10 Bands Who Weren’t Afraid To Change Their Sound

British indie-rock band Radiohead announced themselves to the world with their hit single Creep, released in 1992 and taken from their debut album Pablo Honey, which followed a year later. The songwriting of singer Thom Yorke and guitarist Johnny Greenwood was exceptional, but their early sound was relatively straightforward. This style followed suit on their follow-up, The Bends (1995) with songs such as Just and My Iron Lung, which cemented them as one of the UK's biggest bands of the era.

Then, in 1997, came album number three, Ok Computer, the more experimental magnum opus of their career which started to deviate from their traditional rock sound. However, the album still provided the band with hit singles such as Paranoid Android and Karma Police, with Radiohead receiving great acclaim at the originality of the sound, which pretty much gave them carte blanche to do whatever the hell they wanted after.

Their next two records - Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001) - were recorded in the same sessions, and confirmed their shift in style as they experimented with electronica, jazz and classical influences, while alienating some fans of their earlier work. However, Radiohead were well and truly on their own path by this point, and the eclectic experimentation is a style they have explored and developed further with each subsequent release.