Gillian Welch · 2001 Spin it Again - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in a room with two guitars, taking their time, and somehow that's enough.

Arctic Monkeys · 2018 Spin it Again - Alex Turner got bored of being a rock star and built a lounge act on the moon instead, and honestly it holds up better than anything he could have done playing it straight.

Valee · 2018 Spin it Again - Valee talks like he's already spent the money and doesn't care if you believe him, and somehow that's enough.

Prefab Sprout · 1985 Spin it Again - Paddy McAloon sat down in 1985 and wrote melodies so precisely sad they made Thomas Dolby's production feel like the only logical place to put them.

Keith Jarrett · 1975 Spin it Again - Keith Jarrett sat down at a bad piano in Cologne with no plan and played for an hour, and it turns out that was enough.

Henryk Górecki · 1992 Spin it Again - Górecki wrote this in 1992 and if you've ever sat alone at 3am with nothing left to argue about, you already know what it sounds like.

Arvo Pärt · 1984 Spin it Again - Arvo Pärt figured out that silence was doing most of the work and just wrote around it.

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.

Grace Jones · 1981 Spin it Again - Grace Jones, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and a cold synth bass in a room together — that's the whole story.

Eric Dolphy · 1964 Spin it Again - Eric Dolphy had about eight months left to live when he recorded this, and somehow the flute already knew it.

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane · 1962 Spin it Again - Duke Ellington playing like a man with nothing left to prove, Coltrane playing like a man with everything still to say, and somehow they both ended up in the same room on the same night.

Charles Mingus · 1963 Spin it Again - Six musicians playing like they're mourning something they can't name, recorded in one day because Mingus knew it wouldn't get better than that.

Oneohtrix Point Never · 2011 Spin it Again - Daniel Lopatin ran infomercials and mall ambience through a shredder in 2011 and came out the other side with something that actually felt like memory.

The Microphones · 2001 Spin it Again - Phil Elverum recorded it in his bedroom in Olympia and somehow made lo-fi feel like the only honest response to being alive and overwhelmed by it.

Weather Report · 1975 Spin it Again - Zawinul spent 1975 making jazz feel like it had somewhere to be, and for once it did.

Grouper · 2008 Spin it Again - Liz Harris recorded this in her bedroom and somehow made fog sound like grief.

Einstürzende Neubauten · 1993 Spin it Again - Blixa Bargeld and a jackhammer trying to outrun reunified Germany, and they almost do.

Harmonia · 1974 Spin it Again - Roedelius, Moebius, and Rother locked into something so unhurried and machine-calm that forty years later producers are still trying to get back there.

Kraftwerk · 1974 Spin it Again - Four Germans in 1974 deciding that machines were more honest than guitars, and they weren't wrong.

Neu! · 1975 Spin it Again - Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger spent half the record trying to kill each other and the other half sounding like they invented the next twenty years of music, which they did.