Tame Impala is one of the most popular modern bands, they make psychedelic hypno-melodic rock music. Their music is intended for keeping still and observing other forms of movement. Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. This type of rock music uses new recording techniques and effects and uses sources such as the ragas and drowns of Indian music. The first bands who started playing psychedelic rock are The Beatles; The Byrds and The Yardbirds, this is where psychedelic rock genre was emerged, in the early 1960's. Psychedelic rock reached a peak in between 1967 and 1969 with the Summer Of Love and Woodstock Rock Festival which included some of the biggest and best psychedelic rock artists and bands. Psychedelic music genre was created through bands using extended solos, and improvising with their instruments. Psychedelic rock as a musical style was particularly influenced by eastern mysticism, reflected in use of exotic instrumentation, particularly from Indian music or incorporation of elements of Eastern music. Major features include: electric guitars; elaborate studio effects; exotic instrumentation; a strong keyboard presence; extended instrument solos or jams; complex song structures; lyrics that made direct or indirect reference to drugs as in Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" or Jefferson Aeroplane's "White Rabbit".
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