everyone else sound good, then made this, and the world looked the other way.
decade:1970s
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
Apr 26
Felt
Nils Frahm · 2011 Spin it Again - A Berlin apartment, two in the morning, felt threaded through the piano hammers so nobody would complain — and somehow that's the whole record.
genre:Minimalist
Apr 25
Careless
Matthew Tavares · 2006 Spin it Again - Solo piano, 2006, Toronto, made before BADBADNOTGOOD existed — this is what it sounds like when someone plays like nobody's watching because nobody was.
genre:Soul
Apr 25
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club · 1997 Spin it Again - They found Ibrahim Ferrer shining shoes and Rubén González without a piano, and six days later this existed.
genre:Tropicalia
Apr 24
Quiet Life
Vicki Brown · 1982 Spin it Again - One of Britain's most in-demand session singers gets a Biddu production and forty minutes to herself — and sounds like she's been saving this up for years.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 22
The Winter of 1992
Ginuwine · 1996 Spin it Again - A twenty-two-year-old from DC and an unknown Virginia Beach beatmaker made one of the most spatially strange R&B records of the decade, and somehow everyone only remembers the horse.
genre:New Jack Swing
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