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Boy & Bear is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Marcia Hines, Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, Passenger and Neil Finn. Those roots explain a lot about how Boy & Bear arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Matt Corby, Ball Park Music, Eskimo Joe, Hunters & Collectors and Powderfinger, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Boy & Bear, reaching back through Marcia Hines. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Boy & Bear are an Australian indie folk band formed in 2009, consisting of David Hosking, Killian Gavin, Tim Hart, Jonathan Hart, and David Symes (bass). The band has released two EPs and five studio albums. Moonfire (2011) debuted at #2 on the ARIA Charts, while Harlequin Dream (2013) and Limit of Love (2015) both debuted at #1. On 27 September 2019, they released their long-awaited fourth studio album, Suck on Light. The band released their self-titled fifth studio album on 26 May 2023. The name Boy and Bear comes indirectly from a Randy Newman song, Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear “Oh, who would think a boy and bear, Could be well accepted everywhere…”
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Boy & Bear connections
Boy & Bear grew out of Marcia Hines, Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons and Passenger, shares an orbit with Matt Corby, Ball Park Music, Eskimo Joe and Hunters & Collectors. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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