Style and Influences
Brand New are most often described as alternative rock, indie, and emo, having begun as a pop punk band before developing their sound. The band share a strong interest in a wide variety of bands, from classic rock such as The Beach Boys, Squeeze and The Cars, to more contemporary acts such as Lifetime, Foo Fighters, Sunny Day Real Estate, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kevin Devine, Built To Spill, Nirvana, and Radiohead. Frontman Jesse Lacey is also known for his fondness of The Smiths and Morrissey.
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Famous quotes containing the words style and, style and/or influences:
“The difference between style and taste is never easy to define, but style tends to be centered on the social, and taste upon the individual. Style then works along axes of similarity to identify group membership, to relate to the social order; taste works within style to differentiate and construct the individual. Style speaks about social factors such as class, age, and other more flexible, less definable social formations; taste talks of the individual inflection of the social.”
—John Fiske (b. 1939)
“The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see around them so many young people whose lives are touched by the pain and delinquency that so often accompanies a life of poverty. Therefore, these parents live in fear for their children’s future—fear that they’ll lose control, that the children will wind up on the streets or, worse yet, in jail.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
“Do not seek anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)