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Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a Psychedelic rock act. Their sound grew out of Lucifer Sam, George Harrison, Jay Reatard, Vinyl Williams and Balkans. Those roots explain a lot about how Unknown Mortal Orchestra arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Temples, Melody's Echo Chamber, Foxygen, Ty Segall and Kurt Vile, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Foxygen, NoMBe and Grizzly Bear, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 18 connections around Unknown Mortal Orchestra, reaching back through Lucifer Sam and forward to Foxygen. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra connections
Unknown Mortal Orchestra grew out of Lucifer Sam, George Harrison, Jay Reatard and Vinyl Williams, shares an orbit with Temples, Melody's Echo Chamber, Foxygen and Ty Segall, went on to shape Foxygen, NoMBe and Grizzly Bear. 18 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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