Meanings
comparative more folkadelic · superlative most folkadelic
- Having elements of folk music and psychedelic music.
The material ranges from folkadelic pump to post-core guitar-rant, and this is a fairly necessary thing to own.
1989, SPIN, volume 5, number 5, page 851 more example
The Velvets melded folkadelic songcraft with a wall-of-noise aesthetic that was half Phil Spector, half La Monte Young — and thereby invented dronology, a term that loosely describes 50 per cent of today's post-rock activity.
2004, Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, page 359
Origin
Blend of folk + psychedelic.
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