Goat – Goat review

Goat for those of you who’re unfamiliar are a Swedish collective with a deliberately peculiar, self curated mythology that runs to Voodoo and witch doctoring; it’s obviously nonsense, yet without it they’d seem a lot less larger than life.

Their last album Medicine was a grand, mostly faithful take on psychedelic hard rock with a couple of nods towards the straight world, but shifting again it’s follow up sticks a pin in a different part of the map. In this new book of spells and incantations the musical cues are drawn from funk and world music as well as the gut-rumbling thunder of Black Sabbath, a concoction which keeps things interesting as usual.

On the journey you’ll find Goatbrain sat on the tribal rhythms of Afrobeat, Fools Journey with the gnostic air of eastern mysticism and Zombie rehashing Funkadelic with a wooden mask on. The real blindsider though is closer Ouroboros, a dare it be said very funky last chapter that sounds like St.Etienne fronting The Stone Roses as they dance round an altar. Goat’s backstory might be counterfeit, but their grooves are not.

You can read a full review here.