Father John Misty · 2017 Spin it Again - Seventy-four minutes, a seventy-four-piece orchestra, and one guy who really needed you to sit still for a while.

Mogwai · 1999 Spin it Again - Dave Fridmann took five Scottish post-rock kids to a converted farmhouse in upstate New York and made them be quiet for an hour.

John Cale · 1974 Spin it Again - The Velvet Underground's other founder made the record that explains why fear and art rock were always the same conversation.

Marianne Faithfull · 1979 Spin it Again - The voice that fell apart in the sixties came back a decade later as something far more dangerous.

Kate Bush · 1982 Spin it Again - She locked herself in a London studio for eighteen months, fired the management, and came out with something that still has no genre.

Peter Gabriel · 1989 Spin it Again - Three years, a half-built studio, Youssou N'Dour, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and a brief to make music that sounds two thousand years old.

William Basinski · 2002–2003 Spin it Again - Magnetic tape eating itself alive on September 11th, 2001, and Basinski just let the recorder run.

The Antlers · 2009 Spin it Again - Peter Silberman recorded it alone in his apartment, and somehow that suffocating smallness is exactly what makes the grief feel true.

Have a Nice Life · 2013 Spin it Again - Two guys in Connecticut recording post-punk funeral dirges in a basement and somehow landing on something that sounds like grief finally getting bored of itself.

Lingua Ignota · 2019 Spin it Again - Kristin Havik built a cathedral out of abuse and classical training, then burned it down at full volume, and you will feel it in your sternum whether you want to or not.

Van der Graaf Generator · 1971 Spin it Again - Peter Hammill in 1971, so convinced civilization was ending that he made a twenty-three-minute suite about it, and the unsettling part is he wasn't wrong.

King Crimson · 1969 Spin it Again - Five guys in 1969 decided jazz, classical, and rock had been playing it too safe, and the rest of us have been catching up ever since.

Pink Floyd · 1973 Spin it Again - Eight years into their career, four guys in a London studio decided that anxiety, money, and dying slowly were the only subjects worth fifty minutes of your time, and they were right.

Michael Jackson · 1982 Spin it Again - Quincy Jones spent two years making sure every single second of this record felt inevitable, and unfortunately for everyone who came after, he succeeded.

Patti Smith · 1975 Spin it Again - She walked into a studio in 1975, opened with a line about Jesus dying for somebody's sins but not hers, and everything that came after it had to answer for itself.

Sly and the Family Stone · 1971 Spin it Again - Sly Stone locked himself in a home studio, turned the funk to mud, and made something so exhausted and paranoid it still sounds like 3am on a bad year.

Portishead · 2008 Spin it Again - Eleven years away and they came back sounding like a band that had decided warmth was no longer an option.

The Fall · 1980 Spin it Again - Mark E. Smith on a wet Tuesday in Salford, half-drunk and fully right about everything, cutting the dullest parts out of rock and leaving only the parts that make you uneasy.

Joy Division · 1980 Spin it Again - Ian Curtis recorded it knowing, and you can hear that he knew.

Joy Division · 1979 Spin it Again - Ian Curtis singing like a man auditioning for his own funeral, over a rhythm section that understood dread better than any therapist, recorded in a factory town that had already given up.