◇ image via WikipediaStrange Boutique
Strange Boutique is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Magazine, Howard Devoto, Killing Joke and David Bowie. Those roots explain a lot about how Strange Boutique arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Autumn's Grey Solace, An April March, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins and Twin Tribes, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Swervedriver and Tone, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 13 connections around Strange Boutique, reaching back through Magazine and forward to Swervedriver. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Strange Boutique connections
Strange Boutique grew out of Magazine, Howard Devoto, Killing Joke and David Bowie, shares an orbit with Autumn's Grey Solace, An April March, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Cocteau Twins, went on to shape Swervedriver and Tone. 13 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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