{"id":24396,"date":"2024-02-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=24396"},"modified":"2024-02-28T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:50:10","slug":"dez-dare-a-billion-goats-a-billion-sparks-fin-god-unknown-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=24396","title":{"rendered":"Dez Dare \u2013 \u2018A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin.\u2019 (God Unknown Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CHIMP015-A-Billion-Goats_-A-Billion-Sparks_-Fin_-LO.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CHIMP015-A-Billion-Goats_-A-Billion-Sparks_-Fin_-LO-300x300.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CHIMP015-A-Billion-Goats_-A-Billion-Sparks_-Fin_-LO-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CHIMP015-A-Billion-Goats_-A-Billion-Sparks_-Fin_-LO-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CHIMP015-A-Billion-Goats_-A-Billion-Sparks_-Fin_-LO-65x65.webp 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CHIMP015-A-Billion-Goats_-A-Billion-Sparks_-Fin_-LO.webp 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Australian born, Brighton based musical psychonaut Dez Dare is back with album number four \u2018A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin.\u2019 This, his first long player for new label God Unknown Records (home to the likes of Duke Garwood and John J Presley) sees the garage rock renegade experimenting with wires, microchips and transistors and adding an element of electronica to his already trademark fuzzed out psychedelic stomp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fear not though diehard Dare fans, our musical anti-hero hasn\u2019t gone full on Krautrock on us (well not just yet anyway) and produced an ambient drone record, as one listen to the excellent \u2018Got A Fire In My Socket\u2019 single\/video will prove. Sounding not unlike John Du Cann covering \u2018Kid\u2019s In America\u2019 it all comes together faultlessly to provide an inspiring auditory twist to the Dare sonic attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dez Dare - Got a Fire In My Socket (God Unknown 2024)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3SP-zvAbkIs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bringing this new electronic tinged soundscape to full realisation three tracks into the album is \u201810,000 Monkeys + An Argument in Time\u2019, a song that sounds like it\u2019s been written over the soundtrack to a long lost ZX Spectrum game. It\u2019s the near perfect antidote to the threat of AI enhanced music here in 2024 and whilst it shouldn\u2019t really work it\u2019s the best thing Dare\u2019s written to date utilising 8 bit technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s still plenty of old school guitar driven head noise for us all to submerge ourselves in too, via the likes of \u2018Matter v\u2019s Matter\u2019, \u2018Call My City, Don\u2019t Call My Telephone\u2019, \u2018Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Apocalypse\u2019, and the album\u2019s pulsating closer \u2018A Billion Voices Screaming, Hello Void!\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me though, it\u2019s when the metallic ping of \u2018Gotta Cold Feeling\u2019 and the pulsating throb of \u2018Entangled Entropy\u2019 unfurl themselves mid album to provide a creative high point and things move into almost Henrik Palm territory pushing \u2018A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin.\u2019 into almost mainstream territory. Something I don\u2019t think I\u2019d ever thought I\u2019d find myself writing about Dez Dare, but then with bands like King Gizzard and Osees (or whatever they are called this week) planning to take over the arena circuit here in the UK and Sleaford Mods already there, what the hell is considered mainstream these days anyway eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin.\u2019 Is released on March 1<sup>st <\/sup>2024, St Dez\u2019s Day, on CD, download and deluxe vinyl, complete with a comic album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hit the link below to order your copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezdare.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dezdare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian born, Brighton based musical psychonaut Dez Dare is back with album number four \u2018A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. 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