John Coltrane · 1966 Spin it Again - Coltrane brought Pharoah Sanders in and stopped worrying about whether you could follow him.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · 1969 Spin it Again - Don Van Vliet recorded it in a house where the band wasn't allowed to sleep, and somehow that's exactly what it sounds like.

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.

Portishead · 1994 Spin it Again - Beth Gibbons singing like she's the only person left in a city that forgot to tell everyone else to leave.

Massive Attack · 1998 Spin it Again - Massive Attack in 1998, paranoid and slow, building dread out of guitar loops and darkness until you forget there was ever anything called trip-hop.

Clipping. · 2020 Spin it Again - Daveed Diggs and two producers from Los Angeles made a horror rap record in 2020 that understood noise the way a good cinematographer understands darkness — as a tool, not a mood.

Jesu · 2006 Spin it Again - Justin Broadrick took the weight of Godflesh and buried it under so much gauze and melody that you almost forget how heavy it still is.

Pharoah Sanders · 1974 Spin it Again - Pharoah Sanders in 1974, still chasing something cosmic but letting the silence do more of the work this time.

Depeche Mode · 1990 Spin it Again - Gore wrote Personal Jesus on a toy guitar he bought at a flea market, and somehow that's the least interesting thing about this record.

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.

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.

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

Autechre · 2001 Spin it Again - Sean Booth and Rob Brown in 2001, just after they'd decided grids were for other people.

Miles Davis · 1970 Spin it Again - Miles Davis walked into the studio in 1970 with electric guitars and a couple of drummers and just refused to explain himself.

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.

Julia Holter · 2008 Spin it Again - Julia Holter at nineteen, before anyone was paying attention, which is usually when the interesting thing happens.