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Goat: Commune review – back into the psychedelic groove

Goat’s second album keeps the psychedelic-ritual vibe going, and it’s as infectious as ever, writes Kitty Empire
  
  

GOAT. 2014 press images from Silver PR Band.
Goat commune to a fusion of voodoo, psychedelia and Swedish eccentricity. Photograph: PR

Goat’s first album, 2012’s World Music, fused African music, psychedelia and elaborately costumed Swedish eccentricity. Their gigs were like rituals – hence Commune, album number two, a title probably more verb than noun. Appropriately, Talk to God finds Goat’s female vocalist chanting alongside some heady guitar runs. It’s fair to say that Goat have not really recalibrated since World Music – there’s a dash more Turkish psychedelic folk here, a mite more tempo variety there. But Commune is every bit as immersive. You get the feeling that Goat could just keep this sinuous groove going forever.

 

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