Reviews and photo's of Goat's mesmerising shows at ATP and Koko

As you all know, Goat have been in the country the last few days to play two rare shows.

First up they played ATP on Sunday, then a sold out show at Koko on Monday night.

The band played probably the best sets we have seen them do on both occasions, and if you were there you know what we are talking about!! It was very special performances indeed by a group of very special people...



Review of ATP:

Louder than War



Photo's from Koko show: 

The Line of the Best Fit



Review of Koko show: 

Evening Standard

The 405

Dukla Prague Away kit

The Guardian

Subbacultcha




(this will be a contsantly updated post)

Photo by: Siamik Amani

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Teeth of the Sea's MASTER in Quietus albums of the year poll

The Quietus have made MASTER their 25th album of the year.

They say:
If Fuck Buttons hadn't gone stadium-sized, and instead expanded on the brittle edges of their superlative debut Street Horrrsing, they might have ended up sounding as weird, majestic and abrasive as Teeth of the Sea do on Master. One thing's for sure: these tracks probably won't end up soundtracking a major sports event." Joseph Burnett

See the full list here: The Quietus

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Reviews of Goat's Live Ballroom Ritual

Here are some online reviews of Goat's Live Ballroom Ritual that was released in all good shops yesterday (this will be an updated post as they come in):

Muso's guide

The skinny

Line of the Best Fit

Penny Black Music

Normans

Drowned in Sound

Echoes and Dust

The Guardian

Shout for music

London 24

The Sleeping Shaman

White Board project

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Launch Successful: Celebrating 15 Years Of Rocket Recordings – The Quietus interviews Rocket

The Quietus have interviewed us and some of our bands about Rocket's history and our 15th Anniversary Compilation:

With the Bristol/London label turning 15 this year, Daniel Dylan Wray caught up with its founders and asked its roster to talk us through their favourite tracks from the anniversary compilation, Crystallized.

Founded drunkenly at a Heads show in Bristol in 1997 by Chris Reeder and Simon Healy, Rocket Recordings are now turning 15 years of age and to celebrate, they've released a compilation LP, Crystallized. It showcases both the wealth of talent and variation already housed on the label through such artists as Teeth Of The Sea, Gnod, Hills and Goat as well as other artists that have caught the label’s eye and seem to embody the label’s cacophonic surge of forward momentum, mind-fuckery, and a restless strive for experimentation, such as Sheffield’s finest purveyors of rhythmic noise, Blood Sport, the churning Swedish chug of Uran or the twitching psych-funk of The Lay Llamas. It’s a celebration of a label and time period that illuminates its past achievements not by looking back or by re-releasing old material but by embodying the qualities that have kept them going for 15 years and brought them to this juncture: releasing new music.

Says Reeder about the label’s birth: “We never had any aims or underlying philosophy when we started, we just wanted Rocket to put out damn fine records that sounded and looked great. We were huge fans of the US underground so labels like Sympathy For The Record Industry, Amphetamine Reptile, Alternative Tentacles, SST, Wax Trax!, In The Red and early Sub Pop. John O’Carroll, who runs the label with Reeder, also recalls the early days: “I seemed to remember long evenings being sat around houses folding sleeves and putting records together, there was a ritual element to the event, music blaring in background, playing each other the latest purchases, opening up new worlds. This is how I started with the label, maybe that’s where our love of repetition came from, hand packing sleeves over and over again in time to the music. Then I turned my skills to creating sleeves and getting involved in the visual side of production, an aspect which has always been a hugely important for us and that was in place from the very beginning.”

Read the full interview here: The Quietus

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Rocket Probes October Playlist

William Onyeabor – Who is William Onyeabor
(Stunning album!!!!! Essential purchase!!!!!)

William Onyeabor

Fuzz – Fuzz's Fourth Dream
(Heavy grooved out Blue Cheer fuzz rock 7")

Fuzz

Destruction Time – Sonic Pearl
(Imagine The Heads meets The Horrors, great psych shoegaze punk 7"...check them out live if you can!!)

Destruction Time

Weary Nous – Horse Face
(Insane fuzz punk 7" from Sweden)

Weary Nous

Union Carbide – In the Air Tonight
('Proper' Stooge rock from 1989 Sweden)

Union Carbide

Boney M – Nightflight to Venus
(Huge influence on Teeth of the Sea…a real post kraut/disco rock groove out)

Boney M

Emmanuelle Parrenin – Topaz
(A folk 'Silver Apples')

Emmanuelle Parrenin

N'Draman-Blintch – Cikamele
(Killer afro psych funk)

N'Draman_Blintch

Holy Wave - Psycho Thriller
(New album from Austin's Reverberation Appreciation Society)

Holy Wave

Valhalla Rising – OST

(Invada Records vinyl version of this amazing soundtrack)

Valhalla Rising

Fred Bigot – Mono / Stereo
(Distorted oscillations)

Fred Bigot

Solaris – OST
(Invada Records vinyl version of another great soundtrack)

Solaris

Beatles - Revolver

(Still one of our favourite Beatles albums)

Beatles

Galaxia - La Noticia

(Spanish psych pop)

Galaxia

Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery of Disaters

(Just love East Bay Rays playing)

Dead Kennedys

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Exclusive Goat playlist on Tom Ravenscroft show this Friday

Ahead of Goat's performance at ATP on Sunday and their sold out show at Koko on Monday, BBC6Music's Tom Ravenscroft has invited Goat to  come up with a playlist of music to play on his show this Friday.

So, tune into BBC6Music at 7pm and find out what treats they have chosen: Tom Revenscroft

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Lay Llamas launch tumblr

Lay Llamas our favourite band from Italy who appear on our 15th Anniversary Rocket comp has set up a Tumblr site, so go and check it out: Lay Llamas

We have some exciting news about Lay Llamas coming up in the new year so watch this space!!

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Terrascope reviews 'Crystallized – Celebrating 15 years of Rocket Recordings' LP

The ever great Terrascope have written some nice words about our Anniversary compilation:

CRYSTALLIZED - 15 YEARS OF ROCKET RECORDINGS

Not for the faint hearted, to set foot the world of Rocket Recordings requires a willingness to explore realms of challenging and often quite threatening music. While you can listen to some bands and see immediately that despite the bombast, their tongues are firmly planted in their cheeks, with many of Rocket’s artists – and I take Sheffield’s Blood Sport purely as an example without meaning to pick on them – you get the impression that like the Edgar Broughton Band back in the day, they actually fucking mean it, man.

Within every challenge lies a reward however, and as so often the key to unl

ocking it is to take your time. And ‘Crystallized’, a compilation celebration15 years of Rocket Recordings, rewards time invested in spades. Sensibly to my mind the label has used the opportunity of celebrating 15 years in the business to look forward rather than backwards, so don’t turn up looking for obscure Heads B-sides or magazine inserts from long ago. Well, OK maybe just the one: Rollbars was a short-lived 2001 project which featured a Head or two. Primarily though, the label mixes up established Rocket favourites with some newer and lesser known bands, my favourite of which are Italy’s Lay Llamas with their looping Kraut-groove ‘African Spacecraft’. It’s down to some very familiar names to followers of the Terrascope to wrap up the parcel and deliver a package filled with goodies though: Teeth of the Sea go off-piste with a fabulous opening blast of controlled noise, the mighty Gnod blow our minds with some looped psychedelic clubbage, Anthroprophh, which features Paul Allen from The Heads, backed up with fellow Bristolian’s The Big Naturals; and (my favourite of all) Sweden’s Hills blow away the cobwebs with a near perfect slice of fuzz-laden psych rock chanting that builds and builds to a guitar solo that’ll melt your hi-fi. Fabulous stuff. (Phil McMullen)

Visit the great Terrascope here: Terrascope

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Win a Goat – Live Ballroom Ritual 2xLP and CD

The people at Songkick (the promoters who are putting on the Goat Koko show with ATP have announced a competition where one lucky person can win a ltd green and white splatter Goat – Live Ballroom Ritual double LP and the CD version.

To find out how to win, visit this page: Songkick competition

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Stonegoat/Dreambuilding in Norman's top 10 tracks of the year

After Anthroprophh being announced in Normans top 30 albums of the year, Goat's Stonegoat/Dreambuiling has made Normans top 10 singles of the year.

This is what they said about it:

Oh, hello! I’m sure Goat need no introduction by now since the blogs and broadsheets alike are in thrall to their unique blend of classic psych rock and African rhythms, bursting onto the scene fully-formed with killer LP ‘World Music’ last year. After a select handful of ritualistic shows which saw the band performing in golden masks in a breathless voodoo carnival which really has to be seen to be believed, they’re back with another single on Rocket Recordings with two brand new tracks, ‘Stonegoat’ and ‘Dreambuilding’.

It’s pretty much business as usual here, with the recordings perhaps not quite as good as the debut LP but the songs easily shining through with the usual bold melodies, clever and danceable rhythms, simple fuzzy basslines and hollered dual vocals all present and correct. Side A’s got a great wibbly guitar solo at the end over a persistent tropical shuffle, and the slightly slower B side sees them flip into some brilliantly hypnotic Funkadelic-meets-Afrobeat jamming towards the end with some brazen super-saturated guitar topping off the mix nicely. To be honest I’d like to see them make some deeper and longer excursions into this jammier territory, and I’m hoping this single is a primer for a second album which does just that, but for now let’s just enjoy a band on a golden streak kicking out some casually grooving and totally unique rock music like they were born to do it.

See the full top 50 singles of the year here: Normans

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