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JGuy Grungeman · 07-23-2016, 09:24 AM

Don't go to wikipedia for your freak follk recs. Wikipedia has a bad habit of getting genre tags wrong.

Of course, RYM's description is a bit off. They consider avant-folk and freak folk to be separate (looking up more info, I realized a few days ago there's no difference... but then again, I never got into freak folk until now). Not to mention, thjeir page says freak folk evolved in the late 90's.

All I can gather is that it's a subgenre of psychedelic folk that came around during the late 60's-early 70's, and it's heavily experimental due to its avant-garde musical influence.

EDEI: My suggestion to you is go to websites like Last.fm and RYM to find albums tagged as freak folk or avant-folk, and listen to a few of those, and then decide for yourself what it's like.

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JGuy Grungeman Primo Celebate Sexiness Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,662	Don't go to wikipedia for your freak follk recs. Wikipedia has a bad habit of getting genre tags wrong. Of course, RYM's description is a bit off. They consider avant-folk and freak folk to be separate (looking up more info, I realized a few days ago there's no difference... but then again, I never got into freak folk until now). Not to mention, thjeir page says freak folk evolved in the late 90's. All I can gather is that it's a subgenre of psychedelic folk that came around during the late 60's-early 70's, and it's heavily experimental due to its avant-garde musical influence. EDEI: My suggestion to you is go to websites like Last.fm and RYM to find albums tagged as freak folk or avant-folk, and listen to a few of those, and then decide for yourself what it's like. __________________ I'm a pretty nice troll if you ask me. Last edited by JGuy Grungeman; 07-23-2016 at 09:30 AM.