After a couple of welcome departures on "Medicine" and the soundtrack "The Gallows Pole" Goat return with an album that couldn't be more... Goat.
GOAT - Goat (black & yellow swirl vinyl LP) (2024)
On the eight tracks of this new self-titled album the productive Swedish collective focusses very strongly on its trademarks. World Psych with funky grooves, lots of shakers and Afro-Beat percussions, just one theme per song, enriched with wahwah guitars, flutes, keys and whatever else was lying around during the recording. And an top of it of course the unmistakable upfront female harmony vocals in a tone between party preaching and freedom agitation.
What stands out is that since the rhythm is established so fast and firmly, Goat can allow themselves to pull up other elements - everything which can count as solo or bridge - incredibly loud in the mix. It's in your face in an elegant way and really draws your attention. So despite Goat being extremely Goat on "Goat", we already have a striking element very unique to this album.
Another thing which hasn't always been as appearant as on several songs here is the Far Eastern influence, which occasionally brings Yīn Yīn vibes to their sound.
Only the two shortest pieces "Fool's Journey" and "The All Is One" provide little breathers which bring the permanent global, cosmic bash down for a while, which serves the overall flow and only makes the following pieces even more explosive, crowning in the spectacularly trippy finale of "Ouroboros".
I cannot spot anything bad or even not great here. Only Goat being awesome. This just slaps, man!
On the eight tracks of this new self-titled album the productive Swedish collective focusses very strongly on its trademarks. World Psych with funky grooves, lots of shakers and Afro-Beat percussions, just one theme per song, enriched with wahwah guitars, flutes, keys and whatever else was lying around during the recording. And an top of it of course the unmistakable upfront female harmony vocals in a tone between party preaching and freedom agitation.
What stands out is that since the rhythm is established so fast and firmly, Goat can allow themselves to pull up other elements - everything which can count as solo or bridge - incredibly loud in the mix. It's in your face in an elegant way and really draws your attention. So despite Goat being extremely Goat on "Goat", we already have a striking element very unique to this album.
Another thing which hasn't always been as appearant as on several songs here is the Far Eastern influence, which occasionally brings Yīn Yīn vibes to their sound.
Only the two shortest pieces "Fool's Journey" and "The All Is One" provide little breathers which bring the permanent global, cosmic bash down for a while, which serves the overall flow and only makes the following pieces even more explosive, crowning in the spectacularly trippy finale of "Ouroboros".
I cannot spot anything bad or even not great here. Only Goat being awesome. This just slaps, man!
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