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
  • The band had a range of influences, from blues and psychedelia, to country, folk and blues.
    — Adam Levine, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Mason's guitar playing played a role in creating the group's unique blend of blues and psychedelia.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Still, the connection between psychedelia and hip-hop is often overlooked.
    — Dash Lewis, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
  • There’s an amount of psychedelia, which is very soothing and transformational.
    — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 11 May 2021
  • The album is expansive and carefree, with swatches of psychedelia and tons of bright, gleaming synths.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Quinn’s vocals wandered from a delicate line of psychedelia to a growling crescendo.
    — Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2022
  • Get swept up in the soft psychedelia from the lead single off the Bristol group’s forthcoming album.
    — Jeremy D. Larson, Pitchfork, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Whether that happens may depend on efforts to rein DMT in from the fringes of psychedelia.
    — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • When Davis’ turns towards rock and psychedelia, the art pushes heavily in that direction.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Lodge was a pivotal force behind the group’s groundbreaking fusion of orchestral rock and psychedelia.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Shimmery Eastern sounds and desert psychedelia define the Glass Beams landscape.
    — Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Folk purists became an endangered species once the psychedelia movement began in 1967.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Late Nite Records contains a hefty selection of rock, garage-rock and psychedelia from the ‘60s onward.
    — Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Represents Prince’s brief but glorious fling with ‘60s psychedelia.
    — Brett Milano, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The group’s sound mixed traditional country with the improvisations of psychedelia and jazz.
    — Jason Mellard, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Flower children and psychedelia were the rage on the coasts during the Summer of Love in 1967.
    — Michelle Smith, kansascity.com, 2 June 2017
  • 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
  • But for all of that motion, Pond occupy a surprisingly stagnant place in modern psychedelia.
    — Cassidy Sollazzo, Pitchfork, 19 June 2026
  • His mother’s life as a gospel singer shines bright in his music, but Harding further infuses his work with blues, country, soul, rock and psychedelia.
    — Efrain Dorado, RedEye Chicago, 24 Mar. 2018

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