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Swans is a Industrial and Post-rock act. Their catalogue also touches Progressive rock, Rap and Rock. Their sound grew out of Bobby Krlic, Akron/Family, American Music Club, Ben Frost and Test Dept. Those roots explain a lot about how Swans arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sprain, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Natural Snow Buildings, This Heat and A Silver Mt. Zion, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into My Dying Bride, The Bug, Lankum, The Angelic Process and Sonic Youth, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 53 connections around Swans, reaching back through Bobby Krlic and forward to My Dying Bride. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Swans connections
Swans grew out of Bobby Krlic, Akron/Family, American Music Club and Ben Frost, shares an orbit with Sprain, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Natural Snow Buildings and This Heat, went on to shape My Dying Bride, The Bug, Lankum and The Angelic Process. 53 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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