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.

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.

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.

Prefab Sprout · 1984 Spin it Again - The album that serious songwriters quietly cite when they think no one is listening.

Karla Bonoff · 1978 Spin it Again - Linda Ronstadt was having the hits; Bonoff was writing them and making her own records anyway.

Richard Thompson · 1991 Spin it Again - One acoustic guitar, one story about a motorcyclist and a redhead, and somehow five minutes later you've heard one of the best songs of the century.

Andrew Gold · 1976 Spin it Again - A Burbank studio record from 1976 that most people own for one song and have never actually heard.

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.

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.

Vicki Brown · 1978 Spin it Again - She spent twenty years being the best thing on other people's records, then made one of her own, and nobody noticed.

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.

Culture Club · 1983 Spin it Again - Boy George was twenty-two and already knew that the quieter he sang, the harder it landed.

Various Artists · 2021 Spin it Again - A pop reimagining that had no business working, anchored by one original song that quietly outclasses everything it borrowed.

Blues Pills · 2014 Spin it Again - Elin Larsson was twenty-two and somehow already the most convincing blues-rock vocalist to come out of Scandinavia since forever.

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.

Mariah Carey · 1997 Spin it Again - She was leaving her controlling husband-label-boss and made the only Mariah Carey album that sounds genuinely private.

Bob Dylan · 1976 Spin it Again - The album Blood on the Tracks gets all the credit, but this is the one with a room full of people who'd follow him anywhere.

Mumford & Sons · 2009 Spin it Again - The backlash came so fast you might have missed that the record itself is actually good.

Ben Howard · 2014 Spin it Again - Ben Howard walked away from the sound that made him famous and built something stranger — most people heard the first ten minutes and called it a day.

Vashti Bunyan · 1971 Spin it Again - Joe Boyd produced it at the same studio where Nick Drake made his records, it sold nothing, and she disappeared for thirty years — which is the only explanation for why you don't already own this.