Following a 1994 entry on Fahey in "Spin" magazine's spin-off "Alternative Record Guide", Fahey learned that he now had a whole new audience, which included the alternative bands Sonic Youth and Cul de Sac and the avant-garde musician Jim O'Rourke. A lengthy article in "Spin" magazine by Byron Coley, "The Persecutions and Resurrections of Blind Joe Death", combined with a two-disc retrospective, "The Return of the Repressed", to revive Fahey's career. New releases started to appear rapidly, alongside reissues, by Fantasy Records, of all the early Takoma releases. O'Rourke went on to produce a Fahey album, "Womblife", in 1997. That same year, Fahey recorded an album with Cul de Sac, "The Epiphany of Glenn Jones", named for the band's lead guitarist. Gone were the melodic dreaminess and folk-based meditations of the 1960s and 70s, which Fahey had later described as "cosmic sentimentalism". With characteristic wit, he once said of his style, "How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."