 The band notes watching a video in high school of band The Whitest Boy Alive performing in a shop window in Mitte, Germany as influential to the move, stating that the "huge crowd on the street [...] was super cool".Berlin is known for its culture of music creativity being a hub for new wave, techno, electro and hip-hop and its distinctive subculture flair.The lure of exisiting in the Germany city's melting-pot of music and culture has attracted many international artists including David Bowie and Nick Cave, two artists that Parcels has noted as influential to their sound.