Residents, The Vinyl Records
Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents have remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions. Cloaking their lives and music in a haze of wilful obscurity, the band's members never identified themselves by name (though in the 2010s they would begin playing with the notion of individual identities) and always appearing in public in disguise -- most often in tuxedos, top hats, and giant eyeball masks, which became one of their visual trademarks. The Residents also famously refused to grant media interviews, though "representatives of the Cryptic Corporation," the business entity behind the group, would sometimes speak on their behalf.