Goose @ King Tut's
refusing to trance out or even vary the intense pace, they storm through their set
| 12 Mar 2007
Unlike their peers in the new wave of new rave, Goose are closer to the original four-square techno of the early 1990s. With a line-up of three synths, and the occasional use of guitar or bass, they rely on thumping beats, distorted keyboard stabs and repetitive vocals from an era when the MC was more common than the singer. The songs - largely interchangeable slabs of manic energy and noise - are more like clubbing tunes than songs.
Goose's live show lacks subtlety, but is better for it. Truncating excess, refusing to trance out or even vary the intense pace, they storm through their set. Other bands may have a more sensitive take on techno-rock crossover, but Goose hammer home a series of impressive power riffs. Like the best hardcore, they grasp their audience, shake them, then disappear in a display of brute force. [Gareth K Vile]
Goose's live show lacks subtlety, but is better for it. Truncating excess, refusing to trance out or even vary the intense pace, they storm through their set. Other bands may have a more sensitive take on techno-rock crossover, but Goose hammer home a series of impressive power riffs. Like the best hardcore, they grasp their audience, shake them, then disappear in a display of brute force. [Gareth K Vile]