Description
The Ouroborus that is, the icon of the snake or dragon eating its own tail appears to some a statement of the brutality of nature. To others of a Gnostic disposition it symbolises the duality of the divine and earthly in mankind. But most commonly, its taken simply to mean the endless cycles of death and rebirth that characterise life on this planet. As such, its an image that looms large in the world of Goat, the evermysterious and endlessly revivifying collective whose latest album marks another adventure above and beyond this particular plane of reality.This may be a band that has named albums both Requiem and Oh Death, yet this eponymous salvo proves yet again that transcendence and metamorphosis are their watchwords. Goat sees this everunpredictable outfit summoning rhythmicallydriven rituals in unmistakable, uplifting and scintillating style, equally adept at ignitiing dancefloors and expanding minds.One More Death and Goatbrain are spectacular curtainraisers, embodying a hedonistic spirit driven by incisive funk and possessed by merciless fuzzwahdrenched guitar. Yet elsewhere, the bands love of hip hop is the fuel for the endcreditsepic album closer Ourobourus which marries infectious chant to breathless Lalo Schifrinstyle breakbeat action. And which also means ultimately, like the titular oldest allegorical symbol in alchemy, were right back where we started. As Brad Dourifs character Hazel Moates intones in the 1979 movie Wiseblood, Where you come from is gone where you thought you were going werent never there. And where you are aint no good unless you can get away from it in Goats eternal now of renewal and revelation, theres never been a more potent means of escape.
