Beta Band

The Beta Band may have been too ambitious for their own good—and they’d be the first to say so.

Formed in 1996, the Scottish group crafted an eclectic mix of folk, psychedelia, electronic, and hip-hop, built off Beck’s cool, genreless grooves and an experimentalist’s lust to wander.

Their first trio of releases, compiled on 1998’s The Three E.P.’s, revealed their mercurial habit to try anything, whether it be pastoral acoustic folk or meandering space-rock epics.