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Album Review: GOAT – Requiem

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UK-based independent label Fuzz Club are today announcing the first wave of bands set to perform at Fuzz Club Festival 2025. Returning after a four-year hiatus this year, the two-day celebration of fuzz, reverb and drone will take place once again at the historic Effenaar venue in Eindhoven, Netherlands over 9 & 10 May 2025. …

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Manchester Psych Fest, the UK’s premier psych music and cultural festival has today announced the first acts for another huge edition of the one-day event, scheduled to return to Manchester on Saturday 30th August 2025. Building on the success of MPF 2024, with its acclaimed first outdoor stage at Projekts Skate Park, Manchester Psych Fest 2025 …

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Goat share their second single, ‘Goatbrain’, to be taken from their self-titled album, due out the 11th October via Rocket Recordings. This follows from the first taste with single, ‘Ouroboros‘. 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 …

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Rocket Recordings are excited to announce a new album from Swedish psych warriors, GOAT. The band return with their third album in three years (fourth if you include The Gallows Pole score). Simply titled Goat, this new eight track album is being released on 11th October 2024. Today, they release the ‘breakbeat driven’ single, ‘Ouroboros’ and explain “The cycle of rebirth means the refinement of the …

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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,  …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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