Spanning 1984-1993, Reintarnation gathers 20 alt-country classics from k.d. lang's early years. Compiled by lang and her longtime collaborator Ben Mink, it features "Pay Dirt," "Big Boned Gal," and the previously unreleased "Changed My Mind." Reintarnation—named after a neologism defined by The Washington Post as “coming back to life as a hillbilly”— focuses on the first decade of her recording career, when she broke ground as a singular kind of country singer who channeled the genre’s canon while subverting a number of its conventions. The early lang catalogue was dubbed “cowpunk” and arguably paved the way for artists who in more recent years have appropriated country music, garnering a mix of support and the suspicion of Nashville’s Music Row, and reaching a much broader audience. This contest is sponsored by Special Ops Media.