Frontier Psychiatrist have revealed their top 10 psych albums of teh year and they have put Goat in at number 2...this is what they sa
2. Goat - World Music
I desperately wanted to put this album at #1, and I struggled long and hard before deciding to move it down a notch. Goat, whose members wear masks while performing, whose album features songs entitled “Goatman” and “Goatlord,” whose membership may include the entire population of Korpilombolo, Sweden, are the quintessential psychedelic band. Filled with chemically drenched drumming, orgiastic organ, and cosmic tales spun on an electric guitar, World Music is as mind-altering as rock music comes. Goat emerged like a lightning bolt in the night sky this year, and in any ordinary year, their debut would have stood head and shoulders above their psychedelic brethren.
See the full top 10 here Frontier Psychiatrist
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"So what’s the point in reviewing an album that’s been released for ages and has lauded critical praise from some of the best-taste blogs and writers out there? Well, it’s because we love it so much that we still feel the need to shower it with more superlatives and because we don’t really (or often) give a monkey’s scrotum that we’re late and not first to review (if the latter ever happens here it’s due to sheer luck rather than intention, but we’ve stated this before).
What makes us keep coming back to Goat’s World Music again and again is, in part, due to its nigh on perfect mix of mystery and pop, recognizable flow and esoteric depth. Simply put, it just warrants further investigation with every listen. It’s a beguiling heady brew of influences and antecedents filtered through a fug of psychedelic and funked miasma that reaffirms its appeal again and again......"
See review in full here
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Mission Control have just heard that High Wolf has had all his gear and cash stolen while on tour. He is now stranded and has had to cancel the rest of the dates.
He said this via his Facebook page:
Tour cancelled...got stolen yesterday in Antwerpen, all my fees in cash, computer, pieces of gear, non refundable train tickets for the whole tour, iPod, merch, basically everything...sorry to cancel the shows, absolutely no choice here.
If you wanna help I've got digitals for sale here: http://highwolf.bandcamp.com/ or donate with paypal at highwolfk7@gmail.com
Thank you
So please help and pass this on.
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We are blown away to announce that Goat's World Music has been announced as Piccadilly Records album of the year!!
Being massive fans and customers of this great shop we are very humbled by this news, and to celebrate it we have given Piccadilly 400 exclusive CD's of remixes of the track 'Run to your mama'.
The remixes are by:
Thought Forms
High Wolf
Hookworms
Redg Weeks (Invada Records)
The Nighthammer (Noisestar)
Gnod & Raikes Parade
Pinkunoizu
Teeth of the Sea
Cage & Aviary
These CD's are given away free when you buy a copy of Goat's World Music from Piccadilly.
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Friends of Rocket, Cardinal Fuzz label have release The Heads - Inner Space Broadcasts Volume 1 Part 1 on 12" ltd colour vinyl, snap them up while they last as they won't hang around for long.
This is their press statement:
Massive fans of The Heads we even named the label after a Heads track...so, for their first vinyl release Cardinal Fuzz get to put out two wild numbers from the Heads archive.. 2 tracks lasting 35+ minutes of head pummelling, brain crushing siked out and krauted jams straight from The Heads rehearsal room.
Sike behemoths The Heads have now been together for 2 decades but while most bands that long into their career bring out the 5 string fretless bass financial constraints have thankfully robbed The Heads of this.
Some wondered if they ever learnt more than 2 chords but truth is The Heads always knew more was less was more and for those wanting to hear an unholy alliance of Neu, Hawkwind, (((Loop))) and Grandfunk Railroad look no further than the 2 tracks on Inner Space Broadcasts Volume 1 Part 1. So, strap yourself in, side 1 is "SIKE # 9" and side 2 is "KRT (cube rehearsal).
Ltd colour vinyl (150 copies) only available from direct Cardinal Fuzz sales. Comes with ltd gold print insert, badge of the front cover (silver on black or black on silver) and hand stamped Info insert. Sleeve comes in a gold sleeve with a spot UV print effect.
Buy it from here:
cardinalfuzz
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We are humbled to hear the news that Rough Trade shops has made Goat's World Music their number 5 album of the year.
To celebrate this, we have given Rough Trade an exclusive CD of five tracks recorded at Goat's first public live show at the Lexington recently.
The CD is called THE FIRST SONIC RITUAL and will only be available when you buy a copy of World Music from Rough Trade.
The track listing is:
Diarabi
Golden Dawn
Disco Fever
Let it bleed
Run to your mama
The tracks are bootleg quality but the buzz of the nights show can clearly be heard.
More info on this here Rough Trade
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Teeth of the Sea play tracks from their forthcoming album at the launch of Krent Ables new book at Madame Jojo's on Tuesday this week, support comes from the great Vision Fortune!!
Krent Able's Big Book Of Mischief Launch Party:
Teeth of the Sea
Bitches
Vision Fortune
Madame Jojo's
Tuesday, November 20
Tickets are £6 Advance
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US website Pop Matters has written a great review of Goat's World Music:
"World Music is a twisted disharmony of palpable, trance-like grooves, loose jams and masses of wah-wah, reverb and tweaked-out guitar—all of which screeches, howls, clangs and crashes in a wacked-out fuzzy din. Sound good? It’s better than good; it’s a masterpiece..." 8/10
Read the full review here Pop Matters
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What happens when you put Manchester's shape-changing Gnod and Barcelos fine space-rocking Black Bombaim on the same stage? You get Black Gnod!
The Cardinal Fuzz managed to record this momentous event for posterity, and is now available as one long superjam as part of the Innerspace Broadcast series.
Great flipback CD with 3 double sided colour inserts and enough intense sike power contained within to make you see stars!
Buy Black Gnod - Inner Space Broadcasts Volume 3: Black-Gnod
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Here is another great interview with Goat:
"Goat is a new band from Sweden, they released their first album just last month. After hearing the band for the first time during an intermission at the Bohemian in Joburg, I made sure that the DJ who played their music sent me the album the very next day. I was fascinated that a Swedish band is doing the sort of thing that should be quite endemic to South Africa: an afrobeat canvas colored by the many hues of 70s psychedelic rock and the heathen screeches of a female voodoo singer.
Sadly, no local band (at least none that I’ve heard so far) has ever attempted, and I guess, even contemplated creating the sound that Goat seems to produce so easily. It could be that our white musicians (I’m of course generalizing here) rarely look toward West Africa for inspiration, and far too often dip their creative wicks in the whitetrashdom of America’s Southern States, and it seems like the new generation of black musicians peer more towards Cuba and Salsa than Haiti and Rara..."
Read this great interview in full here Mahala
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