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

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Hancock took the electric funk he was building on Head Hunters and tightened every screw until there was almost no room left to breathe, which is exactly the point.

Sun Ra · 1973 Spin it Again - Sun Ra decided the cosmos needed a bandleader and nobody in 1973 had a convincing argument against it.

Fleetwood Mac · 1979 Spin it Again - Lindsey Buckingham blew a $1 million recording budget making something that sounded like it was recorded in a parking garage, and he was right to do it.

Fleetwood Mac · 1977 Spin it Again - Four people actively falling apart held it together just long enough to cut something that still sounds like it knows something you don't.

Black Lips · 2017 Spin it Again - Black Lips dragged whatever was left of Appalachian dirt-rock into 2017 and somehow it still smelled like 1967.

Valee · 2018 Spin it Again - Valee talks like he's already spent the money and doesn't care if you believe him, and somehow that's enough.

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.

Weather Report · 1975 Spin it Again - Zawinul spent 1975 making jazz feel like it had somewhere to be, and for once it did.

Kraftwerk · 1974 Spin it Again - Four Germans in 1974 deciding that machines were more honest than guitars, and they weren't wrong.

Neu! · 1975 Spin it Again - Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger spent half the record trying to kill each other and the other half sounding like they invented the next twenty years of music, which they did.

Aretha Franklin · 1967 Spin it Again - Aretha walked into Muscle Shoals in January, got into a fight with her husband on the second day, and still cut the title track before anyone could stop her.

Autechre · 1997 Spin it Again - Autechre in a BBC studio in 1997, running out the kind of corroded, patient machine-music that makes you realize the grid they were working from had already been folded into something you couldn't quite see.

Herbie Hancock · 1973 Spin it Again - Herbie Hancock walked out of Miles Davis's band and into a funk club, and nobody who was there that night ever fully recovered.

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.

Angélique Kidjo · 2021 Spin it Again - Kidjo handed a young Tuareg guitarist the keys and then sang over whatever he built like she'd been waiting her whole life for exactly that kind of trouble.

Imidiwan · 2016 Spin it Again - Tuareg guitar that sounds like it came from somewhere the satellites don't reach, played by people who clearly had no interest in making it easier for you.