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Yazoo is a Synth-pop act. Their sound grew out of Depeche Mode, Club 69, Erasure, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Soft Cell. Those roots explain a lot about how Yazoo arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Erasure, Thompson Twins, Ultravox and Bronski Beat, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Hercules & Love Affair, The Dresden Dolls, Hercules and Love Affair, The xx and Steinski, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 37 connections around Yazoo, reaching back through Depeche Mode and forward to Hercules & Love Affair. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Yazoo connections
Yazoo grew out of Depeche Mode, Club 69, Erasure and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, shares an orbit with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Erasure, Thompson Twins and Ultravox, went on to shape Hercules & Love Affair, The Dresden Dolls, Hercules and Love Affair and The xx. 37 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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