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Destroyer is a Heavy metal act. Their sound grew out of El Chojin, Miles Davis and Roxy Music. Those roots explain a lot about how Destroyer arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The New Pornographers, Cass McCombs, Yo La Tengo, Sunset Rubdown and Stephen Malkmus, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The New Pornographers, Tim Hecker, Loscil, Black Mountain and Car Seat Headrest, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Destroyer, reaching back through El Chojin and forward to The New Pornographers. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Destroyer is a Canadian indie rock band from Vancouver, formed in 1995. The band is fronted by founding member and lead vocalist Dan Bejar, with a collective of regular band members and collaborators joining him in the studio and during live performances. Alongside Bejar, Destroyer currently includes longtime producers John Collins (bass) and David Carswell (guitar), Nicolas Bragg, Ted Bois (keyboards), JP Carter (trumpet) and Joshua Wells (drums).
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Destroyer connections
Destroyer grew out of El Chojin, Miles Davis and Roxy Music, shares an orbit with The New Pornographers, Cass McCombs, Yo La Tengo and Sunset Rubdown, went on to shape The New Pornographers, Tim Hecker, Loscil and Black Mountain. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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