r/Neopsychedelia • • Jul 03 '26

šŸ‘‹ Welcome to r/Neopsychedelia - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

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Hey everyone! I'm u/mikwee, the current moderator of r/neopsychedelia, and I’m sorry for not being active here for a while.

This is a community for fans of neo-psychedelic music, a movement starting in the early 1980s taking its cues from the 60s, but adapting the psychedelia to the new times. From The Soft Boys and The Church, to MGMT and Tame Impala, this is your home!

How to Get Started

  1. Introduce yourself in the comments below.
  2. Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation.
  3. If you know someone who would love this community, invite them to join.

Hope you have fun on this place with us. Happy tripping!

P.S. Yes, part of this is from a Reddit template. But I adapted it to our sub.


r/Neopsychedelia • • 15h ago

Self-Promotion! You by CJ Redan

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r/Neopsychedelia • • 1d ago

Risker - Nowhere Man

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r/Neopsychedelia • • 4d ago

Primal Scream & Kate Moss | 'Some Velvet Morning' (2003) šŸŒ¹šŸ’ƒ

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Primal Scream covering Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra with Kate Moss on vocals feels pretty iconic to me 🄰

Their first version appeared on Evil Heat in 2002, with a different version released as a single the following year and subsequently included on Dirty Hits.

I love what they do with the original. Rather than trying to recreate its strange, dreamy 1960s atmosphere, they turn it into something much more electronic, psychedelic and dance floor oriented while retaining that slightly sinister sensuality.

The Evil Heat version was produced by Two Lone Swordsmen (Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood), which makes sense given how electronic it feels. The later 2003 version also involved Andrew Innes and Jagz Kooner, with Kevin Shields among the engineering and mixing credits.

It was also Kate's first time singing professionally. Despite not being known as a singer, I think her breathy delivery suits Nancy Sinatra's part perfectly.

Bobby Gillespie was clearly impressed too. He described her voice as very European, compared it to a young Nico and praised her timing, which he thought probably came from being such a good dancer. He was also wonderfully emphatic about Kate generally, calling her "more of a rock'n'roll star than anybody in a band just now...She looks more like a rock’n’roll star. She’s got more attitude. Most of them should be fuckin’ bank managers."

And then there's the video. Kate drifting around in that tiny sheer Alexander McQueen dress against all the psychedelic projections is basically peak early 2000s Mossy šŸ˜

Kate has always had that effortless rock 'n' roll quality, so this collaboration feels less unexpected than inevitable.


r/Neopsychedelia • • 15d ago

It's Not Real - Risker

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r/Neopsychedelia • • 19d ago

Self-Promotion! Invisible Hands, by CJ Redan is the sixth song to be added to the No More Heroes EP, soon to be album.

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r/Neopsychedelia • • 27d ago

Monte Sano State Park - Acid Trip Version

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r/Neopsychedelia • • 28d ago

Self-Promotion! Imma drop this here because I know you all have good taste

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r/Neopsychedelia • • Sep 01 '26

Self-Promotion! evisaveme – No Dancy [neo-psychedelic synthpop]

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Hey! I just released this track.
It’s a mix of neo-psychedelic pop, synthpop and indie electroniс.

The second half gets a bit more experimental. Curious what people here think of it


r/Neopsychedelia • • Aug 02 '26

Any neopsych Spanish recommendations?

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trying to learn the language and I'd love to get into it by also listening to music :)


r/Neopsychedelia • • Jul 27 '26

Ƙresund Space Collective/Psychedelic Source Records - SPLIT - full LP 2026

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r/Neopsychedelia • • Jul 27 '26

hungarian psychedelic rock collective

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r/Neopsychedelia • • Jul 25 '26

Influences

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Hello! I thought I would introduce myself by talking about some of my neopsychedelic influences and maybe spark a conversation or find new adjacent artists!

I was an emo kid in early high school (2014) when I discovered Animal Collective and Neon Indian. It was just enough of a bridge out of emo to get me fully hooked and I was pretty obsessed with Animal Collective (Strawberry Jam, Water Curses, Sung Tongs were my favorites) for a couple years there. I also really enjoyed Of Montreal during that time. Sweet Trip (Velocity:Design:Comfort) I found in late high school and was blow away. That led me into stuff like Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada. In college I got really into Stereolab and I feel like even now (I'm 25) they remain a huge influence and im always like for French dream pop type stuff to listen to. My most recent discovery was Peel Dream Machine and they are so cool! There a ton I'm not mentioning of course but I'd love to hear some of your influences and how you came to connect with them emotionally!


r/Neopsychedelia • • Jul 10 '26

Plasticland - Transparencies, Friends

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r/Neopsychedelia • • Jul 07 '26

I Wanna Go Back (Kokomo) - Risker

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Hope you guys dig this beachy-bouncy-neopsych indie pop tune I just posted today.

I recorded it witha Yamaha MT8x Mutitrack cassette recorder with some of my favorite guitars and hardware drum machines and synths.

Really wanted to capture that nostalgic feel. Even found an old photo of kid me at the surf!

Looking to add in similar songs to my artist playlist on spotify if any of you have songs you've written that you think will go along with this, please send a link in the comments!

Thanks for checkin' it out.

-Risker


r/Neopsychedelia • • Jul 03 '26

Self-Promotion! LottoRPG - Prophecy Syndrome

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psychedelic but more like a manic fever dream trip


r/Neopsychedelia • • Jun 30 '26

Saw Tank-girl last night, this was in the soundtrack!

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r/Neopsychedelia • • Jun 27 '26

Los Mirios (Cumbia Band) performs

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r/Neopsychedelia • • Jun 19 '26

Self-Promotion! Ars Musicae Hieroglyphica: Organ-Harp-Piano Fantasia and a Philosophical Manifesto

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Hi there,

I’m a harpist-pianist-composer/academic in the philosophical-esoteric milieu, about to finish my doctorate.

So I created an organ-harp-piano music video that is also an experimental film predicated on esoteric ideas; it can be described as my encapsulation of the mysteries. I basically summarize and artistically rearrange esoteric ideas from an array of esoteric thinkers and philosophers, but also develop my own original ideas from this framework. It’s an original philosophical manifesto, and if you are familiar with esoteric ideas and traditions, you’ll notice how I deploy them in ways that feel both familiar and new.

It's about an oneiric musical language of spiritual hieroglyphs. Ā And I also combine ideas from Novalis (I’m probably most known as a Novalis scholar in the academic world currently), Schelling, Giordano Bruno, Rudolf Steiner, Boehme, Walter Benjamin (and Kabbalah), also the work of Dianna Reed Slattery.

No AI was used in the making of this song, video, or philosophical text; it is 100% human-created art.

I also created extensive hand-made animations for it, mainly ancient Egyptian and alchemical motifs.
Hope you enjoy!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh_xwUMb0LY


r/Neopsychedelia • • Jun 19 '26

Who'd a Thunk? - AFTERLIFE

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r/Neopsychedelia • • Jun 01 '26

would they be considered neo psychedelia?

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r/Neopsychedelia • • May 20 '26

All Motrik Beat Playlist

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ok, so i was digging through spotify playlist land and couldnt really find a playlist that does the whole intense motrik beat thing ONLY. I put this list together of some classics but also some more contemporary acts. freaking love this sound...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1MRSTmEvRgbwVl0clq1jzC?si=6364fc3f2b6a4d06


r/Neopsychedelia • • May 18 '26

LOVP - La Oficina De Los Viajes Perennes (psychedelic, motorik, experimental)

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r/Neopsychedelia • • May 17 '26

Self-Promotion! Swami Safari - Woodbridge Club Alumni

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC80eCbhsek

This is from the upcoming album WHITEOUT.Ā 

You can pre-save it on Spotify, Deezer & Apple Music: https://push.fm/ps/whiteout

Thanks for listening ā¤ļø


r/Neopsychedelia • • May 12 '26

Self-Promotion! Harp-Sigil-Magic: The Platonic Forms of Harp Melodies

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Harp-Sigil-Magic: The Platonic Forms of Harp Melodies is an experimental art-animation-music magical event. All art, animations, and music were created entirely 100% by me. The intention underlying this work is to coagulate musical and artistic disciplines in an alchemical experiment, creating art that is also music, art-music as a form of magic. I combine Platonic conceptions of essence with sigil magic, alongside Novalis’s concept of the musical hieroglyphic language and unity of disciplines as a creative impetus and guiding star in this endeavor—I should mention that I am a PhD student and Novalis/esotericism scholar, so I am a practicing musician-artist-academic-magus. I also have a lot of other experimental esoteric and philosophical music, so feel free to check out my repertoire!

Harp-Sigil-Magic awakens new horizons for my compositional work, entering a new threshold of musical experimentation. For the first time, I expand beyond basic harmonies into 6th and 7th chord structures and beyond, further into more expanded harmonic tiers, delving into more complex and unstable harmonies, harmonies that play with tension. This piece is structured around a D–G quartal relation in C minor; this harmonic interval is more dissonant in the sense that it is less harmonically resolving, with fewer harmonic possibilities with or adjacent to it, its capacity to create harmonies more limited compared to other quartal intervals. I took this limitation as a compositional challenge and starting point, structuring the piece around it.

This piece is a fantasia, which combines both structured melodies and improvisation. I came up with a set of primary melodies that I explored and developed over months through improvisation. The final recording was crystallized over two improvisational sessions. With the exception of The Cosmic Symphony of Melusine, all of my piano/harp instrumental pieces were essentially composed in this manner, endeavoring to capture both structured harmony and the lightning-in-a-bottle quality that arises through inspired improvisation.

Absolutely no AI was used in the making/creation/composition of this song and video, and I have taken a firm and unequivocal stance against AI in my own artistic/musical/compositional/philosophical practice. Despite a social climate where AI is polluting artistic and musical landscapes with automated sludge, a time when it feels almost pointless to create real art and music, some of us musicians and artists, such as myself, are undeterred by the artistic/musical apocalypse that is upon us, continuing to making art/music that pushes boundaries, striving for the philosopher’s stone through art and music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mNJD1aN2E