Been listening to a lot of Toenut of late. A band where the couple dynamic clearly suits the scattergun compositional approach and gives it coherence. The same can be said of (the band confrontedbybears compared them to) Blanche Blanche Blanche - another male-female couple. Obviously you've then got yer Sonic Youths and yer Abbas, or if you wanna gay it up a bit yer Coils and yer TaTus (lol!) - and then you've got Tim Smith, who's successfully formed a band with not one but two of his partners, the dirty boy, and his namesake Mark E, who's, um, been through a few

I don't just want good examples. I want bad examples! Examples which have destroyed bands! But yeah, examples of close & mutually beneficial dynamics also sought