Talk Talk · 1988 Spin it Again - Mark Hollis walked into the studio, told everyone to play as little as possible, and somehow ended up with something that sounds like light coming through dirty glass at four in the morning.

Nick Drake · 1972 Spin it Again - Twenty-two minutes, one guitar, one voice, and Drake was dead two years later — some nights that's all the context you need.

Joni Mitchell · 1972 Spin it Again - She sat down at a piano in Christmas-time Los Angeles and made loneliness sound like the most precise thing in the room.

Rickie Lee Jones · 1979 Spin it Again - She showed up in 1979 with a beat-up beret and a voice that sounded like it had already been through something, and nobody from that year sounds quite like her.

Nick Drake · 1970 Spin it Again - Nick Drake in 1970, strings arranged by Robert Kirby, jazz musicians who barely knew him, and somehow that distance is exactly what makes it hurt.

Keith Jarrett · 1983 Spin it Again - Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette found the exact tempo at which late-night piano trio jazz stops trying to prove anything.

Bill Evans Trio · 1959 Spin it Again - Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motley treating silence like a fourth instrument, and nobody's been the same about piano trios since.

Miles Davis · 1959 Spin it Again - Miles Davis got five musicians in a room with almost no rehearsal and they all played like they were thinking out loud, which is harder than it sounds.

Karlheinz Stockhausen · 1971 Spin it Again - Stockhausen in 1971, still convinced that sound itself was the argument, and honestly, after an hour of this, you start to think he was right.

Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Four sides of tape loops and held piano notes that made waiting somewhere feel like the only reasonable thing a person could do.

Kraftwerk · 1974 Spin it Again - Kraftwerk in 1974, still half-human, building the machines that would eventually replace them.

Franz Schubert · 1827 Spin it Again - Schubert wrote these eight piano pieces the year before he died and somehow made restraint feel like the whole point.

Franz Schubert · 1828 Spin it Again - Schubert wrote this in the last weeks of his life and somehow made the slowest movement on the piano feel like it has nowhere to be and all the time in the world.

Cowboy Junkies · 1988 Spin it Again - One microphone, one room, one take, and somehow the Trinity Session sounds like the only honest thing recorded that decade.

Mazzy Star · 1993 Spin it Again - Hope Sandoval sounds like she learned to sing in a room she was trying to disappear into, and David Roback let the reverb prove her right.

Björk · 1997 Spin it Again - Björk took the Icelandic string octet and the 808 and refused to let either one win.

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.

Sun Ra · 1963 Spin it Again - Sun Ra in 1963, before most people had a framework for what he was doing, pointing a microphone at the part of the room where the sound goes to die.

Feist · 2007 Spin it Again - Leslie Feist made a record about wanting things you can't quite name, and she did it without once raising her voice.

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.