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PopMatters Picks: The Best Psych Albums of 2009

Psychedelia has influenced so many things in 2009 — whether the band is labeled freak-folk, psych-pop, or garage psychedelia to name a few — that the creative approach to songwriting has influenced and been adopted by so many genres that barely any independent label has remained untouched by its reaches.

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Although many may question the labeling of certain albums in the following list as ‘psychedelic’, the phrase has come to mean much more than its 1960s counterparts. Psychedelia has influenced so many things in 2009—whether the band is labeled freak-folk, psych-pop, or garage psychedelia to name a few—that the creative approach to songwriting has influenced and been adopted by so many genres that barely any independent label has remained untouched by its reaches.

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  1. Enjoy reading this, thank you:)

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