Britfolk
English edit
Etymology edit
From Brit- + folk. Compare Britpop, Britrock.
Noun edit
Britfolk (uncountable)
- (music) British contemporary folk music.
- 2018 March 2, Leonie Cooper, “Lucy Dacus – ‘Historian’ Review”, in NME[1]:
- The 1970s also loom large over ‘Historian’, with the unlikely influence of Pink Floyd coming to the fore in the alt-rocking psychedelics of ‘The Shell’, the crunchy yet smooth ‘Timefighter’ featuring some moody guitar soloing and a prog-rock breakdown and ‘Pillar of Truth’ the haunting Britfolk of Sandy Denny.