Graveyard and Goat team up to release collaborative single “Ship of Fools”

Swedish rock veterans Graveyard have collaborated with their long-time friends Goat on the release of a double A-side 7” for Record Store Day. While the first track, “Light As A Feather,” was digitally premiered earlier this month, today marks the digital release of its counterpart, “Ship Of Fools.“

Both bands blend their sounds into a twin toke of sweat and singe. Hailing from a history of house jams over at Goat HQ, the single unwinds Graveyard‘s more meticulous nature. “Ship Of Fools” unleashes a tsunami of sound, guitars barreling down on the listener with ill intent. The wave crests and quenches, though, leaning into the soul-soaked direction of Graveyard‘s latest album, “6.” Head to head, the bands dig towards a stadium sound that’s still slicked back with the sounds of the ‘70s, but rolled in more of Graveyard‘s overarching grandeur than Goats’s eclectic grit.

The flip side lights up the speakers, far less dense than anything the bands have released in quite some time. The jammy approach that inspired the session pays off throughout “Light As A Feather,” soaking up prime-period Stones if they’d aimed for the heart of the sun with Father Yod in the driver’s seat. Sloughing off the shackles of verse/chorus/verse structure, the song picks up mid-ecstatic peak, the listener already in thrall to the groove, simmering in the sway-along harmonies before an acid-butter burner of a solo sends the whole thing rippling out into the cosmos.

Stream “Ship of Fools” here, or watch the visualizer: