Cameron Winter-Heavy Metal

Oddly hypnotised by this...anyone else digging it?

Skeptical that the bag of tricks he’s also hypnotising me with will become revealed with a few more cursory listens….

But yeah, this is hitting what I want from a singer songwriter = the fusion of a boozy-rocker-swayer with the divinely-appointed-troubadour

I’m kind of surprised by all the hype over this. I’m a fan of Geese, but this just isn’t landing with me at all after multiple attempts. I’m missing something that others hear in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swwC4SdvIK4

was puzzled by this album, but i think this performance has unlocked something for me. maybe i'm just impressed by him actually doing the brbrbrbbb part on live tv

Heard him described as Tom Waitsian without actually sounding like Tom Waits. I have a hard time with the vocals but also hear some Rufus Wainwright and Thom Yorke in there? Anyway this record is really crossing over, huh.

The thought that this album was just kitsch tom waits was the only factor I had to get over to love it.

Very funny top youtub comment:
"I literally can't get enough of this album. Emotional, honest sonic beauty. Dude's in his early 20s with an old Nick Drake soul or something."

Also this one = new board description

You know it's original/creative music when people say "he doesn't sound good"

Not 100% enthralled by this album yet… but upon the first few listens I’m convinced Love Takes Miles has SOTY potential

this is not a perfect album but it's very very very good

(but yeah, "love takes miles" *is* a perfect song)

this record is *so good*

table by the motherfucking door 😤

“try as I may” has been on repeat for me. what an absolutely virtuosic performance

I find that song, and partic his live performances, impossibly moving

"Dancing in the Dark" cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6EJxjdRPAw

i hate that this is for a stupid xbox commercial bc this is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4UFAejSQFA

https://thephrasemaker.com/2025/12/12/paul-thomas-anderson-benny-safdie-spotted-shooting-geese-frontmans-solo-show/

guy in new york asks the taxi driver, "how do you get to carnegie hall?" and the driver responds, "good pitchfork review."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhZ_wPz7lV0

I’m glad he’s been recognized for “love takes miles”, which is a good song, but “try as I may” to me is the truly transcendent song from this record

also — there’s something about the piano that is christmas-like that hits especially hard this time of year

‘love takes miles’ is a great song but the outro (‘you better start a walkin babe’) is a stinker. he should’ve just kept it a verse-chorus-verse-chorus. but it’s okay, he is still learning

drinking age >>> love takes miles

Kevin otm it does almost feel like a contemporary holiday classic

"Love Takes Miles" sung to the tune of Mariah Carey's "Love Takes Time."

was sold on "Love Takes Time" after a second listen. rest of the album is not landing quite as well. sort of giving me Rufus Wainwright vibes

Yes! I told a friend yesterday that Winter reminded me of an out-of-tune Wainwright, and so does Wainwright.

Earlier today I saw an IG Reel where Marc Maron declares his love for Geese, and tonight Cameron Winter has been impersonated on SNL. This marketing push is really accelerating.

that doesn’t feel like evidence of a propaganda machine, unless you mean evidence of it working hah

yet more evidence of the geese/winter propaganda machine's successfully greasing the wheels of the media, new pornographers singer a.c. newman wrote a nice post about them on his blog

I will now attempt to lay out the reasons that I love Geese. The reasons will be numbered for easy reference.

1) They remind me of the Bad News Bears. A bunch of friends that grew up together. Sure, they grew up in NYC, which statistically means they might be from well-to-do families. Who cares? They went to sought after NYC schools, but I don’t see that. I see the Bad News Bears.

2) Cameron Winter basically ticks all the boxes in the rock star category. Tall, young, handsome. There are not many rock stars left. A lot of it feels like cosplay to me, but not him. He seems like the real deal. I’m convinced and pretty sure he doesn’t give a shit if he’s convincing anyone. That’s how cool works.

3)Truly great lyricist. Name-checking the Midgard Serpent at the age of 22 like it ain’t no big deal. Like we should all know its name.

4)Truly great singer. More than that, a great rock and roll singer. It took Mick Jagger 12 years to get to his “hey, what’s the matter man, we’re gonna come around at twelve
with some Puerto Rican girls that’s just dyin’ to mee-choooo” phase, and Cameron Winter just decided to jump straight into it. It’s so preternaturally confident. He can do what Thom Yorke and Julian Casablancas can do, and a few other things on top of that. He can warble in that crazy baritone, letting the notes go flat and sharp whenever he feels like it, and it’s always in the strike zone.

5)The fact that Cameron Winter has a parallel career as a solo artist where his voice and a piano sells out Carnegie Hall. I don’t think there have been many like him at the age of 23. There’s Prince and Stevie Wonder. That’s all I can think of. Many people that could beat him at the couple of things they do, their strengths, but Jagger couldn’t carry a solo piano gig at Carnegie. Dylan didn’t have a rock band that was even more popular than his solo folk music. This kid seems like he might be the chosen one. It was bound to happen eventually. Some people ride the trends and some people just push their way through. People have been calling them a buzz band, derisively, another Pitchfork band, but I don’t get that insult. Of course buzz and love from Pitchfork would surround the best new rock and roll band since Pixies. It’s only logical. All of that shit is trailing behind them, no one should get any credit for creating them. No one was out front clearing the way.

6)They are just a killer fucking rock band that, without sounding like any of them, remind me of Sly And The Family Stone or Roxy Music or Talking Heads.

7)I love the excitement of being on board with the hottest new thing. It’s a rare rare treat.

8)They know how to seamlessly move from pure groove into melody like no one else. ‘Taxes’ does this so well. That’s kind of ALL it does and that might be its superpower.

https://acnewmanmusic.substack.com/p/music-i-loved-this-year-a-lot-of

That's a splendid parody of enthusiasm.

I think it's sincere, nice, and otm

Did not think he was already parody on SNL level big already, but here we are.

Pls ignore the redundant “already”.

Pls ignore the redundant “already”.

they're saying i am full of heavy metals

it turns out i am a heavy metal man

I listened to this earlier and liked it a lot more than the Geese album. Not sure I could articulate why exactly, but I like his voice in this context

I need to listen to this.

has love made you fit in all the car? has something taken you by your pants and swung you over its head and kicked you back and forth?

you may be entitled to compensation

if youve experienced any of these symptoms, you'd better start walkin babe to your nearest urgent care clinic:

-- watching the bells
-- watching the lights
-- talking to the moon
-- flattening her down
-- sitting on the stairs all day
-- loneliness (as hell)
-- walking around
-- not moving
-- not being here

if your conga line is over 1000 chickens long for more than 4 hours...

Did not think he was already parody on SNL level big already, but here we are.

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they're definitely heading that direction, but this is more because SNL cast/writers live and work in NYC and are plugged in to / surrounded by the hype. vast majority of viewers have no idea who Geese/CW is.

I mean, Newman is quite wrong about when Jagger reached levels of confidence, never mind Winter's -- despite my loving Some Girls.

Dylan didn’t have a rock band that was even more popular than his solo folk music

he kinda did though

Name-checking the Midgard Serpent at the age of 22 like it ain’t no big deal.

xp how dare ac slight his fellow canadians like that?

Woooow, this album is so good.

I haven’t been this smitten with an indie folky record since probably Joanna Newsom's Divers.

https://currincy.substack.com/p/cameron-winter-on-first-hearing-bob

Perhaps this outtakes from Grayson Haver Currin's GQ piece was mentioned on the Geese thread but I don't remember. It provides more details on all the music Winter has been listening to from Albert Ayler to Glen Branca, and how when he was a dogwalker for a week he intended to listen to all of Dylan's 1960s efforts but after hitting 1966, just got enthused with listening to 63-66 over and over again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mfI0jL3J14

need new record. guy talks about how all he does is record. new record needed!

You can see the new concert film by Paul Thomas Anderson at Alice Tully Hall for free in about ten hours via this link.

oh nice thank you!

live album is streaming now and is excellent

This fever dream hybrid of Bob Dylan and Rufus Wainwright, it’s remarkable— also the sound of that incredible Steinway played so basically-adequately is really addictive. This is quickly going to become one of my all-time favourite albums

I really don’t want to say much because I’m worried people are going to think it’s corny or something. I don’t know. he’s a poet. that’s what I think!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AcFDFqehAU

That new song is really good. Thanks for your enthusiasm kevin

it was a long day for jesus
and a quiet night in california

Really love "Nina + Field of Cops".

yeah that is a fantastic rendition

my favorite of the new ones is “it all fell in the river”

this is awful omg

braying ass donkey

boooo

lol ums, I almost never disagree with your music takes.

And this time is no different.

i love his music and voice but i am never surprised when someone else doesn't like it. it's a very polarizing sound for a human to make

live album's great but i don't understand why it was necessary for paul thomas anderson to make a movie out of it. just a guy playing a large piano with his back turned to the crowd the whole time. he's not much of a performer. idgi

To complement his movie about Adam Sandler yelling on the phone

i'm okay on geese but - imo - the solo piano thing, that's one of the toughest things to pull off in the entire world of music, that's for the nina simones, etc. like real, real talents. stripped away drums, arrangements, guitars, production all of that and you have a guy with solid not not notable piano chops and voice that is distinctly an acquired taste and songs that - to me at least - are not flattered by this presentation in any way

i will cop to kool-aid manning into the thread being a dick to shake things up on a boring workday

what if he did it at Massey Hall?

and complained about the members of Geese between songs

I prefer the plinky-plonky arrangements on the new tracks; maybe I'm too familiar with the existing ones to tolerate them in this setting.

braying ass donkey

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new cam'ron winter mixtape "let the choppa bray"

the second verse of "drinking age" caught me off guard when he decided to slam down hard af on the "wallet on the ground" bits, which repeats the second time before restraining himself for the third, thought it was a really effective use of dynamics. im also impressed with how many lyrics he can remember for "nina + field of cops" i feel like i would need an old timey scroll to read the lyrics off of in that setting

i think his whole thing works best in this solo piano mode, he just has this command and presence that's much more singular when he's doing his weird yawling, more affecting and highlights the tonal ambiguity that i can't totally tap into or comprehend. still can't take more than 2 or 3 songs at a time.

when hes solo piano man he leans too heavily into some blues/gospel riffs that just make me wish christine mcvie was playing instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrU1Zg0wugE

new cam'ron winter mixtape "let the choppa bray"

Wait 'til hear that plinky-plonky sound. This donkey can bray!

(I'm not putting Winter down, it just amuses me imagining someone using the pejorative terms above to sell someone on a hypothetical record.)

i like the braying ass donkey plinky-plonk better than heavy metal. i didn't play that album out though so maybe the songs are still fresh enough for me to love in a different version

the solo piano thing, that's one of the toughest things to pull off in the entire world of music, that's for the nina simones, etc. like real, real talents. stripped away drums, arrangements, guitars, production all of that and you have a guy with solid not not notable piano chops and voice that is distinctly an acquired taste and songs that - to me at least - are not flattered by this presentation in any way

imo it's quite self-consciously (audaciously?) in the lineage of like billy joel, carole king, warren zevon, van dyke parks, bryan wilson, ben folds. most of whom are not quite at the nina simone level of chops. i kind of love how explicitly it's like This Is American Singer-Songwriter Music. i tend to focus on his lyrics, which like k3v i just adore

honestly fuck my reasons and bullshit, I have a viscerally bad reaction to this, we might as well argue whether the the sound of a fork scraping on a china plate is annoying or not, everyone bon appetit if this is what you want to listen to

new cam'ron winter mixtape "let the choppa bray"

they say i'm loosey goose-y
your girl's a goose-y groupie
get groovy in the movie
they done paid a dude to shoot me

yeah flopson otm, ive been listening to zevon's learning to flinch a lot lately, and obv this cameron bloke is no zevon but it's a similar feel