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Apr 1
Con Todo El Mundo
Khruangbin · 2018 Spin it Again - Three Texans who listened to too many Thai funk records made something that sounds like a late-night drive through a country you've never been to but somehow already miss.
genre:Funk
Apr 1
Skylarking
XTC · 1986 Spin it Again - Todd Rundgren produced it, Andy Partridge hated him for it, and the record came out better for the argument.
genre:Pop Rock
Mar 31
The Köln Concert
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.
genre:Piano
Mar 31
Spiegel im Spiegel
Arvo Pärt · 1978 Spin it Again - Pärt stripped piano and violin down to the kind of silence that makes you realize most music is just noise filling a room.
genre:Minimalism
Mar 31
Tabula Rasa
Arvo Pärt · 1984 Spin it Again - Arvo Pärt figured out that silence was doing most of the work and just wrote around it.
genre:Minimalism
Mar 31
Replica
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.
genre:Experimental
Mar 31
The Glow Pt. 2
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.
genre:Indie Rock
Mar 31
Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Grouper · 2008 Spin it Again - Liz Harris recorded this in her bedroom and somehow made fog sound like grief.
genre:Experimental
Mar 30
Harmonia
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.
genre:Electronic
Mar 30
Music for Airports
Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Four tape loops running at different lengths, and somewhere in the spaces between them, Eno quietly ended the idea that music had to demand your attention.
decade:1970s
Mar 30
Endless Summer
Fennesz · 2001 Spin it Again - Fennesz ran Beach Boys records through a laptop until the guitars turned to static and the static turned back into something that almost felt like a summer you can't quite remember.
genre:Electronic
Mar 30
In a Silent Way
Miles Davis · 1969 Spin it Again - Miles Davis turned the volume down so low in 1969 that you had to lean in, and once you did, you couldn't hear anything else the same way again.
genre:Modal Jazz
Mar 30
In Return
Oneohtrix Point Never · 2010 Spin it Again - Lopatin was still deep in the tape loop era here, and you can hear him figuring out that nostalgia is most effective when it sounds like it's dissolving.
decade:2010s
Mar 30
Laughing Stock
Talk Talk · 1991 Spin it Again - Mark Hollis walked away from everything that made Talk Talk famous and came back with something that sounds like a room breathing.
genre:Jazz
Mar 30
Journey in Satchidananda
Alice Coltrane · 1971 Spin it Again - Alice Coltrane buried her husband two years before this and came back with a harp, a tambura, and a swami, and somehow that's the least strange thing about it.
genre:Avant-Garde
Mar 30
Aja
Steely Dan · 1977 Spin it Again - Fagen and Becker hired the best session players in Los Angeles and then made them feel slightly inadequate.
genre:Jazz-Pop
Mar 30
Ghostemane
Julia Holter · 2008 Spin it Again - Julia Holter at nineteen, before anyone was paying attention, which is usually when the interesting thing happens.
genre:Art Pop
Mar 30
Geogaddi
Boards of Canada · 2002 Spin it Again - Boards of Canada found the frequency where childhood memory starts to curdle and stayed there for seventy-one minutes.
genre:IDM
Mar 30
Tender Buttons
Broadcast · 2005 Spin it Again - Trish Keenan and James Cargill stripped the band down to just the two of them and came out the other side with something that sounds like a transmission from a frequency nobody else bothered to find.
genre:Dream Pop
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