Today sees the release of “Headsoup”, the new album by Goat that collects together rare and non album tracks, plus two incredible new songs written especially for this release. The album is available on 6 x different vinyl versions and CD – all versions are ltd and all are apparently in very short supply! We have completely sold out of our copies at source, so what is in the shops is all there is, and with the current vinyl manufacturing issues we are all facing, there won’t be any more available for a long time!.
Having cracked our skulls open and rustled up a hearty broth, Goat then plopped croutons of their musical rarities into our stewing brain and we just couldn’t stop ourselves from slurping it down in one greedy gulp.
‘Headsoup’ is a new compilation that deepens the legend of mysterious Swedish psych collective Goat even further. collecting rarities from across band’s celebrated career, including standalone singles, B-sides, digital edits and two enormous brand new tracks, it’s a globetrotting acid trip of a record that’s even bigger in its scope than their acclaimed studio lps. From the incendiary heavy psych of their earliest work, like debut B-side ‘The Sun and Moon’, to the serene ‘Requiem’-era alternate take ‘Union of Mind and Soul’, to the simmering menace of their latest material, it’s a record as multifaceted as goat themselves, packed with detours in every conceivable direction.
Taking in jazz-flute solos, pounding afrobeat rhythms, ferocious desert blues, drifting ethio-jazz, this is, as the name of Goat’s first album made clear, ‘World Music’ in its most complete form, a sound unrestrained by genre boundaries. Yet the band are anything but lazy appropriators. they approach their forebears with upmost reverence, articulating a celebratory cultural cross-pollination. and what about these two new tracks? ‘Fill My Mouth’ is a scuzzy psychedelic funk knockout, the sleaziest thing the band have ever recorded. ‘Queen Of The Underground’, meanwhile, is truly herculean, a swaggering psychedelic powerhouse of the very highest order.
sometimes dark and heavy, at others joyous and beautiful, like Goat themselves ‘Headsoup’ is mysterious, and constantly shapeshifting, difficult to properly pin down but constantly enthralling. almost a decade since they first emerged from the depths of Scandinavia, there is still no other band on earth that sounds quite like them.
The album ‘Headsoup’ (Launch234) on Rocket Recordings
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