Goat - World Music MP3 FLAC

Yet another repress/variant of this album is due out in late January...orange/purple splatter. Available now on their Bandcamp page.

I got it yesterday from my local record shop, it is excellent.

Probably has the most variations of a vinyl for a single release in a 3 year span out of any band on discogs. I'm not complaining though!

The artist from northern Sweden, to what, they wear masks on stage the members of Goat are from a village that was, in its earliest days, populated by a Voodoo-worshipping clan. The villagers lived peacefully until Christians drove them out (apparently); fleeing, the villagers laid a curse on the place. This us-versus-them scenario, funneled through an album called World Music.Points the spotlight on the band’s omnivorous nature as they use whatever inspirations come to hand.fro-beat and Afro-rock meeting the intoxicating Krautrock of Amon Düül II, Can and any number of proto-punk outfits jamming over the Omen soundtrack. It’s all lyrically shards of guitar, necromancy percussion, and entangled chants and melodies. It’s a peek into the minds of the Brothers Grimm as they astral travel from Kinshasa to Detroit, stopping off for a mushroom-fueled trip with Hawkwind through the valleys of Wales, and a Stockholm-based avant-jazz gig along the way. It’s insane, chaotic, and wholly brilliant.Goatlord”, with shrieking, echoing vocals, and more of those beautiful amp-fusing picked leads. There’s the watching the Wickerman burn orgy of “Goathead”, with low-end bass rumbles, fervent percussion, warping feedback, and a gentile folk stroll to finish. “Let it Bleed” has fuzzed-out vocals and a jazzy-saxophone flourish to subvert its uplifting indie-pop riffs, and everything comes crashing together on spectacular closer “Det Som Aldrig Förändras”. Droning, psychedelic keyboardsThe majority of World Music‘s tracks are brief and nasty, giving the album a mean lo-fi edge. But while the album is filthy and echo-laden, it is also warm, with a hefty, thick pulse. It’s stuffed to the corners with sounds, and the balance between messy analogue ambitions and ensuring all the instruments are captured and rendered for maximum narcotic effect is superbly gauged—both the production and mix are excellent.