Goat - Medicine

Released 13th October 2023

It is hard to know how many times the mythology and mystery of Goats backstory can be written about, but new release Medicine does away with any need to dwell on the past, returning with a more introspective, slightly mellower psych-folk sound that remains recognisably them.

There is a consistently restrained, warm feel across the whole work, and the band suggest that the overall theme of the album is about the impermanence of life in different ways: sickness, relationships, love, death and how our time is finite.

At times the albums sound has nods to classic Swedish 70s psych/prog/folk acts such as Arbete & Fritid, Charlie & Esdor and Trd, Grsoch Stenar. Vakna takes on this influence, progressing across nearly six minutes of swaying, warping guitar solos, without ever breaking out into chaos.

The Medicine of the title may refer to a number of salves, or the value of relationships and love: For our fa