{"id":255319,"date":"2025-09-26T04:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255319\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:48:14","slug":"geese-getting-killed-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255319\/","title":{"rendered":"Geese: Getting Killed Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Desperation looks good on Geese<\/a>. In the past four years, the New York band has demonstrated an ability to rock out<\/a> and sprawl out<\/a> with the best of them, but it took until vocalist Cameron Winter<\/a>\u2019s understated solo album, Heavy Metal<\/a>, for the emotional core to surface. Part of this breakthrough can be attributed to Winter\u2019s voice: a slurred, straining warble whose cryptic delivery can feel like both sides of an argument you\u2019re overhearing through apartment walls. He gets your attention in jarring ways, then turns around and breaks your heart. No artist has muttered the phrase \u201cfuck these people<\/a>\u201d so meaningfully in a piano ballad.<\/p>\n

As evidenced by this moment, occurring just under a minute into his tender 2024 solo single \u201c$0,\u201d Geese can give the impression of an ambitious band skeptical of its own ambition, fitting for a group formed when its members were in high school. Like a lot of precocious young people, they seem energized by the possibility of an audience recognizing their potential before they do, a tension they have used to subvert their more crowd-pleasing turns. This is how \u201cCowboy Nudes<\/a>,\u201d a highlight from 2023\u2019s 3D Country, winds up with a soulful chorus that could have landed on any generation\u2019s FM rock radio alongside a series of exclamations that might be edited out by any generation\u2019s record executives.<\/p>\n

With the surprise success of Heavy Metal, a less imaginative band might choose to follow some of this industry wisdom, taming their eccentricities and building on the classic songcraft and heart-wrenching lyrics that made their singer a star. Thankfully, Geese are not this type of band. Their third album, Getting Killed, is their strangest and strongest work. This is anxious, fragmented music as liable to erupt in a paranoid shriek as a bald declaration of love. The first chorus on the record is a gravelly, haywire scream: \u201cTHERE\u2019S A BOMB IN MY CAR.\u201d The second makes a meal out of the two most eternal words in pop music: \u201cbaby\u201d and \u201cforever,\u201d each delivered with the swagger of a karaoke singer pretending not to notice his crush has entered the room.<\/p>\n

Working with producer Kenneth Blume (the hip-hop luminary formerly known as Kenny Beats<\/a>), the quartet explores a clattering, groove-based sound, denying the structures of traditional rock music while following the same volleys of tension and release. Where their music once felt clouded by a history of hip NYC forebears, they now cast their future wide open. It\u2019s a style that favors cyclical repetition over crafted hooks, ecstatic bursts of melody that inspire some of Winter\u2019s most commanding writing. In an ominously funky track called \u201c100 Horses,\u201d he assumes the perspective of a general during wartime: \u201cAll people must die scared or else die nervous,\u201d he announces. In the context of the song, the news is delivered as something of a comfort; in the context of the record, it\u2019s one of the more obvious choices for a single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Desperation looks good on Geese. In the past four years, the New York band has demonstrated an ability…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":255320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1939,171,975,67,132,68,1940],"class_list":{"0":"post-255319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-albums","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115268793511983167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}