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Genre of pop music From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Psychedelic pop (or acid pop)[3] is a genre of pop music that contains musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music.[1] Developing in the mid-to-late 1960s, elements included "trippy" features such as fuzz guitars, tape manipulation, backwards recording, sitars, and Beach Boys-style harmonies, wedded to melodic songs with tight song structures.[1] The style lasted into the early 1970s.[1] It has seen revivals in subsequent decades by neo-psychedelic artists.[2]
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Jimi Hendrix on stage at Gröna Lund in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1967 | |
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| Cultural origins | Mid-1960s, United States and United Kingdom |
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According to AllMusic, psychedelic pop was not too "freaky", but also not very "bubblegum" either.[1] It appropriated the effects associated with straight psychedelic music, applying their innovations to concise pop songs.[1] The music was occasionally confined to the studio, but there existed more organic exceptions whose psychedelia was bright and melodic.[1] AllMusic adds: "What's [strange] is that some psychedelic pop is more interesting than average psychedelia, since it had weird, occasionally awkward blends of psychedelia and pop conventions – the Neon Philharmonic's 1969 album The Moth Confesses is a prime example of this."[1]
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By the end of the 1960s, psychedelic folk and rock were in retreat. Many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics "roots rock", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-laden heavy rock.[12][verification needed] Psychedelic influences lasted a little longer in pop music, stretching into the early 1970s.[1]
Psychedelic pop became a component of the neo-psychedelic style. There were occasional mainstream acts that dabbled in the genre, including Prince's mid-1980s work and some of Lenny Kravitz's 1990s output, but it has mainly been the domain of alternative and indie rock bands.[2] Animal Collective saw commercial success in the 2000s; their 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion featured a reverb-heavy psychedelic pop sound that exerted a wide influence on music of the subsequent decade.[13]
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