Big Four Bands Thread Round 19: Gothic Rock

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by dankrsta

So I just read a couple pages back, and I don't really get what's the confusion about freak-folk.

I was confused to why it was picked, not about the genre, and thought Psychedelic Folk/Acid Folk (or maybe Indie Folk) would had been a better choice. It would had included the sub-genre of "Freak Folk." There was talk about either doing Folk or maybe Punk-Folk for a while. Freak-Folk seemed like an eleventh hour pick. It would be like talking about doing Black Metal for weeks, and then on Friday it was changed to Blackgaze.

[bob.]

Originally Posted by dankrsta

So I just read a couple pages back, and I don't really get what's the confusion about freak-folk. If you use the term too broadly like avant-folk or free folk, then yes it can be retroactively applied to older bands and musicians, especially those of 60's psych, freak out folky psychedelic jams variety...But the term gained traction at the same time as New Weird America, neo-psychedelia etc, so to me it's more meaningful and useful to tie genre names to certain scenes and time periods.

So I see this modern freak folk genre as the actual interconnected scene, which is under a great 60's psych influence, but also Sun City Girls/Sir Richard Bishop influence and minimalism/drone of La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, Terry Riley etc. But it all came together sort of like post-rock in 90s dabbled in kraut-rock, electronic, shoegaze until it made its own synthesis.

If voting is still on, I'd nominate? newer bands and musicians from the end of the 90s onwards...

Jackie-O Motherfucker
Vibracathedral Orchestra
Charalambides
Fursaxa

(I made a 8tracks freak folk mix a few days ago, maybe I'll post it here as a beginner's guide if that thread is still going...)

Thank you.....this was exactly the answer i was looking for.....i had never heard the term "freak folk" and was getting extremely conflicting answers from internet searches and what people here were saying it was

also it's wonderful to see you and i hope to death you and your family are well