"The effect on American rock was like a sudden switch back from Technicolor to black-and-white (or even brown-and-white). Given the plain palette of so much 1969-70 rock--jammed-out bluesy boogie in the Canned Heat and Allman Brothers mode, nasal pseudo-country harmony singing a la CSN&Y and their afterbirth--it is tempting to imagine an entirely alternative history for rock. A parallel world where Fifty Foot Hose's Cauldron, United States of America's self-titled album, and synthedelic oddities from Syrinx, Silver Apples, Beaver & Krause, and Tonto's Expanding Head Band, were just the run-up to a giant leap into the electronic future. But in this world, they remain tentative steps towards a path not taken."
Simon Reynolds presents a 2018 article from Red Bull Music Academy called, "Synthedelia: Psychotronic Music of the American Sixties."
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