There’s something glorious about finding a new band about to put out their first or second record. The feeling of discovering them young and watching them as they not only trip and fall into their own sound but find ways to push the norms and expectations of the genre. New tempo, new tone, new harmonies, a raw production or slick recording. Everything works together to create an album that comes out of nowhere and shocks the senses. What comes after then becomes the real test. Not many bands are able to change the musical landscape and then keep the excitement going one, two, three albums later. It takes something special to stay in the zeitgeist – an undeniable talent that can’t be written off as youthful experimentation. Green Day bombarded on the scene in 1994 with Dookie (yes, they had...