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Re: Recent artists who have changed styles (genres)
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2013, 07:49:10 PM »

Jenny Scheinman and Brian Blade have both made critically acclaimed singer-songwriter albums after first coming to prominence as jazz players.  Jenny is all over the place stylistically, which is fun: every album she does with Bill Frisell seems to be different from anything she has done before, Mischief and Mayhem (her "side project" with Nels Cline) is avant-rock, and she has toured with a lot of folk and country artists, from Rodney Crowell to Bruce Cockburn to Robbie Fulks (hoping to catch his show at the Mint in LA on Saturday).

Speaking of Nels Cline, has anyone ever been in two more different bands at the same time than Jenny Scheinman's Mischief & and Mayhem and Wilco?

Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor, and Bela Fleck have all migrated with ease back and forth among bluegrass, jazz, and classical.  Julian Lage is known primarily as a jazz guitarist, but he also has ridiculous bluegrass chops (see example here )

And then there's Chris Thile getting all the love from all the classical-music critics for his Bach recording.
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Re: Recent artists who have changed styles (genres)
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2013, 08:11:22 PM »

Mozart changed his style dramatically for his last work: Requiem in D Minor K626. It's really weird because it's so different from all of this earlier works and such a masterpiece considering the musical form constraints of that time period. Evidently it was never appreciated until after way after his death. Depending upon the version (it was unfinished), you can tell which parts were Mozart and which parts were filled in by "WTF".

Mozart also had a significant change in style when he moved from Salzburg to Vienna.

Pretty much the beginning of the Romantic Period along w/ the arrival of the piano and a young Beethoven.  I'm sure age, experience and illness had a lot to due w/ that too.
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Re: Recent artists who have changed styles (genres)
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2013, 09:23:35 AM »

Metallica went through a few evolutions, from the dirty, unfocused and raw Leather Charm thrash of KEA to progressive thrash on their next few to commercially tailored arena rock/thrash on the "black" album to what became known as "Alternica" on Load.

Anathema and Paradise Lost also underwent massive changes in their sound, as did Darkthrone.
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Re: Recent artists who have changed styles (genres)
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2013, 10:27:32 AM »

Talk Talk changed styles starting from spirit of eden
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Re: Recent artists who have changed styles (genres)
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2013, 01:57:48 PM »

I disagree about Radiohead.
It can be noticed right from OK Computer that they were into electronic and alternatibe sounds, KID A and Amnesiac were their most adventurous albums in my opinion but they didn't really change to something else only refined.
Radiohead are good indeed but they're not the groundbreakers people often make them to be.
Their last work has more in common with those two albums than Hail To The Thief and In Rainbows.
Certainly, some of the ideas started to crop up in OK Computer and it was a gradual descent from there.  But Kid A was still the tipping point.  A lot of fans jumped ship after that one and a whole new crowd came in (I'm looking at you OJneg!).

But, whatever...it doesn't really matter HOW they got there.  Just put in Pablo Honey.  Then put in King of Limbs.  Yeah...they've changed. 
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Re: Recent artists who have changed styles (genres)
« Reply #15 on: December 20, 2013, 06:54:07 PM »

Heart 70's v. Heart 80s.
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Re: Recent artists who have changed styles (genres)
« Reply #16 on: December 20, 2013, 07:28:29 PM »

I disagree about Radiohead.
It can be noticed right from OK Computer that they were into electronic and alternatibe sounds, KID A and Amnesiac were their most adventurous albums in my opinion but they didn't really change to something else only refined.
Radiohead are good indeed but they're not the groundbreakers people often make them to be.
Their last work has more in common with those two albums than Hail To The Thief and In Rainbows.

I don't think it's correct characterize Miles Davis musical endeavour as a stylistic "change" either but rather as an evolution, he was breaking new ground but he was evolving not flatout "changing" style nor language.

I don't think any true musician actually flattout changes his/her style, it's something that evolves with more experience and influences. I say "true musician" because there is the chance that a lot of crappy mainstream "musicians" who are seeking fame at all cost will do just about anything to gain it, including preciselly changing style.
I think we can find examples of that in the more popular music circles, I wouldn't be surprised if this was actually a frequent phenomenon.

One artist I consider to have protagonised one of the most fascinating musical evolutions from the 1960's to this day is Scott Walker.


Musicians do evolve, however once they can no longer reproduce with their former selves they are considered a new species. So yeah, evolution is the process of change, it often happens with a rather drastic mutation which could not be predicted from a prior plateau.

I disagree about Radiohead. Listen to their late 80s demos, their early 90s guitar and melody driven music, their grandiose progrock turn with OK Computer, followed by the flirtation with minimalism in Kid A. They changed quite a lot throughout their first decade, though they've stabilized after Hail to the Thief. They're also the first major band to release a pay-what-you-want album online. If Radiohead wasn't groundbreaking then I'm not sure what that word must mean.

A couple more radically evolving groups: Suicidal Tendencies, Pat Boone.
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Re: Recent artists who have changed styles (genres)
« Reply #17 on: December 20, 2013, 08:12:20 PM »

I'm glad for the love being shown for radiohead as I love their music myself.
But I still stand by what I said earlier about radiohead not breaking new ground.
It can be said that their musical aesthetics, since OK Computer, evolved into something trully accomplished and unique (which was what attracted me to them) but aesthetical judgement is subjective and either linguistically or technically speaking there was nothing really new about what they did.
A lot of the experimentation they did in Kid A or Amnesiac bears resemblances to what can be heard from Krautrock bands back in the 70's and the british band has assumed Krautrock to have been a major influence in their sound. That was in my opinion the last period where significant innovation could be acknowledge in the Rock genre, from the 80's to this day not much happened.
And truth be told Radiohead was not the only progressive rock band doing the sort of stuff they did, I could name a few more. I can agree they were one of the best though.

The proccess from the late 80's to the late 90's you described for Radiohead is something that a lot of musical artists and bands go through when they are just starting and still trying to find their sound.
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Re: Recent artists who have changed styles (genres)
« Reply #18 on: December 20, 2013, 09:19:52 PM »

We'll have to disagree about "new ground". It is arguable that the formative albums of a band finding its voice by very definition vary in style from their later work. Also when speaking of Radiohead I'm including the side projects of its members. Johnny Greenwood's work on soundtracks is superb and Thom Yorke has been a guest vocalist for bands of varying genres, not to mention his solo work or the recent Atoms for Peace project.

On to other artists. Bjork. Holy crap has she changed over the years. Not that I have to go over her career, I'm sure most here are quite familiar with her work. But why not. She started at 12 with a few innocent pop songs with a somewhat unrefined but enthusiastic voice.



Then her work with the Sugarcubes, a band that was all about fun, influenced a bit by punk and overtly theatrical:



Followed by a jazzy turn with Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar. Check out their version of a classic:



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Re: Recent artists who have changed styles (genres)
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