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...)