10 Musicians That Saved Their Careers By Changing Genres

Few rock bands can really find too much wrong with having a great debut album. Given that most first efforts can seem to be a bit rough around the edges, the fact that you are able to make it work on your first try is the stuff of miracles. Then again, it can also become an albatross around your neck sometimes.

Ever since their first record Is This It, The Strokes were almost constricted into being the same garage rock revival band that they were known to be. While Room on Fire was more of the same schtick, you could tell that these New York kids were trying to flex their muscles a little more, so much so that Julian Casablancas would flex his chops on a Daft Punk record to dust out the cobwebs. After careful consideration though, the Strokes found the best way to top Is This It: make the polar opposite of a Strokes record.

Across their latest record The New Abnormal, The Strokes' way of slowly picking away at their sound led to their greatest songs since the debut, from the '80s pastiche Bad Decisions to the mammoth jam Eternal Summer. For as much time as it may have taken, the Strokes can never really be faulted as being a one trick pony anymore.