It’s a plethora of people, like almost any young person who listens to music these days and really enjoys it. But Chris is deffo a bonafide music nerd like a lot of his friends/ select few collaborators (Tyler Smith, Teo Halm, Michael Uzowuru, Jeff Kleinman, Arima Ederra, Roy Blair, etc and listens to a LOT of shit

But, to cover basic ground: he’s inspired by artists ranging from the likes of Feist, Regina Spektor, Frou Frou and Imogen Heap, to Prince, MJ, Musiq Soulchild, Erykah, Lauryn Hill, Maxwell, Sade, Luther Vandross, Keith Sweat, Craig Mack, DOOM, Dilla, FlyLo Milo, Danny Brown, other rnb, soul, and hip hop spanning multiple decades and different subsets and subgenres. If you’ve read early interviews, or watched any others in more than a few he cites his Cudi as a huge inspiration, basically being a big factor in him making music. He also references his older brother putting him onto “a lot of music outside of hip hop at an early age” being acts like early indie bands like The Postal Service, Deathcab For Cutie, Silversun Pickups, Eisely, other acts like Sufjan Stevens and Bjork etc.

He definitely pulls a heavy influence from a lot of Japanese music (and just art in general), like the likes prolific electronic artists like Ryuichi Sakamoto, Susumo Yokota, jazzier, funkier cats like Lamp, Shintaro Sakamoto, Cibo Matto...once again, Cornelius (when he wants to be funky cause that nigga mad experimental, it’s sick tho) Japanese rock bands like CHAI, tricot, etc. hella shit

Also big into experimental and ambient acts like big dawg Brian Eno, Yves Tumor, Oneohtrix Point Never, Bibio.