The garage has a history out here--rock 'n' roll bands, inventions, experimentation, new ideas that start small.
"We've done a lot of experimentation," says Tsujii, whose band were once invited to jam onstage with Faust, "but nothing like this before".
There's a long tradition in Chicago jazz of pragmatic experimentation, bands that don't exactly play in the common language but still aren't breathing fire or going all out.
As with many bands known for experimentation, changes have inevitably resulted in dissent among critics and fans.
Gazing forward, it's perfectly possible that the band – restless in their experimentation (demonstrated by shows such as their staging of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner at the South Bank Centre in London, where also they have been artists-in-residence) – will delve into styles new to them, but not necessarily to the UK: calypso, for example.
Paramore received acclaim from music critics, who praised the band's maturity and experimentation in terms of musicianship, as well as Williams' vocals and overall presence on the album.
However, the music on Ecstasy has been criticised as being "directionless and floundered about within the framework of songs which appeared to be only half formed ideas," which was due to the band's in-studio experimentation with different aspects of their guitar sound.
Released in January 1968, The Notorious Byrd Brothers album saw the band taking their psychedelic experimentation to its furthest extremes by mixing folk rock, country music, jazz, and psychedelia (often within a single song), while utilizing innovative studio production techniques such as phasing and flanging.
Where indie-rock has long been a haven for experimentation, now bands are hunkering down to make people dance or offer simple, singalong choruses, suitable for the pop radio of yesteryear.
As they moved away from their psychedelic roots and placed increasing emphasis on electronic experimentation, German bands like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Can and Faust developed a distinctive brand of electronic rock, known as kosmische musik, or in the British press as "Kraut rock".
