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Aqualung is a Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Alex Clare and Kula Shaker. Those roots explain a lot about how Aqualung arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Greg Laswell, Guster, Pete Yorn, Five for Fighting and Howie Day, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Reena Bhardwaj, Sara Bareilles, Lianne La Havas, Bat for Lashes and Mika, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Aqualung, reaching back through Alex Clare and forward to Reena Bhardwaj. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Matthew Nicholas Hales is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer who has been performing professionally under the name Aqualung since the early 2000s. Aqualung is best known in the UK for his song "Strange and Beautiful", which was featured on a television advertisement for the new Volkswagen Beetle during the summer of 2002 and went on to become a top 10 hit on the UK Singles Chart later that year. In the United States, Aqualung is also known for the song "Brighter Than Sunshine", which had considerable airplay and was used in the film A Lot Like Love and various television spots. Hales has released seven albums as Aqualung. The most recent, Dead Letters, appeared in 2022.
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Aqualung connections
Aqualung grew out of Alex Clare and Kula Shaker, shares an orbit with Greg Laswell, Guster, Pete Yorn and Five for Fighting, went on to shape Reena Bhardwaj, Sara Bareilles, Lianne La Havas and Bat for Lashes. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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