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Top 15 One-Album Wonders

As music fans, we hear a lot of new music all the time from promising new artists. Some national debut albums really leave a mark on us, getting us pumped for the artist's career ahead. Sadly, some of these artists never even make it to album number two before they stop making music, break up, or just disappear.

This list is a countdown of our top 15 "One-Album Wonders" -- bands that released just one album before disappearing from the map for one reason or another -- leaving us to wonder what could have been with album number 2.

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#2. Earthsuit
Kaleidoscope Superior

Release Year: 2000



In 2000, Sparrow Records debuted an energetic band that fused rock and electronic elements with a burst of reggae called Earthsuit. The band had one of the best lives shows around at the time, offering quite a promising future for them. They even debuted new songs at their live show that never would see the light of day... well, sort of. While some can argue -- and rightfully so -- that Earthsuit did put out a limited-produced, little-known independent album in 2003 as a farewell to fans, called The Rise Of Modern Simulation. However, the fact that it only had a couple new songs and consisted mostly of demo ideas, live recordings, and b-sides -- not to mention many fans never even heard about this album existing and those who later did still can't find a copy -- keeps us feeling like Kaleidoscope Superior was the one and only proper Earthsuit album release.

So some may wonder what exactly happened to Earthsuit? While we don't know the whole story, the band kind of split off into pieces, with several members forming MuteMath (Paul Meany, Darren King, Roy Mitchell), who went on to release their first EP, Reset, a year later in 2004 (even though a worship project had been recorded before then but released as Victory Fellowship Worship, called Elevator Music and is available on iTunes). Former lead vocalist Adam LaClave went on to form a project of his own called Macrosick. Unfortunately, like MuteMath, LaClave has decidedly left the Christian music scene behind.

So while The Rise Of Modern Simulation, their live performances, and even the early sounds of MuteMath all kind of elude to what the future of Earthsuit might have looked like, we'll just have to settle for Kaleidoscope Superior as their one and only studio album.
        - John DiBiase

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