Geese have been described as “Gen Z’s first great American rock band” – and it’s not hard to see or hear why.
The Brooklyn four-piece – comprised of childhood friends Cameron Winter (vocals, keyboards), Emily Green (guitar) and Max Bassin (drums) alongside Dominic DiGesu (bass) – formed in high school, and were set to split up before they went to college.
Instead, their demos sparked a record label bidding war.
“I probably had the best April 2020 of anyone on Earth”, Winter told GQ, external about the flurry of video calls he took during the first Covid lockdown.
Since 2021, the band have released three albums – but it was the latest, 2025’s Getting Killed, that drew the attention of everyone from BBC Radio 1 listeners to 6 Music stalwarts.
A savage and unpredictable record, Getting Killed originated as a series of experimental jam sessions, recorded in just 10 days with producer Kenneth “Kenny Beats” Blume in Los Angeles.
It finds Geese sounding a little like their influences – The Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, Suicide, The Strokes and Radiohead – and a lot like something entirely new and original.
Endlessly inventive and musically restless, their songs are given focus by Winter’s sharp, unfiltered lyrics, cutting through superficial relationships, state propaganda and social divisions.
The frontman seems to somehow anchor the rhythmic chaos, warbling words that swerve wildly between incisiveness and irreverence; wisdom and wonderful nonsense.
“If you want me to pay my taxes / You’d better come over with a crucifix,” he chants defiantly on lead single Taxes.
The music video for the track, external depicts the band playing to an orgy of adoring, thirsty fans.