A year after the release of the last GOAT album "Oh Death", the masked Swedes have now announced the successor "Medicine", which will be released on October 13th on Rocket Recordings. In the first single "Unemployment Office" they complement their psych-rock with elements from 70s progressive. Not only the new single, but also the entire album has a more reserved, warm feel throughout, and the band suggests that the album's overarching theme is the transience of life - in all its different facets: "It's about the impermanence of life in different ways: sickness, relationships, love, death and how our time is finite." It's hard to say how many times the mythology and mystery of GOAT's backstory can be rewritten, but the new album stops dwelling on the past and presents a slightly softer psych-folk sound that is still Goat . The individual identities involved in the band's three albums remain shrouded in mystery: GOAT spokespeople claim that the group is merely an ongoing multi-generational collective of musicians from the isolated Swedish town of Korpilombolo. Located north of the Arctic Circle, the city is a crossroads between Sami natives, Scandinavian settlers and the rare intrusion of wanderers from outside. Beyond that, GOAT reveal very little. The secrecy surrounding individual members and the lack of information about Korpilombolo do little to support or refute GOAT's claims. As "unapproachable" as their story sounds, the band also describes their music mysteriously: "We often talk about how all music is world music and all other genres are old fashioned. All you can hear is the universal similarity between all music. The "Music from some old cult in northern Sweden can be the same as the music from wherever." The sound of the new album is the sonic manifestation of Nigerian Afrobeat, German Krautrock, funk and dark, hallucinatory rock. In keeping with the title "Medicine", this drug must be very strong. Regardless of the dosage and type of "medicine" - it's time to take it now. CLASSIC BLACK Trip Color VINYL!