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First Aid Kit

Folk
Folk

First Aid Kit is a Folk act. Their sound grew out of HNNY, The Last Dinner Party, Julia Jacklin, Famous Blue Raincoat and Frida Hyvönen. Those roots explain a lot about how First Aid Kit arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Staves, Amy Macdonald, The Tallest Man on Earth, Lord Huron and The Civil Wars, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Staves, Dotter, Lola Kirke, Conor Oberst and Jenny Lewis, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 47 connections around First Aid Kit, reaching back through HNNY and forward to The Staves. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
First Aid KitHNNYThe Last Dinner PartyJulia JacklinFamous Blue RaincoatFrida HyvönenFleet FoxesJudy GarlandBillie HolidayThe StavesDotterLola KirkeConor OberstJenny LewisHåkan HellströmThe StavesAmy MacdonaldThe Tallest Man on E…Lord HuronThe Civil WarsMumford & SonsGregory Alan IsakovThe Lumineers

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First Aid Kit connections

First Aid Kit grew out of HNNY, The Last Dinner Party, Julia Jacklin and Famous Blue Raincoat, shares an orbit with The Staves, Amy Macdonald, The Tallest Man on Earth and Lord Huron, went on to shape The Staves, Dotter, Lola Kirke and Conor Oberst. 47 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

Who influenced First Aid Kit

Roots22

Sounds and acts that shaped First Aid Kit.

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Kindred19

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Legacy6

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