Commune will be available September 23rd via Sub Pop Records in North America, September 24th via Stranded Rekords in Scandinavia, and September 22nd via Rocket Recordings for the rest of the world. You can now listen GOAT’s “Words,” the new single from Commune, the group’s highly-anticipated second album. The album will be available on CD/LP/DL September 23rd via Sub Pop Records in North America, September 24th via Stranded Rekords in Scandinavia, and September 22nd via Rocket Recordings for the rest of the world. Commune is now available for preorder in North America via Sub Pop Mega Mart, iTunes and Amazon. While supplies last, customers who pre-order the LP version of Commune frommegamart.subpop.com will receive the colored-vinyl “Loser Edition” of the album and a limited-edition, single-sided 7” with a non-album track. Commune is the follow-up to GOAT's hypnotic 2012 debut, World Music, which received widespread acclaim and placed in many of that year's top-ten lists. The mysterious, masked group continued to awe the world with their intense, ritualistic live shows, the "Dreambuilding" b/w "Stonegoat" 7" (released in North America by Sub Pop in 2013), and the recent Live Ballroom Ritual double-album. GOAT’s previously-announced late summer & fall European tour in support Commune, begins August 23rd in Paredes de Coura, PT at Paredes de Coura Festival and ends October 3rd in London, UK at the Roundhouse. Please find a current list of tour dates below. More on GOAT:
There is no direct association between mysterious Swedish psychedelicists GOAT and revered Argentinian master of magical realism, Jorge Luis Borges. Yet their mission appears to be the same. Borges generated his ideas from historical curiosities across the globe—gaucho knife duels on the South American plains, Middle Eastern heresiarchs plotting treacheries in secret libraries, Chinese pirates waging wars against the Emperor—and twisted them into fictions that blurred the lines between fortified footnotes and outright fantasy. GOAT’s sound is the sonic manifestation of this principle, as evidenced in their aptly-named debut album World Music, which incorporated elements of Nigerian afrobeat, German krautrock, Anatolian funk, and a host of other global micro-niches into a hallucinatory cultish celebration of rock’s diverse manifestations. Deprived of the requisite band biography, early experiencers World Music’s electrified tribalism and lysergic compositions had the inevitable questions regarding the origin and timeframe of the recordings. The truth only became knottier every time the elusive GOAT collective provided their cryptic answers. Ultimately, it is GOAT’s music that speaks the most about them, and, on their sophomore album,Commune, GOAT deliver a heavy dose of acidic grooves, hypnotic incantations, and serpentine guitar lines. (Read more at Sub Pop). What people are saying about GOAT:
“...frantic percussive combination of acid-spiked psych-rock, groove-centric Afrobeat, dazed metal, euphoric disco, and unearthly funk.” - Stereogum
“...a psychedelic rock ritual of rhythm, motion, hypnotic repetition and ecstatic drive.” [Live review] - New York Times“Hide From The Sun’ is a slice of "proto-metal fuzz", successfully pulling off a fusion of tabla and sitar with hard rock, which in other hands could be a hazardous combination” [“Hide From The Sun”] - The Quietus Commune
Tracklisting
1. Talk to God
2. Words
3. The Light Within
4. To Travel the Path Unknown
5. Goatchild
6. Goatslaves
7. Hide From the Sun
8. Bondye
9. Gathering of Ancient Tribes Tour Dates
Aug. 23 - Paredes de Coura, PT - Paredes de Coura Festival
Sep. 19 - Copenhagen, DK - Vega
Sep. 20 - Tilburg, NL - Incubate
Sep. 21 - Brussels, BE - Ancienne Belgique
Sep. 23 - Berlin, DE - Postbahnhof
Sep. 24 - Munich, DE- Ampere
Sep. 25 - Paris, FR - Trabendo
Sep. 27 - Liverpool, UK - Liverpool Psych Festival
Sep. 28 - Glasgow, UK - SWG3
Sep. 29 - Newcastle, UK - Northumbria University
Oct. 01- Brighton, UK - Concorde 2
Oct. 02- Bristol, UK - Trinity Centre
Oct. 03 - London, UK - Roundhouse |
