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Apr 10
Caligula
Lingua Ignota · 2019 Spin it Again - Kristin Havik built a cathedral out of abuse and classical training, then burned it down at full volume, and you will feel it in your sternum whether you want to or not.
genre:Noise
Apr 10
Pawn Hearts
Van der Graaf Generator · 1971 Spin it Again - Peter Hammill in 1971, so convinced civilization was ending that he made a twenty-three-minute suite about it, and the unsettling part is he wasn't wrong.
decade:1970s
Apr 10
In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson · 1969 Spin it Again - Five guys in 1969 decided jazz, classical, and rock had been playing it too safe, and the rest of us have been catching up ever since.
genre:Art Rock
Apr 5
Third
Portishead · 2008 Spin it Again - Eleven years away and they came back sounding like a band that had decided warmth was no longer an option.
genre:Electronic
Apr 5
Closer
Joy Division · 1980 Spin it Again - Ian Curtis recorded it knowing, and you can hear that he knew.
genre:Dark Wave
Apr 5
Unknown Pleasures
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.
genre:Dark Wave
Apr 5
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman · 1959 Spin it Again - Coleman walked in with a plastic saxophone and quietly ended an argument that had been going on since bebop started.
genre:Avant-Garde
Apr 4
Schoenberg: String Quartets
LaSalle Quartet · 1975 Spin it Again - Four string quartets spanning Schoenberg's entire arc, played by four Germans in 1974 who had no interest in making it easier on you.
decade:1970s
Apr 3
OK Computer
Radiohead · 1997 Spin it Again - Thom Yorke wrote about feeling like a ghost in a machine before most people had even touched the internet, and it turned out he was right.
genre:Experimental Rock
Apr 3
Mezzanine
Massive Attack · 1998 Spin it Again - Massive Attack in 1998, paranoid and slow, building dread out of guitar loops and darkness until you forget there was ever anything called trip-hop.
genre:Electronic
Mar 30
Confield
Autechre · 2001 Spin it Again - Sean Booth and Rob Brown in 2001, just after they'd decided grids were for other people.
genre:Experimental Electronic
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