At the height of their Madchester-fuelled pomp, Shaun Ryder's Happy Mondays were the UK's most inventive band.
At the end of the 1960s an inventive band in Germany fortuitously gets an instrument that is a little like a Mellotron, but sounds different and better – it has better engineering and voice loops, for a start.
RTÉ reviewer Katie Moten described the album as "an accomplished collection from a clever and inventive band, whose talent deserves heapings of praise".
I am still in recovery almost fifteen years after living, breathing, bleeding shouting, pointing, creating, debating, composing, and clubbing with my most inventive band leader.
Deep Banana Blackout remains one of the tightest, most inventive funk bands on the local scene.
Skaggs left Stanley's group in 1973 and went on to play with a succession of inventive bluegrass bands, including the Country Gentlemen, J.D. Crowe and the New South, and his own Boone Creek.
"Mess On a Mission" certainly qualifies as a great Liars moment, a brittle 8-bit electro stomp that sees Angus Andrew barking things like, "We've caught you at the séance!" All well and good, but I can't help but feel that if Liars had stayed right on course after Drum's Not Dead we might have ended up with a genuinely inventive rock band instead of this sporadically entertaining sideshow.
Consistently one of the most inventive and fascinating bands in the extreme metal world, Enslaved's evolution from blackened whiteout merchants to progressive explorers has been a joy to behold.
This flexible, inventive period instrument band, directed by the harpsichordist Gwendolyn Toth, offers "Love and Death," not the score to the Woody Allen film, but a program of 17th-century Italian madrigals on two subjects that were particularly favored by Baroque composers.
But he was a gifted and inventive arranger, and the bands he led struck sparks.
