The Antlers · 2009 Spin it Again - Peter Silberman recorded it alone in his apartment, and somehow that suffocating smallness is exactly what makes the grief feel true.

Have a Nice Life · 2013 Spin it Again - Two guys in Connecticut recording post-punk funeral dirges in a basement and somehow landing on something that sounds like grief finally getting bored of itself.

Genesis · 1973 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel still half-asleep, Steve Hackett playing guitar like he's trying not to wake anyone, and somehow that restraint is the whole point.

Pink Floyd · 1973 Spin it Again - Eight years into their career, four guys in a London studio decided that anxiety, money, and dying slowly were the only subjects worth fifty minutes of your time, and they were right.

The Decemberists · 2005 Spin it Again - Colin Meloy spent five years learning every word in the English language and then made an album about pirates and murderers that somehow feels more like your hometown than anything you grew up with.

Harry Nilsson · 1971 Spin it Again - Harry Nilsson made this one right after the Beatles stopped needing him, and you can hear every bit of that in how quietly good it is.

Rickie Lee Jones · 1982 Spin it Again - She sounds like the last woman left in a bar at 2 a.m. who actually has somewhere to be, and the band behind her knows it.

Rickie Lee Jones · 1981 Spin it Again - She followed up a hit record by making something stranger and sadder and harder to sell, and it turned out that was the right move.

Dire Straits · 1985 Spin it Again - Mark Knopfler recorded this on a Schecter Strat through a Notchell amp and somehow made corporate radio sound like a rain-soaked motorway at 2am.

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.

Chet Baker · 1954 Spin it Again - A twenty-four-year-old kid from Oklahoma sang like he was already finished with everything, and somehow that was exactly right.

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.

Bill Evans Trio · 1962 Spin it Again - Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motian in a New York restaurant, February 1961, and LaFaro was dead ten days later, which is the only 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.

Carole King · 1971 Spin it Again - Carole King sat down at a piano in 1971 and quietly made every other singer-songwriter that decade feel like they were still figuring it out.

Joy Division · 1980 Spin it Again - Ian Curtis recorded it knowing, and you can hear that he knew.

Joy Division · 1979 Spin it Again - Ian Curtis singing like a man auditioning for his own funeral, over a rhythm section that understood dread better than any therapist, recorded in a factory town that had already given up.

Bill Evans Trio · 1961 Spin it Again - Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motley playing jazz like a conversation no one wanted to end, ten days before LaFaro died.