Goat - New Games FLAC download

This being Goat (or Goat (18) as they are known on the Discogs database) 's first official studio release obviously means that it is also their first manifestation and exposure to the unsuspecting and unexpecting world. It is difficult to describe the band's sound without trying to strip away at their purity and cover it with indescript and often misleading labels. Creating unconventional song structures mostly based in tightness and precision on a mathematical scale, using their instruments in much less expected ways, Goat manage to be both stimulating and hypnotic at once, keeping the audience both at bay and on toes while almost lulling them into their own lullabies. Obviously not targeted for the mass market but rather to a smaller more attention-prone audience, their sound is both soothier and abrassive depending on the context, volume, and venue (when witnessed in live shows). The opener "New Games" may be considered almost their "hit" "single" if such actually accepted non-traditional formats. This is followed by another variant on the traditional rhythm versus counter-measure structure under the title of "Hexman". Third in line is "MW" which, with its slowly growing complexity, seems like it could detonate at any moment, but never really does; it only subtlely morphs into more complexity. "STD" closes off this 40 minute album with another take on the Goat formulae, this time in the form of a slowly evolving growl with increasing menace, allowing all musicians who were previously quite content at playing in a more muted stance, to let their instruments roar freely, made more evident in saxophone player Akihiko Ando's performance which was, up to this point, anything but traditional. In essence, Goat take the once tired drum-bass-guitar combo, and breathe a new life in a format which some of us have found lacking for decades after countless re-hashments of stereotypical uses of these instruments. Goat offer us a unique take on the format which is anything but conventional and never skip a single beat in their process.