{"id":340782,"date":"2025-12-29T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340782\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:13:09","slug":"geese-cameron-winters-band-are-set-for-a-huge-year-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340782\/","title":{"rendered":"Geese: Cameron Winter\u2019s band are set for a huge year in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You\u2019ve heard of the Year of the Rat, or the Year of the Snake \u2013 but what about the Year of the Geese? We may just be on the precipice of it.<\/p>\n

Ever since the release of their genre-bending album, Getting Killed, in September, the ascendant rock band Geese have rocketed from outsider curiosity to fervid, ubiquitous hype object. The Brooklyn-formed four-piece are inspiring the sort of fulsome fanfare that comes around once in a generation. While Gen Z are hardly short of success stories \u2013 Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>, Lola Young, Olivia Dean, Addison Rae<\/a> and Gracie Abrams have shot to superstardom in the pop or pop-adjacent spheres \u2013 it\u2019s been a notably more arid state of affairs when it comes to rock bands. Geese, with their 23-year-old frontman and figurehead Cameron Winter, might be the first to truly take flight.<\/p>\n

It has helped, of course, that Geese arrived at Getting Killed not as rough-edged newcomers but as a tight-knit unit with nearly a decade of graft behind them. The band had put out three albums before, of steadily increasing confidence and ambition, while Winter released his own acclaimed solo album, Heavy Metal, late last year. What this means is that while Getting Killed has the biting freshness of a band we\u2019re still getting to know, there is a brash, experimental assuredness to it that many acts don\u2019t find until decades into their oeuvre. The album saunters through riffy guitar-led numbers, unvarnished, wailing ballads, and spacey funk, all girded by the group\u2019s dextrous rhythmic flourishes and Winter\u2019s precise, angsty lyrics. <\/p>\n

Assessing Getting Killed for The Independent\u2019s Best of 2025 list<\/a> (on which it placed at number five), Roisin O\u2019Connor described the album as \u201csurreal, dark and absurd\u201d. Winter\u2019s singing, she wrote, is \u201ca slouchy, slurred warble that evokes Thom Yorke\u2019s lupine howl one moment, Mick Jagger\u2019s guttural bark the next\u201d. Pretty much everywhere you look, you\u2019ll find similarly effusive praise for Getting Killed; dissenters have been a small and drowned-out minority. The Washington Post\u2019s Chris Richards suggested last month that Geese are \u201cboth good and overhyped\u201d, claiming that \u201cno band has occupied these crosscurrents so comfortably since the Strokes\u201d. <\/p>\n

Of all the comparisons to have been made about Geese \u2013 and there have been a hell of a lot, with Winter likened to everyone from Bob Dylan to Leonard Cohen to Tom Waits \u2013 it is The Strokes that is perhaps the most telling. Winter is pretty much the same age as Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas when Is This It propelled the indie rockers to fame in 2001, and has about him the same sense of conspicuous, unmanicured cool. There are times when Winter\u2019s singing passingly evokes their fellow New Yorkers, in a sort of soulful, dictionless way. Musically, though, the comparison only goes so far: Geese have already demonstrated considerably more formal range than their Noughties-era counterparts, perhaps just without the Casablancan knack for a truly infectious hook. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s revealing, though, that critics are feeling moved to reach back a quarter of a century to find a point of comparison; it speaks in part to how few truly exciting rock bands have emerged since the 2000s indie glut. In the past few years, bands such as Fontaines DC and Wet Leg have found considerable success with a guitar-led sound. Just where Geese fits into this loose rock revival movement \u2013 at the cutting edge of it, or marauding around the outskirts \u2013 remains to be seen. It\u2019s important to be level-headed about the magnitude of Geese\u2019s moment: despite their critical-darling status, the band are without a traditional breakout \u201chit\u201d. Their 1.9 million monthly listeners on Spotify is nothing to be scoffed at, but does limit what can truly be read into their mainstream importance. <\/p>\n

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The cover for Geese\u2019s brilliant 2025 album \u2018Getting Killed\u2019 (Partisan Records)<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, it\u2019s hard not to see the last few months as a tipping point. Last weekend, the (thoroughgoingly mainstream) US variety series Saturday Night Live directly parodied \u201cCameron Winter from Geese\u201d \u2013 a notion that would have seemed preposterous even half a year ago. Winter has ended this year with a run of high-profile solo gigs, including at London\u2019s Roundhouse and the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles. Next year, Geese will flock to the UK again, as part of a sell-out world tour, and are one of the first acts announced for Reading and Leeds festival. Winter and co are enjoying the sort of bullish hype that can turn you off a band. In this case, however, they might just be good enough to merit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-340782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}