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The Dresden Dolls

Indie rock
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The Dresden Dolls is a Indie rock and Rap act. Their sound grew out of The Fall, Depeche Mode, Neutral Milk Hotel, Brian Eno and In the Flesh?. Those roots explain a lot about how The Dresden Dolls arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Amanda Palmer, Will Wood and the Tapeworms, The Real Tuesday Weld, Sarah and the Safe Word and Voltaire, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Princess Chelsea, Chaos Chaos, Cazwell and Gossip, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 37 connections around The Dresden Dolls, reaching back through The Fall and forward to Princess Chelsea. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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The Dresden DollsThe FallDepeche ModeNeutral Milk HotelBrian EnoIn the Flesh?Cyndi LauperKate BushBauhausPrincess ChelseaChaos ChaosCazwellGossipAmanda PalmerWill Wood and the Ta…The Real Tuesday WeldSarah and the Safe W…VoltaireFirewaterElysian FieldsLiza Minnelli

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The Dresden Dolls connections

The Dresden Dolls grew out of The Fall, Depeche Mode, Neutral Milk Hotel and Brian Eno, shares an orbit with Amanda Palmer, Will Wood and the Tapeworms, The Real Tuesday Weld and Sarah and the Safe Word, went on to shape Princess Chelsea, Chaos Chaos, Cazwell and Gossip. 37 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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