{"id":353228,"date":"2025-11-03T19:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/353228\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:01:21","slug":"geese-showed-phoenix-why-their-indie-hype-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/353228\/","title":{"rendered":"Geese showed Phoenix why their indie hype is real"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGeese rocking Crescent Ballroom on Nov. 1, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Madison Haynie<\/p>\n

Part of me wants to leave the article right there, leading a curious reader to simple victory as quickly as possible. Geese<\/a> are the real deal, and they\u2019re not waiting for us to notice.<\/p>\n

The noise around the young New York City group<\/a> has grown for years, since their conception in high school in 2016, really, but it seems that Geese is finally getting proper love and commotion on a massive scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Personally, I can remember the exact moment when I realized how seriously we need to take Cameron Winter as an artist. The 24-year-old songwriter released his solo debut \u201cHeavy Metal\u201d at the end of 2024. While it was very nearly buried by the label, allegedly described by one rep as \u201cnot the album to get you out of your parents\u2019 house,\u201d Winter didn\u2019t hesitate. <\/p>\n

To put it plainly and maybe pretentiously, it\u2019s a brave, emotional odyssey and a true creative triumph. I very clearly recall, luckily, shuffling into \u201cLove Takes Miles\u201d some springtime golden hour while walking through Chaparral Park with my dog. I got the chills pretty immediately, shivered and cried, and by the end of the first chorus, I felt clean and almost proud to be human. I listened to it three more times, reckoning with its heartening power, reconsidering his and the band\u2019s place. To me, they were always fun and interesting. \u201cProjector\u201d and \u201c3D Country\u201d were seriously cool records, but I just didn\u2019t fully comprehend his potential as an innovator.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Geese performing to a packed house on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, in Phoenix.<\/p>\n

Behind Winter, Geese has quickly become one of those \u201cartists\u2019 favorite artists,\u201d garnering attention from the likes of Cillian Murphy, Nick Cave, and St. Vincent. If you are chronically online and are generously fed music by your algorithm, there\u2019s even a good chance you\u2019ve seen a meme about Winter\u2019s hair. Rolling Stone called them \u201crelentlessly innovative\u201d and GQ called them \u201cAmerica\u2019s Most Thrilling Young Rock Band.\u201d It feels as though they are dubbed as Gen Z\u2019s rock \u2018n\u2019 roll representatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting Killed,\u201d the band\u2019s newest record, released in late September, grooves and blazes and breathes life into modern music. It\u2019s creative without feeling contrived, and it\u2019s instinctual while still carefully considerate. There\u2019s humor and emotion among the natural structures of the stories, calling on chaos and calm as needed. If you had to assign it a single genre, you could call it post-punk, maybe pre-punk, above-punk for sure, but there are flavors of jazz, hardcore, funk and psych-rock, too. It\u2019s possible that they were left alone on a desert island with Weird Al <\/a>and Television CDs for an extended period of time. It\u2019s MJ Lenderman for people who are fun to be around. They could be White Denim\u2019s younger cousin who got into Gang of Four in college.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More seriously, though, it is clear from the rhythms, textures and imagery throughout the record that this group has immutable taste, talent, and touch- suspiciously so for such young artists. And they don\u2019t give in to nostalgia. It all feels new and real. Famed producer Kenny Blume (formerly Kenny Beats), who happily guided the new record, called the collection of young Brooklynites \u201cgenius freaks.\u201d Cameron Winter has the posture of a quiet prophet, cooing and howling how he feels. Dynamic guitarist Emily Green shines when there\u2019s euphoria and rolls when it\u2019s weird. Bassist Dominic DiGesu sets the right tone every time. Drummer Max Bassin provides the spine to each song with perfect style. Same Revaz beautifully supplements the live show on keyboard. Together, Geese is a special group. Their evening at Crescent Ballroom justified all hope.<\/p>\n

\"\"Geese\u2019s drummer soaks in the vibe at Crescent Ballroom on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n

There were cute couples, Facebook dads and wild-eyed youth alike gathered in a Halloween hangover to witness the phenomenon. A handful of people either never took off costumes from last night or just tried sneaking in their regretful backup costume before all the pumpkins were boxed and packed away. It added to a potently mischievous air. A single TV beamed Game 7 of the World Series in the main bar, racking nerves of Dodgers fans and anti-Dodgers fans while other small pockets huddled and streamed it on a phone in the crowd. These felt like real reverent music fans, respectful, reserved and mostly hushed, waiting to witness what they knew to be honest artistic expression from Brooklyn\u2019s brightest. <\/p>\n

People noticeably hustled back and forth between bars and bathrooms and merch lines, unwilling to miss a moment. The last out was called on a phone screen at the bar, and the lights went down immediately. All were finally locked in on the band, who admitted they were also watching backstage before the music started.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They opened with the mean bassline in \u201cHusbands\u201d and never looked back. There was foot tapping, arm twirling, hip swinging, face melting, near ankle breaking for one gentleman in the back, and a lighthearted mosh for those who partake. Those pretty couples swayed with sweet \u201cCobra.\u201d Ripper \u201c2122\u201d broke into an impressive Iggy Pop cover. \u201cIslands of Men\u201d broke my heart for some reason I\u2019m not looking to dive into right now. Classic \u201cCowboy Nudes\u201d hit perfectly, giving the joyous crowd a chance to match Winter\u2019s falsetto. <\/p>\n

It was a two-hour affair, offering 16 tunes, including \u201cGetting Killed\u201d in its entirety. The highlight for me, though, was the finale, \u201cTrinidad.\u201d There we were, a sold-out ballroom full of baseball fans in Halloween\u2019s wake, smiling and screaming \u201cTHERE\u2019S A BOMB IN MY CAR\u201d with the frantic frontman who\u2019s seemingly got the world in his hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Geese is a band with a curious nature that has stretched, flexed, and worked onto the cultural pedestal. Whether they want to take the torch or shrug it off, they will be followed. They can make you dance, sing, yearn, laugh, and lose your mind, and they\u2019re only going to get better at it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yes, believe the hype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geese rocking Crescent Ballroom on Nov. 1, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona. Madison Haynie Part of me wants to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":353229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,89977,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-353228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-concert-reviews","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115487315931746002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353228","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=353228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}