Cited as an influence by everyone from Beyoncé to the experimental rock group Yeasayer, Aaliyah remains a modern-day icon, a generational talent whose musical footprint stretches across genres, her lasting image still invoked by young pop stars who weren’t even alive when she was.

Since the band’s debut in 2007, Yeasayer has done its part to keep rock weird and wonderful, exploring the freakier corners of folk, embracing psychedelia and traversing the musical globe for sounds and rhythms.

More than 50m tracks from 14m artists has been lost, including the songs that led to the rise of the “Myspace Generation” cohort of artists, including Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys and Yeasayer.

They were part of a group of acts, which included Yeasayer, Passion Pit and Santogold, who went from Brooklyn warehouse infamy to suddenly proper on-David-Letterman famous.

Few indie-leaning rock bands take the art of the music video more seriously than Yeasayer.