As in an artists that starts out by releasing mediocre derivative music that would be forgotten in a few years to critically acclaimed music that will be remembered with the span of an album or two? Or even artists that have just released mediocre trash who some how make a great album after how ever many albums before.
modest mouse the leap in quality from sad sappy sucker to long drive is incredible
Josiah Rogers
Swans
Luke Cruz
Slint Dino Jr Judas Priest Nofx
Joshua White
>First album was a mixture of decent baroque pop and mediocre kids songs, didn’t know what he was doing >Second album lead to one of his biggest singles and signature songs, would be the first of many genre shifts and true beginning to a lengthy career
Adrian Thomas
the future sound of london
Ryder Perry
Underworld. Most people don't even seem to know that they started out in the 80s as a really shitty synthpop/funk band.
Josiah Walker
Deja Entendu to TDGARIM
also agreed I love the fuck out of sad sappy sucker, but it's crazy how much the sound just developed in that short a time. And it just kept going.