How do you categorize a band like Geese?
A little too jammy for indie rock, but a little too eccentric for the jam scene. The most apt comparison that can be made, in this writer’s humble opinion, is Talking Heads for a Gen Z world.
Formed in high school, Geese have been making art rock since 2016, and they finally seem to be having their moment in 2025. After the well-received second album 3D Country in 2023 and the slow-burn success of lead singer Cameron Winter’s solo album Heavy Metal released late 2024, the Geese fandom has reached fever-pitch in 2025.
What about Getting Killed has lit a fire in the Geese fanbase? Resale tickets for their current tour are fetching prices in the $200-$300 range (almost unheard of for an indie rock band). My best guess is that there’s an unpredictability about Geese that speaks to the world in 2025.
One minute, Winter is shouting at the listener that there’s a bomb in the car, and the next song, he’s adapted to a crooner sound to sing what passes for a love song in the Geese universe. The same goes for the music. One minute it’s a pleasant, catchy melody and then suddenly, it goes into a band freakout jam. This album keeps its listener on their toes. Every time you think they’ll zig, they zag.
The musicianship on Getting Killed is also so impressive. This sounds like a BAND. In a world where so many music projects are one person’s bedroom project that turned into a touring act with hired musicians, it’s nice to hear a cohesive unit working to make an album together.
This sounds like a group that is comfortable enough to go down any musical road they come across. That kind of confidence only comes when you’re a group that has played for almost a decade together.
Highlights of the album “100 Horses” and “Taxes” seem like the perfect kind of music to soundtrack Hour Seven on a road trip across America with three of your closest friends. That moment where there is nothing left to say, but you still feel compelled to make conversation to break the silence. There’s a certain absurdity setting in, but in that absurdity, the closest bonds are being made.
I think what makes Geese such a compelling act is their authenticity. This is not a band that is chasing commercial success. Releasing “Trinidad” as a single is more than proof of that. This is a band making music because it’s what they’re compelled to make. Either you’re on board, or you're not.
The last line of the final song “Long Island City Here I Come” sums up this album better than any analogy I can come up with.
“I have no idea where I’m going/ Here I come.”
Must listens
- Trinidad
- Cobra
- Husbands
- Getting Killed
- Islands of Men
- 100 Horses
- Half Real
- Taxes
- Long Island City Here I Come
