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Dispatches from the Highlands
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formed in 2018, whose debut came two years later. Mitchell was more than 15 years into her recording career, including her fourth LP that she developed into a stage musical. Johnson is a former member of the Shins but better known as leader of the thoroughly enjoyable Chicago out t Fruit Bats. And Kaufman is something of a jack of all trades collaborator and producer who especially caught my attention
Goat Oh Death
Over the course of my lifetime, the bipedal meaning of the word "goat" has gone from being a term of derision
for his work with Muzz, at worst my third favorite album from 2020. Rolling Golden Holy represents the trio's second record of nely cra ed folk,
to a compliment of the highest order. I've never been a fan of the latter, "greatest of all time." Especially when "B.O.A.T." was sitting there for the taking. Just use "best" instead! Anyway, what the hell am I babbling on about here? Oh yeah, Goat. ey're also a Swedish band. On their rst release since 2016's Re- quiem , the mysterious rockers, if you can call them that, do what they have always done: make bizarre, engrossing music that is typi- cally better with headphones, and probably in conjunction with illicit substances. Oh Death contains the charm, for lack of better word, of their previous e orts, all unique, yet all so very Goat. While Requiem was a jammed out 68 minutes, here the Swedes cover an equally wide spectrum of sounds in half the time. "Catchy" is probably not the best term for their output, but there is a hypnotizing e ect that makes much of what they do impossible to ignore. Goat may not be the B.O.A.T., but they certainly are one of a kind.
but while their self-titled debut found them reinterpreting older songs, they up the ante this go-round with ten originals, all of which have a timeless, or at least time removed, feel. Some work better than others, but all are approached with a reverence to the ancestral well from which they draw. It adds up to an improvement over the solid 2020 release, no doubt aided by the authenticity earned through their songwriting e orts. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Notable: "Gizztoberfest" (October 2022) "Gizztoberfest" was very real, given that the band dropped three new albums in 22 days ( Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava ; Laminated Denim ; and Changes ). Denim is particularly delicious: it's two tracks (which Stu Mackenzie calls among his favorite the group has ever done), each exactly 15 min- utes long, even more jammy than IDPLML , and it was designed to play as setbreak music for the band's occasional "marathon" shows when they play two sets, about three hours of music with a 15-minute break in the middle. Seriously? Two Gizzard sets? ree hours of music? F*ck me.
Bonny Light Horseman Rolling Golden Holy
As a number of locations around the country experience the rst urries and frost of the year, the second Bonny Light Horseman album is a tting arrival. Supergroup might be a stretch, but Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman bring considerable credentials to this combo
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