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Britfolk
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English
Etymology
From en Brit- folk. Compare en Britpop, en Britrock.
Noun
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en music genre British contemporary folk music.
en 2018-03-02 Leonie Cooper Lucy Dacus – ‘Historian’ Review w:NME https://www.nme.com/reviews/album-review-lucy-dacus-historian-2247422 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20250823011248/https://www.nme.com/reviews/album-review-lucy-dacus-historian-2247422 23 August 2025