Suggestions
Suggestions
Folk-rock took folk songwriting into a rock-band setting, adding a pronounced backbeat, electric guitars and vocal harmonies to forms that had often been carried acoustically. The Byrds became a central mid-1960s reference by recasting Bob Dylan songs through the sound of the British Invasion, and later artists moved between acoustic and electric versions of the style.
IDIOTEQ’s current page sits much closer to punk, indie and contemporary folk. The Still Spirits pull folk-rock toward rowdy folk punk, while Charly comes from a lifetime of punk and takes a much more stripped-down route. John Tomasevich places indie folk-rock around political unrest and personal strain.
Montreal’s Rosier work directly with older folk language, while Footings and Velcro Dog pull toward slower indie and darker singer-songwriter territory.