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Unwound is a Emo and Indie rock act. Their sound grew out of Joy Division, Chrome, Jimi Hendrix, Greg Ginn and Flipper. Those roots explain a lot about how Unwound arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Fugazi, Polvo, This Heat, Rodan and At the Drive-In, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Terraplana and Portraits of Past, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Unwound, reaching back through Joy Division and forward to Terraplana. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Unwound connections
Unwound grew out of Joy Division, Chrome, Jimi Hendrix and Greg Ginn, shares an orbit with Fugazi, Polvo, This Heat and Rodan, went on to shape Terraplana and Portraits of Past. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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