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She & Him is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Lotta Love, NRBQ and Feist. Those roots explain a lot about how She & Him arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Camera Obscura, Lucius, Black Box Recorder, Kimya Dawson and Maya Hawke, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris and Camera Obscura, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around She & Him, reaching back through John Lennon and forward to Rodney Crowell. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
She & Him is an American musical duo consisting of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. It was formed in 2008 in Portland, Oregon. Their first album, Volume One, was released on the independent label Merge Records on March 18, 2008. They are commonly associated with the indie-folk resurgence of the mid-2000s, which music critic and professor Eric Harvey described in Stereogum as "childlike, whimsical, earnest, acoustic Starbucks-friendly music like Feist, the Decemberists, Regina Spektor, and Jose Gonzalez."
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She & Him connections
She & Him grew out of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Lotta Love and NRBQ, shares an orbit with Camera Obscura, Lucius, Black Box Recorder and Kimya Dawson, went on to shape Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris and Camera Obscura. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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