Geese

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Getting Killed is the upcoming fourth studio album by American rock band Geese. It is scheduled to be released on September 26, 2025, through Partisan Records and Play It Again Sam.

1. Trinidad
2. Cobra
3. Husbands
4. Getting Killed
5. Islands of Men
6. 100 Horses
7. Half Real
8. Au Pays du Cocaine
9. Bow Down
10. Taxes
11. Long Island City Here I Come

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phh3oVCtzBg

I think this band should get their own thread, so I stated one.

Excited for this! Loved the last one, but really don't get the hype over Cameron's solo record. Just couldn't grab onto that one.

I have yet to hear the band, but out of context I was amused by this headline.

https://i.imgur.com/SqzcL3l.jpeg

honk honk

i will definitely be checking out the new album! i like this band

new single sounds fantastic imo. classic geese! honk honk

this band should tour with Goose and call it the 'Ducks Tour'

Single is great, sounds like it's live at first and then turns into the studio version.

i thought so too but then listened on spotify as well and think they used a different mix for the video to get that effect ?

"taxes" is wonderful

I could have sworn I started a Geese thread back when I heard '3D Country', which was a fantastic song I think Bee OK nommed in EOY a coupl eof years ago. Anyway, I'm looking forward to this new one a lot.

I discovered them live as they opened for Spoon on the Lucifer on the Sofa tour. They ended up on ILMs Top 77 tracks poll.

Didn't even hear Heavy Metel, the solo album from the lead singer but looking forward to new Geese.

Still great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m1abZODAJ0

yeah that's the song that got me into them. the last album was fun, but that remains a highlight

first track on this is absurdly promising and i look forward to listening to the rest once i'm awake

i had forgotten about this but now am looking forward

lol this was produced by kenny beats? he did a phenomenal job, it sounds fantastic

First song is mind-numbing brilliant, can't wait to hear the rest.

RYM is freaking out insanely over this even by its own freakout standards, will have to tune in

Yeah, this isn't for me, harmonically and melodically close to worthless despite the arrangements and lyricism

Perhaps, but the first song is in 13/4, so it's very much still for me :)

The first song and Half Real were thr highlights for me, more going on musically in those two

it's some decent songs that are absolutely being elevated by the production & arrangements. maybe that will mean i get tired of it before long but there's a lot to like for now

this is a bit jammier and less immediate than their previous but I'm expecting it to kick in on repeat plays

found it really boring

I have to admit I've had it on in the background around two or three times today and not that much has jumped out at me yet. It's just kind of a "noise" at this stage and no one song has really revealed itself among the others. Still think this might be a grower though

Ive never heard of this band before but wow, I hate this. I think I’m officially old. Do they have the best PR team money can buy or something?

At least their band name gives you a pretty good indication of how hard they work on their music.

I'd like to know what people HATE about them to be honest. There's nothing terribly offensive going on here to my ears.

i think the singer has one of the more interesting voices in rock n roll, and it elevated a handful of tracks on the previous album. i was particularly into the tracks that for sounded like they were approaching Steely Dan territory ... but it also seems to me that they are really really interested in projecting an image of nonchalance and that they don't take anything too seriously, and this album seems to amplify that. this coupled with the fact that whoever writes the songs is a terrible lyricist, i think ultimately is a disservice to them and their style. it's just kind of eclectic and unfocused in a way that i find really boring and unappealing, i wish they were more keen on honing the songcraft because they have style and charisma for days but it just feels like it's not being put to good use

Ive never heard this band before but wow, I love this. I think I’m officially sold. Do they have the best production team money can buy or something?

Yeah, part of the attraction of the last album was the luxuriant Gaucho-era Dan stylings of songs like 3D Country (which I still think is fantastic).

Not sure if nonchalance is necessarily what they're necessarily projecting here. Rather it's a much more stripped-down sound that leans away from their poppier side and way into a raggedy, more jam-influenced vibe.

It gives me the impression of a crazed Southern preacher sermonising paranoid rants about taxes and whatnot. It's a stylised flex, and there's a lot of energy in its delivery and the way they experimented with jazzy chops too. I'd say it's different to, say, Malkmusian slacker rock. I don't hear a lot of "can't be arsed" in here.

That said, there's not a lot for me to really sink my teeth into on this one either. Maybe it merits closer listening but this one is missing that pop element that made songs like 3D Country so great. Without it, these songs feel a bit rudderless, a bit abstract and freeform.

Like the Belgian band dEUS, they're at their best when they strike the balance between classic pop and jazzy freakouts, which isn't happening so much here

dEUS rules

That'ssomethibg we can all agree on

Oops, sorry, phone

Pitchfork gave this a 9.0. At work but will listen later.

Ive never heard this band before but wow, I love this. I think I’m officially sold. Do they have the best production team money can buy or something?

― Evan, 26. september 2025 19:20 (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's hiphop-producer Kenny Beats, and it's a really inspired choice.

I actually do like what I heard so far, but also that post was a stupid joke post mostly for my own amusement.

I'm not sure I'm sold on the production (or maybe the mastering?) There's a lot going on here but the lack of dynamics often makes it feel like a soup

Enjoying 'Bow Down'

But... after the album was over '2122' from the previous album came on and I dunno, it really hit the spot. Feels like the singer is being a lot more one-note in his style than on the previous one where he seemed to be trying out a lot of different things, from an Elvisy baritone to intense caterwauling. On this new one he's settled into this slightly irritating tenor that grates after a while

I liked this on first listen, though I broke it off in two parts. I have seen them live so I have a different tolerance for the Jim Morrison thing he has going on. The lyrics do leave a lot to be desired however. "Taxes" is a definite highlight.

i didn't mean to imply that i think the music sounds slacky or underperformed à la Pavement. what i meant was that i get the sense they lean on eclecticism and "random" lyrics in order to avoid being pinned as a band that's trying too hard to craft a set of excellent songs. i don't get Zappa vibes from them at all, but it does strike me as being a distant cousin to his brand of zany Verfremdungseffekt

i haven't paid too much attention to the lyrics yet

about half the songs here are really good and the others feel like sketches that they've done a good job at dressing up with their noodling but i'm not sure if they're going to hold up to repeat listens

I liked this on first listen. Maybe I just don't listen to enough indie rock, but the two things I heard were, broadly, an Arcade Fire/Wolf Parade pomposity and gangbusting wall of sound, and Big Thief-coded Lenker tumble of line-delivery and lyrical nakedness.

Reminds me ofl Soul Coughing (this is a wonderful thing)

I'm hearing 70s Miles in some of this. "Trinidad" sounds a lot like "Honky Tonk" from Get Up With It and the percussion (tablas?) on "Taxes" and "Husbands" is very On the Corner

cant actually recall the last snl live perf as good as trinidad was

Highly recommend the version of "Trinidad" at the end of this set. It's insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti9Tgy2tV9Y

no one cares but i like these guys now. those live performances are great.

i care

🤗

I think the performances are good but man I just don’t get it. It makes me remember when people were hyping Car Seat Headrest a decade or so ago and I felt like I was listening to the wrong artist. Same as CSH, I’ll be surprised if people still care about them before the decade ends.

skinner meme

C'mon they are so much better than Car Seat Headrest. A better comparison would be the Strokes, Animal Collective or maybe even Wet Leg.

I suspect that Geese/Cameron Winter to get at least four songs (two each) into our Top 77 2025.

x-post - I was at that Washington DC show that JMM posted the full video of, and when Cameron Winter started screaming what sounded like to me "fuck the people in this town" at the end of "Trinidad" and threw his mic down that was pretty insane and cool. But I wasn't completely won over by the full set. as I noted upthread back in November 2025, old guy me's fave song from the set was the portion of Iggy & the Stooges "TV Eye" they did.

These guys seem amazing live. I think the album almost sounds like a palimpsest for live shows nu, Taxes sounds incomplete without a chorus singing along.

So, the Third Man Rrecords Live album is going to be a thing to get.

Yeah ok that’s true. Car Seat Headrest was godawful live and Geese are pretty good live from what I’ve seen.

I still have a hard time getting into Cameron’s Kermit on codeine vocals.

I think the album almost sounds like a palimpsest for live shows

Yeah, same, and there's so much live material to dig through. I'm not really bothering with the album versions anymore.

I don't get into buzzy indie bands very often, but Geese are hugely endearing to me, idk. I just think they have something special.

I don't think their appeal is very hard to fathom. Within a standard indie-rock framework, they're just really fucking weird. Winter's voice is weirdly performative, the music often does unexpected things like the lurching of Trinidad, and he sings a lot of really weird lyrics that on their face are often really dumb but genuinely so dumb that they become cool (green coat/green boat, my wife is in the shed, all the husband and wife shit in general).

i really hope to catch geese live in the upcoming year

yeah there's a feeling like "something interesting is going on here but i'm not sure what it is." everything is really assured and lucid but to what end it isn't exactly clear. there's a sense of mystery that's appealing. i've fallen hard for cameron's lyrics and voice (and the apparent hair on his chest under that a-shirt).

My current favourite live clip of them is "3D Country" in this 2024 Pickathon set. Cameron's too funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od1xwGypfYY

it’s funny, i find him totally unappealing sexually lol.

but i listened to Getting Killed again today while moving through slow snowy traffic, because a friend of mine absolutely loathes this band and can’t understand why anyone likes them… he usually can find some reasoning as to why people like things he doesn’t like, but can’t with Geese. it is “freaking him out,” apparently.

anyway, my new thesis is that they’re doing so many things that he likes that they actually cancel each other out.

That’s not a bad thesis. I think I’m somewhere in there. For any thing I kind of vibe to in their music, there’s another element that I dislike.

But there’s so many music out there that I actually enjoy that I don’t think I’ll stick around and find out if the positive ends up outweighing the negatives.

https://www.avclub.com/geese-snl-performance-discourse-2026

Everyone who hated Geese’s SNL performance needs to chill out
Ashlee Simpson, Fear, DJ Khaled, Lana Del Rey, and… Geese?!? Yes, you read that right: social media’s elder-millennial and Gen-X contingent would have you believe that Geese’s SNL appearance on Saturday night is now one of the worst in the show’s 51-year history. In a recent email forwarded to me, music critic Bob Lefsetz wrote that “despite all the hosannas in the press, the word [about Geese] does not seem to be spreading.” Look, Geese have over 2 million monthly listeners on Spotify, sold out their recent US tour, and got invited to perform on one of the oldest network television shows still going. Maybe it doesn’t matter what the rock rags are saying about these four New Yorkers, but it’s not like Geese is some obscure underground band. They don’t need an SNL cast member stumping for them like John Belushi did for Fear in 1981 (though somebody in the writer’s room is responsible for pitching James Austin Johnson’s Cameron Winter impression last month). It’s OK to acknowledge that the hype exists, even if you’re not opening your wallet to it anytime soon...

i think the album was fine and all but i'm not really understanding why people are so excited about their live performances from the videos i've seen

I am not interested in this band at all, but I can't see how anyone could say their performance was bad.

(though somebody in the writer’s room is responsible for pitching James Austin Johnson’s Cameron Winter impression last month)

based on everything i'd suspect JAJ is a fan and started doing an impression on his own, he's a pretty ILM coded SNL guy

I'm okay on this band, not a huge fan but they have some cool aspects.

i did like the car bomb song, just felt good to have something a little chaotic happening on a tv show in 2026

The (great) drummer plays with headphones, wonder what he is getting in there?

Gave the first album a quick listen and it's really good? Not sure what happened between the first two albums and this one to make them go from little-knowners to one of the most talk-ed about bands in recent years; especially since Getting Killed is such a hot mess compared to the earlier stuff

the drummer's moustache bothers me, it doesn't connect in the middle and reminds me of GG Allin

xp dog latin: It's undoubtedly already been mentioned upthread, but the Winter solo album Heavy Metal came out in Dec 2024, once most critics had already written their EOY lists. That album garnering lots of attention in late '24/early '25, combined with the slight but significant change in Winter's singing style from leaning into his baritone on 3D Country to the vaguely Yorke-ish/somewhat more Wainwright-y/less-Stonesy-or-Crowesy, more Cam-the-mannish falsetto thing that he leaned into at the piano on Heavy Metal and seemed to subsequently bring over to Geese proper on Getting Killed, seemed to both factor into the present-day Geese glow-up IMO

The reason I posted that was because I don't get the worst performance ever stuff or what peace, man said.

my new thesis is that they’re doing so many things that he likes that they actually cancel each other out

Table actually tapping into the zeitgeist a bit here, because I've increasingly seen equal compliments and complaints that the band is occupying some strange and strangely frustrating in-between space, a kind of purgatory/precipice, like something perpetually on the brink of tipping over, resulting in lots of "I don't like/get them, but ..."

An example (and apologies if the person that posted or others that already saw this are on ILX): "I think what makes them interesting is how tantalizing their music is without necessarily having payoff. It’s sort of like if Slint redid Spiderland to remove the explosive loud parts from half their songs. That said, if I had to describe them to a music nerd, I would say it’s like Tim Buckley playing Beefheart which sounds true but doesn’t mean much. Which I think is perfect. I’m just glad to hear a newish band that knows what they’re doing yet evokes some sense of mystery or not having all the answers right there for you."

xxxpost: Yeah JAJ is very much into indie artists and probably pitched the Cameron Winter impression himself. He also does a great ANOHNI impression:

https://xcancel.com/JAJCenter/status/1542264946997612545

i think the album was fine and all but i'm not really understanding why people are so excited about their live performances from the videos i've seen

― ufo, Tuesday, January 27, 2026 3:11 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

snl trinidad was the first one i found really compelling in terms of a performance

but i also really like the clips from this nyc outdoor show where they're playing on the ground, mostly for the crowd reactions. so pure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrqHQ4046DE

xp Josh in Chicago--I hadn't really thought of the Beefhearty era of Tim Buckley as a comp/ref (Lorca, Starsailor...), but fair enough! (Total non-sequitur, but for all the Thom Yorke comparisons Winter gets, I most hear Radiohead in the instrumental feel of the second-half coda of the title track "Getting Killed" FWIW, v "Weird Fishes" IMO)

i listened to this again today while washing climbing holds in the freezing cold at work, and yeah, i love this record ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ve finally just listened to this album and after one play what they sound like is a couple of the everything everything lps, but not quite as polished. cannot decide if they are as good. do they get compared?

ha all this feel did was make me go listen to EE, realize how dance-y they are. and how much i dig a lot of it. they both copy yorke tho

we keep honkin Trinidad into Planet Caravan, goose got some Ozzy in 'em

AC Newman wrote something on Instagram that was basically like “people who hate this band are total idiots, I love Geese” :-)

he should stick with canada geese

Taxes is such a great live track.

Part of the 'mystery' is that they play with rhythm and meter, imo. Trinidad is in 13/8, the 'Doctor Doctor Heal Yourself' part goes three bars where you'd expect it to go four bars, etc.

can't really get with the rufus wainwright vocals and I find the car seat headrest comparison otm as far as me not getting the hype

but that trinidad live on snl ruled ok and if the young people are into this i'm not complaining

Amazing SNL performance, I agree. Made me feel nostalgic.

There were 100 horses dancing
Maybe 124

Why do I feel like he's not being honest about the number of horses?

Cobra stuck in my head this morning

Honestly think “Love Takes Miles” is the best thing he’s written.

tiny desk is wonderful