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Goat-Commune
Artist : Goat
Album : Commune
Label : Stranded Rekords
Year : 2014
Genre : Psychedelic Rock Source : CDDA
Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1 Bitrate : 952kbps
Playtime : 38:53 Size : 267.74 MB
Tracks:
01 Talk To God 06:39
02 Words 03:06
03 The Light Within 02:57
04 To Travel The Path Unknown 02:29
05 Goatchild 04:01
06 Goatslaves 04:46
07 Hide From The Sun 03:36
08 Bondye 05:01
09 Gathering Of Ancient Tribes 06:18
Notes:
"All great pop music," Brian Eno once said, "is created
by small groups of people misunderstanding other small
groups far away." The Swedish band Goat works from the
premise that compounding those misunderstandings can
make pop even better. Their faraway small groups of
choice are artists who've introduced the fuzz and wah
of electric instruments into traditions that developed
outside Western pop: Tinariwen, the Congotronics crowd,
Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band, the heavier side of
the Sublime Frequencies catalog.
The ingenious part of Goat's act is that they've looped
those artists' sounds back into drone-rock, expanding
the range of tones and rhythms that most of the bands
in Spacemen 3's wake have wielded at their disposal.
The less exciting part is the way that Goat have
couched their open-eared virtuosity in a load of
pseudo-mystical play-acting: they perform in masks that
look generically "exotic-ethnic" but don't actually
appropriate any specific cultural associations, they
claim to be inspired by the vodou tradition of the
northern Swedish town of Korpilombolo (population 529),
and their lyrics and titles are winkingly quasi-
primitivist. (One tip-off is the title of Commune's
"Gathering of Ancient Tribes": note that it's a
backronym for the name of the band, and then ask
yourself why it would be in English.)
That said, some of Commune is pretty splendid. It's
recorded through a thick veil of reverb, which makes
for an improvement on the crisper tone of their debut,
the 2012 LP World Music; the band's nameless singer now
sounds delightfully as if she's screaming down the far
end of a wind tunnel. (Goat's members still haven't
revealed their identities, aside from occasional
spokesperson Christian Johansson, although one of them
did apparently convince an interviewer that his name
was Bjorn Ulvaeus.) It's also frontloaded with two of
the band's best songs to date: "Talk to God", a
hypnotic jam built around a single fluttering guitar
phrase, and "Words", a singleminded acid-rock stomp
whose only nod to internationalism beyond International
Artists is finger cymbals.
Still, Goat seems to be running short on material on
Commune. "To Travel the Path Unknown" and "Bondye"
(named after a Haitian vodou god) are both undercooked
instrumentals, and a few other tracks rely on one or
two little riffs that repeat until not even a pedal-
hopping guitar solo can keep them afloat. The band
pulls it together for the closer, "Gathering of Ancient
Tribes", another Tichumaren-inspired groove that
gradually piles on on layers of instrumental texture,
until it endsùas the album beganùwith the sound of a
temple bell.
It's easy to understand why Goat would try to frame
their music as a spiritual ritual, and there's a
tradition of communal mysticism even among the European
roots of what they're up to here (see, for instance,
the bands that came out of the Amon Duul commune). But
they've also locked themselves into an act in which
they have to write and dress a certain way without ever
breaking character, and in which their gift for
bringing together musical ideas from Mali and Lagos and
Birmingham and beyond is burdened by the preposterous
pretense of being an "ancient tribe," and the notion of
keeping that act up is the greatest hurdle they face.
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