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Robert Smith is a Rap act. Their sound grew out of The Whip, The Twilight Sad, Chvrches, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and John Williams. Those roots explain a lot about how Robert Smith arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Cure, Bauhaus, New Model Army, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Virgin Prunes, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Cranes, Junkie XL, Pumarosa, Renato Russo and Junior Jack, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Robert Smith, reaching back through The Whip and forward to Cranes. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Robert Smith connections
Robert Smith grew out of The Whip, The Twilight Sad, Chvrches and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, shares an orbit with The Cure, Bauhaus, New Model Army and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, went on to shape Cranes, Junkie XL, Pumarosa and Renato Russo. 33 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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