True story. Splashing down on our planet 11 years ago World Music was the Afro-Haitian heavy psych swamp rock LP from Sweden that somehow we had never realised how much we craved. The masked band Goat claimed to hail from Korpilombolo in northern Sweden. This band are merely the latest iteration of the Goat tradition and so on, so forth. I suspect they may be fibbing. A sonorous bass and guitar jam that hits exactly that descending, Phrygian scale that every stoner knucklehead instantly adopts to suggest something Eastern or foreign in rock music.
The reverb drenched guitar and stridently powerful female vocals are absolutely undeniable and uplifting. The guitar and bass register at a tone and volume Black Sabbath would be happy to own. It is truly superb, for my money the best track on World Music as it achieves a perfect vertical lift-off, sustains it via some barbed-wire guitar soloing and bongos, followed by a charming gentle coda. I have had a goat shed full of fun revisiting World Music. World Music is my favourite LP of theirs still, although all have something to recommend them, possibly because it is slightly more jagged around the edges.
Goat have over the years forced themselves into the position of being my 1 Swedish Afro-Haitian heavy psych swamp rock merchants, what more can I say? It is a great looking thing and uncharacteristically I have not broken the intricately die-cut LP sleeve. It is a great quality pressing and I would recommend it.
A man with too much vinyl and an itch in his typing finger. View all posts by Jat Storey. Always love the words but in this case as in most of your cases the music delivers. Just came away from some good listening to tune into your station.
If you are going to choose a 1 Swedish Afro-Haitian heavy psych swamp rock merchant, one wearing masks is tops. I am and have always been a sucker for a band with a good origin story. I once spent a happy week watching YouTube videos of this band. Would they be hanging with the Belmont Goats or the yoga goats, we like our goats in the north west.
