How to Use psychedelia in a Sentence

psychedelia

noun

• 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
• As Harrison’s wife, Boyd was there when the Beatles went through the frenzy of Beatlemania, the journeys of psychedelia and mysticism and the crumbling of their partnership.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024