Neo-Psychedelic
Neo-psychedelic music revives the trippy sounds of 1960s psychedelia, using swirling guitars, effects and hazy vocals in a later rock or pop setting.
The term covers bands from the late 1970s onward who drew on psychedelic rock without simply copying it. Expect phased and echoing guitars, droning organs or synthesizers, dreamy melodies and long, hypnotic passages. Early examples came from the British post-punk scene, and later waves appeared in the United States and Australia. It differs from original psychedelic rock mainly by era and by mixing in indie, electronic or pop production.
Artists it is known for: Spacemen 3, The Flaming Lips, Tame Impala.
- Family
- Alternative & Indie
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United Kingdom and United States, late 1970s
- Also called
- neo-psychedelia
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 14%
About 11,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have neo-psychedelic among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Neo-Psychedelic artists
Tame Impala
Ween
Sports
Khruangbin
Crumb
of Montreal
Lil Ugly Mane
The Flaming Lips
Stereolab
FishmansThe neo-psychedelic artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.