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

For some , the use of fake accounts to push a band on TikTok ( even if unsuccessful and even if allegedly standard operating procedure) and the company’s decision to remove the band’s name from their website ( but then to later brag in a deceptive way) is a bit of a controversy .

Perhaps some people are genuinely invested in it as a controversy, but to be a pro music journalist in 2026 and go and write an article chastising Wired for not understanding how online marketing works is ... a little rich, I think. Wired knows what they are doing, they're getting their clicks.

And so is she, for that matter. Idk it's all a little cynical for me

Hey guys, I just recorded some geese (real), sounds pretty sick. I think they're in a mating mood.

bought/bot-influencers

Nice Peter Tosh-style wordplay here, especially since many us whose dialect was formed in Southern Cali in the early '80s pronounce both words the same

This whole kerfuffle/rigaromole makes me wish I had the time to rejoin the ILX music league, as "Songs from artists who have been subject to the longest discourse threads" would be a helluva category. (Someone last year submitted Ludacris's "Roll Out", but it was in a round about misdirection)

https://djmag.com/news/boards-of-canada-seem-tease-return-cryptic-vhs-tapes

time to write off boards of canada eh since they too engage in marketing?

agreed

Nice Peter Tosh-style wordplay here

lol thank you for noticing

the most offensive thing about all of this is Wired guy/Wired taking someone else's interesting observation and slapping a shitty headline on it, which is all too effective, sadly.

some obviously young person posted to the MJ Lenderman subreddit basically saying "i'm so sad this band Geese i like is a psyop ... do you guys think MJ Lenderman is, too?"

and that, to me, is a bummer.

I appreciate J0rdan S and deej's insider industry perspectives itt

I haven’t read about this outside of this thread so I don’t know who is acting like this is a horrible atrocity. Are you reading Geese reddit?

It’s like when that gal got busted lip syncing on SNL. Loads of people were already doing it, but she’s the one that got busted. Sure, maybe everyone does this but Geese are trying to look cool and being associated with fake friends/fans is not cool but it’s okay they’ll move past it. Who is disliking Geese fans for liking them?

Geese gets people all riled up

Honkin' on Faux Promo

Geese gets people all riled up

Maybe ... ruffling some feathers?

I think the only thing that sets this (non or not) story apart is that we're talking about ... Geese. A generally pretty standard indie band, not some giant arena star, from whom we expect shenanigans. Most little bands that could don't have the promotional budget to pull this off (once again assuming anything was pulled off). As it stands, apart from appearing on SNL - and another time being impersonated/referenced in a skit! - the band's ascent has been pretty familiar, by indie standards.

this thread had me go back and listen to the album again, which I hadn't in many months. I still think it's decent, but I hope going forward, they don't rely so much on the loose ramble. I hope they write a few catchier songs, maybe throw in a chorus here and there.

As it stands, apart from appearing on SNL - and another time being impersonated/referenced in a skit! - the band's ascent has been pretty familiar

I would say the sold out Carnegie Hall shows filmed by Paul Thomas Anderson make a lot more sense now

lol forgot all about that!!

cheers jaymc

ashlee simpson controversy comparison is cracking me up bcuz it’s pretty otm

Except Ashlee Simpson actually did get busted for lip syncing. This is like if some tech bro did an interview claiming he had invented the lip syncing technique that Ashlee Simpson used on SNL, and then Wired wrote that she was a psyop.

Which begs the question, if everyone is doing it, then what difference can it possibly make? ― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

well, you answered your own question a few posts later when you said, “Most little bands...don't have the promotional budget to pull this off.” So, one difference is that it isn’t “everyone” doing this, it’s only those who can afford to hire the equivalent of the William Morris agency to make sure everyone hears their indie rock. And sure, it doesn't guarantee anything, but it certainly stacks the deck

Lads if you're still clinging to The Morality of Alt in 2026 idk what to tell you
― the Don King of donking (Noodle Vague), Thursday, April 16, 2026 11:34 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

depressingly cynical take. yes, we should all evolve and become morally craven like our enemies on the world stage

'morally craven' seems strong. I feel like people accusing generic marketing tacts of being 'morally craven' should take the first step and delete spotify, facebook, tiktok, twitter, all of these compromised platforms

i'm kind of serious... I still buy and support contemporary dance producers with zero real social algorithm and would have no problem if the music economy shrunk to just that. I don't think its realistic that you'll convince most music fans to follow suit, and I don't think its "morally craven" for artists to reach fans where they are.

I think it sucks those platforms are the choice, but those platforms *incentivize this*

it is wild how much little things are gamed, even on a really small stakes level. I would always share the YouTube of a new video for my band to my own friends on Facebook and would get a little bummed out because it would only get like 6 likes or something.

the last time I uploaded the mp4 to Facebook's video player instead of posting YT link and it got over 100 likes

yt links on facebook are anathema afaict, i'm pretty sure the algorithm basically just never displays those to anyone else. anything that's a redirect to another site = zeroed out, but making and sharing your own content on meta via a video will get a lot more eyeballs.

yea there's literally ppl selling their services to everyday people on *how to game the system*, you can fall into that algorithm for days and learn how you have to compete if you're trying to get any attention at all for your work

it absolutely sucks! I would love for people to forgo it entirely. I think its interesting people see participation in it as an endorsement of it, a standard they would not hold themselves to if it was their ie book project or art project or etc etc

the crazy thing is how it even impacts movie stars, like timothy chalamet decided to play the game for marty supreme, just making himself a perpetual content-dropper

I think the most relatable thing about geese would be "I don't want to be that guy, im just gonna make the music really good to my core fans & maybe some bots to shore up the fact that this is a real thing happening culturally", to me its a deeply relatable thing to not want to play the I MATTER ONLINE game.

an artist is trying to indicate to the internet that the cultural motion they have IRL has some real gas to it by showing some metric evidence of it online...the problem is, when everyone is trying to simulate that idea, the people who *do* have an IRL impact have to simulate it to...it doesn't mean their art isn't culturally significant. the internet is a real thing you have to deal with to fund a career but to do it at the highest levels is to become a professional social media feed entertainer...I prefer my artists do whatever this is

I'd love to be done with Facebook but as far as promoting small local shows go I have not found anything that's even close to a replacement

the only thing that would be better is if you started talking to the camera on tiktok

"the day in the life of a farmer--thats right, I really grew up on a farm--who also is in a kick ass rock n roll band"

I feel like people accusing generic marketing tacts of being 'morally craven' should take the first step and delete spotify, facebook, tiktok, twitter, all of these compromised platforms

i agree with this fwiw and i imagine almost everyone has a favorite major-minor band or artist who is gaming or has gamed things in some small way. the splitting hairs morality of it all i find personally exhausting. it doesn't mean that purity doesn't exist or whatever or that there aren't shades of better (king gizzard and the lizard wizard comes to mind as someone successfully exercising a little bit more of an independent spirit which ironically opens them up to a different form of personality or identity-based criticism). it just means making music on your autoharp that you impulse bought, keeping it all offline, inviting your friends over for concerts, avoiding the new dispersed music industry altogether - go for it, you have everything to gain spiritually speaking, just don't quit your day job.

lol deej

I've actually been thinking about getting one of those clipboard email list sign-up sheets like we used to do back in the day just to see if anyone would sign up

fwiw I love it when local show promoters email me about shows (I'm not on FB and have lost interest in IG). keeping up with live music is a chore now, and I would honestly pay for someone to just email me every two weeks with the equivalent of an old alt weekly's listings

Pearl clutching aside, to me it seems pretty reasonable to push back against this kind of thing. Obviously marketing is necessary. but relying on bots to boost visibility online sounds pretty scummy to me. Is that really such a controversial opinion? Even if it's a common practice, that's no reason to just accept it and say "that's just how the industry works." I'm not a pro performer, I'm not trying to build a career based on having an audience, so maybe it's easy for me to say this, but surely artists can be successfully promoted without resorting to light fraud?

a paper-based email list was a huge part of how two djs here got big locally. this was the early 2000s but i bet people would find it refreshing now.

If email listings really took off, a similar thing would almost certainly end up occurring. People paying to be near the top of the list etc.

not necessarily. I currently use this and it does not do that: https://exclaim.ca/music/concerts

Pearl clutching aside, to me it seems pretty reasonable to push back against this kind of thing. Obviously marketing is necessary. but relying on bots to boost visibility online sounds pretty scummy to me. Is that really such a controversial opinion? Even if it's a common practice, that's no reason to just accept it and say "that's just how the industry works." I'm not a pro performer, I'm not trying to build a career based on having an audience, so maybe it's easy for me to say this, but surely artists can be successfully promoted without resorting to light fraud?

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, April 17, 2026 2:23 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah I dont think jordan or I are 'defending' the practice but against the backdrop of like, the US government bought the tiktok app to tamp down on protests against the genocide in gaza and ramp up propaganda efforts, I think asking for 'government regulation' as a fix here is basically asking for things to get worse in some new terrible way...the government seems mainly set on making every part of america like getting airline tickets (would you like to pay more to be able to get a refund? for legroom? to bring a bag with you?)

government can proscribe fraud and prosecute violators but ppl must demand it

i'm curious how much of an impact all this stuff has really had because the way geese have blown up doesn't really feel very different to other cases of indie rock bands with really hyped critical breakthrough albums? like they're prominent for an indie rock band but still not that big. social media discourse has been more deranged than usual though, sure

like maybe all this social media marketing at most pushed them up one tier of popularity that they wouldn't have reached yet?

plus only that ROSALÍA album was maybe more universally praised than Getting Killed last year. People who actively seek new music couldn't help but to see them hyped.

This is a particularly insidious form of marketing and it is disappointing geese engaged in it, or their pr firm did. But the album wouldn’t have blown up if there wasn’t something there for people to connect with.

Here’s the real psyop. Write an article so Rick Beato reads it and does a video on it. That then leads to his 5.6 million subscribers to find out there’s a band called Geese they had never heard of before. Now that’s some serious 18 dimensional chess.

Rick Beato is the ultimate indie tastemaker, it's true

But the 5.6 million subscribers aren't going to check out Geese, because they refuse to listen to anything made after 1989.

Geese have been around for millions of years

when are geese going to release an album called honkin' on bobo

Geese are totally the kind of band who would cover that album song for song

Speaking of, I watched Geese play Coachella wk2 and he said something to the effect of "We had a shitty week" and the set blew, it wasn't good. They were pissed off and off, played three songs from 3D Country. Wk1 was so good too.

Interesting. I watched the week 2 set and thought they were great as usual. And the camera cutting was way better.

Honkin' On Beato