Burial · 2011 Spin it Again - A 2011 record from Burial that rewards close listening.

Virgil Thomson · 1934 Spin it Again - Virgil Thomson set Gertrude Stein's word-mush to American hymns and called it an opera. It works because they refused to explain it.

Florine Stettheimer · 2005 Spin it Again - This is what happens when a painter writes an opera — the wit is visible even in the staff paper.

Moby · 2013 Spin it Again - Moby surrendered the spotlight and made something smaller, which made it infinitely larger.

Moby · 2023 Spin it Again - Moby proved his melodies never needed percussion in the first place; these remixes are the proof.

Aphex Twin · 1992 Spin it Again - A teenager with a sampler, a four-track, and no idea he was inventing a genre.

Inoyama Land · 1983 Spin it Again - This album sounds like a memory of a garden that never quite existed.

Hiroshi Yoshimura · 1982 Spin it Again - Japanese environmental music that makes Eno sound like he was trying too hard.

Satoshi Ashikawa · 1982 Spin it Again - A piano in a room with the windows open, recorded as the air itself moved through the space — this is what ambient music sounds like when it treats silence as an instrument.

Hiroshi Yoshimura · 1986 Spin it Again - He designed sound for Japanese corporations and then made this album in his living room with no budget — and it sounds like a forest waking up.

Jan Garbarek · 1995 Spin it Again - A record that sounds like dawn breaking over a frozen fjord, where every note has room to breathe.

Jan Garbarek · 2006 Spin it Again - Garbarek proves that restraint can be the loudest statement.

Jan Garbarek · 1998 Spin it Again - A double album that proves restraint is the most powerful instrument in the room.

Jan Garbarek · 2009 Spin it Again - He took his saxophone to the edges of the earth, brought back the wind, and asked a string quartet to hold still long enough to hear it.

Ryuichi Sakamoto · 2017 Spin it Again - He looked into the void and came back with field recordings and a Bach chorale played backwards.

Toru Takemitsu · 1977 Spin it Again - Takemitsu dreamed a garden with five sides and wrote the quietest masterpiece of the 1970s.

Jon Balke · 2008 Spin it Again - This is what happens when a jazz pianist listens to Eastern European folk music in a studio designed by the ECM house engineer.

Grouper & Jarboe · 2011 Spin it Again - Two women who understand that silence is a musical instrument.

Alvin Lucier · 1970 Spin it Again - Alvin Lucier sat in his living room, pressed record, and let his own voice dissolve into the architecture — it is the most beautiful proof ever captured that every room has a song.

Jarboe · 1996 Spin it Again - She built an album out of silence, cello, and a voice that doesn't sing like anyone else's—the sound of someone thinking through beauty when nobody's watching.