Echo & The Bunnymen

Echo & The Bunnymen formed in Liverpool in 1978 with Ian McCulloch on vocals, Will Sergeant on guitar, Les Pattinson on bass, and Pete de Freitas on drums. Their first album, 'Crocodiles,' came out in 1980, followed by 'Heaven Up Here' the next year. They were part of that post-punk wave, but their sound had more atmosphere and less aggression than some of their peers.

Their fourth album, 'Ocean Rain,' included 'The Killing Moon,' which became their most recognizable song. It's got that moody, melodic quality that defined a lot of their work from that period. Other tracks like 'Silver' and 'Nothing Lasts Forever' show the same kind of spacious, guitar-driven sound that wasn't quite goth but wasn't straightforward rock either.

After de Freitas died in a motorcycle accident in 1989, the band went through lineup changes but kept recording and touring. They've put out albums fairly regularly since then, including 'Evergreen' in 1997 and 'Meteorites' in 2014. Their later material, like 'Parthenon Drive' and 'Cut and Dried,' doesn't stray too far from the atmospheric style they established early on.