At the end of last year, 23-year-old New Yorker Cameron Winter scored an industry hit with his solo debut Heavy Metal. The title was not indicative of its contents \u2013 this was a collection of droll, desolate dirges recalling the lugubrious greats (Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits) \u2013 yet Trinidad, the opener of his band Geese\u2019s fourth album, actually does feature some metal-style screaming. What begins as an exercise in dreamlike, deconstructed soul soon erupts into a nightmarish cacophony of erratically parping brass, scrambled guitar and the shrieked refrain: \u201cThere\u2019s a bomb in my car!\u201d<\/p>\n
Geese: Getting Killed <\/p>\n
Getting Killed ripples with a timely dread: a combination of sonic dissonance \u2013 100 Horses\u2019 ramshackle maximalism, the title track\u2019s frantic pile-up of voices and grooves \u2013 and surreal, sardonic lyrics. (\u201cAll people must smile in times of war\u201d; \u201cI\u2019m getting killed by a pretty good life.\u201d) Yet unease also stems from the creeping suspicion that these songs double as private jokes \u2013 Geese are school friends \u2013 and rock music itself is the butt of them: profundity is routinely undercut by silliness (\u201clike a sailor in a big green coat, you can be free\u201d) while gorgeous Van Morrison-esque melodies are delivered in a ludicrous warble.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Getting Killed can be opaque, but its brilliance is still obvious: the invention, the irreverence, the melodic knack, the swagger all great bands require. \u201cIf you want me to pay my taxes,\u201d rasps Winter over falsetto backing vocals and syncopated drums, \u201cYou better come over with a crucifix \/ You\u2019re gonna have to nail me down.\u201d A sideways invocation of this era\u2019s dark absurdity offset by the succour of a lovely classic rock melody; it\u2019s Geese\u2019s considerable appeal in a nutshell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the end of last year, 23-year-old New Yorker Cameron Winter scored an industry hit with his solo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-170264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}