{"id":175070,"date":"2025-09-28T09:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175070\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T09:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:47:20","slug":"geeses-getting-killed-is-wildly-creative-indie-rock-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175070\/","title":{"rendered":"Geese’s Getting Killed Is Wildly Creative Indie Rock: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t let the title of their new album,\u00a0Getting Killed<\/a>, fool you \u2014 Geese<\/a> are very much alive. After bursting onto the scene as scrappy teenagers, dropping the post-punky Projector (and nabbing a CoSign<\/a> for it), the band\u2019s trajectory has only gone in the right direction. They first leveled up their songwriting with the more warm-blooded 3D Country<\/a>\u00a0and, late last year, frontman Cameron Winter dropped one of the buzziest solo debuts in recent memory with\u00a0the excellent\u00a0Heavy Metal<\/a>. Now, Winter is back with the band for Getting Killed, and not only is it Geese\u2019s best offering yet, it might just be one of the most creative indie rock records of the 2020s.<\/p>\n

Getting Killed\u00a0feels like Geese breaking their previous molds, gluing them back together with a certain level of reckless abandon, and seeing what new shapes of guitar music come out of it. Whereas their first release leaned on slick grooves and vibes that borrowed from New York City\u2019s indie rock past (think Interpol or The Strokes) and their second album found them carving out a heart-on-their-sleeve silliness that felt more true to themselves, the new set blasts the conception of the band wide open; it\u2019s a voice that, while indebted to trailblazers of the past, is all their own.<\/p>\n

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Take opening cut \u201cTrinidad,\u201d which effectively sets the tone for what\u2019s to come. Guitarist Emily Green attacks each ear independently with warbly, borderline funky licks mixed in harsh stereo. Winter then enters softly, tapping into his falsetto, only for the whole thing to explode on a dime with horns, new tracks of instrumentation that cut in and out like they\u2019re malfunctioning, and screams of, \u201cTHERE\u2019S A BOMB IN MY CAR!\u201d As the tune progresses, it only becomes increasingly chaotic with heavily delayed vocal lines, more hard-panning, and drummer Max Bassin\u2019s multilayered percussion, which sounds like an earthquake hit a middle school band room. On paper, it sounds like a track at risk of being an incoherent mess; in your headphones, it sounds absolutely exhilarating.<\/p>\n

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The wildness of the production is something Winter struck gold with on Heavy Metal. On that largely piano-based project, Winter found beauty in uncommon timbres, loose feels, and bizarre recording techniques. (The man himself has claimed he recorded parts in various Guitar Centers<\/a>, enlisted the help of Craigslist musicians, and had a five-year-old play bass<\/a> \u2014 though at least some of this has proven to be<\/a> Winter doing some Bob Dylan-esque mythologizing.) While that resulted in a uniquely intimate feel for his solo venture, utilizing similar tactics with his rock band manifests in a live wire of a record. The edges are perfectly frayed, and there\u2019s an anxious excitement that, at any moment, it might all fall apart. It\u2019s a mode that feels aligned with early Velvet Underground or Iggy and The Stooges, where the pursuit of studio perfection is swapped out for character, intrigue, and damn fine songwriting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Later tracks like \u201c100 Horses\u201d and \u201cHalf Real\u201d pull off such tricks to spectacular results, with the latter even starting out with a few seconds of drone that almost sounds like a direct reference to \u201cVenus in Furs.\u201d \u201cHusbands\u201d similarly finds an unconventional groove, upon which it builds a song-long crescendo, while \u201cBow Down\u201d turns a staccato riff into an off-kilter dance party before a false ending leads to a groovy guitar solo. Tracks like these play with the same genres Geese have expressed interest in before \u2014 post-punk, funky rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, classic rock, artsy indie music \u2014 though this is the quartet\u2019s most compelling synthesis of those styles yet.<\/p>\n

The same praise can be applied to the tunes on\u00a0Getting Killed\u00a0that play it softer and sweeter. \u201cCobra\u201d is breezy and boasts a Beach Boys-esque sonic palette, the wonderfully titled \u201cAu Pays du Cocaine\u201d trots along at a pace that spotlights Winter\u2019s expressive baritone, and \u201cIslands of Men\u201d slowly develops its sunny vibes over the course of six minutes as bassist Dominic DiGesu walks up and down his fretboard. That song, in particular, feels functionally reminiscent of \u201cPacific Theme\u201d from Broken Social Scene\u2019s You Forgot It in People, and not just for the tropical titling, but rather for it\u2019s pacing, instrumental development, and placement in the tracklist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t let the title of their new album,\u00a0Getting Killed, fool you \u2014 Geese are very much alive. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-175070","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\/175070","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=175070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}