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Self Esteem is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of OutKast, Neil Young, Kate Bush, Max Richter and Arctic Monkeys. Those roots explain a lot about how Self Esteem arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Moonchild Sanelly, Kate Nash, Baby Queen, She Drew the Gun and King Princess, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Django Django, Becky Hill, Moonchild Sanelly, Sparks and Noah and the Whale, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Self Esteem, reaching back through OutKast and forward to Django Django. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Rebecca Lucy Taylor, also known professionally as Self Esteem, is an English musician and actress. First known as one half of the band Slow Club, she launched a solo career as Self Esteem with the single "Your Wife" in 2017, followed by the studio albums Compliments Please in 2019, Prioritise Pleasure in 2021 and A Complicated Woman in 2025. A multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and theatre composer, she won the 2021 BBC Music Introducing Artist of the Year Award and achieved a nomination for the Mercury Prize in 2022 with Prioritise Pleasure.
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Self Esteem connections
Self Esteem grew out of OutKast, Neil Young, Kate Bush and Max Richter, shares an orbit with Moonchild Sanelly, Kate Nash, Baby Queen and She Drew the Gun, went on to shape Django Django, Becky Hill, Moonchild Sanelly and Sparks. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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