"Goats pairs Dirty Three drummer Jim White with Cretan lute wizard Giorgis Xylouris in a musical conversation that careens across genres and, to a lesser degree, historical time. The pair met in Melbourne some years ago and informally played together, but the idea for recording didn't come up until they backed Xylouris' father, the great lyra player and singer Psarandonis, at the Nick Cave-curated All Tomorrow's Parties festival in 2007. Produced and engineered by Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, Goats' nine tunes -- six originals, two folk songs, and Xylouris' father's "Psarandonis Syrto" -- feel simultaneously composed and improvised. White suggested the album's title while driving through the Cretan countryside after a day's recording. He felt the music resembled what he saw outside: the often precarious movement of the goats on the mountain ledges. He was right." -- AllMusic.com

Track Listing
1 Pulling the Bricks
2 Old School Sousta
3 Psarandonis Syrto
4 The Bells
5 Wind
6 Suburb
7 Chicken Song
8 Fandomas
9 Run and La