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World Music
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Metascore
87

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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

  • Summary: This is their debut album for the seven-man collective hailing from the tiny village of Korpilombolo in northern Sweden.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. The Guardian
    Dec 20, 2012
    100
    Beautifully realised, immaculately recorded, and one of the year's loveliest vinyl artefacts to boot.
  2. BBC Music
    Sep 17, 2012
    90
    Surrender your mind, body and soul to the Goat and one of the year's best albums so far.
  3. Austin Chronicle
    Apr 25, 2013
    89
    World Music sounds like a truly panglobal operation, a remarkably organic siphon of dozens of musical traditions.
  4. The Quietus
    Sep 13, 2012
    80
    Goat has distilled what could have so very easily become an overblown meandering jam fest into a punchy, forceful and infectious masterpiece of cosmic rock & roll – the will is palpable, nigh a trace of fat on these bleached bones.
  5. PopMatters
    Nov 19, 2012
    80
    Channeling whatever ceremonial endeavors (or imbibing whatever substances) are required, Goat has come up with an exuberant album filled to the brim with potent mysticism; World Music is fittingly possessed by a sprit of pure adventurousness.
  6. Clash Music
    Sep 17, 2012
    80
    A brilliant and intoxicating record.
  7. Drowned In Sound
    Sep 13, 2012
    70
    [World Music is] a wonder through the traditional folk and more amplified sounds of the planet's history, yet infused with enough of Goat's own character to all glue together.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
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  1. brockcheese
    Sep 27, 2021
    9
    This is the kind of album it feels like music was made for. It takes you on a journey and it feels like you are truly traveling the globeThis is the kind of album it feels like music was made for. It takes you on a journey and it feels like you are truly traveling the globe listening to this.… Expand
  2. KFZ
    Mar 20, 2013
    9
    Listening to Goat World Music is like a cathartic experience, you have a trip without taking any drugs, its a solid and entertaining albumListening to Goat World Music is like a cathartic experience, you have a trip without taking any drugs, its a solid and entertaining album that will become a classic in some years and sadly, few people know it.… Expand
  4. catcarlo
    Dec 5, 2012
    8
    Vengono da un posto chiamato Korpilombolo

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#13 Best Album of 2012