Medicine (Vinyl) - By: Goat - Model Number: LB002EP

Description

It is hard to know how many times the mythology and mystery of Goat™s backstory can be written about, but new release ˜Medicine™ does away with any need to dwell on the past, returning with a more introspective, slightly mellower psych-folk sound that remains recognisably them.
 
There is a consistently restrained, warm feel across the whole work, and the band suggest that the overall theme of the album is about the impermanence of life in different ways: sickness, relationships, love, death and how our time is finite.
 
At times the album™s sound has nods to classic Swedish 70s psych/prog/folk acts such as Arbete & Fritid, Charlie & Esdor and Träd, Gräs & Stenar. ˜Vakna™ takes on this influence, progressing across nearly six minutes of swaying, warping guitar solos, without ever breaking out into chaos.
 
The ˜Medicine™ of the title may refer to a number of salves, or the value of relationships and love: For our families, friends, society, this could be done through the use of psychedelics, through meditation, through learning from other people, staying curious and never settling for a ˜solid™ identity.
 
Flute is foregrounded throughout, threading across several tracks from the opener ˜Impermanence And Death™. It duets elegantly with keening synth lines through the beautiful ˜You™ll Be Alright™, and leads the melody of the closing track ˜Tripping In The Graveyard™. ˜TSOD™, with its backdrop of sitar and acoustic guitar, has an indelible vocal melody that could be a lost George Harrison recording.
 
The title of the full album version of first single, ˜I Became The Unemployment Office™, comes from an expression for someone taking advantage of you. The joyous, echo-laden groove of penultimate track ˜Join The Resistance™ bursts into life and continues to build to a moment of release with a huge Sabbath-esque riff.
 
Whatever your dosage, and regardless of your remedy, it is now time to take your medicine.
Label
Rocket Recordings

Tracks & Genre

BORDER