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This Heat is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Hot Chip and Roxy Music. Those roots explain a lot about how This Heat arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Pop Group, Wire, Disco Inferno, Henry Cow and Public Image Ltd., sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Squid, The The, Steve Albini, Dan Snaith and Women, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 17 connections around This Heat, reaching back through Hot Chip and forward to Squid. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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This Heat were an English experimental rock band, formed in early 1976 in Camberwell, London by multi-instrumentalists Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward and Gareth Williams.
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This Heat grew out of Hot Chip and Roxy Music, shares an orbit with The Pop Group, Wire, Disco Inferno and Henry Cow, went on to shape Squid, The The, Steve Albini and Dan Snaith. 17 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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