Freak folk
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| Freak folk | |
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| Stylistic origins | Folk |
| Cultural origins | Late 1960s United States |
| Typical instruments | |
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Freak folk is a genre of folk music which uses mainly acoustic instrumentation, but introduces elements of avant-garde music and psychedelic folk, often featuring uncommon sounds, lyrical themes, and vocal styles.Template:Citaton needed (lead)
Notable artists
- Akron/Family
- Angels of Light
- Animal Collective
- Bity Booker
- Birdengine
- Bowerbirds
- Vashti Bunyan
- Cerberus Shoal
- Diane Cluck
- CocoRosie
- Comus
- The Decemberists
- Dirty Projectors
- The Dodos
- EMA
- Exuma
- Faun Fables
- Futurebirds
- King Buzzo
- Larkin Grimm
- Grizzly Bear
- Hop Along
- Jandek
- Joanna Newsom
- Rio en Medio
- Rodrigo Amarante
- Brian Smith
- Natalie Rose Lebrecht
- Sufjan Stevens
- Sturle Dagsland
- Timber Timbre
- The Ohsees
- Tune-Yards
- Greg Weeks
- White Magic
- Bob Wiseman
- Woods
See also
- Anti-folk
- Psych folk
- New Weird America
- Ptolemaic Terrascope - a psychedelic folk and rock magazine
References
External links
- Freak Folk Flies High by Derek Richardson at SFGate.com
- Hermes, Will (2006-06-18). "Summer of Love Redux". The New York Times.
- Poecke, N. van. The New Weird Generation
- Freak-Folk Genre
- Music identified as "Freak Folk"
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