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Athlete is a Indie rock act. Their sound grew out of The Flaming Lips, The Beach Boys, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grandaddy. Those roots explain a lot about how Athlete arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hard-Fi, The Zutons, Ocean Colour Scene, The Enemy and Keane, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Shura, George Ezra and Stoney, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Athlete, reaching back through The Flaming Lips and forward to Shura. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Athlete connections
Athlete grew out of The Flaming Lips, The Beach Boys, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grandaddy, shares an orbit with Hard-Fi, The Zutons, Ocean Colour Scene and The Enemy, went on to shape Shura, George Ezra and Stoney. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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