Requiem, by Goat

Requiem

by Goat

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The Midnight Toker. This is liquid acid for the ears.
Thanx BTT.

panikfalk My favorite discovery of 2019! (I don't understand how I could not know about this band before) Amazing music with a cool mystique surrounding the bands origin story. Would love to hear some new material and see them live! Favorite track: Try My Robe.

maria grob I love your vibe! Music to freak out to and to meditate as well. Stay awesome Favorite track: Union of Sun and Moon.

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1.	Union of Sun and Moon 04:18		buy track
2.	I Sing In Silence 04:14		buy track
3.	Temple Rythms 04:18		buy track
4.	Alarms 02:54		buy track
5.	Trouble in the Streets 04:20		buy track
6.	Psychedelic Lover 03:56		buy track
7.	Goatband 07:50		buy track
8.	Try My Robe 03:30		buy track
9.	Its Not Me 03:20		buy track
10.	All-seeing Eye 02:42		buy track
11.	Goatfuzz 06:56		buy track
12.	Goodbye 07:54		buy track
13.	Ubuntu 07:07		buy track
14.	Union of Mind and Soul 03:03	info

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Goat – Requiem

In a culture obsessed with content, saturation, and continual exposure, it’s rare to find artists who prefer to lurk outside of the public eye. Thomas Pynchon is perhaps the most notable contemporary recluse—a virtually faceless figure who occasionally creeps out of hiding to offer up an elaborate novel steeped in history and warped by imagination—but for crate diggers and guitar mystics, Sweden’s enigmatic GOAT may qualify as the greatest modern pop-culture mystery. Who are these masked musicians? Are they truly members of the Arctic community of Korpilombolo? Are their songs part of their isolated communal heritage? Their third studio album, Requiem, offers more questions than answers, but much like any of Pynchon’s knotty yarns, the reward is not in the untangling but in the journey through the labyrinth.

Western exports may have dominated the consciousness of international rock fans for the entirety of the 20th century, but our increasing global awareness has unearthed a treasure trove of transcendental grooves and spellbinding riffage from exotic and remote corners of the planet. GOAT’s previous albums World Music and Commune were perfect testaments to this heightened awareness, with Silk Road psychedelia, desert blues, and Third World pop all serving as governing forces within the band’s sound. But GOAT’s strange amalgam isn’t some cheap game of cultural appropriation—it’s nearly impossible to pinpoint the exact origins of the elusive group’s sound. The fact that they pledge allegiance to a spot on the periphery of our maps bolsters the nomadic quality of their sonic explorations. With Requiem, GOAT continue to rock and writhe to a beat beholden to no nation, no state.

GOAT’s only outright declaration for Requiem is that it is their “folk” album, and the album is focused more on their subdued bucolic ritualism than psilocybin freakouts. But GOAT hasn’t completely foregone their fiery charms—tracks like “All-Seeing Eye” and “Goatfuzz” conjure the sultry heathen pulsations that ensnared us on their previous albums.

Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of Requiem comes with the closing track “Ubuntu”. The song is little more than a melodic delay-driven electric piano line, until we hear the refrain from “Diarabi”—the first song on their first album—sneak into the mix. It creates a kind of musical ouroboros—an infinite cycle of reflection and rejuvenation, death and rebirth. Much like fellow recluse Pynchon, rather than offering explanations for their strange trajectories, GOAT create a world where the line between truth and fiction is so obscured that all you can do is bask in their cryptic genius.

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released October 7, 2016

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