While Official Chinese devotes much of its energies to railing against Western ideas, Youth Chinese is devoted largely to embracing Western influences.

The band now embraced outside influences in a wholesale way, maintaining its identity almost exclusively on the strength of Pokrovskiy's voice and image.

His exposure to a variety of genres embraced both traditional Indian music and Western influences.

The daily menu of enticing, often aggressively seasoned dishes embraces various regional influences.

The early influences of the traditional players became increasingly less apparent as De Lucía embraced jazz and other influences, creating his own voice and distinct style, yet never venturing too far from his roots.

It showed a move in the direction of lo-fi psychedelic electronica, embracing influences such as Grandaddy and The Flaming Lips.

Aside from being inspired by early 90's black metal, the album embraced such influences as Neurosis and Swans, with Jarboe, on-off singer from Swans making guest appearances on Cobalt's last two albums.

As the corps developed its own drumming style over the years, embracing influences from DCI, Scottish and American rudimental drumming, that controversy became obsolete.

Although the trio was accused by critics, as one put it, of "dumbing their music down for the jam-band hordes," the group embraced ever more avant-garde influences.

The band, which has been classified as post-hardcore, embraced "pop influences and a skewed sense of songwriting" while coming from a hardcore punk background "courtesy of their affiliation" with Dischord.