Freakbeat

Freakbeat is a subgenre of garage rock that boomed in the mid-1960s. The term was coined during the 1980s by music journalist Phil Smee, with the aim of describing a style of rock music considered the "missing link" between the R&B music of the mod scene of the mid-60s and various sub-genres that would define rock from the last years of the decade and the following decade: psychedelic rock, glam rock and punk rock. The freakbeat used to be based on typical rock instrumentation with guitars, bass, drums, and vocals along with studio effects. Elements of the freakbeat include a loud drum kit, distorted guitar with fuzztone, flanger, and the rest of the audio or vocals with phaser and compression. Some garage rock bands of the time could be considered exponents of this style. Among the most representative of the genre we can highlight the first albums of The Who, The Kinks that influenced groups like The Creation, The Sorrows and The Move, or the Spanish Los Grimm.