XTC · 1992 Spin it Again - Gus Dudgeon, Prairie Prince, harpsichord, martyrdom myths, and the quiet sound of a band making their best record while ceasing to exist.

Wolf Alice · 2017 Spin it Again - There are bands that grow into their second album and bands that detonate it — Wolf Alice did the second thing.

Spirit of the West · 1992 Spin it Again - A Vancouver folk-rock band in peak form, making the kind of record that Gold certification in Canada quietly undersells.

IDLES · 2018 Spin it Again - Joe Talbot named a song after his stillborn daughter and then put it in the middle of a punk record, and somehow that's the right move.

Radiohead · 2000 Spin it Again - Thom Yorke couldn't pick up a guitar after *OK Computer*, so they made this instead.

The Tragically Hip · 1998 Spin it Again - The Hip went deeper into their own country while everyone else was turning down the tuning pegs, and it paid off in a way that is still hard to explain to anyone who wasn't there.

The Tragically Hip · 2004 Spin it Again - Built in their own converted bathhouse outside Kingston, by men who had stopped waiting for America to figure it out.

The Tragically Hip · 2006 Spin it Again - The Hip made this one when they had nothing left to prove and everything left to lose, and it sounds like both.

Various Artists · 2012 Spin it Again - A Christmas compilation that was actually sequenced by someone who owns records.

The Decemberists · 2005 Spin it Again - Colin Meloy spent five years learning every word in the English language and then made an album about pirates and murderers that somehow feels more like your hometown than anything you grew up with.

Concrete Blonde · 1989 Spin it Again - Johnette Napolitano sounds like she's been awake for three days and has decided to stop pretending that's a problem.

Mazzy Star · 1993 Spin it Again - Hope Sandoval sounds like she learned to sing in a room she was trying to disappear into, and David Roback let the reverb prove her right.

Radiohead · 1997 Spin it Again - Thom Yorke wrote about feeling like a ghost in a machine before most people had even touched the internet, and it turned out he was right.

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

David Bowie · 1997 Spin it Again - Bowie doing Tibetan chant-influenced art rock in '97 while everyone was waiting for him to be irrelevant, and he almost proved them right, almost.

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.