How to Use psychedelia in a Sentence

psychedelia

noun
Definition of psychedelianext
  • Teens are so consumed with the '60s, peace signs and psychedelia.
    — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Flower children and psychedelia were the rage on the coasts during the Summer of Love in 1967.
    — Michelle Smith, kansascity.com, 2 June 2017
  • His bass work was filled with vintage jazz and R&B licks, current hip-hop and hints of psychedelia.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The 1975 buffered its hooks with gospel choirs, funky bass lines, glitchy electronic noodling, and flushes of psychedelia.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020
  • Mr. Bowie’s music turned toward folk-rock and psychedelia.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2016
  • Late Nite Records contains a hefty selection of rock, garage-rock and psychedelia from the ‘60s onward.
    — Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 21 Apr. 2022
  • There’s no rest for the wicked, except during a pair of songs that toy with psychedelia and dub, as if the ozone-free sky is finally too much to take.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Krieger was an integral contributor to the Doors’ unique blend of rock, blues, jazz and psychedelia.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • An article on Page 116 about Black psychedelia refers to the funk singer and songwriter Betty Davis.
    — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The album is expansive and carefree, with swatches of psychedelia and tons of bright, gleaming synths.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Piety becomes psychedelia in an image of a once well-meaning minstrel whose mind has been newly turned on and tuned in.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Her songs look at restless travels along with the details of everyday life, in roots-rock with a nimbus of psychedelia.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Two shades of bubblegum shouldn’t be missed: the catchy fem-punk of the Regrettes and the multi-culti psychedelia of Superorganism.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • In the 1960s, Crosby was a prime mover in the Los Angeles music scene that spun together folk, rock, country and psychedelia.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The trio from Texas has built a career out of turning sounds from around the world into a unique brand of instrumental, down-tempo psychedelia.
    — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2018
  • In pop culture, psychedelia is a Day-Glo tapestry of mandalas, black-light inks, tie-dye, and phat pants embossed with lime-green alien heads.
    — Wired, 28 July 2022
  • To rap with such force and gymnastic verve in this climate of psychedelia and melody feels like an ethical choice as much as an artistic one.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The result was Legion, the first non-animated superhero show to aim for the wild psychedelia of ’70s comic books.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Still, the connection between psychedelia and hip-hop is often overlooked.
    — Dash Lewis, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Europe was taken over, South America was swooned, psychedelia was a whole trip and country western was about to be won -- but first!
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Folk purists became an endangered species once the psychedelia movement began in 1967.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Its sound has the freeness of jazz, the esoteric textures of psychedelia and the unpredictability of prog-rock.
    — Jeff Milo, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2017
  • When Davis’ turns towards rock and psychedelia, the art pushes heavily in that direction.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Junior Mesa, another sort-of-indie act that blurs the lines between psychedelia and soul, based out of Bakersfield.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Take a long, strange trip through the history of San Francisco's cradle of psychedelia, which keeps on rocking today.
    — latimes.com, 4 May 2018
  • Martsch’s brain-frying guitar jams often sound like an unhinged Neil Young filtered through the loopy high plains psychedelia of Meat Puppets.
    — Bill Brownlee, kansascity, 28 June 2018
  • After all these years, the game maintains a sense of humor that lands somewhere between Flaming Lips psychedelia and Ren & Stimpy gross-out humor.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2018
  • There’s a lot of wondrous genre-blending on Connecticut stages coming up — bands that mix punk with psychedelia, or bluegrass with jazz, or folk with funk.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Quinn’s vocals wandered from a delicate line of psychedelia to a growling crescendo.
    — Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2022
  • Scioli’s art stands out, beautifully mixing meticulously detailed battle scenes ripped from an algebra notebook with the chunky psychedelia of Jack Kirby’s peak output.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024

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