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I offer you Speed Freaks by Naked City, a 49-second composition that changes musical style every bar.



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Interesting question. 
Choosing from the most famous, Riverside comes to mind. If we count the first three as one (it's a trilogy), all their albums are different. Duda even said that different albums was the goal.
I disagree on Genesis. Btw it's funny: looks like most people on PA can answer any question in 3 equiprobable ways: Yes/Genesis/any of 10 other classical bands. 


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I agree with Genesis in the context of their entire discography, relative to itself.

Gentle Giant has their own sound, but no two albums sound similar at all IMHO.

VDGG could be argued similarly as well.

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The two bands on this site that are best known for constantly changing their sound are Ulver and Kayo Dot. I'm not as big a fan of the former and have not heard all their albums, so I will let someone else do them justice.

Kayo dot are well known for refusing to make the same album twice, and will genre hop every one to two albums, while trying to be Avant and not sound like anyone else. Between Choirs, Blue Lambancy, Coyote, Stained Glass, Coffins and Blasphemy it feels like you are listening to completly different bands. Even between albums that stay in the rough genre the arrangement is very different to minimise crossover. Then you have albums like Hubardo and Dowsing that take in a wide range of genres in the same album, while trying to make it all coherent. I can't think of a better example of a band that don't make the same album twice (except Ulver, but they tend to stay on a similar theme for a few albums before moving onto something completely different).
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Genesis, in a way.
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No band does exactly the same album twice, but most do like to stay in their comfort zone. Rarely, for an album or two, a band would do something that sounds completely different from what they are known for.

So, what bands never stayed on the same page, and changed their sound over and over again, or at least did something different from their previous record? (Their catalogues might range from just two albums to more than ten.)
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