Grimes · 2015 Spin it Again - Claire Boucher spending 2014 in a bedroom convinced pop music needed to fracture itself into smaller, weirder pieces.

Grimes · 2012 Spin it Again - She made this alone in her apartment and somehow managed to contain an entire orchestra in four tracks.

Cocteau Twins · 1984 Spin it Again - Robin Guthrie turned reverb into an instrument, Elizabeth Fraser into a voice beyond language, and the '80s into something that didn't have to choose between coldness and feeling.

Modern English · 1981 Spin it Again - Everything they did before the song that followed them everywhere — and it turns out it was the more interesting half.

Stornoway · 2011 Spin it Again - The guy finishing his bird-counting doctorate wrote every song, and somehow that explains everything about why this record sounds the way it does.