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  • Summary: This is the sixth full-length studio release from masked Swedish psych-folk band Goat.
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Uncut
    Oct 11, 2023
    80
    There's a similar vibe here [to the soundtrack they created for BBC drama Gallows Pole] on tracks such as "raised By Hills" and "Tripping In The Graveyard", although elsewhere the psych weirdness is as rampantly eclectic as ever. [Nov 2023, p.29]
  2. Oct 20, 2023
    80
    For the average Goat acolyte, I would say that Medicine successfully takes the band forward, with balanced experimentation and enough psychedelia to make you have an outer body experience while you do the dishes.
  3. The Wire
    Oct 11, 2023
    80
    The grooves, textures, feel and playing here are immaculately realised but the unique way this band put together what they can do makes it, as ever, way more than just retro-psyche. Perhaps their best, most fully realised record yet. [Oct 2023, p.56]
  4. Oct 11, 2023
    80
    Medicine is, in other words, a straight up psychedelic rock affair – for better and for worse. .... Overall, it is an amazingly fun record for spooky psychonauts.
  5. Oct 13, 2023
    80
    Goat prove once again on Medicine that they deserve to be in the top echelon where the groups, past or present, who play this style of music with an incalculable amount of imagination and an unquenchable desire to scale new heights of sound are nobly enshrined.
  6. 70
    It’s the Medicine we need, and it works best when they up the dosage. [Nov 2023, p.77]
  7. Mojo
    Oct 11, 2023
    60
    Occasionally they get lost in their own jams - the meandering Tripping In The Graveyard definitely overstays its welcome. By contrast, Impermanence And Death captures the at their best. [Nov 2023, p.90]