Tom Waits - still the occasional whisky soaked ballad at the end of his career, but from Heart of Saturday Night to Bone Machine is a pretty drastic shift.
Vessels went from making thunderous two-drummer post-rock to electronic-y dance music.
The National went from good indie rock to boring indie rock
Looking at bands Ministry are one of the best examples from their debut
Andre 3000
Dev Hynes
Gwenno
Beastie Boys
Lemonheads
Punk to indie pop
Avalon Emerson pivoted from more or less purely instrumental techno to being an indie pop singer songwriter
Phil Collins
The Notwist
Black Eyed Peas
Genesis too
feel like there’s a world of difference between. or is this just one band becoming a completely different band. See also Fleetwood Mac.
and
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall, Part Two (Official Music Video)
Between Lord Of The Dance and the Pipettes Gwenno had a brief Celtic dance-pop phase that she doesn’t talk about and is so hidden I’ve had to go to Dailymotion to find evidence.
And Yes
Afi
Snow Patrol were Sebadoh acolytes on their first two albums (and part of their third, just not the hit parts)
Guys! “Good” and “shite” aren’t genres.