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Sun Dial is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Stooges, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays. Those roots explain a lot about how Sun Dial arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Loop, The Darkside, The Asteroid #4, Bardo Pond and Swervedriver, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nirvana, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3 and Monster Magnet, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Sun Dial, reaching back through The Stooges and forward to Nirvana. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sun Dial connections
Sun Dial grew out of The Stooges, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and The Stone Roses, shares an orbit with Loop, The Darkside, The Asteroid #4 and Bardo Pond, went on to shape Nirvana, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3 and Monster Magnet. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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