The Groove

The greatest leftfield artists of all time

39 artists ranked by the Groove — music.nw’s own measure of renown. Not an opinion, a fact computed from the record. Why?

No. 1

Radiohead

United Kingdom · 1991– · alternative rock

4.378

Why this number?

The full board

Massive Attack

United Kingdom · 1987– · trip hop 4.248

Björk

Iceland · 1965– · electronic 4.063

Autechre

United Kingdom · 1991– · idm 3.560

Amon Tobin

Brazil · 1972– · electronic 2.530

Talking Heads

United States of America · 1974–1991 · new wave 1.739

7 The Future Sound of London

United Kingdom · 1988– · electronic 1.737

8 Aperture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratories

United States of America · electronic 1.710

9 !!!

United States of America · 1996– · electronic 1.646

Beck

United States of America · 1970– · alternative rock 1.373

Depeche Mode

United Kingdom · 1980– · electronic 1.265

Gorillaz

United Kingdom · 1999– · electronic 1.248

13 Leftfield

United Kingdom · 1989– · electronic 1.245

Air

France · 1995– · downtempo 1.188

Underworld

United Kingdom · 1979– · techno 0.971

16 Ava Max

United States of America · 1994– · pop 0.830

Moby

United States of America · 1965– · electronic 0.782

18 James Blake

United Kingdom · 1988– · dubstep 0.767

19 A$AP Rocky

United States of America · 1988– · hip hop 0.746

20 Four Tet

United Kingdom · 1977– · electronic 0.727

Kate Bush

United Kingdom · 1958– · art rock 0.709

22 The Residents

United States of America · 1966– · experimental 0.548

Animal Collective

United States of America · 2000– · neo-psychedelia 0.515

24 Basement Jaxx

United Kingdom · 1994– · house 0.480