◇ image via WikipediaThe Unlikely Candidates
The Unlikely Candidates is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Dirty Heads, The Beatles and Blur. Those roots explain a lot about how The Unlikely Candidates arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Des Rocs, The Score, Brick+Mortar, Grandson and Foreign Air, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Wrecks, Young the Giant, The Dirty Heads and Fall Out Boy, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around The Unlikely Candidates, reaching back through The Dirty Heads and forward to The Wrecks. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Unlikely Candidates connections
The Unlikely Candidates grew out of The Dirty Heads, The Beatles and Blur, shares an orbit with Des Rocs, The Score, Brick+Mortar and Grandson, went on to shape The Wrecks, Young the Giant, The Dirty Heads and Fall Out Boy. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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