Goat announce new album, share lead single

Medicine releases on October 13th.

Swedish psych rock stalwarts Goat have announced the release of a new album.

Medicine is scheduled for arrival on October 13th and marks the enigmatic masked outfit’s fifth full-length album to date. Continuing to build upon a period of proliferation that commenced in 2021 after the group resurfaced from a dormancy encompassing several years, Goat’s forthcoming album succeeds a full-length rarities compilation album, several reissues of their ever-popular 2012 debut statement World Music, a soundtrack for BBC’s The Gallows Pole and a full-length album of new music entitled Oh Death which released to widespread critical acclaim last year.

Of their forthcoming album a statement shared to Goat’s Bandcamp page reads,

“It is hard to know how many times the mythology and mystery of Goat’s backstory can be written about, but new release ‘Medicine’ – their fifth album proper, discounting live albums and compilations – does away with any need to dwell on the past, returning with a more introspective, slightly mellower psych-folk sound that remains recognisably them.

Whilst it can be hard to discern direct meaning from the vocals themselves, 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. However, there was nothing conscious about the way the album turned out, as the band were just trying to move along as freely and open-mindedly as possible.”

A meditative and slow-burning precursor to the full release of Medicine, hear new single ‘I Became The Unemployment Office’ in advance below.

Medicine

1 ‘Impermanence & Death’
2 ‘Raised By Hills’
3 ‘I Became The Unemployment Office’
4 ‘TSOD’
5 ‘Vakna’
6 ‘You’ll Be Alright’
7 ‘Join The Resistance’
8 ‘Tripping In The Graveyard’

Medicine releases on October 13th via Rocket Recordings. Pre-order the album on black and ‘bohemica’ frosted clear with purple splatter vinyl variants here.

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Words by Sam Wilkinson.