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Album Review: GOAT – Requiem

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Swedish psych warriors, Goat have shared the second single, ‘Join The Resistance’, from their forthcoming album ‘Medicin’ due out the 13th of October via Rocket Recordings.   The joyous, echo-laden groove of  ‘Join The Resistance’ bursts into life and continues to build to a moment of release with a huge Sabbath-esque riff.  ‘Join The Resistance’ is a call to arms from the band, who say,  …

Goat return with ‘The Gallows Pole’, their second soundtrack album, following their score for the 2017 British independent horror film ‘Double Date’. The Gallows Pole is a three-part Element Pictures production, written and directed by Shane Meadows that is being aired in the UK on BBC Two with all episodes available to watch BBC iPlayer. This album includes five brand new tracks from the score and three existing tracks Shane …

Those inscrutable Swedish experimentalists Goat conclude their UK tour with this sold out London headline date celebrating their latest album Oh Death. Brixton is the setting for the latest episode of their most absorbing Scandi-drama. Seven masked figures emerge through the will-o’-the-wisp. Only the addition of an ancient yew tree would add more pagan attitude …

All manner of questions abounded throughout the long absence of psych collective Goat, since the 2017 release of their third album Requiem. Would the great Gods of psych-dom return, especially considering the fullness and finality of this last record – and the ambiguous, ominous meanings given off by the title? Would a goat – perhaps …

A reputation for fashioning heady, world music influenced rhythms and an innate effusion of fuzz-tinged riffs, making for practical infestations of earworms, has always prevailed – and in fact grown ever more feverish – with the mere whisper of psych deities Goat. However, their latest outdoes even that majestic reputation. Taken from their upcoming career-wide …

Swedish collective Goat have announced a career-spanning compilation album, Headsoup, encapsulating non-album singles, b-sides, and other rarities. The record also features the first batch of new Goat music since their scintillating Let it Burn single – recorded towards the end of 2020: Queen of the Underground and Fill My Mouth, both illustrating the blazing musical …

After the Swedish psychedelia influenced group’s first album World Music was given a ‘Sunburst’ Psych Limited Edition vinyl, their second album Commune has been given similarly worthy treatment. The new edition, originally released on Bandcamp Friday (August 7th) as part of the ‘No Fee’ day to support artists, sees the album given new and exclusive …

Neither inherently good nor evil, the DJINN have been heralded in Arab culture since the Pre-Islamic period, located somewhere on a spiritual plane between humanity and the realm of deities. A mysterious force, their influence – essential between angel and demon – has subsequently extended to mythos, religious belief and folklore far and wide, from …

Four years after the release of debut Østro, Lay Llamas return with their second offering Thuban, released on Rocket Recordings. Dwelling in the night sky of the Northern hemisphere, Thuban (named after the Arabic for snake also known as Alpha Draconis, and sometimes as the ‘dragon’s tail’) was the star closest to the North Pole …

Sicilian Lay Llamas have today revealed a new video for track ‘Altair’, the third to be released from forthcoming album ‘Thuban’. ‘Thuban’ is scheduled to be released on 15th June and the album features contributions from Goat as well as The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart and Clinic. The 8-track album is the brainchild of Nicola Giunta, and involved as …