If some music comes on like a caress, the music that Goose make is more like a slap in the face with a velvet glove. Taking a blowtorch to the boundaries between rock and dance music, the Belgian four-piece make records like Cadillac make cars – a tough and sleek, perfect fusion of man and machine. On their debut album ‘Bring It On’, Goose create dance music with ferocious metal teeth. Buzzsaw synthesisers, sternum-shaking drums and electric shock riffs combine to make something that is aggressive as it is compulsively danceable.

Live, Goose have already ripped up dance clubs from Ghent, Belgium’s legendary Culture Club, to London’s Canvas, but the traditional band circuit is theirs for the taking too. “Last night,” says singer and keyboard player Mickael Karkousse, “there was a guy who said ‘I came in the venue, I saw the synthesizers and I was thinking Kraftwerk’. But then when he heard the music he heard a rock band. Dave (Martijn, guitar and keyboards) treats his keyboards the way he used to play guitar. It’s a massive sound – it’s powerful.” It’s also a sound that’s completely in tune with 2006, where indie kids wave glowsticks and clubbers dance to powerchords, where producers and DJs like Justice, Paul Epworth, Simian Mobile Disco and Goose’s fellow Belgians Soulwax can unite musical factions with electronic music you can mosh to and guitar records with a groove. Fans of Daft Punk and AC/DC alike, it’s a moment in music that’s perfect for Goose.

The band, whose other two members are bassist and keyboard player Tom Coghe and drummer Bert Libeert, come from the textile city of Kortrijk. Bert, Dave and Mickael have played together since 1996 when they were at school, and in 2002, having recruited Tom, Goose was born, named after Tom Cruise’s sidekick in ‘Top Gun’, a film that, says Dave, was “part of our youth”.

Tracklisting:

Black Gloves
Everybody
Good Times
Low Mode

Goose tour Australia for Parklife in September and October:

Sat Sep 22 – Melbourne
Sun Sep 23 – Adelaide
Sat Sep 29 – Brisbane
Sat Sep 30 – Sydney
Mon Oct 1 – Perth