◇ image via WikipediaWild Belle
Wild Belle is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Anoraak, James Brown, Shawn Lee, Caught a Ghost and Snakehips. Those roots explain a lot about how Wild Belle arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Electric Guest, Meg Myers, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Sylvan Esso and Chaos Chaos, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Major Lazer, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Wild Belle, reaching back through Anoraak and forward to Major Lazer. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Wild Belle is an American band composed of siblings Elliot Bergman and Natalie Bergman. They appeared on Conan on November 26, 2012. Their debut album, Isles, was released by Columbia Records on March 12, 2013. They have released three songs from the album: "Keep You" in February, "Backslider", and "It's Too Late". Their song "Shine" was featured on the soundtrack of the 2013 movie The Way, Way Back and in Grey's Anatomy season 9, episode 13. Their song "Keep You" was played in the movie Pitch Perfect and in The Vampire Diaries season 4, episode 3. In 2015 Wild Belle worked with Diplo and DJEMBA DJEMBA to write "Be Together", which is the first track off Major Lazer's third album Peace Is the Mission. The song is about a potential, but unlikely relationship. The film clip for "Be Together" depicts a widow and her partner's funeral, with flash backs to the day he dies in a motorcycle accident.
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Wild Belle connections
Wild Belle grew out of Anoraak, James Brown, Shawn Lee and Caught a Ghost, shares an orbit with Electric Guest, Meg Myers, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Sylvan Esso, went on to shape Major Lazer. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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