◇ image via WikipediaSarah and the Safe Word
Sarah and the Safe Word is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Cheap Perfume, Soft Cell, Eurythmics, Nine Inch Nails and PVRIS. Those roots explain a lot about how Sarah and the Safe Word arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Will Wood and the Tapeworms, Voltaire, Luvcat, Ezra Furman and Jack Off Jill, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Motionless in White, Miss May I, Bear Ghost, That Handsome Devil and Moon Walker, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Sarah and the Safe Word, reaching back through Cheap Perfume and forward to Motionless in White. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sarah and the Safe Word connections
Sarah and the Safe Word grew out of Cheap Perfume, Soft Cell, Eurythmics and Nine Inch Nails, shares an orbit with Will Wood and the Tapeworms, Voltaire, Luvcat and Ezra Furman, went on to shape Motionless in White, Miss May I, Bear Ghost and That Handsome Devil. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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