Geese: Getting Killed

"Part of this breakthrough can be attributed to Winter's voice: a slurred, straining warble whose cryptic delivery can feel like both sides of an argument you're overhearing through apartment walls. He gets your attention in jarring ways, then turns around and breaks your heart. No artist has muttered the phrase " fuck these people " so meaningfully in a piano ballad."

"As evidenced by this moment, occurring just under a minute into his tender 2024 solo single "$0," Geese can give the impression of an ambitious band skeptical of its own ambition, fitting for a group formed when its members were in high school. Like a lot of precocious young people, they seem energized by the possibility of an audience recognizing their potential before they do, a tension they have used to subvert their more crowd-pleasing turns."

Geese evolved over four years from a band that could both rock out and sprawl out into a group with a clearer emotional core centered on Cameron Winter. Cameron Winter's slurred, straining warble delivers cryptic lines that can sound like both sides of an argument overheard through apartment walls and can jarringly turn tender. Heavy Metal's surprise success revealed that vulnerability while the band resisted smoothing its eccentricities. Songs like "$0" and "Cowboy Nudes" blend soulful choruses with blunt exclamations. Getting Killed is anxious, fragmented music that erupts into paranoid shrieks and raw declarations, marking it as the band's strangest and strongest work.

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