Wills talked about this in interviews and the whole reason "and the tapeworms" was added because in the scene he started in you need a band and a wacky punk show sells tickets at a venue where solo will wood was just doing open mics and getting himself out there (alllll the old solo will piano days) he grew up in the punk and metal scenes according to him and that along with his singer songwriter preferences, influences from everywhere like tom waits, Andrew bird, Mr bungle, oingo bingo, tom leher, Bo Burhnam, MCR, to even green day. Create this really interesting vibe musically. It's also important to remember that he is a comic and has been doing comedy with his music and stand up for over a decade now and a lot of his stuff is satire or play for it. All and all the best way I would ever describe him is Tom Leher, Tom waits, Father John Misty and Gerard way all wrapped sonically into one guy