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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. Songs like singles 'Black Gloves' and 'British Mode' show a state-of-the-art rock band making music like a DJ plays a set, with breakdowns, building tensions and ecstatic release.