psych folk

Noun

psych folk (uncountable)

1. A genre of folk music influenced by psychedelic rock and possessing a dark, sinister tone.
   • You have possibly heard the terms “psych folk” (sometimes applied to artists in the vein of Devendra Banhart) or “psych country” (which is vaguely similar to what used to be called “outlaw country”) or “psych rock” (which is what Courtney Taylor of the Dandy Warhols call his band's sound in the...[2005 May, Chuck Klosterman, “The Rock Lexicon”, in SPIN, page 60
   • More recently, a second wave of psych folk bands have surfaced, influenced by and connected to the music of Keenan's New Weird America.2016, Ross Hair, Thomas Ruys Smith, editors, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 203

   Synonyms:

   acid folk, freak folk