New Sound Albums

You know when singers and bands usually get bored with their usual sound and that they would like to alter their sound on their album. The result is... a new sound album.

Here's my examples of artists with a new sound album:

The Beatles (main canon and in chronological order only, excludes American-only releases and Magical Mystery Tour)

• Please Please Me (1963) - Rock and roll (proto-rock)
• With the Beatles (1963) - Pop rock
• A Hard Day's Night (1964) - Pop
• Beatles for Sale (1964) - Folk rock
• Help! (1965) - Pop rock
• Rubber Soul (1965) - Folk rock
• Revolver (1966) - Psychedelic rock
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) - Baroque pop
• The Beatles (1968) - Hard rock
• Yellow Submarine (1969) - Psychedelic rock
• Let It Be (recorded 1969, released 1970) - Rock
• Abbey Road (1969) - Blues rock

Madonna (excludes Who's That Girl despite being credited, she only sings in four of nine songs in the soundtrack)

• Madonna (1983) - Dance-pop
• Like a Virgin (1984) - New wave
• True Blue (1986) - Dance rock
• Like a Prayer (1989) - Pop rock
• I'm Breathless (1990) - Swing
• Erotica (1992) - New jack swing
• Bedtime Story (1994) - R&B
• Evita (1996) - Pop ballad
• Ray of Light (1998) - Electronic
• Music (2000) - Dance-pop
• American Life (2003) - Folk pop
• Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) - Disco house
• Hard Candy (2008) - Dance
• MDNA (2012) - EDM