Goat return with their third studio album in three years (fourth if you include their 'The Gallows Pole' score). Simply titled 'Goat', this new eight track album is being released on 11 October.
Listen to the first 'breakbeat driven' track to be released from the album 'Ouroboros' above.
This is what the band says about the track:
"The cycle of rebirth means the refinement of the soul. An evolution in which we slowly find our direction. Our own rhythm."
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As always, due to the high demand for Goat albums, we have several ltd edition vinyl versions available for you to choose from, as well as a ltd edition CD.
All UK Indie record shops have a unique ltd vinyl colour as well as a ltd Black vinyl version. And non UK stores will have an exclusive colour vinyl edition too.
You can pre-order the ltd edition CD from here:
https://rocketrecordings.com/products/goat
US Goat fans – once again our good friends at Levitation have two unique colour vinyl versions available via the link below:
https://levitation.fm/products/goat-goat-levitation-edition
Finally, we have some ltd edition made-to-order 'Goatshee' T-shirts for presale – there are two designs to choose from. These shirts will be on presale until 31 August – what is ordered, is what will be manufactured:
https://rocketrecordings.com/collections/t-shirts
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The Ouroboros - the icon of the snake or dragon eating its own tail - appears to some a statement of the brutality of nature. To others of a Gnostic disposition it symbolises the duality of the divine and earthly in mankind. But most commonly, it’s taken simply to mean the endless cycles of death and rebirth that characterise life on this planet. As such, it’s an image that looms large in the world of Goat, the ever-mysterious and endlessly revivifying collective whose latest album marks another adventure above and beyond this particular plane of reality.
This may be a band that has named albums both Requiem and Oh Death, yet this eponymous salvo proves yet again that transcendence and metamorphosis are their watchwords. Following on from the uncharted territory of the soul-searching and folk-tinged Medicine and the dark, atmospheric soundtrack to Shane Meadows’ The Gallows Pole, Goat sees this ever-unpredictable outfit summoning rhythmically-driven rituals in unmistakable, uplifting and scintillating style, equally adept at igniting dancefloors and expanding minds.
Whilst this particular mercurial incarnation summons the party dimensions from which we were first introduced to this band well over a decade ago, it also possesses no shortage of curveballs and curiosity. ‘One More Death’ and ‘Goatbrain’ are spectacular curtain-raisers, embodying a hedonistic spirit driven by incisive funk and possessed by merciless fuzz/wah-drenched guitar. Yet if these and the filthy, swaggering groove of ‘Dollar Bill’ mark familiar territory for Goat devotees of old, ‘Fools Journey’ is just the first of several journeys into the beyond - a blissful drifting meditation infused with free jazz and shamanic overtones which bears the hallmarks of their concurrent project Djinn.
True to the notion of this band effortlessly straddling past, present and future, ‘Frisco Beaver’ - another irresistible party-starter powered by insistent guitar filigree and percussion-driven trance-states - is a literal sequel to ‘Disco Fever’ from 2012’s World Music. Yet elsewhere Goat can happily look towards new horizons and come back with some of the most righteous vibrations they’ve yet delivered. The band’s love of hip hop is the fuel for both the rollicking ceremonial throwdown ‘Zombie’ and the end-credits-epic album closer ‘Ouroboros’ which marries infectious chant to breathless Lalo Schifrin-style breakbeat action. And which also means ultimately, like the titular oldest allegorical symbol in alchemy, we’re right back where we started.
As Brad Dourif’s character Hazel Moates intones in the 1979 movie Wiseblood “Where you come from is gone; where you thought you were going weren’t never there. And where you are ain’t no good unless you can get away from it”; in Goat’s eternal now of renewal and revelation, there’s never been a more potent means of escape.
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Experience Goat's unequaled live show, at one of these rare outings:
20 Oct / Gothenburg / Pustervik
24 Oct / London / Troxy
25 Oct / Bristol / 02 Academy (SOLD OUT)
26 Oct / Manchester / Academy 1
14 Nov / Norwich / UEA
15 Nov / Oxford / 02 Academy
16 Nov / Nottingham / Rock City