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San Cisco is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Ball Park Music and The Flaming Lips. Those roots explain a lot about how San Cisco arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Lime Cordiale, The Jungle Giants, Spacey Jane, The Rubens and Ruby Fields, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Illy and Smallpools, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around San Cisco, reaching back through Vampire Weekend and forward to Illy. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
San Cisco are an Australian indie pop band that formed in 2009 in Fremantle, Western Australia. The band are a three-piece, and currently consist of Jordi Davieson, Josh Biondillo and Scarlett Stevens. Davieson and Biondillo share duties on keyboards. In November 2011, the band was signed by Albert Productions, but moved to Island Records for the release of its debut album. In October 2012, the band described its 'vibe' as "squelchy, crispy, streamlined, hairy, indie". At the ARIA Music Awards of 2013 the group were nominated for Best Independent Release and Best Dance Release for the album; and Best Video for "Fred Astaire", which was directed by Andrew Nowrojee.
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San Cisco connections
San Cisco grew out of Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Ball Park Music and The Flaming Lips, shares an orbit with Lime Cordiale, The Jungle Giants, Spacey Jane and The Rubens, went on to shape Illy and Smallpools. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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