I listened to GOAT's newie straight after I listened to Kucka's, and I gotta say it proved to be the perfect foil to the latter's complex, cerebral beauty. This is opposite - simple, visceral ugliness (but with a heart of gold). It's stoner rock through and through - I could liken it to Queens of the Stone Age or Sleep, but hey you know what stoner rock sounds like. DOES IT GET THE THUMBS UP THOUGH? Yeah, it's solid, and for a two piece the sound is huge - the guitar's appropriately doused in lava, the drums are hulking and just a little bit sloppy when they need to be. The vocals are lacking in grit - sometimes almost pretty - but this quirk actually makes the songs more interesting, rather than emasculating them. 'Bury The King' is a nice bit of Sabbath homage, while "Melting In The Rain" pulls back into melodic semi-acoustic territory, and almost gets away with it. If you're a long-time sludge fan, this EP will offer nothing new per se to your sphere of listening, but it will certainly scratch that itch for Homme-type fuzz riffery.