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Psychedelic

Psychedelic music is a term that refers to a broad set of popular music styles, genres and scenes, that may include psychedelic rock, psychedelic folk, psychedelic pop, psychedelic soul, psychedelic ambient, psychedelic trance, psychedelic techno, and others. Psychedelic rock is also commonly called acid rock. Psychedelia can occur in almost every genre of music, including classical Western art music. Despite roots which extend far back in music history, the term is most commonly applied to music made beginning around 1966, when psychedelic drugs gained in popularity with both the public and popular music scene, and subsequent music influenced by that period. Broadly speaking, psychedelia generally employs non-naturalistic production techniques, which can include extreme stereo spatialization, reverb, reversed, phased, or flanged tape recordings, extensive editing, and extended improvisation. The music is often intended to have a disorienting or destabilizing effect, or to otherwise act on the listeners' sense of "normalcy". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

emerged ~1966 · derived from Rock ↗ see in graph

Sound of Psychedelic

The Less I Know the Better
Tame Impala
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Let It Happen
Tame Impala
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Nangs
Tame Impala
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Borderline
Tame Impala
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Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Tame Impala
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Related Tokens

Acid Alternative Ambient Americana Arena Art Avant Avant-Garde Band Baroque Beat Big Blues Breakbeat Breaks British Britpop Chillout Chillwave Classic Classical Coast ConcrèTe Country Dance Dark Deep Downtempo Dream Drone Dub East Electronic Electropop Experimental Folk Freakbeat Funk Fusion Garde Gothic Hall Hard Hip Hop House IDM Indie Indietronica Instrumental Jam Jazz Jazz-funk Krautrock Leftfield Merseybeat Metal Mod Motown Music Musique Neo-Psychedelia Noise Opera Pop Post-Britpop Post-Grunge Post-Rock Post-metal Power Prog Progressive Psybient Psychadelic Psychedelia Psytrance Punk R&B Rap Reggae Rhythm Rock Roll Shoegaze Smooth Soul Southern Space Symphonic Synth Synth-pop Trance Tribal Trip Underground contemporary disco electro electronica garage neo revival techno

Sources & Attribution

Source Entry Name Confidence Link Notes
Last.fm Psychedelic Derived from data —
Wikipedia Psychedelic music Derived from data ↗

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