Autechre · 1995 Spin it Again - Autechre stopped making sense and started making something better—fractured rhythms and machine logic that still sounds like nothing else from the mid-nineties.

Nurse With Wound · 1998 Spin it Again - Steven Stapleton spent a year in his home studio proving that silence, properly miked and arranged, can be more unsettling than any scream.

The Necks · 1999 Spin it Again - A 1999 record from The Necks that rewards close listening.

The Necks · 1997 Spin it Again - The Necks—three musicians, no composition, sixty minutes of real-time listening at the highest level.

Radiohead · 1997 (2017 Remaster) Spin it Again - Thom Yorke made this album convinced the world was ending, and the precision of his panic still sounds true.

Talking Heads · 1979 Spin it Again - Talking Heads and Brian Eno turned neurosis into rhythm on the album that proved new wave wasn't just about youth rebellion—it was about actually being aware.

Talking Heads · 1980 Spin it Again - A 1980 record from Talking Heads that rewards close listening.

Ornette Coleman · 1960 Spin it Again - Ornette Coleman walked into Rudy Van Gelder's studio in 1959 and proved jazz didn't need harmony to make sense.

Wire · 1977 Spin it Again - A band too precise and too weird for punk to contain, building minimalist structures out of silence and argument.

Television · 1977 Spin it Again - Two men trading guitar lines like they're speaking in code, no bass, no patience for hooks—Marquee Moon is the anti-punk masterpiece that proved the CBGB underground was after something stranger than anyone admitted.

Genesis · 1974 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel made a double album concept record about a surreal New York street gang in 1974, and somehow convinced a major label to release it.

The Who · 1973 Spin it Again - Townshend handed the band synthesizer demos so complete the other three sometimes felt like session players — and they still made it sound like a live wire.

A Place to Bury Strangers · 2007 Spin it Again - Oliver Ackermann wired his own circuits, recorded in his own shop, and made the most destructive shoegaze record of the 2000s before anyone was paying attention.

Mitski · 2022 Spin it Again - Four years of near-retirement produced an album about performing okayness until the performance becomes the only thing left.

Modern English · 1981 Spin it Again - Everything they did before the song that followed them everywhere — and it turns out it was the more interesting half.

Black Sabbath · 1970 Spin it Again - Four kids from Birmingham with two days of studio time invented an entire genre and didn't notice.

Swans · 1993 Spin it Again - Swans learned to be terrifying at low volume, and this is the document where that became undeniable.

Gastr del Sol · 1995 Spin it Again - The guitarist from Jesus Lizard and the engineer who would later make Wilco's 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' made this first — and it sounds like it.

Various Artists · 1993 Spin it Again - Two twenty-one-year-old directors demanded original music instead of a licensed playlist, and that decision is why this still sounds like something rather than a souvenir.

The Velvet Underground · 1967 Spin it Again - It sold nothing in 1967 and quietly rewired everything that came after it.