1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the period or style immediately preceding the psychedelic era, especially in music and culture of the early-to-mid 1960s
Usage: informal; music and cultural history

Examples

• The band's prepsychedelic sound blended folk and rock before they fully embraced experimental production.
• Music historians often point to prepsychedelic garage rock as a direct precursor to the Summer of Love.
• Their prepsychedelic recordings from 1964 show the influence of British Invasion acts.
• The prepsychedelic era saw artists experimenting with feedback and distortion in new ways.