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Midlake is a Indie rock act. Their sound grew out of Herbie Hancock, Jethro Tull, Radiohead, Björk and Grandaddy. Those roots explain a lot about how Midlake arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Shearwater, The Besnard Lakes, Junip, The War on Drugs and Cass McCombs, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Travis, Alex Kapranos, Franz Ferdinand, Jason Lytle and John Grant, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around Midlake, reaching back through Herbie Hancock and forward to Travis. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Midlake connections
Midlake grew out of Herbie Hancock, Jethro Tull, Radiohead and Björk, shares an orbit with Shearwater, The Besnard Lakes, Junip and The War on Drugs, went on to shape Travis, Alex Kapranos, Franz Ferdinand and Jason Lytle. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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