Headsoup is a new compilation that deepens Goats legend even further. Collecting non-album material from across their career, standalone singles, B-sides, digital edits and never before heard songs, its a record thats even bigger in its scope than their studio LPs. Its a globetrotting acid trip of a record, one that moves from the magnificent heavy-psych of their earliest work, like Goatman B-side The Sun And Moon, to the serene Requiem-era alternate take Union Of Mind And Soul, to the simmering grooves of their latest material, and a myriad of other detours.Sometimes dark and heavy, at others joyous and beautiful, like Goat themselves Headsoup is mysterious and constantly shapeshifting, difficult to properly pin down but constantly enthralling. Jazz-flute solos, pounding Afrobeat rhythms, ferocious desert blues, drifting Ethio-jazz and churning drones are just a fraction of their dazzling mix of influences. This is, as the name of Goats first album made clear, World Music in its most complete form, a sound unrestrained by genre boundaries, although the band are anything but lazy appropriators. They approach their forebears with upmost reverence, providing a celebratory cultural cross-pollination.Headsoup also includes two brand-new tracks, recorded towards the end of 2020, which show that Goat are far from finished evolving. Fill My Mouth is a scuzzy psychedelic funk knockout, the sleaziest thing the band have ever recorded. Queen Of The Underground, meanwhile, is truly herculean, a swaggering psychedelic powerhouse of the very highest order. Almost a decade since Goat first emerged from the depths of Korpilombo, there is still no other band on earth that sounds quite like them.