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psychedelic folk

psychedelic folk is the alternative form of psych folk.

Meaning of 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
    Synonyms:
    acid folk, freak folk

Questions about psychedelic folk

What is psychedelic folk the alternative form of?
Psychedelic folk is the alternative form of psych folk.

Words near psychedelic folk in the dictionary

  1. psychedelic
  2. psychedelic circus
  3. psychedelic circuses
  4. psychedelic crises
  5. psychedelic crisis
  6. psychedelic folk
  7. psychedelic frogfish
  8. psychedelic frogfishes
  9. psychedelic mushroom
  10. psychedelic mushrooms
  11. psychedelic rock

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