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Jun 20
El Mal Querer
Rosalía · 2018 Spin it Again - She took a 13th-century novel, set it to flamenco, and made trap music sound like it belonged in a cathedral.
genre:Art Pop
Jun 19
Melodrama
Lorde · 2017 Spin it Again - Lorde turned twenty and wrote the soundtrack to every lonely night in a crowded room, then watched it fill stadiums.
genre:Electropop
Jun 19
Currents
Tame Impala · 2015 Spin it Again - The album that proved psychedelic pop could hit the charts without losing its mind.
genre:Synth-Pop
Jun 18
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill · 1998 Spin it Again - She walked into Tuff Gong pregnant and made the only album that matters from that Fugees break.
genre:Hip Hop
Jun 18
Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell · 1996 Spin it Again - Maxwell recorded most of this in London with Sade's guitarist, and you can hear the candlelight in every track.
genre:R&B
Jun 18
Baduizm
Erykah Badu · 1997 Spin it Again - She walked into 90s R&B with a live band and a headwrap and proved the groove was enough.
genre:R&B
Jun 18
Brown Sugar
D'Angelo · 1995 Spin it Again - Recorded to two-inch tape with Roy Hargrove on flugelhorn, this is the album that proved R&B could breathe on a hi-fi system.
genre:R&B
Jun 18
Back to Black
Amy Winehouse · 2006 Spin it Again - Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi built a time machine out of vintage tape and a horn section, and Amy Winehouse walked in with a broken heart and a voice that didn't need correcting.
genre:R&B
Jun 18
Dusty in Memphis
Dusty Springfield · 1969 Spin it Again - A British pop voice walks into a Memphis studio and doesn't come out the same. The result is 34 minutes of the most convincing soul ever cut by a white woman born in Enfield.
genre:Pop
Jun 17
Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
Caroline Polachek · 2023 Spin it Again - Danny L Harle said they approached this album like a sculpture—carving away everything that didn't serve the song. The result is a pop record that sounds like a cathedral made of breath and circuitry.
genre:Electronic
Jun 17
Violin Concertos (Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev)
Jascha Heifetz · 1960 Spin it Again - Heifetz played the Tchaikovsky like he was arguing with God and winning.
decade:1950s
Jun 17
Heaven or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins · 1990 Spin it Again - Elizabeth Fraser’s voice is the instrument, not the lyrics, and this album is its highest cathedral.
decade:1990s
Jun 16
Hats
The Blue Nile · 1989 Spin it Again - Three Scots in a Glasgow studio spent three years polishing eight songs until they gleamed like dark glass — synth-pop reduced to its emotional essence, every note earned, every pause weighted.
genre:Sophisti-Pop
Jun 16
Grace
Jeff Buckley · 1994 Spin it Again - He had his father's genes and none of his luck. Grace is what he made of the time he had.
decade:1990s
Jun 16
You Must Believe in Spring
Bill Evans Trio · 1981 Spin it Again - A 1981 record from Bill Evans Trio that rewards close listening.
genre:Jazz
Jun 15
Caught Up
Millie Jackson · 1974 Spin it Again - Millie Jackson told an interviewer later that she wrote the dialogues because the songs alone couldn't carry what she needed to say. She was right.
genre:R&B
Jun 13
Forever Changes
Love · 1967 Spin it Again - Arthur Lee sang about dying young while arranging strings that sounded like heaven — and he was right on both counts.
genre:Baroque Pop
Jun 13
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
Laura Nyro · 1968 Spin it Again - She wrote songs that other people had to sing because they couldn't believe she sang them herself.
genre:Baroque Pop
Jun 13
Chris
Chris Connor · 1954 Spin it Again - She burned through the Stan Kenton band and landed here, alone with a piano trio and nothing to prove.
decade:1950s
Jun 13
Julie Is Her Name
Julie London · 1955 Spin it Again - She was a movie star who sang like she knew exactly how late it was, and Barney Kessel's guitar never once got in the way.
decade:1950s