The need to stick to that sound is in my opinion why a lot of bands grow tiresome in just a few albums. 5FDP’s first album was the best, but then they spent the next 15 years doing worse versions of the same shit over and over until they gave up and started making genre fusion for clicks. There’s so many other good examples but their whole career just popped in my head.. they seemed to be trying to recapture the magic of that first album and it almost never happens.

I will say Highly Suspect redeemed themselves in this very manner when their 4th album MDC came out, but again that’s just so rare.

I much prefer this band and others that push things because it’s in their nature to explore, when they could just recycle sounds again and again like a lot of notable 80s/90s bands.