Goat
Fuzzed In Europe

After touring across Europe in the fall of 2016 to promote the latest studio LP 'Requiem', Goat are back with the release of a six-track live album that both documents this experience and aims to offer the audience something different from what has been published so far.

The album 'Fuzzed In Europe', the second live release from this crazy ensemble hailing from Sweden, is more than just the presentation of a single event. Unlike the double LP 'Live Ballroom Ritual', it is a specific selection of six tracks recorded at different shows within the same tour. The choice was somewhat scientific (the band recorded practically every single concert) and focused on favoring six recordings that, beyond the sound quality and the performance itself, offered versions of the selected tracks recorded differently compared to the original ones on studio LPs.

Released as usual on Rocket Recordings in a limited double edition of 2,250 copies, with dedicated artwork by the historic artist Adam Pobiak, the album came out at the end of October, practically last week, and as it has been presented, it might constitute for now the last release before a break that the group wanted to take after intense activity in recent years, since the release of 'World Music' in 2012.

As for the album's content, it is clearly inspired by the freak and obsessive psychedelia and the experimentation and fusion extremities characteristic of the band, with episodes taken from the three different studio LPs published ('World Music', 'Commune', 'Requiem'). Standing out perhaps more than usual is a certain seventies rock'n'roll acidity that in the studio is perhaps more sacrificed compared to the occult and visionary tribalism that constitutes a peculiar feature of this band. Here and there, references to a certain Doors-like imagery ('Talk To God'), a typically Jimi Hendrix acidity ('Gathering Of Ancient Tribes'), a garage sound in the style of Blue Cheer and MC5 ('The Sun The Moon') emerge... Particularly noteworthy for me is a very seventies version of 'I Sing In Silence'. Less obsessive than on the record but equally beautiful and practically here completely renewed.

Everything is clearly mixed with the most typical and somewhat unclassifiable stylistic elements of this group, which claims to originate from the town of about five hundred inhabitants of Korpilombolo in Norrbotten County, Sweden. At this point, we can imagine them making smoke signals while they sit inside improbable teepees with solar panels and internet connection, smoking the peace pipe, burning sage and grasses while waiting to unearth the tomahawk and return to battle.