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The Yule Goat

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Childermas 10:46
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Ebb, Static... 05:16
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Forbidden Tones 06:12
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Borealis 05:20
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Julebukker 03:22
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about

THE YULE GOAT is 32 minutes of frosted leaf-mulch noise from DEGRADATION. Building on their debut LP LEADLINED — described by The Quietus’ Noel Gardner as ‘livewire machine sludge… underpinned by a chassis of blowout bass’ — DEGRADATION empty their carrier bag of heavy electronics as they trudge through the icy winds of a bleak recession winter. The second of Brachliegen’s seasonal releases to mark the festive season – following George Rayner-Law’s The Tryal of Old Christmas – THE YULE GOAT delivers a spectral gift from the harvest, a bundle of processed noise and drones, pickled, jarred and tied with a ribbon. Wassailing atop the mythic traditions of Yulemas, DEGRADATION mill grains of festive noise and field recordings in search of the ever dwindling horn of plenty.

Opener ‘Childermas’ filters a blizzard of blinding arctic noise, melting the cacophony into a pummelling wall of harsh noise before reharmonising the slipstream into a granular digital snowstorm. Machine elves and a field of goats enact a fragmented call-and-response duet in ‘Ebb, Static…’ before being joined from the mist by a third voice, which glides over the depths of a cyclical series of modulating throbs from the unknown. On the reverse, the cassette’s B-side opens up with ‘Forbidden Tones’, a legally distinct SylvianXSakomoto inspired collision of subbass Japanese reeds, Italian church bells and tortured microcassette longing. ‘Borealis’ journeys deep into the darkness of an arctic ice-tomb to discover Frankenstein’s monster, frozen out of time and the release’s finale ‘Julebukker’ pierces the mist and static with considered reflexion on the folkloric chilblains that have desecrated the English psyche.

Christmas draws near and we huddle together in search of warmth and good cheer. Embrace the seasonal early nights and crack out the big coat out from under the bed; swaddle your loved ones in these 5 tracks of variated festive noise, collaged together as a balm for the desolation of winter’s dereliction. 

Yird pigs // Following the corpse road // Everything must go on as usual // Blood & soil mysticism // Blobby’s custard cum // Blair’s birth canal // His left foot could get pickles out of a jar // England and its absence // Swimming in a sea of cortisol // Golden yolks for local folks //Screw talk // Copper chat // An economy of the gaze // Beguiled by 40 years of cheap credit // A great uncaring machine // Nonfunctioning // Slapping the gears back on without being caught // A corpse submerged in a peat bog // Will not decay // But instead be preserved // The skin tanned like leather // And the hair turned a rich copper red // Space to stir and be stirred // Space to starve and be starved // It is unusually warm for the season…

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released December 9, 2022

Degradation is George Rayner-Law & Vinegar Tom
Mastered by Jack Chuter

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