Two examples that come to me immediately are Enya and Smashing Pumpkins. If music starts feeling stale, I can put on Enya and music feels new again. It’s such a pleasant departure from the standard pop/rock/RnB etc sounds that dominate (even if I like those artists).
Anybody have their own equivalents?
A lot of old industrial and some industrial-metal definitely does. War by :Wumpscut: comes to mind.
That one reminds me very much of NIN, Marylin Manson and other groups I would have heard on the radio in the late 90s here in Ireland. We were lucky to have a Sunday night show called The Metal Show with John Kenny. The national broadcaster was playing stuff they would never have played normally. I don’t think they’ve done anything like it since.