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Post punk and psychedelia come to mind when listening to Feel Good Lost.

Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning started as a two-piece line up with both being multi-instrumentalists. The beginning of Alive in ’85 follows Black Cat by Broadcast.

Stomach Song’s Yoko Ono vibe also contributes to what is clearly influence from Broadcast.

“The beauty and peacefulness of ‘Feel Good Lost’ is reminiscent of Broadcast or Land of Nod”. (Nast, C. (2004). Broken Social Scene: Feel Good Lost, Pitchfork)

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Guilty Cubes conjure a Sigor Ros and Durutti Column influenced guitar duet.

Canning and Drew’s guitar solos on Moss Breaker with the string section mirrors some of Vini Reilly’s guitar work on Durutti’s Colum’s Sketch for Summer. Bordeaux also has an significant sound to BBS Love and Mathematics.

“A sense of historical influence permeates the recording, creating a pleasant sense of familiarity. The tangled, chorused guitars of "Guilty Cubicles" evoke Durutti Column at their ethereal best, while a track like "Stomach Song" possesses a blasé cheerfulness that stretches back to Nico-era Velvet Underground”. (Nast, C. (2004). Broken Social Scene: Feel Good Lost, Pitchfork)

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Broadcast are not the only band heard there is also a Nico influence coming through from The Velvet Underground also on Stomach Song. Their collaboration with Andy Warhol and other artists also influenced what is now a 10-piece ensemble with rotating members from different Canadian bands.

“While a track like "Stomach Song" possesses a blasé cheerfulness that stretches back to Nico-era Velvet Underground”. (Nast, C. (2004). Broken Social Scene: Feel Good Lost, Pitchfork)

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Another artist that comes to mind when listening to PJ Harvey is Patti Smith.

Polly writes poetry and is an avid photographer who also works with other artistic mediums. Patti Smith who has also written poetry and works with paint share commonalities to one another.

"Marrying brutal heft and deft melodies, she became Britain’s first viable answer to grunge’s iconoclasts and their underground ’80s forebears Patti Smith". (Snapes. L, 2016)

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Sheela-Na-Gig was the second single from Dry. The 3-minute song depicts a woman at live performance who is being described as a show-off. Polly perhaps using this as a metaphor for how people feel watching her shows.

The drone style lead guitar riff towards the ending of the chorus resembling similarities to the Pixies work. “Influences Pixies "but Harvey’s extremes make it funny, and she channels her beloved Pixies’ loud-quiet dynamic into thunderous slapstick".(Snapes. L, 2016)

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Harvey’s Parents were music fans and invited rock and blues bands to the town to play in their local village of Bridport. Polly learnt how to play guitar and saxophone from artists that had visited. One artist on her parents’ playlist and record collection was Captain Beefheart.

"The artists earned their keep by teaching the young Harvey guitar and saxophone. She had been raised listening to Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica over dinner, and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon".(Snapes. L, 2016)

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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is heavily influenced by The Conet Project which are recordings of Shortwave radio spectrums. “For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages (The Conet Project, n.d) as well as band member Jay Bennett’s unique techniques added to the recording. Song Poor Places has an overdubbed women saying the album title looped with a distorted guitar closing off the faded-out track.

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Although there are more experimental techniques used with the following album. Jeff Tweedy’s song writing still suggests an Americana style. His singing style on Reservations emulates Jim O’ Rourke on Ghost in a Ship from album Eureka that was released in 1999 also rom Chicago.

“But for all the talk of terminally hip influences-- Jim O'Rourke, Krautrock, and The Conet Project-- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot still conjures a classic rock radio station on Fourth of July weekend”. (Sirota. B, 2002)

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Dire Straits are one of the quintessential American rock bands, with Mark Knopfler’s lyrics for Money for Nothing have some influence lyrically on Kamera.

I’m the man that loves you heavy guitar solo emulates Sultans of Swing and the more traditional alternative country style of previous Wilco albums.

“The muted, "Kamera" strums along darkly with acoustic and electric guitars; the twittering electronics in the background don't quite mitigate the tune's comparability to the clever and precise (though now largely neglected) jazz-inflected blues-rock of Dire Straits' stunning debut”. (Sirota, B, 2002).

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Broken Social Scene -                                         Album: Feel Good Lost (2004) 

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Broken Social Scene -                                         Album: Feel Good Lost (2004) 

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Feel Good Lost was the opposite of the popular genre of the time garage rock/post punk style from The Strokes across the pond in New York.
It’s minimalistic guitar riffs and drumbeats create a soundscape for different indie rock songs and
as well as the choice to have limited lyrics.

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Wilco- Album: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)

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Wilco- Album: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)

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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was a significant album for the band. They were dropped from their label only to be resigned to a subsidiary and releasing it on their website. A documentary was made on the album process which saw them move from alternative country to an experimental sound heavily contributed by Jay Bennett’s multi-instrumental songs.

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PJ Harvey’s debut Dry released in 1992 during the Grunge movement. It’s an interesting contrast to the genre from Seattle sound and bands like Nirvana. One song that I like on the album is Plants and Rags for its minimalistic acoustic guitar and focus on the story of the song (song writing)