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The Raincoats is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of The Slits, This Heat, Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Buzzcocks. Those roots explain a lot about how The Raincoats arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Au Pairs, Young Marble Giants, The Pop Group, Wire and This Heat, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Red Krayola, Deerhunter and Beth Ditto, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around The Raincoats, reaching back through The Slits and forward to Nirvana. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Raincoats connections
The Raincoats grew out of The Slits, This Heat, Nirvana and Sonic Youth, shares an orbit with Au Pairs, Young Marble Giants, The Pop Group and Wire, went on to shape Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Red Krayola and Deerhunter. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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