Lost in the polyglot-fusion and secret-identity hubbub for last year’s excellent World Music, the debut from mysterious Swedes Goat, was the act’s surprising efficiency. Belying their rookie status, Goat’s songs often got in and out of places very quickly, with five of World Music’s nine tracks doing their psych-Aftrobeat-garage damage in less than four minutes. The record itself was a deep web of fucked-up tones and sudden excursions, but the bits that built that effect were didn’t feel the need to hang around.

“Dreambuilding,” the first side of a forthcoming 7” single, finally spotlights that concision, as it lands its chant-along hook, a brilliant crybaby riff and a shake-it-out drum break in less than three cycles of the clock. What’s most impressive, though, is that Goat actually does all of this in the song’s first half, leaving the back half of the track open for a guitar solo that’s so gnarly, damaged and great that you might wish the side of vinyl went on forever.

[from the "Dreambuilding" 7"; out 04/20/13 in Scandinavia via Stranded, 06/03/13 in Europe via Rocket, and 06/04/13 everywhere else via Sub Pop]