Decomposer also marks a vast departure from The Matches' previous strict alternative/punk sound and a growth into a more avant-garde and art rock sound.

The Spooky Fill: The man behind the avant-garde sounds of "Lost."

The band's pioneering avant-garde sound is highly revered and they are considered to be among the most influential artists in Japanese music.

Its colourful avant-garde sound, with lush orchestration, horns and quiet melodies, exudes the best bits of music hall, burlesque, 1920s flapper music, Nouvelle Vague cinema and torch songs.

"Venus as a Boy" is a chillout song influenced by avant-garde sounds.

Talia Kraines of BBC Music exclaimed that Girls Aloud "have resuscitated [pop music's] corpse by wedding chart-friendly melodies to experimental avant-garde sounds".

As a tenor saxophonist his style was eclectic, reaching from jaunty, straight-ahead playing to horn-scouring avant-garde sounds.

BBC Music exclaimed that Girls Aloud "have resuscitated its corpse by wedding chart-friendly melodies to experimental avant-garde sounds".

Summerstage organizers have designed the series to include jazz, dance, performance art and a variety of musicial styles: from New Orleans and avant-garde sounds, to ethnic music and opera.

Because of the band's avant-garde sound and image, its Orthodox Christian leanings and support for Macedonian self-determination, they were viewed with certain degree of suspicion by the former communist regime.